demand in the
is no counting on a public that reads E. P. Roe one market for bright-plumaged birds for purposes of
day, Rider Haggard the next, and buys “ Trilby” ornamentation, that demand will be supplied — up
by the ton the day after. So it is altogether possible to the point, of course, when the source of the supply
that Lord Lytton's stagey highwaymen, with their is exhausted. That point is already almost reached
elaborate manners and high-flown language - in the case of several species of our loveliest feath-
different from our vulgar modern "gand-baggers ered choristers, which, within the memory of many
and low perpetrators of unromantic “hold-ups of us, used regularly in great numbers to herald the
may have one day more of moderate popularity. spring and gladden the Northern woods and mead-
By the man of imagination, who prefers romance ows with their cheery tribute of color and song. A
to verisimilitude in bis fiction, “ Paul Clifford” may summer without birds would be like a spring with-
still be read with relish. It is a little hard, perhaps, out flowers ; and many of us have observed with a
to accept nowadays a thief who says to his victim pang the gradual passing of bird-life in the Northern
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States. Happily, public sentiment is now strongly who, in a burst of generous enthusiasm over the
roused on this subject. The surest way to promote genius of Shakespeare, went so far as to declare
this sentiment of bird love and bird protection is to that “ Boston had probably not produced above ten
study the birds. They can be studied most pleas- men who were equal to him.” The volume is a
antly and conveniently with the aid of this attractive comely octavo, well printed on lightly glazed paper,
and accurate book. It contains forty-eight beauti- and containing 148 illustrations, the subjects of
fully colored plates, by the aid of which alone any which are judiciously selected.
bird illustrated may be easily identified. The price In the publication of old favorites in fresh, comely,
of the volume is remarkably moderate, quality and inexpensive form, Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co.
.
considered. Taken with its companion volume, the are well to the fore this season with their “Luxem-
popular “ Bird Neighbors,” by the same author, it bourg Edition ” of “Vanity Fair,” “ The Scottish
forms an excellent and fairly comprehensive popular Chiefs," " Ivanhoe,” “Jane Eyre,” “The Cloister
ornithology and an always suitable Christmas gift and the Hearth," “ Corinne," and Irving's “Sketch-
especially for boy or girl.
Book and “ Alhambra." Taking the first two
Of a decidedly “stunning" order are the attrac- works named above as samples of the whole, it must
tions offered in Messrs. E. R. Herrick & Co.'s three be said that they are remarkably well made in view
large oblong folio volumes of highly-colored draw- of the very moderate price asked for them. The
ings (selected from “ Truth ") by Messrs. De binding is neat, print and paper are all that could be
”
Thulstrup, W. Granville Smith, C. H. Johnson, and expected for the money, and the illustrations are
other American illustrators. The volumes measure both plentiful and good. In “The Scottish Chiefs”
21x14 inches, and each is encased in a showily there are eighteen well chosen and nicely executed
decorated box. It is not necessary to characterize half-tone plates from photographs of storied Scottish
these drawings at length, as the style of the artists views and buildings — Loch Katrine, “Auld Brig
represented, and the scope of the lively periodical o' Doon," Cambus - Kenneth, Glenfinlas, Stirling
from which the examples of their work are chosen, Castle, etc. In the seventeen full-page illustrations
are tolerably familiar to all. The work of Messrs. of “Vanity Fair” Mr. Frank T. Merrill has done
De Thulstrup and Smith, especially, is quite clever very well in the main. His Becky Sharp is accept-
in its way. These gentlemen have taken, in the able, his Jos. Sedley is delightful, his Osborn the
main, the ways and doings of the New York “smart elder is capital, and his Lord Steyne is goatish and
set” and their followers for their province, and the hateful enough in all conscience. Nobody, of course,
mirror they hold up is a true one. The“ up-to-date could do pictorial justice to Dobbin. Thackeray's
flavor of these showy volumes will doubtless com- own drawings of him would answer as well for
mend them to the many who make that quality the Noah Claypole; and with Dobbin Mr. Merrill fails
test of merit.
like the rest. His Rawdon Crawley is more like
The instructive publication entitled “ Historic a "Kentucky Colonel " than a London Guardsman,
Towns of New England” (Patnam) does not in but we do not wish to seem captious, for Mr.
strictness fall within the present category. But its Merrill, we repeat, has done well on the whole. In
pleasing variety of content and liberal pictorial this very acceptable “Luxembourg Edition ” each
attractions serve to make it a suitable and accepta- work is given complete in a single volume.
ble gift-book, especially for a friend of “Yankee" The Century Co. send us their customary brace
extraction, whose early memories are cradled in one of new volumes in their pretty "Thumb-Nail” series,
of the towns” described. The volume is edited the titles this season being “ Poor Richard's Alma.
by the Rev. Lyman P. Powell, and it has for its nack” and “The Cricket on the Hearth". both
special purpose the presentation of a connected ac- happy selections. The first is judiciously edited by
count of the more important events in the history Mr. Benjamin E. Smith, and is a really choice little
of the towns selected for description. These towns product of book-making. Never, we think, has the
are: Portland, Rutland, Salem, Boston, Cambridge, homely and practical — the peculiarly American -
—
Concord, Plymouth, the Cape Cod Towns, Deerfield, philosophy of sagacious Ben. Franklin received so fit
Newport, Providence, Hartford, New Haven. Each a setting. The little book is portable, and even pocket-
sketch has been entrusted to a writer specially qual- able, and contains a frontispiece portrait of Franklin,
ified for the task. Mr. S. T. Pickard leads off with and a facsimile of the first number of the Almanack,
the story of Portland ; then come, in order, as above,
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for the year 1733. Miss Blanche McManus's design
Edwin D. Mead, George D. Latimer, T. W. Hig- for the stamped leather cover is particularly good.
ginson and E. E. Hale, S. A. Eliot, F. B. Sanborn, In the minds of many of us Mr. Joseph Jefferson
Ellen Watson, Katharine Lee Bates, etc. An inter- is pleasantly identified with the character of "Caleb
esting general Introduction is supplied by George Plummer"; and we are glad to find that the Intro-
Perry Morris, who discusses New England towns duction to this edition of Dickens's little masterpiece
and town life, and incidentally makes it clear that is from the pen of that sterling American actor. Mr.
in his opinion the New England type of character Jefferson surmises that had Dickens known how good
stands for something very exalted indeed in the his- a play there was in “ The Cricket on the Hearth”
tory of the progress of the race. Mr. Morris at times he would have dramatized it himself. Could he have
reminds one a little of the New England gentleman foreseen how delightfully Mr. Jefferson would im-
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personate the old toy-maker, he would certainly have historical series illustrative of the text has been
done so.
Either of these pretty booklets makes mainly kept in view ; but esthetic considerations
a dainty and irreproachable gift-book of the mod- have not been slighted. On the whole, the work
ester sort.'
forms an instructive and attractive art-book of the
Messrs. Rand, McNally and Co. reprint, in an solider type, being soberly conceived and soberly
attractive volume entitled “Along the Bosphorus," worked out.
a miscellaneous collection of papers, largely travel An illustrated volume of selections from Cole-
sketches, by Susan E. Wallace (Mrs. Lew Wallace). ridge's poems forms this year's number of Mr.
Their range and character are shown by the chapter Andrew Lang's series of "Selections from the
headings – “Lepers and Leprosy in the East,"
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Poets” (Longmans). There is a rather lengthy in-
“ “A Trip to Hebron,” “House-keeping in Turkey,'
.” “House-keeping in Turkey,” troduction, mainly biographical, in Mr. Lang's hap-
“In the Tower of Many Stories ” (London Tower), piest vein, and the selections (thirty-three pieces in
“ William Wetmore Story,” “A Letter from Dres-all) embody about all of Coleridge that most people
den,” “ Florence Nightingale," "Two Days in West- have time or taste for nowadays. Mr. Lang does
minster Abbey,” etc. Among the literary and not attempt to “place" Coleridge, but he volunteers
epistolary odds and ends interspersed through the an answer to the question, "Why is he great ?
book is an amusing letter from General Wallace He is a great poet (says Mr. Lang, rather in the
to a friend, describing his purchase of a dog in Lon- Coleridgean manner) " because every now and then
don as a present to the Sultan. The contents of the he captures in verse that indefinable emotion which
volume are too varied for general characterization; is less articulately expressed in music, and in some
and the same may be said of the pictures, which unutterable way he transports us into the world of
consist of an oddly assorted but interesting medley dream and desire.” The little book falls within
of views of historic sites and buildings, portraits, the present category largely by virtue of Mr. Patten
photographic prints of native" types," works of art, Wilson's capital drawings. There are eighteen of
and what not. Mrs. Wallace is a lively and agree- them, full-page plates in the pre-Raphaelite style.
able writer, and her fund of experience is rich and They are quaintly fancied, too vague, or generalized,
ample. The book possesses many elements of popu- to clash with one's ideals; and even the more austere
larity, and its attractive exterior bespeaks for it its Coleridgean will hardly wish them away.
due share of attention.
Magazine readers who have laughed over Mr.
Much intelligent and conscientious labor is rep- Guy Wetmore Caryl's quaint versified renderings
resented in Miss Estelle M. Hurll's “ Life of Our of old Æsopian favorites will be glad to find these
Lord in Art” (Houghton). The book is essentially funny productions reprinted in a handsome vol-
a descriptive history of the art illustrating the inci- ume entitled “ Fables for the Frivolous” (Harper).
dents in the historic life of Christ, the accompanying There are twenty “ Fables" in all, among them
plates being arranged in the authoritatively ap- “ The Ambitious Fox and the Unapproachable
proved chronological order of the events depicted- Grapes,” “ The Arrogant Frog and the Superior
Symbolical and allegorical Christ art and the hig- Bull,” " " The Urban Rat and the Suburban Rat,"
tory of Christ portraiture are omitted. The author's “ The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven,”
treatment of her theme is systematic throughout, a and so forth. The turn of the author's humor may
certain number of points in connection with each almost be guessed from his titles ; but we subjoin
subject being uniformly set forth : the relation of a specimen verse, taken from "The Unusual Goose
the subject to the life and character of Christ; the and the Imbeeile Woodcutter that is, from the
origin and history of its treatment in art; the author's version of “ The Goose that laid the Golden
reasons for its popularity or neglect; its suitability Eggs.” It is Verse Number Two:
for pictorial treatment; the traditional type of com-
“There was much affected rejoicing
position, and possible variations; and, lastly, a
In the home of the woodcutter then,
descriptive account of the leading representative
And his wife, her exuberance voicing,
pictures from the appearance of the subject in art
Proclaimed him most lucky of men,
''Tis an omen of fortune, this gold egg,'
down to present times. With a half-dozen excep-
She said, and of practical use,
tions, every subject treated in the text is illustrated,
For this fowl doesn't lay any old egg,
sometimes by two pictures, making a total of 104 illus-
She's a highly superior goose.'
trations. Of these, sixteen are full-page half-tone The book is gotten up in suitable holiday style, and
plates which present leading facts in the life of Christ; contains six illustrations by Mr. Peter Newell, one
the remainder are vignette drawings illustrating the of the funniest of our pictorial fun-makers.
minor incidents. The Old Masters are of course well We have so often commented on the work of
represented in the list of plates ; and the modern Mr. Frederic Remington that a word or two of de-
schools have also their share of attention,
- pre- scription will suffice here for his new series of
Raphaelitism in Holman Hunt, Millais, Burne- “ Frontier Sketches" (The Werner Co.). The book
Jones, and Ford Madox Brown; the German mys- is a flat oblong quarto bound in white vellum paper,
tic realism in Fritz von Uhde; while there are also and containing - or, rather, consisting of, for there
examples of Eastlake, Hoffmann, Doré, etc. In is no text save Mr. G. S. Rowe's short introductory-
selecting the pictures the necessity of presenting an fifteen rather elaborate drawings with such titles as
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“Sioux Warriors," “ The Lame Deer Fight,” | After.” The eighteen plates are uniformly good,
“Surrender of Chief Joseph," " Indians Firing the and show that Mr. Merrill knows his author. The
Prairie,” etc. Altogether, the set is as graphic and edition is a good one throughout - notably so, con-
stirring as any that we have seen from Mr. Rem- sidering the moderate price asked for it. The
ington's pencil. It vividly and truthfully presents translation is made from the latest French edition,
some of the most exciting and characteristic epi- and is a marked improvement on the slipshod ver-
sodes of that wild drama now drawing to a close on sions through which so many English readers have
our Western plains. We may say, incidentally, that become acquainted with this fascinating romance.
Mr.Remington's style is agreeably chastened of late. An attractive and readable book, whose cheery
It has lost none of its truth, but there is less of the content belies its dismal title, is Marion Harland's
superfluous bluntness of realism, more deference to < Where Ghosts Walk" (Putnam). Drawing on
the picturesque and the pleasing. In a word, Mr. her experiences abroad, Mrs. Terhune has written
Remington's style has grown mellower and more fifteen sprightly papers descriptive of places once
artistic, — and when we say that, we do not mean the haunts of historic people — such as Holyrood
more conventional.
He is, too, as seems to us, Palace, the Burns Cottage, Hampton Court Palace,
getting over his liking for grotesque “Muybridge” The “Old Cheshire Cheese” Tavern, Byron's House
effects shown, for instance, in those amazing at Ravenna, Saint Catherine's House at Florence,
horses of his, comically humped up with their hoofs Madame Beck's House at Brussels, and so on. Five
bunched under them, like Mr. Frost's funny dogs of the papers are reprinted from Harper's Bazar."
and jack-rabbits, or sprawling in air like a beetle The book is illustrated with thirty-four plates, which
dangled at the end of a string. We may be wrong, are well selected and of good quality. Prospective
and an appeal to instantaneous photography might tourists should find Mrs. Terhune's sketches useful
show that we are; but we sball be slow to admit the and suggestive.
“ realism" of the equine contortions shown in some Two trim little volumes of “Historical Tales”
of Mr. Remington's pictures. From such eccentric- told by Mr. Charles Morris come to us from the
ities the plates in the present volume are unusually | Lippincott Co. The one volume embraces episodes
free.
from the history of Russia, such as the Fall of
“Do-Nothing Days” (Lippincott) is a bouquet Novgorod the Great, the Conquest of Siberia, the
of a dozen little essays by Mr. Charles M. Skinner. Fall of the Strelitz, the Death-Struggle of Poland,
We have known Mr. Skinner heretofore mainly as the Nihilists and their Work, the Advance of Rus-
a compiler; and we are now glad to have made his sia in Asia, and so on; the other volume contains
closer acquaintance through the medium of these tales from the history of China and Japan selected
crisp, familiar papers. Mr. Skinner takes a cheery on the principle indicated in the foregoing list.
view of life, and chats away confidentially on what- There are about forty “ Tales” to the volume, and
ever happens to turn uppermost in his mind, in the each volume contains a dozen or so full-page photo-
essayist's true style. There is no smell of the lamp graphic plates. Mr. Morris is well known as the
in his pages, but there is a flavor of good reading. author of a series of “ Tales from the Dramatists,"
The chapters, as he says, “have mostly thought “ King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table,”
themselves into words in hours of wandering or etc., and he has shown his customary good judg-
idleness.” As a companion for such hours, the ment in the preparation of the present volumes.
little volume will serve very acceptably. There are The stories are popularly told, and should especially
four dainty photogravures, and the very tasteful interest and instruct younger readers.
binding calls for special mention.
“ The Old Chelsea Bun-House" (imported by
A year or so ago we noticed favorably a little Scribners), a tale of the last century, is a clever
collection of American legends compiled by Mr. bit of literary mimicry and a charming picture of
Charles M. Skinner. The kind reception accorded old times and old manners. The author has taken
Mr. Skinner's first effort has encouraged him to go Goldsmith for his model, and he echoes him skil-
beyond the territory of the United States for ma- fully. The story is told in the first person, and is
terial for a fresh collection; and this material he put in the mouth of “ Patty," a daughter of the
now embodies in a small-sized but rather closely keeper of the hostelry which gives the book its title.
printed book of “Myths and Legends Beyond Our | The tale opens with the visit of a party of ladies
Borders” (Lippincott). About two-thirds of the and gentlemen of quality,” who go up from the
collection are drawn from Canada, and the re- city to Chelsea by water. They amuse themselves
mainder from Mexico. There is much curious and al fresco after the conventionally frivolous and non-
suggestive matter in the volume, and it should not sensical manner of people of fashion (and to the
be neglected by students of folk-lore. There are grave disapproval of a serious and somewhat prig-
four very attractive plates representing “Chapulte- gish "Mr. Fenwick,” who eavesdrops from a neigh-
pec,'
,” “ The Church at Tadousac,” “ Medicine Hat boring window), and are served demurely from the
Assiniboia," and "Popocatapetl."
“
Bun-House by “ Mrs. Patty” and her sister. This
Mr. Frank T. Merrill is to be complimented on introduces most of the dramatis personæ, and the
his clever illustration of Messrs. Crowell and Co.'s story moves on thence smoothly and in the main
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merrily to its conclusion. There is much lively Cutting ; " Early Schools and Schoolmasters of New
dialogue and episode, and no plot to speak of - or, Amsterdam,” by Emma Van Vechten; and so on.
rather, there is a medley of small plots arising out There are thirty-two illustrations, with maps, curious
of the loves, jealousies, uneven fortunes, foibles, or facsimiles, etc. The volumes are neatly got up,
cross-purposes of the rather numerous actors. The and the work evidences on the whole the serious
book is essentially a picture of eighteenth-century purpose and the special competency of its contrib-
manners couched in eighteenth-century style; and utors.
it is cleverly done. There are ten delightful illustra-
tions by Messrs. John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton.
Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson's popular character
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
sketch of “Fishin' Jimmy" (Scribner), a book we
like much in spite of its lachrymose ending, makes
The question,
« But is it true?” is the one most
its appearance this season in attractive holiday
familiar on the lips of a child, and sometimes most diffi-
garb, and with a dozen photogravures of fair quality
cult to answer. And it may be out of generosity to the
by Migs Alice Barber Stepheng. Print and paper harrassed and bewildered parent, that so many writers of
are the best, and the modest cover is of grass-green juvenile books give their stories a foundation in fact. The
linen with gilt side-stamp. Mrs. Slosson's book is motive is of doubtful value, however, for a story which
redolent of the scents of brookside and meadow, is half true is much more likely to be essentially false
and her portrait of the good old angler of Fran-
than one woven entirely by the imagination. Facts must
conia is so sweet and true (so long as she sticks to
be first understood before they can be made truths. And
portraiture) that one can only wonder when she
one must be either an artist or a philosopher to make the
stoops to the worn device of killing her hero off to
perspective accurate. Unfortunately, most of the writ-
slow music in the last chapter.
ers of the present group of holiday books cannot be
described by either term, and it is safe to say that many
The silly and offensive picture that appears on of the facts they record would not recognize themselves
the cover and title-page of the volume containing even as possibilities. Yet we elders complacently rejoice
Mr. Ch. Nelan’s “Cartoons of Our War with Spain” in being able to dispense history to our boys in these
(Stokes) does injustice to Mr. Nelan's often clever sugar-coated pills. Some of them certainly are harm-
and incisive work. Mr. Nelan's cartoons are not
less enough, and others may even be mildly nutritious;
mere pictorial buffonery. At their best they show
but as mental tonic or stimulant, they are rarely effec-
a real grasp of the political situation treated, and
tive. The dose of history contained in them is decidedly
their lesson is sound. The cartoon, in proper hands,
homeopathic.
Of the few children's books of this season which pro-
is a potent instrument of popular instruction; and
claim themselves to be history unadulterated, a new
it is fair to Mr. Nelan to say that a considerable edition of Charles Dickens's “Child's History of Eng-
portion of his work made distinctly for good when land” (Houghton) may be taken with most confidence.
it appeared. For instance, there is the familiar This work is written with such spirit as to belittle the
drawing entitled "Keep Your Head Cool," repre-
more labored chronicles, and to show that training in
senting “ Uncle Sam” trying to repress his rising writing is not amiss even for a child's book. This most
anger against Spain (in spite of the stings of vari-
recent edition is embellished with many reproductions
ous journalistic mosquitoes), while some sensible
of excellent photographs by Mr. Clifton Johnson. They
person holds a block of ice, labelled “Common
represent, as they exist to-day, the castles and fields and
towns where famous deeds were done : a long and
Sense,” to his head, and another cools his heated
interesting journey to take in one's library chair. - To
brow with the fan of Judgment." Naturally, the look through Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth's “Story of
series of plates grows rather more truculent and America” (Werner) means a shorter journey, but a
"jingoistic” with the progress of events ; but they more fatiguing one, because the assistance is so much
are always clever and seldom coarse. Mr. Nelan more meagre. For this new edition the text has been
was one of the best of the Spanish War cartoonists,
revised by the author, who has added some chapters
and this volume forms a suggestive and striking
about the more picturesque events of the Spanish war.
souvenir of the period.
Founded upon McKenzie's history of the United States,
The second volume of “Historic New York"
the narrative is simple and written with some force.
The illustrations, some of them taken from quaint old
(Putnam) contains twelve of the interesting Half
engravings, are more interesting than beautiful. — But
Moon” series of descriptive and reminiscential pa- Mr. Butterworth gives his readers credit for more intelli-
pers on Old New York, with the scope and aim of gence than Mr. Eldridge S. Brooks does in his “ True
which our readers are already familiar. The pub- Story of Benjamin Franklin” (Lothrop). So familiar
lication is a worthy one of considerable historic and conversational a style as his seems unnecessary even
value. The contents of this volume comprise :
for very little children. Yet the story of Franklin cannot
“Slavery in Old New York,” by Edwin V. Morgan ;
be told too early or too often, and this gossipy biogra-
“ Tammany Hall," by Talcott Williams; “Old
phy, with its many good pictures, may serve to introduce
the man and his achievements to some children who
Prisons and Punishments," by Elizabeth D. Lewis ;
would be bored by a more connected and rational account.
“ The New York Press," by Charlotte M. and Ben-
- The story of Franklin's life, with its rapid and brilli-
jamin E. Martin ; “ Bowling Green,” by Spencer ant transitions, is hardly less romantic than are the biog-
Trask; “Old Family Names,” by Berthold Fernow; raphies one finds in Mr. F. R. Stockton's “ Buccaneers
“Old Taverns and Posting Inns,” by Elizabeth B. and Pirates of Our Coasts” (Macmillan). But these char-
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acters have more spice in them, and their adventures up to it is simple and vivid. It is entirely from the
give Mr. Stockton abundant excuse for the display of his standpoint of the settlers, of course: it would be a pleas-
peculiar and delightful talent. The effort to tell the ant relief to find a story of these wars from the Indian
truth about these artists in piracy has not prevented him point of view. - Mr. James Otis has written two books
from describing them gaily and with a kind of amused about the period just before the Revolution. « When
sympathy. The book is serious enough, but there are Israel Putnam served the King” (Estes) gives the story
illuminating flashes of Mr. Stockton's dry humor. It is of an old man who had fought under General Putnam
this quality in him which makes the work sane and when he was a Major and served the King. He wishes
wholesome, and helps him to model his bold buccaneers to prove to a new-fangled soldier that men in those days
in the round. They are delightful, these spirited dash- knew something about fighting and its hardships and
ing figures; and though Mr. Stockton knocks off some glory, and he leaves him in no doubt of their courage and
of the romance which has gathered about them, there endurance. “ The Charming Sally” (Houghton), by
is enough left to bewitch any number of naughty little the same author, is longer and more carefully worked up.
boys. The individuality of the book is reflected in the The title is taken from the name of a privateer schooner
capital pictures by Mr. George Varian and Mr. B. West which, in 1765, had an active part in the resistance to the
Clinedinst. — The charm of this book is rivalled only by Stamp Act. The movements of three boys who join its
one other in this group, and that is “ The Story of Marco crew are the focus of the plot, and the most exciting part
Polo" (Century Co.) which Mr. Noah Brooks has edited of the story describes their perilous adventures in carry-
and arranged for the young. It is hardly necessary to ing the ship's guns, concealed in a load of bay, to the dock.
say that the great Venetian traveller named was the first Mr. Otis's boys are good and lively specimens, and they
to penetrate the Orient and to bring back to the aston- make things move at a rapid pace. The book is notice-
ished Europeans tales of the civilizations of Asia. The ably well printed and bound, and the pictures, by Mr.
stories then disbelieved have been proved true by later W. S. Lukens, are good. Mrs. E. Everett Green's
explorers, and it is pleasant to hear them told by this “ French and English ” (Nelson), is a well-constructed
intelligent and alert young investigator, to whom every- and vivid story of the terrible struggle which ended on
thing was new. Mr. Brooks bas done his work well, the heights of Quebec. It is unusual, in that it gives both
retaining the flavor of the original work, and connecting sides of the picture; and the figure of Montcalm, as shown
his long quotations from it merely with the necessary here, is not less dignified and noble than that of Wolfe.
details, briefly and clearly expressed. The pictures, It is a very large canvas, however, that the writer tries
by Mr. Will Å. Drake, add to the extraordinary, quaint to cover, and the persons of her play are so numerous
charm of the book.—Mr. Clinton Ross deals with quite as to be a bit bewildering. She differentiates them well,
another time and other peoples in “Heroes of our War however, and gives one the horrors of war as well as its
with Spain” (Stokes), and gives a vivid impression of tinselled glory.
the valorous deeds that were done this summer by our The number of books about the Revolution shows
heroes on land and sea. There is no lack of material where the heart of our youth really is, and may do its
here to stir the blood and fire the imagination of youth; part toward postponing that alliance with England of
and the author has handled it in a spirited and effective which we have been talking. It is difficult to affect a
way.
prejudice wbich is born and nurtured in our earliest
The other books in this group are more or less diluted youth. And it takes more courage than the average
with fiction. In some of them the color of the original writer possesses, to be just to the redcoats in such a
facts is entirely lost in the mixture, but there are a few book as Mr. Edward Stratemeyer's “ Minute Boys of
from which one can derive some idea of the real situ- Lexington” (Estes); and probably, if he were just, the
ation, some picture of other times and customs. The volume would remain indefinitely on the counter. As it
greater number of them deal with the United States and is, there are few boys who can read the book without
its various conflicts, but only one writer has been enter- wishing that his lot had been cast in Lexington in so
prising enough to take up the recent events. The Revo- happily exciting a time. The style of the book is rather
lution keeps up its record for popularity, but three or four diffuse and discursive, but the matter has a thrill in it.
books take us as far back as the French and Indian war, And the two boys in blue and buff uniforms on the
and one even goes back to the Mayflower. Mr. Hezekiah cover are themselves fascinating. – Mr. Everett T.
Butterworth has had the courage for the latter foray, and Tomlinson's second series of « Stories of the American
in « The Pilot of the Mayflower” (Appleton) he brings Revolution” (Lee & Shepard) bears a more direct re-
in all the events known to have happened during that lation to history than most of these books. He has
famous voyage. The pilot is made to tell these stories, selected some of the less familiar heroic episodes in the
and if he could not add to our respect for the Pilgrim war, and written them up in the form of fiction, with
Fathers he increases our knowledge of their difficulties. the sugar-coating which is considered necessary. They
The book ends with the first Thanksgiving Day in the are pleasant enough to read, however, and some of them
colony. — Not many years intervene before the point tell of the quiet, unapplauded deeds of heroism which
where Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith takes up the theme, are the most difficult of all. - The same author has
in « The Young Puritans in King Philip's War" (Little, written a story of Washington's campaign in New
Brown, & Co.), wherein she shows our modern warriors Jersey in 1778, under the title of “ The Boys of Old
how their forefathers fought. Mrs. Smith knows the Monmouth” (Houghton). Much responsibility is thrown
Connecticut Valley thoroughly, and she puts something upon its hero by his discovery that his own foster-
into her story which no stranger to it could compass. father is working against the cause of the patriots, and
Her familiarity with its beauty makes for warmth and his attempts to circumvent him bring many adventures.
picturesqueness in this narrative of the conflict of races The battle of Monmouth is the climax of the book, and
over its golden meadows. She uses the quaint speech Lee's disobedience of orders a large part of the theme.
of the early Puritans with good effect, and her descrip- - Still another book by Mr. Tomlinson relates to Bur-
tion of the Deerfield Massacre and the events that led goyne's invasion, and is called “ Two Young Patriots"
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eral; but though the author aims at truth in his de- spirit of Mr. Edward Stratemeyer, who inaugurates the
scriptions, he altogether misses the vivid picturesque- «Old Glory Series” (Lee & Shepard) with a book
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ness which would carry the situation home to us. Miss called “Under Dewey at Manila,” is much more com-
Mary B. Sheldon's “One Thousand Men for a Christ- mendable than his literary form. The story has no
mas Present” (Estes) has a cover attractive enough to construction, the method of handling it is jerky and
atone for its cumbersome title. It is a vivid little tale discursive, and the style is bad. Moreover, the point
of the encampment near Trenton and the crossing of of view is sentimental and false, and unintentionally the
the Delaware, ending with the capture of the city and story belittles both the Commodore and his victory.
a thousand Hessian prisoners. — Mr. Charles Ledyard It is by a stretch of the imagination, perhaps, that
Norton's “ A Soldier of the Legion" (Wilde) begins “Cowmen and Rustlers” (Coates), by Mr. Edward S.
with the Revolution and makes its boy heroes witness Ellis, is entered in the list of historical tales. Yet it is
the surrender at Yorktown. But it carries them far a story of the Wyoming cattle ranges in 1892, and no
beyond that event, and describes their experience as war is more important or more picturesque than the
pioneers in the great Northwest. The boys are William development of the great Northwest. The theme of this
Henry Harrison, who became President, and Sergeant story is the struggle with the “rustlers,” or cattle-
Bassett, his faithful attendant, who is supposed to write thieves, who became powerful for a time in Wyoming.
the book. — Two of these Revolutionary books make The talk is stilted and the incidents are exaggerated
one conscious for the first time that girls were alive beyond the bounds of probability, yet it is a pretty good
during that period. One's attention had been given so story nevertheless. Fame and fortune await the man who
exclusively to boys that such a possibility was not recog- will write the truth about this life and write it with art.
nized. It is with a pleased surprise, therefore, that America claims apparently the lion's share of the
one takes up “A Girl of '76” (Wilde), by Miss Amy E. interest of her youth, yet this interest reaches out a
Blanchard. The little heroine's interest in politics be- little into the history of other lands, and it should cer-
gins with the Boston tea-party, and though the book tainly travel far enough to take in the admirable book
deals largely with more frivolous things than battles, edited by Mr. George Laurence Gomme, entitled “ The
the war is always in the background. The author tries, Queen's Story Book” (Longmans). This volume con-
with some success, to show what a girl's life was at that tains dramatic tales of English monarchs, collected from
time. There are plenty of people in the book, but there romantic literature. Sir Walter Scott and Thackeray
is not much life, and it drifts into sentimentality at the furnish a number of them, Daniel Defoe wrote one, and
end, the usual course with books for girls. — The senti- others are taken from Sir Charles Napier, Froissart,
ment is handled much better in Margaret Sidney's Thomas Love Peacock, and Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley.
“Little Maid of Concord Town” (Lothrop), but it The result is just the kind of book to afford children
is present nevertheless. Yet the story has a charn which vivid pictures of things it is well for them to know.
brings it nearer to life and makes the love-affairs a bit Literature is just as good for a child as it is for a grown
more pardonable. It is full of action, but it has form, person, and twaddle is just as bad. This is a fact which
and the characters are simple and genaine.
cannot be repeated too often. And another, equally
Mr. Kirk Munroe has actually found a new subject important, and ignored in the same unaccountable way,
in his tale of the American navy, called “In Pirate is that children like the real thing in literature better
Waters ” (Scribner). He places his hero in the squad- than they like the false. They are much more discrim-
ron sent to the Mediterranean, in 1803, to subdue the inating in matters of art than their elders fancy. Mr.
Barbary pirates. The combination of the familiar and Gomme's delightful book has an additional charm in
the foreign makes this a capital subject, and Mr. Munroe the pictures by Mr. W. H. Robinson.-Mr. Charles W.
has a practised band in the construction of a boy's book. Whistler has written a story about the first English
The result is one of the liveliest and most entertaining fleet in “ King Alfred's Viking " (Nelson). It is founded
historical stories of the year.— The war of 1812 is cel- upon the life of Alfred written by his chaplain Asser,
ebrated by Mr. James Otis, in “The Cruise of the but it consists chiefly of an account of the adventures
Comet” (Estes). Mr. Otis has made a book out of the Norsemen who were given charge of the King's
of the letters written by a boy, Stephen Burton, who fleet. It is a good story, and (what is more unusual)
was on board the privateer “Comet," which sailed from it is well written.— One of the best books of the year
Baltimore in 1812. They are written in a simple and gives part of the romantic story of the Black Prince.
vigorous style, which is very effective. It would be a Mr. William 0. Stoddard has put himself into the spirit
dull boy who would not be excited by Stephen's story of the thing, and he makes every right-minded boy long
of the British prisoners who managed to free themselves to follow that Red Dragon banner into the heart of the
and tried to capture the ship.- It is to the Civil War battle of Crécy. “With the Black Prince" (Appleton)
that Captain Charles King gives his attention in “ From should not be neglected.- Another well-written book,
School to Battlefield” (Lippincott), and he does it in a though one much less convincing, is Miss Ruth Hall's
brisk and thoroughgoing fashion that must appeal to an “ In the Brave Days of Old" (Houghton). It carries
energetic boy. The persons in his story have the air us down to the time of James the First, and opens at
of being real boys, and they find some spirited adven- the death-bed of Elizabeth. The little hero rides, with
ture in General McClellan's army, where boys were his guardian, to take the news of this dramatic ending
evidently made useful
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in “ In the Navy; or, Father against Son” (Crowell), tlers of Manhattan.- We come down to Napoleon's
and focuses his story in the battle between the Monitor time in Mr. Frank Cowper's “ The Island of the En-
and the Merrimac. Most of the action takes place on glish " (Macmillan), though the Emperor himself does
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theme of the story, which is vividly told. It is dramatic, humor in “Comical Coons” (Russell) is more obvious.
and handled in excellent fashion. One of Mr. G. A. He exaggerates his types as he does his situations, but he
Henty's books,“ Under Wellington's Command” (Scrib- does it consistently, and his mules and little dogs are as
ner), deals with almost the same period. It is a story funny as his pickaninnies. Occasionally he forces his
of the Peninsular War, in continuation of “ With Moore mirth a little, and this book is less genuine than others
in Corunna," and it takes up the history of Terence he has given us. Yet his darkies are still irresistible. —
O'Connor at the battle of Salamanca.—Mr. Henty, still Mr. Henry Bradford Simmons's “Jingle Jangle Rhyme
indefatigable, contributes two other books to the season's Book” (Stokes) is pure farce. Once or twice only does
Christmas hilarity. One is a story of Hotspur and it achieve real fun, but everywhere else the effort is pain-
Glendower, called “Both Sides the Border" (Scrib- fully apparent. The pictures are printed in colors which
ner), and it would be bard to find a more fascinating would be good if only an artist had combined them.
subject. It might be still pleasanter, though, to read Crudity is evidently the intention. Mr. Simmons prob
about it in Shakespeare.— The third of this annual tri- ably dare not be as artistic as he could.— Miss S. Rosa
umvirate relates to Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. “At mund Praeger continues some adventures begun last year
Aboukir and Acre (Scribner) gives the author a in “Further Doings of the Three Bold Babes ” (Long-
chance to glorify the English arms at the expense of mans). By means of a gentle and obliging sea-serpent,
an almost invincible conqueror. Mr. Henty's stories which curls itself into a tubular bridge for their con-
are too well known to need further description. He venience, they are enabled to enter the kingdom of the
knows thoroughly well how to interest a boy in every Head-hoppers. It is a realm which very little people
page, and his style is spirited and good.—The last book will find amusing. — For their benefit also was con-
of this group is a story of the Maccabees, written by structed “The Golliwogg at the Sea-Side” (Longmans),
Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, whose following is large. with pictures by Miss Florence K. Upton and verses by
In “The Patriots of Palestine" (Thomas Whittaker) Miss Bertha Upton. No particular cleverness is wasted
she tries to give an idea of the real career of Maccabeus upon it, however, and the pictures of these jointed dolls
and his brother Eleazer. It is an unfamiliar part of are almost as wearisome as the rhymed narrative of their
Jewish history, and if Miss Yonge cannot make it live experience. – Mr. J. L. C. Booth's "Sporting Rhymes
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for us, she can at least suggest it. But the names and and Pictures” (Russell) is for older and wiser children.
something in the manner make it a bit heavy for children. The rhymes are gay and spirited, and the pictures have
After so much serious literature, a little excursion a great deal of life in them. There is character enough
into the land of fancy may be refreshing even to the and to spare in both men and horses, and the artist has
big boys who outwardly scorn such frivolity. The pic- a refreshing keen sense of humor.- We are all young
ture books, the fairy tales, and the nursery rhymes again for an hour with “ Jack the Giant Killer" (Mac-
make a rather interesting group this year. And artis- millan), as he appears in the series of Mr. Hugh Thom-
tically the honors are divided. In literature they go to
son's illustrated fairy-books in paper covers.
It is a
“ W. V.'s Golden Legend” (Dodd), and to the new good old-fashioned story with pictures of the right sort.
edition, in one volume, of “ The Invisible Playmate" These are just the kind of giants to give dreams to the
and “W. V. Her Book” (Dodd), both by the same old and nightmares to the young.-" Nursery Tales,"
author, Mr. William Canton. The latter book was rec- (Russell) is a series of paper dolls, made ready to cut
ognized, on its first appearance, as one of the most ten- out from the pages. They illustrate “Mother Goose"
der and lovely pictures of child-life that have ever been
rhymes.
written. The “Golden Legend,” with its admirable A book of really delightful ballads is hard to find, but
pictures by Mr. T. H. Robinson, would have interest when one lights upon such a one as “ Down Durley Lane,
for us if only because it was “W. V.'s." But in itself and Other Ballads” (Century) it should kindle joy and
there is an exquisite beauty. It is made up of tales of merriment in the adults who read them and in the chil-
the saints and martyrs, told as a poet might tell them dren who listen. Miss Virginia Woodward Cloud has
to a child he loved. He makes these austere heroes a sense of humor which cannot leave one serious, and
more fascinating than fairies, more beautiful than a sense of rhythm which makes her verses sing in the
princesses, and very human. Yet he is true to the brain. So happy a combination could not fail to make
spirit of the simple old legends, and the hidden signifi- a charming book, even without the assistance of Mr.
cance of them becomes visible in his hands. We rec- Reginald Birch's clever and amusing pictures, in which
ognize the great truths in character, the great lessons we find a full appreciation of the delicacy of Miss Cloud's
in conduct, which underlie them. But these are never satirical character study.—The ingenuity of Mr. Andrew
obtruded, and the first and last impression is of beauty. Lang has evolved a new kind of child's book: new
- In art, the honors are carried off conspicuously by because it is so old. He edits “ The Nursery Rhyme
“ An Alphabet of Animals” (imported by Scribner), Book” (Frederick Warne & Co.), with a rather wbim-
in which Mr. Carton Moore Park takes rank with the sical preface explaining the historical origin of some
cleverest painters of animals. The weather-beaten nags of the verses. He groups the rhymes according to sub-
which appear upon the cover are alone enough to prove ject, but further than that he is wise enough not to edit
his artistic skill, but they lead us into a land where them. All the dear old verses that we knew and loved
the most strange and enchanting creatures become our in “ Mother Goose " are here, and some others tbat are
familiar friend There is nothing superficial in Mr. less familiar. With the capital drawings by Mr. L. Leslie
Park's knowledge of these animals; he knows them as Brooke the volume is a delightful one. Charles and
Barge knew them, with an intense sympathy for their Mary Lamb's “Poetry for Children,” now reprinted by
characteristic peculiarities and uglinesses. There is the Macmillan Co., is an odd contrast to the modern
humor in many of his drawings, but it has a deep serious- child's verse. In comparison with Stevenson and William
ness to support it. And this is all expressed in terms Canton, it is curiously dull and heavy and old-fashioned.
of art. It is a book that will delight children and col- Yet for the sake of the quaint and charming colored
lectors, and drive artists to despair. – Mr. Kemble's pictures by Miss Winifred Green, which embellish this
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will stop long enough to read some of the stiff old verses. shrews. The book has been edited by Mr. Frank M.
It is not inappropriate to head the list of fairy tales with Chapman. The ethics of sport and the relations of ani-
“Stories from Dante" (Warne), for no one knew better mals to man and his ways are touched upon in a whole-
than he the poetic value of such creatures of the imagi- some and sensible manner. Much natural history is
nation. Miss Norley Chester retells these stories from included, also, in Mr. Ernest Ingersoll's “ Book of the
the Divine Comedy with clearness and simplicity. It is Ocean” (Century), but it has still more physical geogra-
not an easy task to reduce such poems to terms of prose, phy. The plant and animal life of the ocean are made
and much is necessarily lost in the process. Yet Miss a kind of appendix to man's dealings with the sea. The
Chester is successful in making her book interesting to book covers a wide range of interesting subjects, from
children, though she writes down to them a little too waves and tides, and the building of ships, to naval
obviously; and it is a fine thing to stimulate their curi- battles, robbers of the sea, yachting and fishing. It is
osity in regard to so great a poem. - Another useful and admirably written and copiously illustrated; the best
instructive book, which is at the same time nourishing kind of a book for a boy who loves the sea.
to the imagination, is Zenaide A. Ragozin's version It is a whimsical assortment of impossibilities that
of “Siegfried and Beowulf” (Putnam). The author one finds in Mr. Walter Douglas Campbell's “ Beyond
is one who knows her subject as a scholar, and bas the the Border” (Russell). The story of "Joke or No
skill and imagination to construct her stories admirably. Joke," with the king's ludicrous pursuit of a forgotten
Her style is terse and vivid, well adapted to interest jest, is funny for all of us. The thing moves with a
the young in these dignified and thrilling tales. Mr. rush, and cleverly leaves one stranded at the end. There
Andrew Lang, not satisfied with having exhausted all the is another story of a wise king who could not tell how
colors of the rainbow for his fairy-books, has this year many beans made five, and who ordered the omission of
wandered into the far East and selected and edited for the letter P from the alphabet because he could not
children “ The Arabian Nights Entertainments" (Long- pronounce it, with melancholy consequences to his obe-
mans). Mr. Lang possesses a magician's wand to con- dient subjects, whose food consisted largely of pumpkin
jure up the kind of stories that children love, and this porridge. Such vagaries form the basis of an amusing
book will be irresistible to the imaginative, for whom the book, whose fun is too lively and spontaneous to seem
invisible world is the real one. Mr. Lang has shortened forced. There is less of gayety in Mr. Albert Bigelow
some of the stories and omitted those “only suitable for Paine's “ The Hollow Tree" (Russell), but there is a
Arabs and old gentlemen.” The translations are from good deal of quiet humor. The stories of the coon, the
Galland's version, and are well made. They are illus- possum, and the crow, who lived in the hollow tree, are
trated with many good pictures by Mr. Ford.
told to the Little Lady in the House of Many Windows.
Mr. Ernest Seton Thompson's delightful book called And they are told very daintily and gracefully. It is
« Wild Animals I have Known” (Scribner) cannot be the kind of thing that “Uncle Remus" has done su-
classified easily. It has much of the character of fable, premely well, and it is a little hazardous for another to
yet these sketches are accurate, and belong to history try the same experiment. Yet Mr. Paine's style is so
quite as legitimately as some other books devoted to the good that his book can stand on its own merits. The
glorification of man. Mr. Thompson's long and scientific pictures, by Mr. J. M. Condé, are delightful, sketchy,
study of animals and their ways, together with his skill full of character, and amusingly satirical. They alone
as a writer, enables him to give these biographies of cer- are worth the price of admission. — The same thing
tain intelligent animals with the precision of a scientist might be said for Miss Rosie M. M. Pitman's drawings
and the vividness of a novelist. The grim tragedy of Lobo for The Magic Nuts" (Macmillan), though they are
the wolf fascinates the attention as securely as though he less artistic than her illustrations for “Undine " last
had been born a leader of men instead of a leader of beasts. year. Mrs. Molesworth writes the book, and her loqua-
And the dramatic intensity of the story of the pacing city makes one wonder at her popularity. Yet the story
mustang and his suicidal leap for freedom has not been of the little English girl who finds herself in the country
equalled in its kind outside of “The Jungle Book.” of fairies when she goes to Germany, is rather pretty.
Curiously enough, Mr. Thompson has illustrated his It is one of those harmless inventions which do not tax
book as well as he has written it. There is as much the imagination of the writer or of the reader. – Much
artistic quality in the pictures as there is character, and more ingenuity was required in the production of Mr.
the little sketches in the margins are delightful. -- Mr. Clement Fezandie's “Through the Earth” (Century).
Thompson has also illustrated another book on natural The author seems to have followed Jules Verne and over-
history, which Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright has prepared taken him. The construction of a tunnel through the
for youthful readers. A thread of lively and entertaining earth for the transference of freight and passengers from
narrative binds together the series of animated sketches Australia to New York is the basis of the plot; and it
of the principal mammals of this continent, in her “ Four- is ingenious enough to keep one excited over the develop-
Footed Americans and their Kin” (Macmillan). The ments. It is given the illusion of truth, also, and in spite
favorable impression created among all lovers of field of glaring impossibilities one is carried along by the
and woodcraft by Mrs. Wright's “Citizen Bird” will apparent frankness of the parrative. - Mr. H. Escott-
insure a most cordial reception to this companion volume. Inman's “The Owl King, and other Fairy Stories "
Judged, however, upon its own merits, it deserves com- (Warne) is a much more old-fashioned book. Here are
mendation for its accuracy and completeness, as well as do modern scient
problems, no exasperating machin-
for its fascinating style, and for the fund of information ery to go wrong at the critical moment. Here are, rather,
which it contains regarding the familiar, and many unfa- bosky dells and sunlit meadows inhabited by fairies and
miliar, animals of this country. It is an ideal book for pixies who are wise enough to thwart the wicked witch
children, and doubtless older folk will find in its pages and make everything come out happily in the end. The
much of interest to them about rats and muskrats, hares talking flowers and elves and princesses are prettily
and rabbits, minks, martens, and ermines, caribou, moose, described and will please the little people vastly.
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LITERARY NOTES.
American Minister in Berlin. He lived in Berlin from
his retirement in 1861 to his death. His published
“ An Epitome of Human Histology," by Dr. Arthur books were numerous, in fiction, poetry, travel, essays,
W. Weysse, is published by Messrs. Longmans, Green,
and history, but “ Norman Leslie” is the only one of
& Co.
them that became widely known, and the only one that
The J. B. Lippincott Co. publish a pretty reprint of Dow enjoys even a precarious life.
Miss Burney's “Evelina," with illustrations by Mr.
Mr. Stephen Dowell's “Thoughts and Words
Arthur Rackham.
collection of elegant extracts and favorite passages
Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. publish a new edition from the world's literature, done up into three volumes,
of “ The Man without a Country,” for which Dr. Hale bound in vellum, and almost sumptuous in their execu-
has written a special introduction apropos of the late tion. The extracts are in several languages, and ex-
war with Spain.
hibit good, if somewhat capricious, taste. Messrs.
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons publish "A Short Longmans, Green, & Co. are the publishers.
History of England” and “ A Short History of the A sale of rare old English books will be held Dec. 12
United States,” both by Miss Mary Platt Parmele, and and 13 at 186 Wabash Ave., Chicago, by Messrs. Wil-
both designed for elementary students.
liams, Barker & Severn. Among the gems of the collec-
A translation of “The Children's Crusade," by M. tion may be mentioned a folio set of John Ogilvie's
Marcel Schwob, with an introduction by Mr. Henry “America," 1671, David Robert's “ Views of the Holy
Copley Greene, is published in one of the prettiest of Land,” with original plates, 1842, and Akin's “Memoirs
booklets by Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co.
of the Court of Queen Elizabeth,” 1819.
“Hellenica," edited by Mr. Evelyn Abbott, has now, The following text-books in science have recently
after eighteen years, gone into a second edition, in been published : “ Elementary Zoology" (Longmans),
which, however, but few and slight changes from the by Mr. Frank E. Beddard ; “A Manual of Chemical
original have been made. Messrs. Longmans, Green, Analysis” (Longmans), by Mr. G. S. Newth ; “A Lab-
& Co. are the publishers.
oratory Manual of Physiological and Clinical Chem-
Messrs. R. F. Fenno & Co. publish a new edition of istry and Toxicology" (Lamson), by Dr. A. E. Austin
“John Jasper's Secret,” which, as most readers have and Mr. Isador H. Coriat ; an “ Elementary Botany"
by this time probably forgotten, is the sequel to Dickens' (Holt), by Mr. George F. Atkinson; and a “Psychology
“ Edwin Drood,” prepared by Charles Dickens the for Teachers (Scribner), by Professor C. Lloyd
younger and Wilkie Collins.
Morgan.
Besides the editions of “ Cyrano de Bergerac" re- The volume entitled “ American Prose," and edited
cently reviewed by us, the Doubleday & McClure Co. by Mr. George Rice Carpenter, is prepared upon the
have just put forth what they call an édition de luxe of plan of Mr. Craik’s “English Prose," and really pro
Miss Gertrude Hall's translation. Half a dozen photo- vides that work with a supplementary volume. Twenty-
gravure illustrations are the added feature of this five American authors, from Cotton Mather to Francis
edition.
Parkman, are included, each having a brief critical essay
Mr. Edward Robeson Taylor's translation of the by a competent authority. For example, Professor Norton
“Sonnets of José-Maria de Hérédia,” published by Mr.
writes of Lowell, Colonel Higginson of Thoreau, Mr.
William Doxey, has gone into a second edition, in which Howells of Curtis, and Mr. Fiske of Parkman. The work
the translator has profited by the criticisms made upon
is well done, and a real want satisfactorily supplied.
the former edition, and made many changes for the The following text-books for teachers of English
better.
have been received : In the “Athenæum Press” series
The Rev. Henry Van Dyke’s study of “ The Poetry (Ginn), there are “Selections from the Poetical Works
of Tennyson seems to have taken a permanent place of William Cowper,” edited by Dr. James O. Murray,
(which it deserves) in our critical literature. The edi- and “Selections from the Poems of Robert Burns,
tion before us(for which a new preface has been written) edited by the late John G. Dow. The same publishers
is the tenth, and is published by Messrs. Charles Scrib- send us DeQuincy's “ Revolt of the Tartars," edited by
ner's Sons.
Dr. William E. Simonds. An edition of “Gray's En-
Professor E. A. Grosvenor of Amherst has translated glish Poems,” edited by Mr. D. C. Tobey, comes from
Duruy's “ A General History of the World,” revised it the Cambridge University Press. Finally, Messrs.
to date (with the addition of supplementary chapters), Henry Holt & Co. publish Modern American Oratory,
and published the work in a volume of nearly eight being seven representative orations, edited by Mr. Ralph
hundred pages, with many maps, through Messrs. T. Y. Curtis Ringwalt.
Crowell & Co.
Volume XII. of “Book-Prices Current,” edited by
My Lady Sleeps" is the title of a small anthology Mr. J. H. Slater, comes to us with the London imprint
made by Mrs. Katherine S. Page, and published by of Mr. Elliot Stock. Beginning with this volume, the
Messrs. L. C. Page & Co., Boston. The subject is the record is made to end with September, instead of with
poetry of sleep, with subdivisions devoted to dreams," December, as hitherto. Since this volume includes the
“ rest,” and “ bedtime songs.' Titian's familiar head greater part of the Ashburnham sale, it is even thicker
of the sleeping Venus appropriately adorns the cover than usual, in spite of the fact that it covers consider-
of this pretty volume.
ably less than a full year. The number of lots cata-
Theodore Sedgwick Fay, who died in Berlin on the logued is 33,763, and the total sum paid for them no
twenty-fourth of November, was the oldest American less than £92,857, a higher average price than usual.
man of letters. Born in 1807, he had reached the great The sales here reported are “the most important that
age of ninety-one. He was associated with Willis and have occupied the attention of the various auctioneers
Morris in the editorship of the New York “Mirror," for at least ten years, while the prices realized have
and afterwards became Secretary of Legation and in many instances been phenomenal.”
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 140 titles, is made up of
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Yule Logs: Being Longmans' Christmas Annual for 1898.
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A Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
No. 300.
DECEMBER 16, 1898. Vol. XXV.
O
CONTENTS – Books for the Young - Continued.
PAGE
O'Callaghan's Boys. — Miss Magruder's Labor of Love. —
Drysdale's The Young Supercargo. Parker's Six Young
Hunters. — Alger's The Young Bank Messenger. Munroe's
The Copper Princess. Mrs. Atherton's The Valiant Run-
aways. – Dromgoole's A Moonshiner's Son. - - Dromgoole's
Three Little Crackers. - Dromgoole's The Fortunes of the
Fellow.–Barnes's The Hero of Erie.-Stratemeyer's A Young
Volunteer in Cuba. - Mrs. Cheever's Little Mr. Van Vere of
China.- Malet's Little Peter.- Dromgoole's Hero-Chums.-
Dromgoole's A Boy's Battle.-Greene's The Blind Brother.-
Crowell's edition of Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair.--Mrs.
Fraser's Master Sunshine. - Mrs. Ewing's Daddy Darwin's
Dovecote.-Mrs. Richards's Margaret Montfort.- Miss Sage's
A Little Colonial Dame.- Mrs. Woods's A Little New England
Maid. — Mrs. Douglas's A Little Girl in Old Boston. Mrs.
Douglas's Sherburne Girls.- Mrs.Spofford's Hester Stanley's
Friends. Miss Deland's Katrina. — Miss Raymond's Among
the Lindens. – Miss Beard's American Girls' Handy Book. -
Mrs. Champney's Witch Winnie in Spain. - Gilman's The
Musical Journey of Dorothy and Delia. – Miss Le Baron's
Twixt You and Me. - Mrs. Dodge's Irvington Stories, new
edition. – Miss Yechton's A Little Turning Aside. – Miss
Ireland's An Obstinate Maid.-Miss Lippmann's Dorothy Day.
- Miss Chase's Three Freshmen. - Miss Ray's Teddy, her
Book. — Miss Newberry's Everyday Honor. - Miss Leonard's
The Story of the Big Front Door. - Miss Wright's An Odd
Little Lass. - Mrs. Alden's As in a Mirror. — Miss Gilmore's
Katie, a Daughter of the King. -- Mrs. Finley's Elsie on the
Hudson.- Miss May's Pauline Wyman.- Otis's The Princess
and Joe Potter. - Miss Jackson's Denise and Ned Toodles.
Miss Catlin's Marjory and her Neighbors. — Dear Little
Marchioness. – Mrs. Cheever's The Strange Adventures of
Billy Trill. Miss Blanchard's Kittyboy's Christmas.
The Story of Little Jane and Me.- Dromgoole's Rare Old
Chums. — Ruth and her Grandfadder. – Mrs. Delafield's
Alice in Wonderland. - Bell's The New Noah's Ark.-- Tunk's
An Awful Alphabet. - Paine and Ver Beck's The Arkansaw
Bear.--Sybil's Garden of Pleasant Beasts.-Kemble's A Coon
Alphabet. - Coale's The Sambo Book. - Loomis's New Mother
Goose Pictures.-- Miss Poulsson's Child Stories and Rhymes.
- Mrs. Morrison's Stories True and Fancies New. - Mac-
Gregor's King Longbeard. - Habberton's With the Dream-
Maker. - Mrs. Johnston's The Gate of the Giant Scissors. -
Mrs. Hohler's The Green Toby Jug.-Miss Dunn's The Sleeping
Beauty. - Duppa's Stories from Lowly Life. - Miss Finley's
Twiddledetwit. — Miss Paillou's Captain Darning Needle.
Miss Mulock's Fairy Book. - Butterworth's Pinocchio's Ad-
ventures in Wonderland. — Church's Heroes of Chivalry.
ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE. Temple Scott 471
LITERARY NOTES
473
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS .
474
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
474
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PAOK
WILLIAM BLACK .
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COMMUNICATIONS
449
Dr. Rolfe's Notes on Tennyson. Albert E. Jack.
Foreign Books in Japan. Ernest W. Clement.
Who Said “We Are All Socialists Now"? Henry
W. Thurston.
FRANCIS PARKMAN AND HIS WORK. Frederick
J. Turner .
451
A FAMOUS NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT OF
THE CIVIL WAR. Percy Favor Bicknell. 454
THE PHILIPPINES AS THEY ARE. John J. Culver 455
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne . 456
Watts-Danton's Aylwin. - Black's Wild Eelin.
Merriman's Roden's Corner.-Weyman's The Castle
Inn.-Barr's Tekla.-Mitchell's Adventures of Fran-
çois.- Page's Red Rock. - Frederic's Gloria Mundi.
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS - II.
459
Wallace's The Fair God, illus. by Eric Pape. - The
Pilgrim's Progress, illus. by the Brothers Rhead.
Inman and Cody's The Great Salt Lake Trail.
FitzGerald's Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyam, L. C. Page
& Co.'s holiday edition. — Fiske's The Beginnings
of New England, illustrated edition. – Mrs. Potter's
Love in Art. – Mrs. Clement's Angels in Art. – Mrs.
Earle's Home Life in Colonial Days. — Black's Miss
America. - Stone's Woods and Dales of Derbyshire.
- Mabie's In the Forest of Arden. – Van Dyke's
The Lost World. - The Ingoldsby Legends, Dent
edition. - Miss Reed's Love Letters of a Musician.
Elson's Great Composers and their work. – Lahee's
Famous Singers. — Allen's The Choir Invisible, illus.
by Orson Lowell. — Wolfe's Literary Haunts and
Homes. — Farrar's The Cathedrals of England. -
Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, illus. by Brock.
-Smith's Cathedral Bells.— FitzGerald's Rubaiyát
of Omar Khayyam, limited edition de luxe.-Frank
Lockwood Sketch Book. - Life's Comedy, third
series.- Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford, illus. in colors by
Hugh Thomson. - Herford's The Bashful Earth-
quake. - Dickens's Works, “Temple” edition. —
Hubbard's Little Journeys to the Homes of Amer-
ican Statesmen.-Walton's Complete Angler, Little,
Brown, & Co.'s edition.- Frost and Van Sutphen's
The Golfer's Alpbabet. - Miller's By the Still Wa-
ters. — Wit and Wisdom from Many Minds. — Sill's
Christmas in California. — Miss Sanborn's The Star-
light Calendar. – Mrs. Alger's Little Flowers of St.
Francis of Assisi. - Kemble's The Billy Goat. –
Black's Friendship. -Kipling's Mandalay, illus. by
Blanche McManus. - Davies's The Marie Corelli
Birthday Book. - Calendars for 1899.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG - II.
465
Pugh's Tony Drum. Stoddard's Success against Odds.
Trowbridge's Two Biddicut Boys.-Hamblen's Tom Benton's
Luck. - Hamblen's Story of a Yankee Boy. -- Inman's The
Ranch on the Oxhide. - - Otis's Dick in the Desert. - Otis's
Joel Harford. - Morrison's A Yankee Boy's Success. - Butter-
worth's Lost in Nicaragua. - Henty's Yule Logs. — Trow-
bridge's Physical Science at Home. — Ellis's Klondike Nug-
gets. - Stables's Off to Klondyke. - Badger's The Lost City.
- Holder's The Treasure Divers.-Kuppard's The Uncharted
Island. - Anstey's Paleface and Redskin. — Hughes's The
Lakerim Athletic Club. — Brooks's The Boys of Fairport. —
Kelley's The Boy Mineral Collectors. — Miss Merriman's Sir
Jefferson Nobody. – Miss Morrison's Chilhowee Boys in Har.
ness.- Grant's Chums at Last.- Miss Zollinger's The Widow
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WILLIAM BLACK.
A review, to be found further on in these
pages, of the latest novel by William Black,
expresses the hope that his pen may continue to
furnish forth many more novels for the enter-
tainment and delight of his readers. We leave
the review to stand as it was written, but the hope
has proved futile, for the novelist died at his
home near London a few days ago. His position,
among the writers of our time has been a dis-
tinguished one for fully thirty years, and a brief
survey of his life and literary activity becomes.
appropriate upon the present occasion.
Born in Glasgow, in 1841, William Black
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time of his death. His education was somewhat ing, symmetrical, and artistic in the finest sense.
irregular, and he never went through the public The story of Black's life during the seven-
school and university courses which prepare ties, eighties, and nineties, is the story of his
most Englishmen who attain intellectual dis- books and nothing more. Even his trip to the
tinction for their work. Instead, he was taught United States, in the early seventies, calls for
in private institutions, and, his early leanings no comment beyond the statement that it in.
being in the direction of art, he spent two years spired “Green Pastures and Picadilly," and
in the Government Art School of his native city. possibly the further observation that from this
“ As an artist,” he says, “ I was a complete fail time on the novelist's heroines became some-
ure, and so qualified myself for a time in after what alarmingly addicted to humor of the
life as art critic.” But it must be remarked, American rather than the English type. For
as a corrective to his own humorous self-depreci- the rest, his seasons, like those of his heroes,
ation, that his insight into the artistic tempera- alternated between the drawing-rooms and
ment is one of the characteristic features of his clubs of London and the coasts and moors of the
literary work, and that, if success in landscape Highlands that he loved so well. The one seri-
painting upon the canvas was beyond his reach, ous book that he wrote was the life of Goldsmith
few writers have ever been so successful in the contributed to the “ English Men of Letters”
verbal painting of landscape. The impression series in 1879. The novels, as we have said,
of natural beauty, as conveyed by hundreds of number upwards of a score, for hardly a year
descriptive pages scattered through his novels, has passed since he began to write them that
is deep and lasting ; one of the chief causes of has not added one or two to the list.
our indebtedness to him is his joy in the change- Among all these fictions, some are so lament-
ful moods of nature, in which he has made every ably weak that they had far better have re-
one of his readers share.
mained unwritten. Probably “That Beautiful
When Black made the discovery that he could Wretch” represents the lowest plane upon
write better than he could paint, he found in which it was possible for Black's talent to work.
journalism the doorway to literature, as so many Many others must be considered pot-boilers
others have done, and became connected with and nothing more. Still others are the merest
the London Morning Star." This was in 1865, replicas, as to motive, situations, and accessories,
when Mr. Justin McCarthy was the editor of of his early successes, and nothing more need
that journal. He served the “Star” as special be said of them. But there remains a residuum
correspondent at the time of the war between of work, including perhaps half a dozen titles,
Prussia and Austria. Soon thereafter he be- which cannot be ignored in any survey of Vic-
came a member of the “Daily News” editorial torian literature, and upon which the author's
staff, occupying that post for several years, and fame will ultimately rest. Of “A Daughter
writing leaders upon politics and questions of of Heth we have already spoken, and “A
the day. Meanwhile, he was fledging his wings Princess of Thule” must be placed on nearly
as a novelist; and in 1867 “Love or Marriage” the same level in a comparative estimate of
was published in the conventional three-volume Black's novels. In “ Judith Shakespeare" he
form. This was soon followed by “In Silk acquitted himself of a peculiarly delicate task
Attire,” and this by “Kilmeny," a beautiful with rare tact and restraint. Its glimpses of
and pathetic story, written during the period the homely life of that spacious age in which
of seclusion that followed the double bereave- the poet lived, and of the poet himself in his
ment caused by the death of his wife and his character as a prosperous citizen of Stratford,
child. In 1871 “ A Daughter of Heth " ap- are altogether charming, and display unfail-
peared, and its author leaped into popularity | ing taste.
When “Sunrise" appeared, many
with the wider public that had known nothing among the novelist's following rubbed their
of his preceding books. This sudden accession eyes at this strange new departure, for here
of fame found abundant warrant in the work to Black deserted his wonted haunts and familiar
which it was due, for “ A Daughter of Heth” characters to write a romance on the European
was not only vastly superior to anything that had revolutionary movement, a romance filled with
come before it, but was to remain the supreme plottings and dark secrets, a romance inspired
artistic achievement of the writer. When we now by the “Songs before Sunrise" that, a few
look back to it, we look along the vista of more years previously, had revealed in Mr. Swin-
than a score of novels that have followed it, and burne so great a lyrical gift as had not been
we find no one of them as completely satisfy- / known since Shelley. But “Sunrise” was only
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COMMUNICATIONS.
at once reverted to his earlier manner and his
well-worn themes. Among the remaining nov-
.
. DR. ROLFE'S NOTES ON TENNYSON.
els, there are done that stand out from the others
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
quite as distinctly as the four that we have In the Publishers' Note prefacing the new Cambridge
named. The tragic gloom that enwraps the Tennyson are these words:
ending of “Macleod of Dare” makes the
“Tennyson, as is well known, subjected his poems to fre-
quent revision, and the editor has therefore, in addition to giv-
reader remember it rather better than its fel-
ing the authoritative text with scrupulous care, collated the
lows, and the more gracious aspects of the nov- volumes of 1830 and 1833, the edition of 1842, and all others
elist's talent are perhaps better displayed than
to which he has had access in this country and in the library
of the British Museum, and has recorded the various read-
elsewhere in such books as “ White Wings” ings in his notes. He has also, both in his notes and in the
and - White Heather.” But we will make no several introductions and brief prefaces, made a thorough
bibliographical study of the poetry, so that the reader is now
more invidious comparisons. We have read
able to trace with great exactness the history of Tennyson's
with some gratitude even the feeblest of these work."
novels, and with much gratitude the best of This collation of Tennyson's volumes, especially the
them. They have provided sweet and whole- early ones of 1830, 1833, and 1842, has long been
some entertainment for many an idle hour, and
needed, and if it has here been done well the students
of the poet will be much indebted both to the editor
we reflect with genuine sorrow that the source and to the publishers. A study of the first two pages
of this entertainment is now dried up forever. of “Notes and Illustrations,” pp. 794-795 of the Cam-
It is related that Carlyle once said to Black, bridge Tennyson, will suffice to test the accuracy of the
in the course of a conversation : “Ay, ay, ye
collating. We follow the order of the editor.
ken our Scotland weel, but tell me, mon, when
To the Queen.
“The following is the stanza referring to the Crystal Palace
are ye gaun to do some wark?” Souls of the
Exhibition of 1851, which originally followed the 6th :
strenuous sort, who expect novelists to deal
“She brought a vast design to pass
with the serious problems of society, and who
When Europe and the scattered ends
Of our fierce world did meet as friends
insist upon the ethical motive, if not upon the
And brethren in her halls of glass."
didactical method, will not find their account
Instead of this, the stanza originally read:
in the novels of William Black, unless they
“She brought a vast design to pass,
think of him solely as the author of “Sunrise."
When Europe and the scattered ends
Such souls have their Mr. Meredith and their
Of our fierce world were mixt as friends
And brethren in her halls of glass."
Mr. Hardy and their Mrs. Humphry Ward, The editor mentions no other variations; but he should
and we do not deny them the right to their have done so, for our present 4th stanza was inserted in
point of view. But when they go out of the the next edition (the 8th), and four other slight changes
way to institute invidious comparisons between
were made after its first appearance.
the novelists they happen to like and such ac-
Leonine Elegiacs.
complished craftsmen of a different sort as Mr. The editor notes no changes. But later editions
changed “Deeply the turtle coos ” and “ Thou cometh
Black and Mr. Blackmore, we feel bound to
morning and even” to the present readings.
protest. The novelist who has just died did
Supposed Confessions.
not have the genius of Mr. George Meredith,
After quoting 17 lines omitted from later editions,
for example, but he cultivated a saner method, Dr. Rolfe adds:
and the talent that expresses itself by the meth- “The only other change is rosy fingers' for 'waxen fingers'
ods of sanity is not unworthy of being ranked,
line 42."
in the total estimate, upon a level with the
But in the 1830 edition we have the line,
“Shall men live thus, in joy and hope"
genius that expresses itself by, let us say, Isabel.
that we may avoid the harsher term so obvi- “The only change in 1842 was 'blanched' for 'blenched,'
ously suggested, the methods of perversity. which was probably a misprint.”
Those intellectuels, in the name of whatever
Not so; for another line, changed in 1842, originally
stood
uncouth or morbid form of art they may make
The laws of wiſehood charactered in gold"
their plea, are not to be allowed the final word Mariana.
when it comes to an appraisal of so grace- Of the line
ful and abundantly-endowed a writer as was
"He held the peach to the garden wall"
the one from whom the world he has enriched
Dr. Rolfe says:
must now take a sorrowful leave. William
“The line was changed in the printed poem at least as early
as 1875."
Black will always be reckoned as one of the five
It was changed in the edition of 1860.
or six best English novelists of his time — that
He says of the line
is, of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
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stanza."
that it was "changed as early as 1856." True, but istry, electricity and magnetism, engineering and me-
it was also changed as early as 1845.
chanics, manufactures and industrial arts, metallurgy
“In line 63, the original 'sang i' the pane' was retained in and mining, together with dictionaries and encyclo-
all the editions I have seen down to 1875."
pædias, enjoy the largest demand. In chemistry, Rem-
This is not correct, as none of the editions, between sen is one of the popular authors; in metallurgy, Phillips's
1850 and 1875 have “
“ sang
i the pane."
work heads the list; in electricity and magnetism,
Madeline.
Thomson's works find the largest number of purcha-
“Printed in 1830 without the division into stanzas, which
sers ; and there is an active demand for Taggart's
was made in 1842. The only other change is 'amorously' “ Cotton Spinning." The favorite dictionary is “Nut-
for three times three' in the last stanza."
tall's Standard Dictionary,” of which the firm above
But the change was in the errata of the original volume. named has already sold between two and three hundred
Recollections of the Arabian Nights.
thousand copies ! Next comes “ Webster's Condensed
Dictionary," and even “Webster's Unabridged ” sells
Here two lines escaped the eye of the collator:
at the rate of from fifty to sixty copies per month. The
“From wreathed silvers looked to shame"
and
“Students' Standard Dictionary” also sells well.
“Flowing below her rosehued zone”;
Works on scientific subjects, especially new publica-
Ode to Memory.
tions, are in great demand, and show the eagerness
Instead of three changes made in subsequent editions,
of Japanese students to become acquainted with the
results of the latest investigations. In astronomy, New-
Dr. Rolfe should have mentioned five. The two he
fails to give are
comb and Holden's popular treatise comes first. In
pedagogics, Herbart is the most popular author at pres-
“When the first matin song hath waked loud"
and
ent. In history, Fisher's “Universal History" heads
" The few whom passion hath not blinded,"
the list; in general, works on modern history are in
The Poet.
greater demand than those of earlier periods. The
“The only change in the poem since 1830 is in the 12th
greater demand for language books, among which the
Otto series stands first, may be due to the near approach
of the date of mixed residence. Mathematical books
On the contrary, the second line of the 9th stanza in the
volume of 1830 reads
are only in fair request.
“Like a great garden showed";
In medicine, German books have practically driven
and the second of the 14th,
from the field works in other languages. In politics and
“Of wrath her right arm hurled."
diplomacy, however, French works are preferred; Walk-
er's “ Political Economy,” Jevons's “Money," and Bas-
The Poet's mind.
tiat's “Science of Finance” have a large sale. In law,
Here the editor failed to observe that the third line
German works are beginning to predominate. Taine's
from the end in the edition of 1830 reads
English Literature” heads the list in works of that
“You would never hear it your eyes are so dull," class, and is used as a text-book or work of reference
The Sea Fairies.
in several higher institutions of learning. Of books
As the poem was completely recast in 1853, the editor on Japan, Griffis's “Mikado's Empire" maintains its
has given the original text in full. One line is not given ground as the favorite. Works on antiquities and
correctly, -
ethnology, elocution and oratory, theology and religion,
"When the sharp clear twang of the golden chords."
are said to be practically devoid of demand; but philo-
The Dying Swan.
sophical works find good sale, with Herbert Spencer in
the van.
“Reprinted in 1842 with two slight verbal changes."
Again not accurate, for one of these, “Which loudly did
Fifty years ago a foreign book had to be smuggled
lament,” remained unchanged until the edition of 1850.
into Japan and studied secretly; and many an earnest
scholar paid with his life the penalty for desiring a broad
ddeline.
education through books. Fifty years ago, Dutch books
“The only changes in 1842 were in the 5th stanza."
were about the only ones, except Chinese, that got into
This is not the case; for the first one, “the side of
the Empire even by smuggling. Now information is
the morn,” was not made until 1853, and the second, eagerly sought from all quarters of the globe; and books
“ Jocks a-drooping,” not until 1863.
in many languages are readable by Japanese.
These poems are treated of on the first two of the
ERNEST W. CLEMENT.
eighty pages of “Notes and Illustrations.” On these Tokyo, Nov. 21, 1898.
pages, as we have seen, the collator has made as many
as twenty mistakes, and besides these there are a num- WHO SAID “WE ARE ALL SOCIALISTS NOW"?
ber of misleading statements. These first pages, more-
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
over, are not exceptional but typical.
I notice that a reviewer in a recent issue of THE DIAL
ALBERT E. JACK. ascribes to Lord Salisbury the dictum, “We are all
Lake Forest University, Dec. 10, 1898.
Socialists now” [vide p. 299.].
I had supposed Sir William Harcourt said these words
FOREIGN BOOKS IN JAPAN.
originally. In “Fabian Essays " [Charles E. Brown
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
& Co., Boston, 1894] p. 190, I find this sentence from
interesting information with reference to the
Mr. Hubert Bland:
made public in the “ Japan Times” by Messrs. Maruya
and accurately poised political weathercock, Sir William
and Company, the only Japanese importers of foreign
Harcourt, pointing to the dawn, crow out thatWe are
books, 1 submit here several items therefrom.
all Socialists now"
HENRY W. THURSTON.
Works relating to architecture and building, chem- Chicago, Dec, 7, 1898,
66
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three, he turned to study Indian life in the
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region where it could still be seen in something
like its original form. Parkman's visit to the
Oregon Trail, thus undertaken in 1846, gave
FRANCIS PARKMAN AND HIS WORK.*
him an intimate understanding of the life of
The publishers of the works of Francis the frontier, and of the primitive Indian vil.
Parkman deserve thanks for presenting a de- lage in the days just prior to its passing away;
lightful new edition, printed from entirely new but the strain of following the savages in their
plates, on excellent paper, and illustrated with hunting parties, and the hardships of wigwam
twenty-four photogravure plates made by Goupil life, left his eyes and his nervous system nearly
from historical portraits and from works of ruined. The force of this blow can only be
well-known artists of the present time. It is realized by one who knows (as Parkman clearly
one that in all respects satisfies the lover of knew) the vast masses of manuscripts to be
good books well set forth. Whatever future gathered from the scattered libraries of Europe
editions may do in the way of furnishing illus- and America, the minute comparison of their
trations and notes, this edition must be the de- details, and the critical gathering of innumer-
finitive text of the historian, who was his own able facts into orderly and accurate form, that
best artist.
must precede the work of the historian of this
Francis Parkman was the greatest painter period. When he began his task, Parkman
of historical pictures that this country-per- estimated that twenty years would be required
haps it is not too much to say, that any country to complete it. But his brain was so over-
- has produced. With correct scholarship, sensitive during a considerable portion of his
fidelity, graphic power, and literary beauty, he life, that creative effort inflicted intense tor-
portrayed the scenes in the struggle between ture, and could be continued but a few minutes
the French, the English, and the Indian, for at a time; moreover, he was forced to use the
the mastery of the American forest. Despite the eyes of others for research. It is not strange,
fact that he chose the vehicle of prose, his work therefore, that the twenty years grew to more
has also much in common with the great epic than forty-five, that the work, begun in his eager
poems, for he dealt adequately with a period college days, stretched out until he closed his
peculiarly suited to epic treatment in the sim.
career, an old man of seventy. While he had
plicity of the contending civilizations, in the filled all the gaps in his work at his death, it
figures of the actors, in the grandeur of the pri- still lacked final revision to make the series an
meval wilderness where the events progressed, absolutely consistent and unified whole.
and in the dignity of the great issues at stake. A splendid panorama is unrolled by the
In his sophomore days, Parkman planned very names of Parkman's books. The order
to write the story of the Old French War. of their production was not in the natural se-
“Here, as it seemed to me,” he tells a friend, quence of the episodes. Fearful lest his pre-
“ the forest drama was more stirring and the carious strength should desert him completely
forest stage more thronged with appropriate before he had achieved the task to which he
actors than in any other passage of our history. had set himself, he postponed some volumes to
It was not till some years later,” he adds, “ that finish others for which his material was more
I enlarged the plan to include the whole course thoroughly collected, or which he regarded as
of the American conflict between France and
of paramount importance. While fresh from
England, or, in other words, the history of the his Indian studies on the great plains, he dic-
American forest ; for this was the light in tated to the companion of his journey " The
which I regarded it. My theme fascinated me, Oregon Trail,” which appeared in the “Knick-
and I was haunted with wilderness images day erbocker Magazine " in 1847, just prior to the
and night.” To this ideal he gave his whole great rush across the plains to the gold of Cal-
sensitive nature with a vehemence that broke ifornia. - The wild cavalcade that defiled with
his physical powers. Labor became to him a me down the gorges of the Black Hills, with
passion and rest intolerable. He not only read its paint and war-plumes, fluttering trophies
books zealously, but he made long and trying and savage embroidery, bows, arrows, lances,
expeditions into the forest; and when his eyes and shields, will never be seen again," so he
began to fail him, while a youth of twenty.writes in 1872; and twenty years later he
*FRANCIS PARKMAN'S WORKS. New Library Edition, in
could say: “The wild Indian is turned into
twelve volumes. Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. an ugly caricature of his conqueror.
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slow cavalcade of horsemen armed to the teeth cent monographic work of special students has
has disappeared before parlor cars and the added materially to our knowledge of the work
effeminate comforts of modern travel.” Thus, of these missionaries, and new documents have
Parkman, who was to write of the passing of come to light; but aside from the critical read-
the frontier in the seventeenth and eighteenth | ing of the great mass of the “ Relations "them-
centuries, trained himself by a hard, but per- selves, the reader can hardly get a more graphic,
haps not too dearly bought, experience on the appreciative, and at the same time discrimi.
last frontier of the United States, in the middle nating, view of the noble devotion of these
of the nineteenth century - a frontier which heroes of their faith.
disappeared while the historian's work was in In 1869, Parkman published his “Dis-
progress. It was natural that he should next
covery of the Great West,” which he revised
turn to “Pontiac's Conspiracy," which he and issued under the title of “ La Salle and
chose, although the last in the natural order of the Discovery of the Great West” in 1878.
his historical series, because, as he tells us, it This revision was necessary, owing to the re-
afforded a better opportunities than any other fusal of Margry to admit him at first to certain
portion of American history for portraying manuscripts pertaining to La Salle. This
forest life and the Indian character”; he aimed leader's high-souled expeditions had completed
“ to portray the American forest and the Amer. the claims of France to the Mississippi Valley;
ican Indian at the period when both received interest was next to turn to the conflicts be-
their final doom.” As an introduction to this tween England and France for the possession
drama of the frontier he gave an unsurpassed of these domains, and Parkman introduced at
study of Indian character, as well as an out- this point (1874) his “Old Régime in Canada,"
line of the history of New France to the begin- a description of the social and political organ-
ning of Pontiac's war. The two volumes of ization along the St. Lawrence, to which, in
this book are perhaps the most widely read of his revision of 1893, he prefixed a section on
Parkman's works ; and in their dramatic power, the rival claimants of Acadia, — La Tour and
their contributions to Indian psychology, as D'Aunay. About one-half the book is given
well as in the extensiveness of view furnished to the exposition of the Canadian organization.
by the introduction, they deserve their place. No one will deny the thoroughness of Park-
Yet it must be admitted that Parkman's style man's study of his materials, nor the brilliancy
lacked maturity here, and that these volumes of his characterizations. But he was not so
made less demands upon his scholarship and skilful in exposition of the development of
judgment than did some of the later ones. institutions as he was in the delineation of
The Pioneers of New France," with its stir- men and events. All his historical tastes and
ring tale of Coligny, Menendez, Ribault, and methods were formed before institutional study
Champlain, followed in 1865; and two years became fixed in the United States. These
later came “ The Jesuits in North America." facts, together with the attempt to describe a
The friendship of the Abbé Casgrain with society in a single view by material drawn
Parkman illustrates the historian's success in from a whole century, render this book, charm-
dealing with the difficult subject of Catholic ing as it is, perhaps the least satisfactory to
ideals and work. Casgrain believed Parkman the critical historian. In “Frontenac and New
to reject equally the Protestant ideas and France under Louis XIV” (1877), we plunge
Catholic dogmas, and declared : “ He is purely into the storm and stress of the intercolonial
rationalistic; he admits no other principle than wars, and the figure of the great governor is
the vague theory which is called modern civil- one of the abiding memories of Parkman's
ization.” “One recognizes," he says, “a soul
”
readers. These wars that follow had their re-
rightly inclined and born for truth, but lost lation to the New England fisheries, to the
without compass on a boundless ocean. .” With- frontier hamlets of New England and of the
out admitting the correctness of Parkman's middle region, and to the fur-trading posts of
generalizations, and while sometimes resenting the interior. In all of these aspects, Park-
the indulgent amusement with which he relates man's touch is firm, true, and artistic. We see
the miraculous in early Canada, the fair-minded the activity of the coast, the ideals and prim-
members of the Church have accorded to Park- | itive life of the backwoods Puritan, the traits
man the recognition of his service in bringing of the bushrangers and borderers of Pennsyl-
before the Protestant reader a sympathetic and vania and Virginia, and the life of the lawless
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Instead of carrying the series continuously do not stand out in their own naked enormity.
on, the author now postponed the treatment It needs the Hogarthian pages of the journals
of the half-century prior to the Seven Years of Radisson, or of the younger Henry, to make
War, in order to make sure of completing the them appreciated.
design of his youth. “Montcalm and Wolfe" There are points of detail in which Park-
(1884) represents his full maturity, and is man needs correction, but they are not many;
worthy of the great crisis in the history of the nor is this the place for discussion of such'min-
world with which it deals. It shows the author ute questions. In his revised editions he did not
at his best in laborious collection and criti- fully study and incorporate the new material
cism of manuscript sources, in breadth of view, that came to light in the interval. But what is
in precision of statement, and in sureness of surprising is that he could have entered a field
touch. Every page tells of careful study, of where tradition so held sway, supported by the
the locality as well as of the written material. filial respect of antagonistic peoples,
a field
It is the crown of his work.
where the contending societies were so based on
In “A Half Century of Conflict” (1892), antipodal ideas of church and state, — and, in
Parkman filled the gap in his work between the midst of the innumerable problems and pit-
1700 and 1748. Possibly because of the lack falls of historical details, have preserved his rep-
of unity of the period, the work lacks some of utation for justness and for accuracy. Perhaps
the throbbing vitality of his earlier books, but it is still more remarkable that one whose in-
it is still a most interesting survey of the period, vestigations had to include the collection and
taking us to the Big Horn Mountains in the criticism of his material from the beginning,
Northwest, and to Santa Fé in the Southwest ; should have so transformed this raw product
while the English are gaining the Ohio Valley. into a great work of art. For it cannot be too
Perhaps it is at this point that Parkman missed strongly stated that whatever criticisms are to
an opportunity. This half-century intervened be made on Parkman's work must come chiefly
between the picturesque era
of exploration and from considerations of what the function of
the sunset glories of New France. The dra- history really is, and of what are the true ideals
matic centre in the story he is telling turns of society. As a literary treatment of his
from the Frenchmen to the frontiersmen of the theme, Parkman's work is definitive. Natur-
English colony, pushing along the river valleys alists will study the American forest more
,
and into the up-country of the South. To have scientifically; the physiographical conditions
adequately portrayed the origin of this army that determined the frontier development of
of invasion of the pioneer settlers, would have the French, the English, and the Indians will
furnished the touch that the book lacks. But be more adequately investigated; but no one is
it was with Parkman as with Milton : it is not likely to bring back to the eyes of men that
the Puritan of his New England home who lies vast, continuous forest with such reality and
closest to the artistic soul of Parkman. He loving sympathy of touch in its minute details,
,
praises the Puritan's ideals, but it is the French as well as in its immensity. Others will study
gentilhomme, with all of his forest diablerie, the linguistics, the mythology, the ethnology
who is the real hero of his epic.
of the American Indian with a more scientific
Summing up the limitations of Parkman, it training; but in the pages of no later writer
must be admitted that he was fortunate in his will actual Indian society live as it lives in
theme. It is not certain that he would have those of Parkman. The Canadian parishes
been preëminent in other fields of historical will still yield to the student of society ma-
research. It was the picturesque story of the terial for new work; but the noblesse and the
American forest that filled his imagination, as clergy, the voyageur and the habitant, are less
he tells us; and this romantic period permitted, alive in the pages even of recent famous his-
nay, demanded, those very qualities of Park. torical novelists than they are in the works of
man's mind and style that might have led him this historical master. Parkman was at once
astray in other fields. Indeed, it is doubtful a scholar and an artist. His wide research,
.
if that very style that is so prominent an ele- his critical astuteness, his fairness of temper,
ment in his success is unreservedly commend- his insight into the meaning of historical move-
able. What was in its nature dull, Parkman ments, made him a great historian. But his
willingly avoided ; over what was repulsive he work will live because he was even greater as
cast the mellow light of his style, until the bare an artist than as a historian.
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neighbors had offered to furnish wines and liquor, but
A FAMOUS NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
he would not allow them in the house; that his Demo-
OF THE CIVIL WAR.*
cratic friends also sent round baskets of champagne,
To those who remember the “Boston Jour-
which he would not accept."
nal ” in its best days, when “Carleton's" let- After a short term of service as night editor
ters formed one of its leading features, to the
of the “ Boston Journal,” at ten dollars a week,
many who have known Charles Carleton Coffin Mr. Coffin became, on the outbreak of hostili.
as a familiar figure in the city which was so
ties between the North and South, war corre-
long his home, and as a frequent visitor to spondent of the same paper, where his graphic
other cities throughout the country, and to his and trustworthy letters from the front, with
thousands of readers everywhere, a life of the
the familiar signature of “Carleton,” became
distinguished war correspondent, traveller, and known and eagerly sought for throughout the
author, by the Rev. Dr. Griffis, his former North.
North. The accounts of his experiences with
pastor, will be welcome.
the
army
and on the battle-field are very inter-
Of New Hampshire birth and Puritan an- esting reading. After the battle of Gettysburg,
cestry, all the conditions of Mr. Coffin's early
Dr. Griffis tells us,
life were favorable to the development of those
“Carleton felt satisfied that Lee was in full retreat,
sterling qualities on which alone he relied in
though General Meade did not seem to think so. Carle-
ton's face was now set Bostonwards. Not being able to
“winning his way." As an editorial writer in
use the army telegraph, he gave his first thought to
Boston, in 1856, when he was thirty-three years reaching the railroad. The nearest point was at West-
of age, he became identified with the newly- minster, twenty-eight miles distant, from which a freight-
formed Republican party, giving his enthusi-
train was to leave at 4 P. M.
astic support to Fremont, and, four years later, ,
“ Rain was falling heavily, but with Whitelaw Reid
as companion, Carleton rode the twenty-eight miles in
to Lincoln, whose nomination at Chicago he bas two hours and a half. Covered with mud from head to
described as an eye-witness, in some autobio- foot, and soused to the skin, the two riders reached
graphical notes which were never published.
Westminster at 3:55 P.M. As the train did not imme-
A Lincoln anecdote which will be new to most
diately start, Carleton arranged for the care of his beast,
and laying his blanket on the engine's boiler, dried it. He
readers is given by him :
then made his bed on the floor of the bumping car, get-
“I accompanied the committee to Springfield to notify ting some sleep of an uncertain quality before the train
Lincoln of his nomination. We went down the rolled into Baltimore.
Illinois Central. It was a hot, dusty ride. Reached “At the hotel on Sunday morning he was seized by
Springfield early in the evening. Had supper at the his friend, E. B. Washburn, Grant's indefatigable sup-
hotel, and then called on Lincoln. His two youngest porter and afterwards Minister to France, who asked
boys were on the fence in front of the house, chaffing for news. Carleton told him of victory and the retreat
some Democratic urchins in the street. A Douglas of Lee. You lie,' was the impulsive answer. Wash-
meeting was going on in the State House, addressed, as burn's nerves had for days been under a strain. Then,
I learned, by A. McClernand — afterwards Major- after telling more, Carleton telegraphed a half-column
General. Lincoln stood in the parlor, dressed in black of news to the Journal' in Boston. This message,
frock coat. Ashman made the formal announcement. sent thence to Washington, was the first news President
Lincoln's reply was brief. He was much constrained, Lincoln and the Cabinet had of Gettysburg."
but as soon as the last word was spoken he turned to
Carleton stayed with the Army of the Potomac,
Kelly and said:
« Judge, you are a pretty tall man. How tall are sharing its vicissitudes and recording its defeats
you?'
and triumphs, until the close of the war. The
"Six feet two.'
moral effect of his letters and despatches, in
“« I beat you. I'm six feet three without my high- dark days even more than in bright, can hardly
heeled boots on.'
«« « Pennsylvania bows to Illinois, where we have been
be overestimated.
told there were only Little Giants,' said Kelly, gracefully
Sent abroad by the “ Journal” to report the
alluding to Douglas, who was called the Little Giant. Austro-Prussian war, Mr. Coffin arrived in
“One by one we were introduced by Mr. Ashman. Europe only to find the battle of Sadowa a
After the handshaking was over, Mr. Lincoln said:
4. Mrs. Lincoln will be pleased to see you, gentlemen, thing of the past, and the combatants again at
in the adjoining room, where you will find some refresh- peace. Yet he remained as foreign correspond-
ments.
ent of his paper, and was soon commissioned by
“We passed into the room. ... The only sign of re- it to continue eastward around the world, send.
freshments visible was a white earthen pitcher filled
ing home letters as he went. This tour of the
with ice-water, Probably it was Mr. Lincoln's little
joke, for the next morning I learned that his Republican
world he made in company with his wife, and
its record is presented in book form in “Our
* CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN, War Correspondent, Trav-
eller, Author, and Statesman. By William Elliot Griffis, D.D.
New Way Around the World.” His bio-
Boston : Dana Estes & Co.
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first, so far as is known, to circle the globe, hostility among Spanish officials; the other had
starting eastward from America and using diplomatic sanction, and was constantly aided
steam as the motor of transportation on land by the colonial government. The opportunities
and water all the way, is not quite correct, of Dr. Worcester were therefore exceptional for
inasmuch as the Central Pacific railway was providing information needful for the instruc-
not completed when Mr. and Mrs. Coffin, in the tion of the American nation at the present time.
fall of 1868, left California for the East. Seven The book is fairly exhaustive without degener-
days and nights of staging interrupted the con- ating into mere detail and statistic, and its
tinuity of the railroad journey.
contents are informed with a spirit of disin-
Mr. Coffin served several terms in the Massa- terestedness and candor worthy of high praise.
chusetts legislature, both as representative and At the same time it answers, and authoritatively,
as senator, and left his mark on the statute- many questions which every conscientious citi.
book. The law placing the Boston police un- zen is just now asking himself.
der state control, and that abolishing grade The Philippine Islands, Dr. Worcester tells
crossings throughout the state, are two of his us, have rich natural resources, both mineral
most important reforms.
and agricultural. But the obstacles to their
Although the life of a war correspondent development are very great. No white man can
might perhaps be treated with keener appre- work there and expect to live; while native labor
ciation and sympathy by a soldier or a journal- is hard to get and every way unsatisfactory. The
ist than by a clergyman, yet it would be ungra- climate is especially severe on white women
cious to find serious fault with this interesting and children.“ It is very doubtful,” he says,
volume from Dr. Griffis's practised pen. In “ if many successive generations of European
giving dates, if he had oftener added the
year
or American children could be raised there."
to the month and day of the month, his narra- Among the diseases that prevail, he enumerates
tive would have gained somewhat in clearness malaria, cholera, calentura, small-pox (that
at least for the reviewer, who is as likely inevitable accompaniment of the flag of Spain),
to read a book through backward as forward. leprosy, and a host more of dreadful afflictions,
Perhaps, however, it was to discourage such including the horrible biri-biri. There are also
discourteous treatment of a good book that its to be found plagues of ants, which devour any-
author made his chronology intelligible only to thing; of locusts, which consume the crops ;
those who had read carefully from the begin. of poisonous serpents, - though, as we are
ning
PERCY FAVOR BICKNELL.
informed, there is only one of the inhabited
islands where the pumber of deaths from snake-
bite reaches alarming proportions; of crocodiles
in the fresh waters and sharks in the sea. The
THE PHILIPPINES AS THEY ARE.*
land as a whole is subject to earthquakes, and
is all of volcanic origin, having active volcanoes
The great timeliness and pertinence of the
from which have spread wide areas of desola-
information contained in Professor Worcester's
tion in a not remote past.
account of “ The Philippine Islands and Their
There are some eighty varieties of mankind
People" give it an insistent claim to careful
on these islands. The dominating race is the
attention. The author, a professor of zoology
one called Moros, a fighting and slaveholding
,
two extended expeditions to the Philippines in people, of the stock of the head-hunters of
Borneo, of the religion of the Mad Mullah
the interests of science, and thus gained inti-
or El Mahdi. One of the long-standing tasks
mate personal knowledge of the more important of Spain in the Philippines has been to restrain
of the islands, their peoples and their resources,
these Malayan pirates from preying upon the
through the entire archipelago. The former
more peaceful races. They have been con-
of these journeys occupied a little less than
tinuously in revolt since 1622, and their char-
a year, beginning with September, 1887; the
acteristics have given rise to an expressive
latter extended over two years and eight months, Spanish proverb which is about the equivalent
ending in March, 1893. The earlier expedition of our English saying that “There are no good
was conducted independently, and aroused much
Indians but dead ones." Our author gives
* THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND THEIR PEOPLE: A Record
many incidents, from his own experience, illus-
of Personal Observation and Experience, with a Short History
of the Archipelago. By Dean C. Worcester. Illustrated.
trating their savagery. One of the chiefs or
New York: The Macmillan Co.
head men of the Moros, learning that Dr. Wor-
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captives, calmly proposed to shoot a few of them older fashion of looking facts in the face, and
for his greater convenience, and as a contri- of seeking such light as may be had from the
bution to his store of specimens.
lamp of experience before entering upon new
Into the abuses of the Spanish friars in these and perhaps dangerous pathways. Those who
islands, Dr. Worcester does not go, contenting so confidently assert that America shares with
himself with quoting from Mr. John Foreman's Great Britain a racial ability to govern remote
book, for the reason that this authority on the subject peoples, forget or overlook the fact that
Philippines, an English Catholic, may use a can- England attained her present administrative
dor impossible to an American of another be- skill slowly, painfully, and at a most appalling
lief at this time. These abuses, it is well to say sacrifice of blood and treasure, both her own and
here, arise in great part from the holding and others'; as well as the contrasting fact that the
dispensing of benefices, a time-worn practice United States is wholly without any similar ex-
which went far toward producing the Lutheran perience in the past or precedent for the future.
revolt, its manifest objections having been recog. The hazardous nature of the proposed experi-
nized by the Tridentine Council, which strictly ment in the Philippines, and the appalling
forbade the process. These remote islands, being difficulties that may be expected to attend it,
in partibus infidelibus, are not subject to the become clearly impressed upon us by a reading
decrees of the Council. Nearly half of the eight of Dr. Worcester's book.
of Dr. Worcester's book. The information it
or ten millions of souls in the archipelago are contains and the manner of presenting it leave
in the hands of these friars, whose energies are us longing for more books of travel by Ameri-
concentrated in Manila, where their directing cans. Not since Dr. Donaldson Smith's account:
councils appear as the heads of enormously of Africa, or Lieutenant Peary's tale of Green-
wealthy and influential corporations of a purely land, have we been so instructed or entertained.
religious character. The significant fact is worth The book has a single fault: its price precludes
recalling here that the title to all the landed and
its general distribution among those entitled to
other property of the Church of Rome in the an opinion upon a most vital point in our na-
Philippines has been transferred since Dewey’s tional policy.
JOHN J. CULVER.
victory to a distinguished American citizen,
John Gibbons, Cardinal Archbishop of Balti-
more. Dr. Worcester tells us that the religious
propaganda has made but little beadway among
RECENT FICTION.*
the Christian-hating Moros, and expresses the After many years, Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton is
conviction that “ the nation which would have
now coming to his own in the estimation of the read-
any hope of getting on peaceably with them ing public. Not of the widest public, indeed, for his
must let their religion strictly alone." Those work will hardly appeal to that, but of a public wide
Americans who favor the annexation of these enough to include all readers of taste and literary dis-
islands on missionary grounds will not find crimination. Until the present year, although few
much encouragement in Dr. Worcester's book. names have stood so high as his in the opinion of those
Force, rather than moral suasion, seems to be
who long ago found their way to his work, few names
what these troublesome semi-savages require the generality of cultured readers. Those who have
deserving of great respect have stood for less with
.
“ It is certain,” says Dr. Worcester, “that for
known him at all have known him for many years
many years to come they must be held in check
as standing in the highest rank among the men who
with a strong hand.”
* AYLWIN. By Theodore Watts - Dunton. New York:
Nor will the advocates of “expansion Dodd, Mead & Co.
annexation find much of comfort or justifica- Wild EELIn: Her Escapades, Adventures, and Bitter
tion, on any grounds, in these frankly written
Sorrows. By William Black. New York: Harper & Brothers.
RODEN'S CORNER. By Henry Seton Merriman. New York:
pages, which are the more convincing as coming
Harper & Brothers.
from a trained observer who records his experi- THE CASTLE INN. By Stanley J. Weyman. New York:
ences and conclusions in the spirit of science Longmans, Green, & Co.
rather than of polemics. Without any pro-
TEKLA: A Romance of Love and War. By Robert Barr.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
nounced political standpoint of his own, he gives THE ADVENTURES OF FRANÇOIS. By S. Weir Mitchell,
a hundred practical reasons for our leaving these M.D., LL.D. New York: The Century Co.
alien folks alone, to one in favor of our attempt-
RED Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction. By Thomas
Nelson Page. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
ing to make American wards or citizens of them.
GLORIA MUNDI: A Novel. By Harold Frederic. Chicago :
It is the fashion of the day to scorn any but Herbert S. Stone & Co.
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are both critics and artificers of poetry; but bis work reunion between hero and heroine the sanity of
had to be sought out in its several places of conceal- the latter restored - is infinitely pathetic, and does
ment - the "Atheneum," the “Enclopædia Brit- nothing but honor to the heart that could project
annica," and others — and until “The Coming of 80 great an emotion into the romance of his fash-
Love ” made its appearance early in the present ioning. It even prepares us to accept, as a necessary
year, no book bearing his name was obtainable. incident in the working out of the result, the bit of
He has now put forth the prose romance, “Aylwin” charlatanism whereby Winifred is brought back to
written at least twenty years ago but hitherto mental equilibrium. There are many other features
unpublished - and adds the distinction of the nov- of this remarkable book upon which we would gladly
elist to that of the poet. We trust that he may comment did space permit upon the magic of its
soon be prevailed upon to make his service to the style, upon the vision which informs its descriptions
public a triple one by collecting into a volume or of natural beauty, and upon the power displayed in
more those extraordinary essays in poetical criti- the treatment of certain of its episodes — but prob-
cism, and those fascinating chapters of personal ably enough has been said to make clear the fact
reminiscence, that have for many years provided that “Aylwin " is a book apart from the generality
“The Athenæum” with the most interesting part of current literary production, a piece of imagina-
of its contents.
tive work so original as almost to evade classification,
Of the critic, poet, and romancer so happily com- a book to read with the closest care and to treasure
bined in Mr. Watts-Dunton, we will say frankly for repeated reading in the future.
that the laurels of the first two are greener than
“ Wild Eelin” is a tale of familiar— very familiar
those of the third. His interpretation of poetry, -scenes and types of character, and we know before-
technical and ästhetic, seems to us the finest work hand that it assures us several hours of the most pleas-
of its sort that has been done in our time, and ant companionship. Mr. Black's heroines are always
“ The Coming of Love" has shown how well the sweet and maidenly, with a wilding grace of their
writer can exemplify his own critical principles. own that quite justifies his lovers for their infatu-
“Aylwin," on the other hand, although revealing ation, and makes their misconduct — when such may
the stylist and the philosopher, although suffused be laid to their charge — peculiarly atrocious and
with the tenderest sentiment and the deepest emo- unpardonable. In the present instance they behave
tion, although a distinctly individual utterance and very well — for there are two of them — and one
fascinating from first to last, does not afford a does not exactly see which of them should rightfully
parallel to the severe and flawless art to be found possess the prize. Mr. Black does not seem to see,
in the finest of the poems. It is too rambling, too either, for he finds no way out of the difficulty save
episodical for that; it is not a well-knit piece of con- that of making « Wild Eelin" catch cold and die
structive workmanship, but rather a vehicle for the incontinently. This sudden tragedy at the end is
conveyance to his readers of an excessively romantic altogether uncalled-for, and plays with wanton bru-
view of life and of certain special forms of recon- tality upon our emotions. Why not let one of the
dite lore. Primarily, it is a Romany romance, thus lovers die instead? Mr. Black is as good as ever
taking its place in the small group of works which in picturing West Scotland scenery and character, in
includes "Lavengro "and the Kriegspiel " of Mr. making effective use of snatches of folk-poetry, and
Francis Hindes - Groome. It stands related even in infusing a tender sentiment into his scenes and
more closely to the author's own “Coming of Love,' situations. We hope to read his often-told tale in
for the heroine of that poem figures in the novel, yet as many more forms as these that have already
although in a comparatively unimportant part. Of been given it by his ingenious invention.
this aspect of the romance we may say that the tri- “ Roden's Corner" is a “corner" in the commer-
umphant success is scored of enlisting our sympa. cial or economic sense. It is a corner in malgamite,
thetic interest in a race and a dialect not particu. which we are told is an essential ingredient in the
larly attractive in themselves, except to the Borro- manufacture of paper. The preparation of malga-
vian elect. The figure of Sinfi Lovell is a creation mite is a serious matter for the workman, since the
worthy to be classed with that of Isopel Berners, chemicals employed result in poisoning and early
and the imaginative literature of the subject offers death, Roden and a fellow-schemer, both unscra-
no third figure of equal charm, unless it be that of pulous, corner the production of malgamite, and start
Rhona Boswell in “ The Coming of Love." Sec- their consolidated works in Holland, among the sand.
ondarily, “Aylwin" is a protest against materialism, dunes of Scheveningen. The real nature of the manu-
a plea for the supreme right of passion, in the fine facture is so masked that what is destined to be an
senge of that term. “ The ennobling difference be- enormously profitable business appeals to the British
tween one man and another,” says Mr. Ruskin, “is public as a charity, and gets “boomed ” into promi-
precisely in this, that one feels more than another.”
It is represented that the new process of
Henry Aylwin is not ashamed to feel, and his cre- manufacture saves lives instead of destroying them.
ator is not ashamed for him. The story of his over- A peer of the realm lends his name (for a consider-
whelming love for Winifred, of the singleness of ation) to the enterprise, and all goes well until the
his aim in the long search for her after she has fled honest but at first unsuspecting partners learn the
demented from his presence, and of the final happy sort of business in which they are really engaged.
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The story
After a sharp fight, the enterprise is broken up, and in Frankfurt, he humbles the proud prelates who
the surviving workmen are pensioned for life out had thought him but a puppet in their hands,- all
of the accrued profits. The story thus outlined has this is told in some four hundred pages of the most
a certain interest, but it is badly put together, and engrossing romantic narrative.
engrossing romantic narrative. If the story is at
there is too much dropping of one set of threads to times lacking in animation, and the dialogue some-
take up another. Some of the threads thus dropped what over-labored, there is, nevertheless, no doubt
never get taken up again, and tbe book is closed with of the thrilling interest which attaches to the tale
a great sense of dissatisfaction. In detail, the work. from first to last.
manship is excellent, but as a whole, it seems to us “ The Adventures of François” is at once a de-
lightful surprise and a stronger proof than the
In “ The Castle Inn" Mr. Weyman contrives to author has ever before given us of his versatility as
get along without the historical accessories that have a writer of fiction. We had thought Dr. Mitchell to
lent interest to his earlier novels, and tells, never- have touched his high-water mark with “Hugh
theless, a surprisingly interesting story of love and Wynne," but even that admirable novel is surpassed
private adventure. To be sure, the environment is by the present masterpiece of picaresque invention.
in a sense historical, for it is that of eighteenth cent- In Dr. Mitchell's previous books there has always
ury England, and the story is concerned with the been a certain strenuousness, and a slightly labored
manners, although not with the actual events, of its character has pertained to the best of them. While
period. One historical figure, indeed - that of the giving deserved praise to their conscientiousness
great Earl of Chatham-makes a casual appearance and unfailing taste, we have never been able to
in these pages, but there is no attempt to delineate escape the impression that their author was too
him. The “ castle inn" of the tale is somewhere on intent upon becoming a great novelist to achieve the
the road to Bristol, in the West of England; here the best sort of success. No such impression as this is
scene is chiefly laid, and here the actors meet to play produced by "The Adventures of François,” which
their several parts. The story is of a young woman is distinguished by an almost absolute freedom of
of humble surroundings, supposed to be the heiress movement. The author has found a medium in
to a great fortune, and sought after, both on this and which he is not impeded by external friction; his
other accounts, by a number of men.
narrative takes shape and color from within ; it is
of her abduction by one of them and her rescue by the genuine projection of a finely-realized creation
another provides the narrative with its central situa- of character. The hero is a foundling, thief, jug-
.
tion, and her marriage is a triumph for romantic gler, and fencing-master who lives in Paris during
principles, since she turns out penniless after all, yet the period of the Revolution.
“ He had a great
is wooed and won by the rather dandified hero, who heart and no conscience; was fond of flowers, of
exceeds any expectations reasonably to be deduced birds, and of children ; pleased to chat of his pilfer-
from his training and early life. The story is, we ings, liking the fun of the astonishment he thus
repeat, skilfully put together and entertaining, repro- caused. . . . He was by nature gifted with affec-
ducing in a vivid manner the social life and ideals tion, good sense, and courage. He had many deli-
of the Georgian epoch in English history,
cacies of character, but that of which nature meant
Mr. Robert Barr has always known how to tell a to make a gentleman and a man of refinement, de-
good story, but he has outdone himself in “Tekla," sertion and evil fortune made a thief and a repro-
his latest production. This romance of love, war, bate.” These sentences are the author's own sum-
and archepiscopal politics of the thirteenth century mary of one of the most interesting and lovable
is one of the best quasi-historical tales that we have characters in recent fiction, and they but faintly
read for many moons. The chief figures in this reflect the singular charm of this vagabond hero,
work are Rudolf I., the first Hapsburg emperor ; who was all unconsciously mixed up with some of
Arnold von Isenburg, the primate of Treves; and the greatest happenings in history, and whose career
Konrad von Hochstaden, his colleague of Cologne. illustrates a phase of the Revolutionary period of
Beyond these names, and a general truthfulness to which the writers of rhetorical romanoes seem quite
the spirit of the period, there is little that is histor- unconscious. Even the most hackneyed features of
ical in the book. The Emperor is represented as a
the Terror become fresh in their interest when
far stronger man than history admits him to have viewed from the standpoint of this child of nature,
been, and the story is based upon an imaginary while his experiences and vicissitudes are surprising
episode placed in the beginning of his reign. Falling enough to keep the attention agog from beginning
in love with a ward of the grim ruler of Treves, he to end. Nothing that Dr. Mitchell has heretofore
aids her flight to the castle of her uncle on the done deserves so cordial a greeting as this altogether
Moselle, and, his name and rank unknown to all delightful story
concerned, he remains in the castle and defends it Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, whose reputation as a
against the allied Archbishops of Treves and Co- writer of short stories and novelettes has so long been
logne during a siege of two years. How the castle established, has now attempted work upon a more
is held, how Rudolf wins the love of Tekla, how, ambitious scale, and has given us, in " Red Rock,"
at the right moment, he collects the imperial forces one of the most satisfactory works of fiction that the
and raises the siege, and how, restored to his throne South has ever produced. On all this crowded canvas
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there is not a figure that is not drawn from the life, make a poor substitute for observation, and no
and given character by sympathy or insight into amount of reading or talking about people, however
motive. The types delineated are not new, but they earnestly or cleverly done, will suffice for depicting
are thoroughly realized in accordance with the con- them as the novelist should. The lords and ladies
ventional models, and their fortunes are so skilfully of this novel are lay figures merely; they are sketched
interwoven as to make them present a vivid and from the outside and at a distance; they have noth-
trustworthy view of human nature in Virginia be- ing of the glow and the vitality of the figures in the
fore and after the war. We say in Virginia, for author's American novels. Even the hero, in whose
although Mr. Page disclaims any attribution of a case something more closely approaching the cre-
local habitation for his characters, it is pretty evidentative effect has been reached, remains baffling and
that they are taken from the society that he knows elusive; one never knows just what he thinks or
80 well, to say nothing of the indications of prox. what he is going to do. Nor is the story helped by
imity to the Capital which would hardly fit in with the vein of didacticism that runs through it. A part
the suggestion of any other State. The real theme of the narrative deals with a Ruskinian social sys-
of “ Red Rock” is the work of reconstruction — the tem the hobby of one of the minor characters
task so well-intentioned but so badly performed but of this we must say that either too much or too
because undertaken and carried out by doctrinaires little is made. We cannot find out whether or not
who knew nothing of the problems to be dealt with. the author believes in it, yet the prominence given
The era of carpet-bagging is one of the blots upon it warrants a reader in asking the question. What
our national history; and, at the present distance we have said should not be taken as a condemnation
of an entire generation, one may, without being of the story; we mean simply that it is by no means
suspected of disloyalty to the Union, make that as good a story as Harold Frederic knew how to write.
admission. Of the horrors of that reign of terror, But it is always an interesting, and, in some of its
and of the struggle of the whites for the preserva- episodes, a brilliant piece of narrative invention.
tion of civilization when menaced by an even greater
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
curse than war, no stronger delineation than this
has thus far found its way into our literature. Mr.
Page's sympathies are passionately Southern, and
we have no doubt that this fact colors his narrative
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
to some extent- that his Virginians are of finer
mould, and his carpet-baggers more despicable, than Mr. Eric Pape's drawings in Messrs. Houghton,
the average truth would warrant; but the fact re- Mifflin & Co.'s luxurious new edition of General Wal.
mains that the Northern policy of reconstruction, in lace's “ The Fair God” are, like the novel itself, the
the hands of the politicians who were intrusted with result of imagination working upon the fruits of anti-
its details, was carried out with a degree of tactless-quarian research. Mr. Pape bas been at great pains
ness, and even of brutality, that left bebind it a to secure for his pictures the highest degree of realism
deeper bitterness than the victory of the Union arms attainable. He has ransacked museums and libraries,
alone could have produced.
We can meet the au- and he has travelled widely in the countries in which
thor more than half way in his indignation, and the story is laid, retracing the steps of Cortes, and
thank him for his attempt to make us understand gathering with the aid of pencil and camera sketches
what it meant for the civilization of a Southern State and views of the relics of ancient Mexican civiliza-
to place the reins of civil government in the hands tion. Native Mexican Indians have served as models
of men who were utterly unfit to direct its course. for the more imaginative and dramatic drawings.
And it is hardly to be laid up against Mr. Page that, The decorative designs subserve the purpose of repre-
in his endeavor to arouse our sympathies for the senting the arts and implements of the Aztecs, and
people among whom he was reared, he should endow of their tribal predecessors who inhabited Mexico
them with more of the manly and womanly virtues and Central America centuries before their régime
than ever yet fell to the lot of any section of American in ancient Anahuac. The initials in red and black
society. To do this was his duty as a novelist, and have a good effect, and on the whole, considering the
we are quite prepared to accept his idealized picture inherent difficulties of his undertaking, Mr. Pape
as good art, if not exactly the best of realism. must be said to have scored a decided success. The
We will close this review of an unusually import- full-page pictures are of somewhat uneven merit,
ant selection of recent novels with a few words about ranging from such fine ones as that facing page 40
the late Harold Frederic's “Gloria Mundi.” We of Volume I., to the comparatively weak example
have read it with disappointment, for it is inferior facing page 86 of Volume II. But the pictorial
to several of Frederic's earlier books, and for a reason average is very creditable to Mr. Pape. Outwardly
not far to seek. In attempting to write of English the volumes are gotten up in impeccable style, the
society -- and particularly of a section of that society chaste yet sufficiently decorative bindings being par-
with which he had no intimate associations - he ex- ticularly good. The work ranks among the hand-
ceeded his powers, and allowed the journalist in bim somest of the holiday publications of this year.
to get the better of the artist. But all the devices The high degree of success in the pictorial inter-
of the most resourceful and inventive journalism pretation of a great book that may be attained by
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the sympathetic and skilled illustrator saturated with of stories -- an informal conglomerate of frontier
the spirit of his author is exemplified in The Century yarns and pen-pictures of frontier characters. The
Co.'s remarkable folio edition of “ The Pilgrim's Pro- work has little claim to literary style; it is essentially
gress ” of Bunyan, illustrated by the brothers Rhead history in the rough, and fixes for the use of the future
- George, Louis, and Frederick. The original de historian the salient features of a phase of peculiarly
signs of these pictures were exhibited in New York American life and manners now fading into history.
and London some time ago, and there was a general The echoes of that stirring period are already dying ;
desire then to see them made popularly attainable for America is preëminently the land of change.
in their present form. These strong drawings over “ The Great Salt Lake Trail ” is a book that Young
which the spirit of allegory appropriately broods are America, especially, will relish and profit by. It
really Banyanesque -- such drawings as the Inspired contains seven full-page illustrations by F. Colburn
Tinker himself might have been glad to see wedded Clarke, together with many rather roughly executed
to his immortal text. The high average of merit is cuts in the text. A
map
of the Trail is of course
well sustained, though the artist's fancy seems to included.
flag in the plates facing pages 66, 139, and 78, If we should ever have an Omar Khayyàm Club
which seem relatively insipid. Notably good are the in America, Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole should be
plates showing Vanity Fair, the home of “ Pliable," made its president by acclamation. His “Vari-
Talkative" on the ale-bench and in his household, orum "edition of Omar, so comprehensively planned
the Slough of Despond. Hogarth himself might and so skilfully edited ; his “ Bilingual" edition, 80
have drawn the Jurymen of Louis Rhead, and Doré happily conceived and so prettily executed ; and
;
could not have bettered George Rhead's “Giant now, the holiday edition edited by him for Messrs.
Despair." Very felicitous are the personifications - L. C. Page & Co., are titles to the aforementioned
“ The Lord Luxurious,” “ Mr. Worldly-Wiseman," presidency such as no other American could offer.
“ The Lord Carnal-Delight," etc. There are thirty- (We do not mention Mr. Vedder because he lives
six full-page illustrations, and seventy or more vig- in Rome.) The edition to which reference has just
nettes, together with a number of purely decorative been made gives a full reprint of the first second,
designs, headbands, initials, marginal borders, etc., and fifth versions of the quatrains, together with
the whole printed in brown ink on rather heavy the variants found in the two others. It includes
paper. There is an édition de luxe of this work, the regular FitzGerald essay and notes, besides an
but the very moderate price of the regular edition introductory paper and other apparatus supplied by
puts these highly satisfactory illustrations within the present editor. The volume is beautifully
reach of all.
printed and bound, and has for illustrations, be-
Of the seven historic trails that cross the great sides the frontispiece portrait of FitzGerald, twelve
plains of the interior of this continent, the old Santa original photo-etchings by Mr. Gilbert James and
Fé route has the most stirring and romantic story.
Mr. Edmund H. Garrett. Mr. James adopts a
That story has already been picturesquely told by decorative style of design, which proves effective.
Colonel Henry Inman. Encouraged by the success Mr. Garret, on the other hand, resorts to romantic
of that work, he now puts forth a kindred volume idealization, and achieves prettiness in every case,
containing the story of the second in interest of and something more than prettiness in the cases in
these primitive highways of the far west, “The which he allows himself to be influenced by Mr.
Great Salt Lake Trail” (Macmillan). Col. W. F. Vedder's work. In other words, he is best when
Cody, popularly known as “ Buffalo Bill,” is joint he is frankly imitative. There is no more charming
author of the volume, and his quota has at least the book than this offered for the holiday season.
distinctive merit of being drawn mainly from its One of the most sumptuous and sterling of the
narrator's own experience. The frontispiece, a cap- solider publications of the season is the new illus-
ital photographic plate, shows the two collaborators trated edition of Mr. John Fiske's "The Beginnings
bending over a chart of the storied route over which of New England” (Houghton). Of the original
80 many adventurous pilgrims made their way to merits of Mr. Fiske's standard historical study we
the now populous valley of the salted inland sea. need not speak; and of the pictorial element now
Most interesting, perhaps, of these pioneering ad- added little need be said beyond stating that the
venturers were the Mormons; and to the trials of governing principle of illustration is the sound one
these sectaries during their arduous march Colonel followed in the same author's “ The American Revo-
Inman devotes some interesting, let us add char- lution.” In the newer work, as in the older one,
itable, pages. The Salt Lake Trail was also the the pictures are real lights on the text, and absolute
route followed by the expeditions of Fremont, Stang- and material additions to the graphic quality and
bury, and Lander, and by the famous Pony Express, historical richness of the work. In the matter of
with its lumbering colleague, the Overland Stage. portraits the present volume unavoidably falls some-
It is to the annals of the Trail in this its romantic what short, in point of comprehensiveness, of its
period, long before a railway through the wilderness well equipped predecessor, for the reason that in
of sage-brush and alkali dust was thought possible, a number of cases authentic originals are lacking.
that Colonel Inman's story is devoted. It is hardly We miss, for instance, from Mr. Fiske's interesting
proper to call it a story: it is rather a collection gallery such worthies as William Bradford, Roger
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Williams, and Thomas Hooker. On the other hand, articles and scenes, usually from those still in exist-
there are a few agreeable surprises in the way of ence—rare relics of past days. ... Many a curious
hitherto unpublished portraits — notably an attrac-
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article as nameless and incomprehensible as the
tive one of Goffe, the regicide. Very interesting are totem of an extinct Indian tribe has been studied,
the photographic reproductions of quaint title-pages, compared, inquired about, and finally triumphantly
facsimiles of notable documents and sign manuals named and placed in the list of obsolete domestic ap-
among the latter the “marks” of Miantomo, of Uncas purtenances. From the lofts of woodsheds, under attic
and Squaw, of King Philip, etc. But we cannot eaves, in dairy cellars, out of old trunks and sea-chests
attempt here to convey a fair notion of the pictorial from mouldering warehouses, have strangely shaped
scope and interest of this noble publication. The bits and combinations of wood, stuff, and metal been
portraits are mainly full-page photogravures, which rescued and recognized.” This useful and attractive
serve at once to embellish and illustrate this well con- book, with its profuse and interesting pictures, its
ceived, elegant volume.
fair typography, and its quaint binding imitative of
The title of Mrs. Mary Knight Potter's tasteful an old-time sampler, should prove a holiday favorite.
little book, "Love in Art" (L. C. Page & Co.), has A pretty book with a "catchy" title, that will
afforded a wide
scope
of choice in the matter of illus- undoubtedly prove a prime favorite this season, is
tration. There are thirty-six plates in all, and the Mr. Alexander Black's “Miss America” (Scrib-
subjects have been well selected. The bulk of the ner), a collection of pen and camera sketches of types
pictures are photographic reproductions of well- of the American Girl. Mr. Black appears to have
known masterpieces, such as the Venus of Melos, more than a speaking acquaintance with his subject.
the Capid of Praxiteles, Correggio's Education of He writes cleverly and with a vein of shrewd phil-
Cupid, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Botticelli's Birth of osophy ; and he is plainly an adept with the camera.
Venus, etc.; but the inclusion of such works as The The pictures are decidedly attractive — of course.
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Lovers by Mrs. Kenyon Cox, Thumann's Springtime They strike us as a fairly representative lot; and
of Love, Brush's Mother and Child, and Millais's we commend them to the American young man for
The Bride of Lammermoor, indicates at least some careful inspection. They will refresh his patriot-
independence of taste on the author's part, and im- ism, and make him glad that he was not born else-
parts a popular flavor to the book. A taste that where. Outwardly, the volume is most enticing –
might find Botticelli unpalatable will find its account the prettiest and daintiest possible gift-book for Miss
in Millais and Thumann. The author writes intelli- America herself. The cover is of pale-blue, with
gently for the behoof of the general reader, with a medallion design showing one of the author's
whom this comely volume should find ready accept- most bewitching types.
ance. The handsome print and delicate binding are In his interestingly illustrated book entitled
especially noteworthy. — The same firm publish in “ Woods and Dales of Derbyshire" (G. W. Jacobs
similar style Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement's “ Angels & Co.), the Rev. James S. Stone tells of his summer
in Art.” This popularly instructive and attractively ramblings in that storied English county during the
illustrated book sustains Mrs. Clement's reputation summer of 1892. Dr. Stone started on his tour
as a discriminating and well informed writer in her with the mental equipment necessary to its full and
chosen field. The illustrations are selected with irre- intelligent enjoyment. He saw what was best worth
proachable taste. There are thirty-four of them in seeing, and he writes suggestively and entertain-
all, and nothing is included that the judicious reader ingly, and with the due sprinkling of anecdote.
is likely to wish away. This publication is certainly We commend the book especially to tourists in the
among the prettiest as well as the soundest moderate- county described. It will serve both as guide book
priced art books on our list.
and companion. There are a number of half-tone
A handsome book packed with information as to photographic plates of fair interest and quality.
the household economy of Colonial times is Mrs. One of the most distinctive of the season's gift-
Alice Morse Earle's “ Home Life in Colonial Days" books is Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie's graceful literary
(Macmillan). The work is mainly and essentially fantasy, “In the Forest of Arden” (Dodd), deco-
an antiquarian account of the tools, implements, and rated by Mr. Will H. Low. Mr. Low's decorative
utensils, as well as the processes, of Colonial domestic work, head and tail pieces, scattered sprays and gar-
,
industry; and it is full enough to serve as a moderate lands of leaves and flowers, marginal borders, etc.,
encyclopædia in that kind. The feature of the book, all printed in light-brown ink, is perhaps the best
it is perhaps fair to say, is the illustrations; and of its class this season. The clever full-page designs
a glance over the long list of these is enough to show are conceived in the spirit of the text. We have
to our modern view how remarkably self-sustaining nothing but praise for this specimen of delicate,
and self-sufficing in respect of its material needs the artistic book-making.
Colonial family was. Nearly everything worn or used Replete with tender Christian sentiment and
was made at home. The “ boughten” article was singularly in harmony with the spirit of the great
a comparative rarity; and the daughter of the Church festival is Dr. Henry Van Dyke's delicately
well-regulated household was necessarily mistress fancied Christmas legend of “ The Lost Word”
of a score of small handicrafts. Mrs. Earle's pic- (Scribner). The scene is laid in Antioch in the
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tory as Chrysostom. The hero of the tale is of her book is sincere, and her observation of nature
Hermas, one of the golden youth of Antioch, con- singularly truthful. She is a young woman from
verted by John, and in consequence disinherited whom excellent work may be expected, a prediction
by his father, the rich pagan, Demetrius. The that we make with a confidence based not only
story turns upon the lapse of Hermas into paganism, upon the present production, but also upon a few
and his eventual return to the fold of the faithful.
stray poems to which ber name is attached, and
The "Lost Word” is “God”-a precious talis- which we have noticed in periodical publications
man that is completely erased from the memory of here and there.
the youth during the period of his apostasy, through A brace of notably tasteful little volumes, either
the arts of the pagan sorcerer Marcion, yet sorely or both of them forming a suitable and modest gift
needed at intervals of despair and threatened be- for a friend of musical tastes, are Mr. Louis C. Elson's
reavement, when the echo of a prayer struggles to “Great Composers and their Work," and Mr. Henry
his lips. He can utter his petition, indeed — but C. Lahee's “ Famous Singers of To-Day and Yester-
to whom? He gropes vainly in memory for the day" (L. Q Page & Co.). Mr. Elson gives a series
“Lost Word,” until it is too late. The story closes of brief biographical notices, well spiced with anec-
with the appearance of Chrysostom at the bedside dote, of noted composers, beginning with the earliest
of the child of Hermas, who bas been thrown from ones known to fame, and running the gamut in chro-
his father's chariot during the races at Hippodrome.nological order down to the notabilities of the pres-
Hermas, heart-broken, is praying that the boy's life ent day. The same description will serve, mutatis
may be spared; but again the precious word eludes mutandis, for Mr. Labee's book. Both authors write
his memory. Chrysostom supplies it, just as the pleasantly and intelligently — but one is surprised
soul of the little sufferer is about to take Alight; to find Mr. Elson speaking of one of his musical
and the prayer is answered. The story is grace- worthies as “the first party who fairly deserves,"
fully told, and the allegory is not too obtrusive. etc. The italics are ours. The volumes are finely
The volume is chastely decorative in style, and con- printed on good paper, and each contains a generous
tains four pleasing photogravures after the designs quota of well - executed portraits. The bindings
of Mr. Corwin Knapp Linson.
in maroon and gilt are especially rich and well
The delightful Dent edition of “The Ingoldsby designed.
Legends” (Macmillan) should prove one of the Mr. Orson Lowell is the illustrator of the Mac-
season's favorites. The several series are hand- millan Co.'s holiday edition of Mr. James Lane
somely printed in one handy octavo volume, which Allen's fine story, “ The Choir Invisible.” Mr.
is prefaced by a brief introductory sketch of Lowell's pictures consist of eight washed drawings
Barham by Mr. F. J. Simmons. The illustrator is reproduced in photogravure, and a number of pen
Mr. Arthur Rackham, and he has made the most of sketches, full-page and vignette. Except in one or
be
his excellent opportunities. There are fourteen full- two cases (notably the strong plate facing page 68)
page plates in colors, and ninety-five vignettes in the wash drawings lack depth or distance, but the
black-and-white. Mr. Rackham's work is very spir- general effect is pleasing, and altogether the pic-
ited, some of it (notably in the text cats) being tures should enhance the reader's enjoyment of the
quite up to the work of the older tribe of illus- book. The text is fairly printed on smooth paper,
trators on wood “ Phiz,” Cruiksbank, and the and the cover design of conventionalized flowers is
rest. Mr. Rackham has taken pains to understand graceful and effective.
his author. The half comic, half grewsome spirit Dr. Theodore F. Wolfe's pleasant volumes about
characteristic of Barham's curious medley is per- the homes of famous authors have won so much
fectly caught, and altogether Mr. Rackham's pic- favor, and deservingly, that he has prepared a new
tures form a needed and welcome condiment to these collection of studies in similar vein. It is entitled
old favorites. The book is manufactured in the usual “Literary Haunts and Homes” (Lippincott), and
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flawless taste of its publishers.
is devoted to American authors — Mr. Kipling
One of the pretty books that come to us from being dragged in by virtue of his temporary 80-
time to time with the imprint of the Roycroft Shop journ in Vermont. The“ haunts" of Poe, Bryant,
is entitled "Love Letters of a Musician," and Miss Cooper, Whitman, and many others, are described,
Myrtle Reed is the author. It is a series of rhap- and four engravings provide the text with illustra-
sodical outpourings, addressed to his lady love by a tions.
young violinist, and filled with dreamy and tender An elegant and suitable gift to a clerical friend
passion. Their secondary theme (for love is the will be found in the two rather sumptuous volumes
first) is not so much music as nature, and the writer entitled “The Cathedrals of England” (Whittaker).
seems to spend his spare hours in the woods and Each volume contains a series of historical and
fields, watching the annual procession of harvests descriptive papers on England's most famous min-
and flowers, and finding in them a new inspiration sters, liberally illustrated with pen-drawings by
for both his art and his love. An excess of genti- Mr. Herbert Railton and others. Volume I. opens
mentality sometimes mars the writing, and Miss with a characteristic paper by Archdeacon Farrar on
Reed has not yet learned to avoid certain desper- Westminster Abbey, which is followed by briefer
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Winchester, and Gloucester Cathedrals, by Canon times of Leech, but oftener of Thackeray; and they
Freemantle, Canon Talbot, Mr. S. M. S. Pereira, evince at their best considerable technical skill of the
Dr. Venables, Canon Benham, and the Dean of Glou- rough-and-ready order. But the best part of them
cester, respectively. Volume II. is devoted to St. is their unfailing good temper — their stingless fun
Paul's Cathedral, York Minster, St. Alban's Abbey, at the expense of their author's associates. Indeed,
and Ely, Norwich, Salisbury, Worcester, and Exeter so far as they are caricatures, they owe their preser-
Cathedrals. The volumes are richly bound in purple vation mainly to the care of the victims themselves,
and white cloth stamped with a suitable design in gilt, who were always the most eager competitors for their
and are enclosed in stout slip-covers.
possession. The drawings were literally “ Fliegende
The Macmillan Co.'s comely two-volume edition Blaetter,” scribbled in note-books and diaries and on
of Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans," with odd scraps of paper, and forgotten by everyone save
twenty-four colored plates by H. M. Brock, forms their chance possessor.
But they were well worth
a very acceptable gift-book for a boy, as well as an collecting, and the volume containing them is by all
attractive medium through which the older reader odds the cleverest and most original thing in its way
may renew his acquaintance with this old favorite this year. Among the American victims of Sir
of romantic fiction. Print and paper are good, Frank's sportive pencil we note Mr. Cleveland and
and Mr. Brock's designs are pleasing, and not so Mr. Olney, Mr. Depew, Mr. Edison, etc. Other draw-
determinedly realistic as to be out of harmony withings show Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bartlett, Mr. Birrell,
his author. The cover is dull red, with a notably Mr. Chamberlain, Lord Coleridge, Lord Russell, the
good side ornament in gilt and black.
Tichborne Claimant, Mr. Balfour, and a host of legal
“Cathedral Bells" (William R. Jenkins) is a lights under more or less amusing circumstances.
copiously illustrated flat oblong volume containing a Nor did the caricaturist spare himself. He is shown
detailed account, by the Rev. John Talbot Smith, of in the cover design as being run away with (in wig
that striking architectural exotic, St. Patrick's and gown) by a sorry nag, á la Gilpin, and evi-
Cathedral of New York. Mr. Walter Russell is the dently in anything but “merry pin." A reminis-
illustrator, and he has supplied a liberal number of cence, probably.
plates that should interest the class likely to be The new volume (the third) of “Life's Comedy,"
attracted by the volume. Besides views of the published by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, is as
Cathedral, exterior and interior, there are a number attractive and entertaining as either of its predeces-
of portraits of prominent ecclesiastics-Archbishops
sors, and this is saying a great deal. It is made
Hughes, McCloskey, and Corrigan, Rectors Quinn, up
of drawings selected from the pages of “Life,”
Lavelle, etc. The wide margins are decorated with the best of our humorous weeklies, and contains speci-
details of architecture and mural and window paint- mens of the work of some of the most prominent
ing, knick-knacks of ecclesiastical dress and equip- black-and-white illustrators of the day. For pure
ment, etc. The liberal tone of the text will com- diversion, there is no other holiday book of the year
mend the book to Protestant readers, who will find that can compare with it.
it an instructive and intelligent account of the noble By adding the element of color to Mr. Hugh
pile that lends an element of antique dignity and Thomson's familiar illustrations of “Cranford,”
distinction to New York's magnificent thoroughfare. the Macmillan Co. have acceptably varied their edi-
New editions of the “ Rubaiyát” have been legion tion of Mrs. Gaskell's delightful book. There are
of late, but we are nevertheless glad to welcome the a hundred drawings in all, forty of them in colors,
édition de luxe of FitzGerald's translation just pub- the rest in black-and-white. Mrs. Anne Thackeray
lished by the Macmillan Co. The volume is a large Ritchie's preface is a welcome adjunct to this pretty
octavo, bound in green sateen, with an elaborate
and convenient edition.
cover design in gold. The quatrains are printed two The bizarre initial stanza that faces the title-page
to a page, each pair being enclosed by a striking deco-
of Mr. Oliver Herford's clever booklet of humorous
rative border, drawn by Mr. W. B. Macdougall
, an verse entitled “The Bashful Earthquake" (Scrib-
artist whose work is prominent in more than one of ner) indicates a larger and bolder fancy than is ap-
the holiday publications this year. The designs have
parent in the body of the volume. The drop from
been engraved on wood, and the printing is done the lines in question to such a bardic flight as the
from the original blocks in a manner that could following, for instance, is sudden, not to say severe :
hardly be improved upon. The volume is issued in
“The Bunnies are a feeble folk
a limited edition of 1000 copies, and is dedicated to
Whose weakness is their strength.
the members of the Omar Khayyam Club of London.
To shun a gun a Bun will run
Bubbling over with fun and instinct with the sunny
To almost any length."
and jocund spirit of the artist is “ The Frank Lock- But Mr. Herford's verses, we repeat, are clever, and
wood Sketch Book” (London: Edward Arnold), an 80 are his drawings, with which the pages are liber-
oblong quarto containing a selection from the pen- ally peppered. There are forty-nine titles in all.
and-ink drawings of the late Sir Frank Lockwood. The book is temptingly gotten up, and cunningly
The sketches are chance jottings, largely playful cari- baited with a striking" earthquake" design in colors.
catures of well-known people, thrown off by the artist The Doubleday & McClure Co., in connection with
as the humor seized him. They remind one some- Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co. of London, have begun the
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publication of a “Temple" edition of Dickens, to be humbler poets and the translators especially are not
complete in 40 volumes. “Pickwick ” is the first to slighted. The text is finely printed on good paper,
appear, and the convenient form and enticing appear- and pains have evidently been taken to secure accu-
ance of the three trim little volumes containing it racy. One disastrous misprint, however, we note,
tempt one strongly to re-read for the twentieth time in Butler's description of Holland, which reads
or so this cheery and wholesome old favorite. The “A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd;
volumes are bound in Turkey-red flexible leather cov-
In which men do not live but go abroad."
ers, and each contains a frontispiece in colors. The “Abroad,” of course, should be “ aboard.” The
set, in its neat box, forms a timely and irreproach- volumes are choicely bound in light-green ribbed
able Christmas gift.
cloth with gilt lettering and tracery.
Lapses of style and a vein of not very happy jocu- The Channing Auxiliary, a worthy philanthropic
larity mar somewhat Mr. Elbert Hubbard's other- organization of San Francisco, issues each year a
wise acceptable sheaf of biographical sketches holiday pamphlet, or brochure, which makes its
entitled “ Little Journeys to the Homes of American modest appeal, we trust not in vain, to discriminat-
Statesmen” (Putnam). The book conveys, in a ing buyers. This year the subject, and a very
,
chatty, off-hand style, a fair amount of elementary appropriate one, is the late E. R. Sill's poem on
information concerning the lives and opinions of “Christmas in California," which appears with
such men as Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Clay, numerous illustrations and decorations from pen-
Webster, Sam. Adams, etc. The volume is taste- drawings by Miss Helen Hyde. The tall, narrow
fully got up, and the publishers have been liberal in leaves are of raw-edged hand-made paper, and the
point of illustrations, which consist largely of por- soft cover is of Japanese vellum ornamented with
traits. The frontispiece is a notably good and well- a graceful design in four colors showing two slightly
executed likeness of Hamilton.
conventionalized calla lilies with illuminated letters
Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. reissue in new form in the missal style. The drawings evince a delicate
their excellent edition of Walton's “Complete An- fancy and considerable artistic promise on the part
gler.” Mr. Lowell's Introduction is retained, of of the illustrator.
course. This fine essay, the “ Angler” proper, and Miss Kate Sanborn's “Starlight Calendar"
Cotton's supplement on fly-fishing, are now included (Houghton) is, properly speaking, a small an-
in a single delectable yet moderate-priced volume. thology of striking extracts in prose and verse,
Selected Notes are given at the back, as are the a pageful of them for each day of the year. The
familiar Commendatory Verses on Izaak and his collection is a promiscuous one. The authors repre-
performance. There is an index, and altogether sented range in philosophy from Plato to Joseph
the edition is both comely and convenient. The old Cook and in poetry from Milton to Whitcomb Riley.
woodcuts are retained. The volume is of feathery Shakespeare and Eugene Field are excluded from
lightness, and makes a pleasing show in its dainty Miss Sanborn's pantheon, while Thurlow Weed,
cover of grass-green and gilt.
David Swing, and Tupper are admitted. Helen
If
you
have a friend who is a golfer,
Hunt is perhaps the writer most favored in point
course you have, you can hardly go amiss in se- of space, while Immanuel Kant modestly brings up
lecting as a gift for him (or her) a copy of “The the rear with a line and a half. E. P. Roe is recalled
Golfer's Alphabet” (Harper). The humors of the from the shades, and there are several pagefuls
“ links” are cleverly brought out by both illustra- of Ian Maclaren." Auerbach figures grandly as
tor and rhymster - Mr. A. B. Frost and Mr. W. G. “von” Auerbach. The prevailing cast of the selec-
Van Sutphen, respectively. There is a rhymed tions given is the serious-edificatory, an effect which
couplet with a picture for each letter of the alphabet. is not relieved by the fact that the compiler of
Mr. Frost's caddies" are especially funny.
«
the book thoughtfully appends dated blank pages
“ By the Still Waters" (Crowell), is a comely whereon “ to record the sacred days on which your
booklet of thirty odd pages containing what its au- friends have passed through death to life.” Not
thor, the Rev. J. R. Miller, styles a Meditation on a very cheery sort of a Christmas Calendar, we must
а
the Twenty-Third Psalm. Dr. Miller's piety is of say, but one providing abundant food for sober
a cheery and wholesome cast, and his meditations reflection.
are judiciously mingled with some telling descrip- A dainty volume that comes with a certain appro-
tions of Oriental scenery, of which the anonymous priateness at this season is Messrs. Little, Brown, &
illustrator takes due advantage. There are eleven Co.'s new edition of “The Little Flowers of Saint
full-page plates and six vignettes, all nicely done. Francis of Assisi,” translated from the Italian and
The book is neatly bound in pale green with cover- provided with a brief sketch of Saint Francis by
design in dark green and gold, and forms a pretty Mrs. Abby Langdon Alger. The “Little Flowers”
gift for a friend of pious turn.
are legends of the Umbrian Saint and his disciples,
Notably dainty and enticing are the two small and the book has long been a favorite with pious
volumes of specimens from the poets, entitled “Wit souls in Italy and France. The present translation
and Wisdom from Many Minds” (Putnam). The was made in 1887, and we are glad to see it in its
selections are made with taste and with commend- new setting. There are two plates, one after
able independence of judgment, and the best of the Morello's painting in the Milan Gallery, the other
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BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
mon to the Birds.
There is a good deal of fun of the rough and
Somewhat apart from the mass of books for boys is
popular kind in Mr. E. W. Kemble's thin oblong
Mr. Edwin Pugh's “ Tony Drum " (Holt). In the
volume of drawings entitled “The Billy Goat, and midst of the mediocrity and emptiness that are conjured
Other Comicalities” (Scribner). The plates are up in the name of childhood, it is good to conie upon a
divided in sets, each of which tells a story with a writer who has his hand on life. This story of the
catastrophic ending that is usually of a painful or slums is the biography of the humpbacked son of a
humiliating nature to the victim. The type is
wandering flute-player; yet, with such temptations to
familiar to readers of the comic weeklies.
sentimentality, the author is quite as plucky as his
little hero. There is no sniffling, no exaggeration of the
An age, like the present one, rather given to sneer-
inevitable pathos. A kind of rugged simplicity is the
ing at friendship and other primitive human senti-
note of the book. Its quality is expressed at once to
ments as “obsolete," should find Mr. Hugh Black's
the eye in the remarkable illustrations by Mr. William
pretty and modest book on “Friendship” (Revell) Nicholson; for the author is as much of an artist as
profitable reading. Mr. Black is a popular Scotch the picture-maker, and there is an extraordinary sym-
preacher; but there is no twang of the conventicle pathy between the drawings and the text. The person-
in his style. He divides his subject under nine ality of Michael Drum is as sharply presented in the
headings, such as “The Miracle of Friendship,' frontispiece as it is in the story itself, and the single
“The Culture of Friendship,” “The Fruits of Friend-
brief appearance of Tony's grandfather in the text
ship,” “The Choice of Friendship,” and so forth.
brings him before us as vividly as does Mr. Nicholson's
drawing. Tony himself is a creation, a real boy; and
These sub-topics are treated in a limpid, virile, and
they are very genuine emotions and imaginings and
stimulating way, that makes one rather envy Mr.
heartaches to which we are bluntly introduced. There
Black's parishioners — the fortunate congregation, is tenderness underneath the author's admirable
reserve,
by the way, of Free St. George's, Edinburgh. The his heavy and rugged outlines; and it makes the sensi-
volume is a very presentable little duodecimo, soundly tive and imaginative little cripple vivid to one's fancy.
made, and suitably decorated. The light-red border - From this to any other book in the group is a long
enclosing the text of each page has a pleasing effect,
descent. Mr. William O. Stoddard writes the conven-
as has the binding of olive-green-and-gold ribbed
tional boy's story well in “Success against Odds”
cloth.
(Appleton). Perhaps some boy will like the successful
Steve better than the hapless Tony, but ten years later
An odd looking booklet bound apparently in un-
bleached crash contains Mr. Kipling's popular bal-
his choice will be reversed.- Mr. J. T. Trowbridge also
knows how to please the average boy, and in “ Two
lad of " Mandalay," with drawings by Miss Blanche
Biddicut Boys" (Century) his hero is a wonderful trick
McManus. The drawings are printed in light red dog. He is the centre of the boyish pranks, and even
on tinted paper, and are nicely done. This catchy"
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takes an active part in them, to the endless delight of
and not inartistic little production bids fair to score all boy lovers of dogs.- Mr. Herbert Elliott Hamblen
a success in its modest class this Christmas. (M. F. gives us two books this year, but neither one of them is
Mansfield & Co.)
as interesting to boys as the stories of the building of
railroads which he collected under the title of “ The
A rather pretty publication which will doubtless
find admirers is the “Marie Corelli Birthday Book”
General Manager's Story." “ Tom Benton's Luck"
(Macmillan) tells of many adventures on sea and land;
(Lippincott), compiled by Mr. M. W. Davies and
but somehow they are not convincing. The wrecks are
illustrated by Messrs. Ernest Prater and G. H. Ed-
too theatrical, and Tom's experience in the tropics bears
wards. The drawings, which depict Miss Corelli's no evidence of reality. In spite of his manifold adven-
heroines, are fairly successful, and the extracts tures, Tom is never quite alive, and one is consequently
from her writings are carefully chosen. The vol- rather indifferent to his success even in the love affair,
ume is bound in bottle-green cloth, and the text is which seems hardly necessary in this kind of a book.-
printed in light-green ink.
“The Story of a Yankee Boy” (Scribner), by the same
The “Chinese Children's Calendar,” published by
author, has more of life and movement, though the
Mr. R. H. Russell, is one of the most attractive of
hero's experiences are much more commonplace. They
are not very pretty, some of them, but they are not un-
the season. It consists of four drawings, handsomely
natural to a boy with a good dash of original sin in him.
printed in colors, of Chinese children in costume,
Colonel Henry Inman has a good subject in “ The
made from life by Miss Bertha Stuart.—Mr. Russell Ranch on the Oxhide” (Macmillan), but he uses it as
also publishes the “Colonial Soldier Calendar,” an a basis for hunting stories and battles with big game,
effective design, printed in colors on heavy card- rather than for the portrayal of ranch life. It is of the
board, that should find especial favor among the pioneer days in Kansas, however, that Colonel Inman
children.
writes, when wolves and panthers, buffaloes and Indians
Mr. William Doxey of San Francisco sends us the
were more familiar to the ranchman than they are to-day.
He tells about them with some dash and evident knowl-
edge. It is frontier life, also, which interests Mr.
popular “Purple Cow.” Both of these attractive
James Otis in “ Dick in the Desert” (Crowell). He
booklets are made
up of pictures and verses orig-
intimates that the story is a true one, and dedicates the
inally contributed by Mr. Gelett Burgess to the
book to “ Dick,” who certainly has the modesty and
pages of that entertaining but short-lived little peri- courage necessary to real heroes. His lonely journey
odical, “ The Lark.”
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help for his wounded father is well described. - Mr. is so filled with action, and the island so loaded with treas-
Otis's style is also good in “ Joel Harford” (Crowell), ure, that few boys will complain at any apparent lack of
where he finds bis hero in one of the innumerable country reality in the narrative. — The special charm of F.
boys who begin life in the city of New York. On the Anstey's book is effectually concealed under the title,
first day he is robbed of his small capital and thrown on “ Paleface and Redskin, and Other Stories for Boys
the world. But he is plucky and industrious, and with and Girls” (Appleton). Instead of the blood-and-
the encouragement of two newsboy chums he makes thunder article that we expect, we find a clever and
a way and a place for himself. — A still more ambitious laughable little story of mimic warriors and the dis-
young American, Mr. Harry Steele Morrison, writes his comfiture of their boastful general. The real boy and
own biography in “ A Yankee Boy’s Success ” (Stokes); girl are present in all of the stories, and they talk as
and a very unlovely and unpleasant sort of boy he seems they do in life. And the author's irony is launched
to be. He interviews the Queen on the cover, the Presi- against priggishness and affectation, and kindred faults,
dent in the frontispiece, and Mr. Chauncey Depew in of which young people are sometimes rather proud.
the opening pages; and shows that combination of impu- The stories are funny to the old as well as to the young,
dence and enterprise " which, when he gets older, ought and they have a way of enforcing wholesome lessons
to make him a great “find” for some "yellow journal." without seeming to do so. Mr. Gordon Browve's pic-
- Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth's book of travel is quite tures rise to the cleverness of the text.
different. “Lost in Nicaragua” (Wilde) continues the Mr. Rupert Hughes has written a new kind of boys'
travels of the Frobishers, who last year wandered book in “The Lakerim Athletic Club" (Century). He
« Over the Andes,” and relates especially the story tells how twelve sturdy boys learn to play football; and
of one of them who was lost in an ancient idol cave then, as that game does not last all the year, he teaches
in his effort to capture a quetzel, the royal bird of the them skating, bicycle polo, golf, and many another sport.
Aztecs. Many of the picturesque old legends and super- But the best of it is that the boys are very much alive
stitions are introduced, and some of the history and and are individualized with a good deal of skill. Tug
peculiarities of a country which promises to have a special and Bobbles and Sawed-off would appeal to any boy
interest for Americans. “ Yule Logs” (Longmans)
who has a wholesome love of athletics.-For these also
has the recommendation of being edited by Mr. G. A. is “The Boys of Fairport” (Scribner), written by Mr.
Henty, and the Indian and tomahawk in the frontispiece Noah Brooks. It was originally published as “The
will be enough, doubtless, to attract the average boy. | Fairport Nine,” but as several new chapters, dealing with
The book is made up of a dozen stirring tales of adven- adventures outside the baseball field, were introduced,
ture, by such well-known writers as Kirk Munroe, G. the name was changed. In “The Boy Mineral Col-
Manville Fenn, J. Bloundelle-Burton, and Mr. Henty lectors ” (Lippincott), Mr. Jay G. Kelley, M.E., invites
himself.—A book for boys of a serious and studious cast the attention to a new, profitable, and absorbing source
of mind is Mr. John Trowbridge's “ Physical Science at of amusement. Under the thin guise of a story, the
Home"
(Appleton), in which amusement and instruc- book contains much useful information about the nature
tion are combined in about the right proportions. of minerals. Its value is increased by a good index.-
To the writer of books for boys there seems to be no Miss Effie W. Merriman's “Sir Jefferson Nobody"
place where they may not travel, and even the forbid- (McClurg) is guiltless of any intention to instruct. It
ding Klondike has drawn out two stories. Mr. E. S. is a prettily written story about a young fellow who
Ellis's “Klondike Nuggets” (Doubleday & McClure does many generous things and finds that in the long
Co.) is ornamented with many pictures by Mr. Orson run they pay better than selfishness. " Chilhowee
Lowell, which, however, are badly printed. The story Boys in Harness ” (Crowell), by Miss Sarah E. Mor-
is an entertaining and well-written one, dealing with the rison, is the last in the Chilhowee series, and follows
experiences of two adventurous boys in search of gold. the fortunes of the youngest son of Parson Craig in the
They have good luck and bad, but succeed overwhelm- middle of the century." Chums at Last” (Nelson),
ingly at the end. They do it a bit too easily, perhaps, by Mr. A. Forsyth Grant, is a story of English school
for the good of boys at home who read the story. – Less life, and a jolly good story it is, too. There is a great
rather than more than this can be said for Dr. Gordon deal of human nature in this crowd of boys, and their
Stables's “Off to Klondyke" (Crowell), dealing with sim- simple quarrels and difficulties are much more interest-
ilar material. From this new and excited civilization, ing than if they were prowling in the wilds of Asia or
“ The Lost City” (Estes), by Mr. Joseph E. Badger, Jr., Australia. They are but simple adventures, also, in
carries us back to an old and calmer one. But we pass “ The Widow O’Callaghan's Boys” (McClurg), by Miss
through some novel experiences to reach it. Carried in Gulielma Zollinger, but they are pleasant to read of.
a flying machine into the heart of a tornado, we are The seven boys, whom the widow trains to be good and
whirled with it through space to come down finally upon useful men, are as plucky as she; and they have a good
the lost city of the Aztecs. An inhabited city it is, too, bit of the Irish loyalty as well as of the Irish brogue.
which makes the accounts of it an entertaining tissue The pictures, by Miss S. Crosby, are good.-Miss Julia
of impossibilities.-Not less extraordinary is Mr. Charles Magruder takes a rather sentimental view of life in
Frederick Holder's discovery of a new field for youthful “ Labor of Love" (Lothrop), but she serves it up pret-
investigation in “The Treasure Divers ” (Dodd). He tily. — “The Young Supercargo” (Wilde), by Mr.
equips a boat, like the Holland submarine torpedo boat, William Drysdale, is a new volume in the “ Brain and
for the exploration of the depths of the sea. His picture Brawn Series,” and takes its hero on many long voy-
of life in this larger world is interesting, and he asserts ages.—In “Six Young Hunters ” (Lee & Shepard), Mr.
that, with the exception of the inevitable sea-serpent, the W. Gordon Parker relates the adventures of the Grey-
weird and terrible animals he shows us are scientifically hound Club with game and outlaws in Indian Territory.
accurate. It is a kind of natural history unusual to boys' _" The Young Bank Messenger” (Coates), by Mr.
books. - Another venture into the unknown is Mr. Skel- Horatio Alger, Jr., is also invaded by outlaws, and very
ton Kuppard's “ Uncharted Island” (Nelson). The book stilted and impossible persons they prove to be.- Mr.
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Copper Princess" (Harper). His hero leaves college (Estes) has an older fellow for its hero; the story centres
to find that his fortune has disappeared with the ex- in his struggle with his conscience, which ends in highly
ception of an interest in a Lake Superior mine. Though melodramatic fashion with the victory of conscience and
the mine is said to be worthless, he determines to find the boy's confession in open court.—Mr. Homer Greene's
out the facts for himself, and he has an active time of story of the Pennsylvania coal - miners, “ The Blind
it in learning the business and retrieving his fortune. Brother" (Crowell), which won the “ Youth’s Com-
Between the miners and the smugglers there is plenty panion” large prize in 1886, is brought out in a new
of fighting, but it all makes for success in the end. The edition. — There is a new edition also of Hawthorne's
success is almost too complete, indeed, to be real. The “Grandfather's Chair” (Crowell), which is perennially
cover of the book is capital, and there are good illus- interesting.–And the list closes with Mrs. C. F. Fraser's
trations by Mr. W. A. Rogers.—Mrs. Gertrude Atherton “Master Sunshine” (Crowell), which is written with the
is nothing if not picturesque in her story of “The Valiant best intentions in the world, made a bit too manifest.
Runaways” (Dodd). The scene of action is early Cal- To the girls, providence has been generous in books
ifornia, and Roldan Castañada is the hero. His flight this year, but generous in number rather than in quality.
to escape the conscription is the motive of the plot, but The rule still holds that it is better for a girl to read ber
he proves, pluckily enough, that he was not afraid of brother's books than her own. Even at the worst, his bave
fighting His valiant deeds are rather theatrical, and a certain virility which is more wholesome than the flab-
they do not quite convince the reader, as they seem to biness so common in hers. It is only the exceptional
have convinced Mrs. Atherton, that he was born to be writer who is able to avoid sentimentality in writing for
a leader of men. In spite of some forced and twisted girls. Some authors handle it well, and thus mitigate
English, there is much life and color in the book. - the offense; but in one form or another, in a perverted
Will Allen Dromgoole, who is even more prolific this view of life if not in actual love-making, it will slip in.
year than Mr. Henty, has written three more books There is something of it even in Mrs. Ewing's “ Daddy
for boys. One is a tale of “A Moonsbiner's Son” Darwin's Dovecote” (Estes), though here there are
(Penn Publishing Co.) who, in spite of fate, is a good touches of beauty and of real life. But Mrs. Ewing
boy, almost preternaturally good. But his story is well found her place years ago, and there are many to wel-
told, and contains the figure of a kind old country store- come this new edition, with its pretty drawings by Miss
keeper, which is the best thing in it.--If one can recover Etheldred B. Barry.— Mrs. Laura E. Richards was
from the shock produced by the cover, with its impossible unfortunate enough to do a fine thing in “Captain
boys against an impossible landscape, of “Three Little January," which makes each successor a disappointment.
Crackers from Down in Dixie" (Page), by the same “Margaret Montfort" (Estes) is a readable story about
author, an entertaining story of the Florida wilderness the efforts of one of the “Three Margarets” to keep
will be found. The adventures of these boy pioneers house for her uncle. The motive is rather thin even
are chiefly with alligators and wild-cats and such unde- for a girl's book, and the aggressive cousin who inter-
sirable companions. — In “The Fortunes of the Fellow" feres is a bit too aggressive to be natural. — A delight-
(Page), Will Allen Dromgoole tells the story of a waif ful cover by Mr. George Wharton Edwards attracts one
who finds a father, and whose gradual transformation at once to “ A Little Colonial Dame” (Stokes), by Miss
under the loving care of the old blacksmith is pleasant Agnes Carr Sage. And its quaintness is carried through,
to read about. The author tries a bit too obviously to the story. It is more Dutch than American, this tale
exert a moral influence, but he has a sense of character of old Manhattan, and it suggests rather charmingly the
which makes up for it.—Mr. James Barnes has written transformation of the one into the other. Some of the
a life of Oliver Hazard Perry under the title of “The climaxes are highly melodramatic, and the Dutch dialect
Hero of Erie” (Appleton). It is more exciting than and the quaint old English are insisted upon rather
any novel and better worth reading. Mr. Barnes de- strongly. Yet the picture is novel and interesting,
scribes the battle of Lake Erie in a way to make it love-making and all. The illustrations, by Miss Mabel
impossible to forget. The pictures are capital, some of Humphrey, are pretty but characterless.- In“ A Little
them being taken from old engravings. — Mr. Edward New England Maid” (Lothrop), Mrs. Kate Tannatt,
Stratemeyer is much more sensational and less true in Woods tries to carry one back to another section of the
“ A Young Volunteer in Cuba" (Lee & Shepard). It colonies. But she is too obviously of the present in deal-
is up to date, but that is about the best that may be ing with the past; one is too conscious of the author to
said of it.
believe in her story. And there is a prodigious deal
Several tempting dishes are placed before the very about love and marriage, which is not interesting enough
little boys this year. “Little Mr. Van Vere of China” to be justifiable.—Mrs. Amanda M. Douglas carries one
(Estes), by Mrs. Harriet A. Cheever, is pleasant to the down to a somewhat later date in “ A Little Girl in Old,
taste, with its pretty illustrations by Miss Etheldred B. Boston ” (Dodd). Her story, which ends with the inevit-
Barry. It is the story of a little fellow who becomes able marriage, is written for older girls with sweet sim-
a stowaway in the ship of a jolly old captain. The boy plicity. Doris is an attractive little woman, who is also
is a bit too good, perhaps, and his lot is made unnaturally good and wholesome. It is the kind of book that many
smooth; yet the story is rather pretty. - Lucas Malet girls will like, though it is very far from being a work
has woven a charming little story about the experience of art. — Mrs. Douglas's popularity is attested by the
of “Little Peter" and his cat. They are French, both appearance of the seventh volume in her “Sherburne
of them, and very wise and simple; and their biography Series" (Dodd). “ Sherburne Girls” is a good book
is written with so much grace and delicacy that none of its kind. Plenty of things happen, and the girls make
of us are too old to enjoy it (Crowell). — Will Allen the proper sacrifices and do good to their neighbors; yet
Dromgoole gives us two attractive little books. “Hero- the story is never very close to the actual and real, and
Chums” (Estes) shows the friendship between an old a girl who is old enough to read it could spend the time
man and a very little chap, and ends with the great sac- much more profitably and happily with Thackeray or
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(Little, Brown, & Co.), Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford
has published a collection of short stories about girls.
They are simply and prettily written, without pretension
or gush. And if the goodness of some of these children
is almost superhuman, still Mrs. Spofford has a way of
making it seem natural. The moral effect of the book
is all that the most careful mother could desire; which
makes it a pity that the pictures are so bad. They are
not bad in “Katrina" (Wilde), for Mrs. Alice Barber
Stephens knows how to draw. The story is written by
Miss Ellen Douglas Deland, and is of much the same
calibre as Mrs. Spofford's work. The style is excel-
lent, and the story interesting without sentimentality,
Without being phenomenal, Katrina is attractive, and
her life in town and country is exciting enough and yet
simple and natural. This is one of the best of the books
for girls. — Miss Evelyn Raymond, in “ Among the Lin-
dens” (Little, Brown, & Co.), tells the story of a little
girl who in some mysterious way saves an old man from
being run over in the streets of New York. The old
gentleman turns out to be eccentric, and takes it upon
himself to act as her special providence. The first result
is an enormous basket of chrysanthemums, the price of
which the author is considerate enough to tell us. And
the other results may be imagined, though not the mer-
riment which the author succeeds in putting into her
narrative. — In “ The American Girls' Handy Book”
(Scribner) the Misses Lina and Adelia Beard bave
sought to do for girls what has been so successfully
done for boys by their brother, Mr. Dan Beard, in his
well-known “American Boys' Handy Book.” The
present work is carried out on the same general lines,
and provides an interesting collection of games and
amusements. It is well-illustrated, and should prove
fully as popular as its predecessor.
Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney continues her popular
series with a timely book called “Witch Winnie in
Spain" (Dodd). It is illustrated with reproductions
of great paintings by Velasquez, Fortuny, and Rico,
which alone are something of an education. The text
includes much instruction about great men and great
deeds in its description of the rambling tour of these
young girls through a beautiful country. It is written
in a varied and entertaining way, though without origi-
nality.—It is even a longer
journey that is taken by two
little girls in “ The Musical Journey of Dorothy and
Delia” (Crowell), by Mr. Bradley Gilman. They are
carried far off into Music-Land, where the treble clef
turns into an old woman, and the bass clef into an old
man with a twinkle in his eye, and the notes come to
life and dance about in the merriest way. Under a gay
and fanciful disguise, the book contains a good deal of
practical instruction for beginners in music; and it might
give them a new imaginative interest in the necessary
drudgery. The book has some charmingly clever pic-
tures by Mr. F. G. Attwood.- In quite a different way,
there is character also in the illustrations by Miss Ellen
B. Thompson for“ Twixt You and Me” (Little, Brown,
& Co.). Miss Grace Le Baron writes the stories, which
are pretty but rather commonplace, and the poems,
which have less of the one quality and more of the
other. There are some graceful decorations by Miss
Katharine Pyle.— A new edition of Mrs. Mary Mapes
Dodge’s “ Irvington Stories” (Wm. L. Allison Co.)
will be welcomed by all those children, now grown gray
and dignified, who loved these stories of old, especially
with the original illustrations by F. O. C. Darley. Other
stories have been added, but Captain George, “Old
Pop," and Po-no-kah are still here, and Mrs. Dodge
knows how to make them delightful. — The moral of
“ A Little Turning Aside" (Jacobs), by Miss Barbara
Yechton, is a trifle obscure, but in life also the moral
is not always easy to see. Duty is a large word, and
sometir it does not lie in the most obvious direction.
According to Ibsen, the development of the individual
has the first claim, and there are others also who would
justify Hetty's desertion of her aunt in this little book
to go to New York and study art. Her success, inter-
rupted by her sudden blindness and the resulting enrich-
ing of her character, makes quite an absorbing story.
It is well written, and the persons of the play have
some individuality and are faultily human. The cover
of the book in white and reds, is capital.
A German story is a rather interesting interlude, it
is so different in character, so genuinely outspoken, and
so frankly sentimental. “An Obstinate Maid” (Jacobs)
is translated from the twenty-first edition of the novel
by Emma von Rhoden, by Miss Mary E. Ireland. And
it is a rather interesting story of the transformation of
an untamed girl who is sent to boarding-school. The
story is a little too rapid, perhaps, and too complete,
and it winds up in the inevitable love-affairs; but the
girls are given a few wholesome faults as a concession
to the frailty of humanity.-Miss Julie M. Lippmann's
“ Dorothy Day” (Penn Publishing Co.) is also a story
of school pranks and home sacrifices. It is harmless
enough and pretty enough, too, in spite of the highly
sensational picture of the rescue of a young girl from
the back of an astonishing runaway horse. The episode
is quite as impossible in the text as in Miss Wangh's
drawing, but the rest of the story is not so bad.— It is
refreshing to find a really charming little book about
college life, in “ Three Freshmen” (McClurg), by Miss
Jessie Anderson Chase. One of the three freshmen is
from Boston, another from Virginia, and the third from
Chicago; so there is variety enough to give interest to
their meeting at Smith College. The writer differentiates
the characters admirably, and there is a delightful spark-
ling gayety in her treatment of them. It is one of the
most breezy and wholesome of this year's books for
girls. - The sub-title of Miss Anna Chapin Ray's
Teddy, Her Book, a Story of Sweet Sixteen ” (Little,
Brown, & Co.) is rather prejudicial, but the story is not
so bad as one might expect. Most of the sentimentality
is confined to the last chapters, and there is a good deal
of truth in the descriptions of Teddy's trials and ambi-
tions. The talk of the children is lively and natural,
but the book is handicapped with ridiculous pictures.
So many of the pictures which appear in these books
for the young would be more attractive if they were
invisible. -- Everyday Honor” (whatever that may
mean) is another incipient novel, or another novel for
incipient intellects. It is very diffuse and very talky,
but if one does n't mind that, it is pleasant enough
(Jacobs).--Miss Mary F. Leonard's “The Story of the
Big Front Door" (Crowell) is much more wholesome.
They are simple and harmless pranks that these children
play, and the author describes them with sympathetic
vivacity.—Miss Jessie E. Wright's “Odd Little Lass"
(Penn Publishing Co.) is a perverse and naughty child,
but a plucky and clever one nevertheless. Her experi-
ence in a “Home,” followed by life with several people
who wish to adopt her, is the basis of the book.—"As
in a Mirror" (Lothrop) is another of the “ Pansy books,”
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Daughter of the King” (Jacobs), by Miss Mary A. is lost. It would be hard to find a more amusing play
Gilmore, is too obviously written for Sunday-schools. for children to act than this. — “ The New Noah's Ark"
In spite of its pretty cover, there are not many of us (John Lane), by Mr. J. J. Bell, has the advantage of
who can endure such insistent and relentless virtue. a novel and highly decorative cover. It is a very ridicu-.
Miss Martha Finley continues the “Elsie Books " lous gallery of animals, somewhat after the manner of
(Dodd) with “ Elsie on the Hudson," and continues also Edward Lear, but without his whimsical ingenuity. The
o the instruction which is mixed up with that young wo- verses are funny, however, and the pictures, in bright
man's experiences. _“ Pauline Wyman” (Lee & Shep- yellows and purples and reds, are still funnier. Some
ard) is by another writer who is familiar to the rising of the animals are imaginary, and the others are even
generation, Miss Sophie May. Her heroine is a New
The elephant and the cow are the cleverest
England girl, whose character is developed through of these creations, but the effort to be funny is a bit too
many trials, none of them so great, however, as the evident. — Mr. Oliver P. Tunk does the same kind of
cover of tbis book.
thing in "An Awful Alphabet” (Russell), showing his
There are several books, also, about very little girls, animals also “as they ought to be.” But these, too, are
and none is more attractive than “ The Princess and rather too absurd and impossible. More ingenuity is used
Joe Potter” (Estes), with its clever illustrations by in their construction than in Mr. Bell's drawings, but for
Miss Violet Oakley. Mr. James Otis has written a the real thing in this kind of work one must go back to
charming little story about this Princess of three, who Edward Lear. — The pictures by Mr. Frank Ver Beck
was lost, and the little fruit-vender, who found her and in “The Arkansaw Bear” (Russell), have much more
cared for her through adversity. The boys of the story genuine humor, partly because they have some relation
are lively, spirited, and big-hearted, and Mr. Otis likes to reality. The character in them is irresistible, and one
and understands them. And it is easy to see why Joe makes friends at once with “ Bosephus and the Fiddle
Potter loved the Princess. The hero of “ Denise and and the Old Black Bear.” It is a musical trio, and they
Ned Toodles" (Century), by Miss Gabrielle E. Jackson, go singing through the book until they make us who
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heroes. His little mistress teaches him many things, are very taking and appropriate to all occasions. The
but he teaches her more, and we can learn all about story is a clever one, written with a great deal of spirit.
them both in this lively narrative.-—"Marjory and her - There is no dearth of animals this year, and “Sybil's
Neighbors ” (Lothrop), described by Miss Louise E. Garden of Pleasant Beasts” (Russell), by Sybil and
Catlin, are little people, but they have very good times Katharine Corbet, is a diverting addition for little
in the country town they live in. Yet their story is people. It is pure nonsense, but of an unexpected and
rather long and quiet for such restless mites.—“Dear ingenious sort. Imaginative little brains would love its
Little Marchioness” (Crowell) has an introduction by whimsicalities. The beasts are even pleasanter in the
Bishop Gailor, who describes it as the story of a child's pictures than in the story. — It is quite a different kind
faith and love. The scene is laid in the South, and an of beast that Mr. E. W. Kemble celebrates in “ A Coon
old negro is a prominent figure.- A charming little Alphabet” (Russell). Exaggerated as they are, his
autobiography of a canary-bird is concealed under the darkies are certainly funny, and he has a keen enough
title of “The Strange Adventures of Billy Trill”(Estes), sense of the ludicrous to place them in very
ridiculous
by Mrs. Harriet A. Cheever, and a very blithe and situations. But in this book his humor is in its most
merry little bird he proves to be. It is a bit of a kitten obvious and least subtle stage. — “ The Sambo Book”
who is the centre of Miss Blanchard's “ Kittyboy's (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co.), by Mr. Isaac
Christmas " (Jacobs); but even this book for wee girls Coale, Jr., deals with a member of the same race. With
winds
up with a love-affair.—"The Story of Little Jane some idea of symbolism, probably, it is printed upon
and Me” (Houghton), by M. E., bas the advantage of gray paper, and the clever drawings by Miss Katharine
a quaint and lovely cover. And it has the further ad- Gassaway gain much from the juxtaposition of black
vantage of being gracefully written, with much tender-
The stories are pretty, naive, simple little
ness and charm, but without a trace of sentimentality. tales about the unsophisticated Sambo. — One of the
It is full of a true childish naïveté, which is rarely found most attractive of the picture books is “ New Mother
in books.— In “ Rare Old Chums” (Estes), Will Allen Goose Pictures (Russell), drawn by Mr. Chester
Dromgoole has written the story of the friendship be- Loomis. The familiar old verses are printed, and the
tween a little girl and an old man. « Ruth and her pictures are very decorative and charming arrangements
Grandfadder" (A. S. Barnes & Co.) has much the same in black and white. They are not as imaginative as Mr.
theme. The verses it begins with are bad, but the story Maxfield's Parrish’s of last year, but they have character,
is better, and it is decorated prettily by Mr. Edward B. and they are artistic in the decorative use of flat tones.
Edwards.
We learn how Simple Simon went a' fishing, and how
The ingenuity which goes into the making of picture- Tom the Piper's Son stole a pig, with special delight.-
books has not yet been exhausted, and some of the later Miss Emilie Poulsson's “Child Stories and Rhymes
ones of the season are exceedingly clever. The charm (Lothrop) is illustrated in a much more commonplace
of its cover and colored pictures permit “ Alice in Won- way by Mr. L. J. Bridgman. The verses are more
derland, A Play” (Dodd) to be classed among them. commonplace, too, and even if they are “ welcomed with
Mrs. Emily Prime Delafield has arranged Lewis Car- delight by mothers and kindergartners," we fancy that
roll's inimitable stories into a drama, which is delightful the children themselves will prefer good old Mother
to read and doubtless would be still more delightful in Goose. And they would be wiser than some of their
the performance. It was presented originally at the parents think. “ Stories True and Fancies New"
Waldorf Hotel in New York for the benefit of the (Estes), by Mrs. Mary Whitney Morrison, is a book full
Society of Decorative Art, and made a success great of verses which also are intended chiefly for the kinder-
enough to warrant this publication. The adaptation has garten. They are well illustrated by Mr. L.J. Bridgman.
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last number, and they are always welcome and nearly better. This is of the right sort. Nothing more
always healthful. Mr. Charles Robinson, who did such wholesome and stimulating could be found for boys
lovely things with Eugene Field's “ Lullaby Land" last and girls than these majestic old myths ; they are so
.year, has decorated “King Long-Beard, or Annals of closely interwoven with the arts, and are the foundations
the Golden Dreamland” (Lane), by Mr. Barrington of so much that is beautiful in literature and music and
Macgregor. The work is admirably done, and preju- painting, that one must be familiar with them. Heard
dices one at once in favor of the stories, which turn out in childhood in the simple and vivid way in which Mr.
to be delicate and quaint enough to deserve their setting. Church tells them, they are not easily forgotten. They
- Mr. John Habberton, who made himself famous with grow to be real; we live with them, they have an
“ Helen's Babies," prints a clever book this year, called actuality more precious to us than that of the common-
“With the Dream-Maker” (Jacobs). His little hero place people who walk the streets. And later this
has a strange experience in discovering the country familiarity helps us to be appreciative of many things
where dreams come from. He becomes the confidant which might otherwise remain dark; for the stories of
of the dream-maker, and learns all of his secrets, to our Beowulf, of the Knights of the Round Table, of Sieg-
intense delight. It is an amusing and spirited little tale, fried and the treasure of the Nibelungs, are of the very
and the moral is skilfully concealed. — The fairies and essence of poetry and romance. Mr. George Morrow's
princesses and ogres are merely incidental to a pretty pictures in color are a fitting accompaniment to the
story of a little American girl in France, in “ The Gate tales. — Mr. William H. Babcock has founded a romance
of the Giant Scissors ” (Page). Mrs. Annie Fellows upon the life of King Arthur in “Cian of the Chariots "
Johnston is the author, and it is a pleasant little glimpse (Lothrop). It is a fine rich story, and the style is pic-
of French customs that she gives us. — There are more turesque. — There is hardly less romance in some events
fairies and dwarfs and things in “ The Green Toby Jug” of our own time as described in "A Gunner Aboard
(Nelson), by Mrs. Edwin Hohler, but it is a princess of the Yankee" (Doubleday & McClure Co.). It is edited
flesh and blood who rules the book. The stories are by Mr. H. H. Lewis from the diary of “Number Five
written for little children in a rather taking manner. of the After Port Gun," and Admiral Sampson has
Much less wholesome food than this is found in Miss honored it with an introduction. Number Five is one
Martha Baker Dunn's “ The Sleeping Beauty, a Modern of the New York Naval Reserves, and he not only knows
Version" (Page). It is a sadly sentimental variation how to fight but he knows how to write a lively and
of the picturesque old tale, much too old for children and entertaining narrative. - Mr. William O. Stoddard also
much too young for their elders. — Mr. C. M. Duppa's writes of the Spanish war in “ The First Cruiser Out"
“Stories from Lowly Life” (Macmillan) have a certain (Stone), a vigorous tale in which some Cuban women
interest for everybody. We have all had some kind act an important part. “Visitors at Grampus Island”
of a pet in childhood, and can find his counterpart and “The Tale of an Oar" are printed in the same
in one or another of these stories of animals. There book, and Mr. Stoddard's name is a guarantee of good
is no affectation or exaggeration in them, and they do not quality. — A life of “ Fridtjof Nansen” (Heath) makes
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relate extraordinary adventures. They are simple and a novel book for boys, and a very wholesome and stimu-
pleasant accounts of the doings of dogs and ponies, birds lating one. It is written by Mr. Jacob B. Bull and
and mice, written by one who loves them. Miss Martha translated by the Rev. Mordaunt R. Barnard. — The
Finley's “Twiddledetwit" (Dodd) belongs among the annual bound volume of “ Harper's Round Table" is
fairy tales more strictly tban do the two books last men- the first to appear since that popular periodical was
tioned. The very name is enough to evoke fairies and changed from a weekly to a monthly publication, and in
witches even to the most sedate; and the little children consequence the present volume is considerably less
for whom this tale was written will be glad to find them bulky than its predecessors. What is lost in size, how-
good and generous. They are not quite so faultless in ever, is more than made up in interest and value of the
Miss Florence Paillou's “Captain Darning Needle, and contents. The three leading serials are by Mr. H. B.
Other Folks” (Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton), but Marriott Watson, Mr. Albert Lee, and Mr. Kirk Munroe.
then the little girls and boys who play with them have, In addition to these, there are innumerable short stories,
fortunately, a few faults of their own. So they make and articles on travel, history, and sport, - all abund-
a very entertaining crowd, especially the needles and pins antly illustrated.
who come to life to reprove and fascinate little Jennie. The books that remain must be dismissed with a word,
-Such old familiar friends as “ Hop o' my Thumb," as space is exhausted, even if the enterprise of publishers
“Cinderella,” and “Puss in Boots," edited and re-written is not. The historical stories are « Under the Rattle-
by the author of “ John Halifax, Gentleman," are printed snake Flag” (Estes), by Mr. F. H. Costello; “ The Boys
in “ The Fairy Book” (Crowell). It is pleasant to meet with Old Hickory” (Lee & Shepard), by Mr. Everett
these old favorites in any guise, and the liberties Mrs. T. Tomlinson ; “An Island Heroine, the Story of a
Craig has taken with them are for the most part harm- Daughter of the Revolution" (Lothrop), by Miss Mary
less ones. -- It is a very charming sort of fairy story Breck Sleight; and two lives of Christ which might be
that Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth has translated from the desirable on a desert island where no Bible could be
Italian in “ Pinocchio's Adventures in Wonderland" procured: “The Prince of Peace” (Lothrop), by Mrs.
(Boston: Jordan, Marsh, & Co.). The little wooden Isabella M. Alden, who is better known as “ Pansy,"
puppet comes to life in the most natural way, and de- and “ A Life of Christ for the Young" (Jacobs), by
velopes attractively perverse and naughty qualities. Mr. George Ludington Weed. There is also a book by
is so spirited a little fellow that he interests one at once, the late Harold Frederic which deserves more than a
and he has individuality enough to hold one's interest. word. “The Deserter and Other Stories" (Lothrop)
It is a sunny little book.
contains two tales of the Civil War and two of the
Fairies are good food for the imagination, but such English War of the Roses, and there is nothing senti.
“ Heroes of Chivalry and Romance" (Mac- mental or forced or unnatural about them. The heroism
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in them is real and the characters are alive. And surely The new readers are as “amused” and as “excited” by
one need not go outside of probability to find romance. the six-penny and three-penny magazines as were the
Of the other books two are especially for girls : old ones by “The Golden Butterfly” and “ Ready Money
“Cis Martin" (Curts & Jennings), by Miss Louise R. Mortiboy." “ More books are published now than were
Baker, and "Laura's Holidays" (Lothrop), by Mrs. ever known before ” because there are more clever
Henrietta R. Eliot. Four are for boys, being “ A Puz- writers than there ever were before. “Libraries are
zling Pair” (Fleming H. Revell Co.), by Miss Amy springing up all over the country” because the rate-
Le Feuvre, with pretty marginal illustrations by Miss payers prefer to buy books at a farthing in the pound
Eveline Lance; “ Cristie, the King's Servant” (Fleming tax rather than pay whole pounds to purchase them for
H. Revell Co.) by Mrs. O. H. Walton; “ Reuben's Hin- themselves; and, as Sir Walter Besant says,
" these
drances” (Lothrop), by “Pansy" (Mrs. G. R. Alden); libraries are crowded with readers of books
and “Two Little Runaways" (Longmans), by Mr. which booksellers know to their sorrow. How Sir Walter
James Buckland. The last named story is almost as can say that “ those who buy these magazines bave
clever and amusing as its pictures by Mr. Cecil Aldin, never bought books" is beyond my comprehension.
which is saying a great deal. There are also two books Has he interviewed every one of the hundreds of thous-
for boys and girls alike: “Bilberry Boys and Girls" ands of readers of the “Strand,” « Pearson's," « Harms-
(Lothrop), by Miss Sophie Swett; and the adventures worth’s,” and “The Royal” magazines, and obtained
of “ Buz-Buz,” the fly (Lothrop), by Mr. Charles Stuart from each the exact information thus boldly asserted ?
Pratt, with illustrations by Mr. L. J. Bridgman.
II. I still think that the publishing of the future
will be in the hands of a few large syndicates, in spite
of the new publishers which have started up by the
dozen in the last few years; and Sir Walter's paragraph
ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE.
“ traversing” this opinion of mine contains nothing
which in any way touches it.
London, Dec. 3, 1898. I may say that three-fourths of the publishers cited
I must ask you to give me a little more space this time by Sir Walter “started up” before the sixpenny and
than usual, for the purpose of considering some of the threepenny magazines were in existence. As an example
points raised by Sir Walter Besant, in his letter in of Sir Walter's inaccuracy of statement, I wish to point
The DIAL of Nov. 16, “ traversing certain statements out that Rivington did not w start afresh the next day
and opinions" contained in a letter by me in an earlier after Longmans absorbed Rivington," but many years
issue. This “ traversing” of my statements and opinions after, and that Percival is not a house distinct from
consists, in Sir Walter's “ Notes,” in opposing to them Rivington.
his own opinions. Let me take his first two paragraphs: III. As to the three-volume novel, I admit Sir Walter
(I.) As to copyright. In my letter I stated certain speaks with some authority; for he once published his
facts with reference to the Committee of the House of own novels. I do not mean by this that his name ap-
Lords. Sir Walter Besant's criticism takes the form peared on the title-pages as publisher and author; but
of belittling the facts and making statements which he I mean that he tried the experiment, when in literary
does not and cannot prove, — namely, that “the Com- partnership with Mr. James Rice, of obtaining a pub-
mittee of the House of Lords was appointed in order to lisher who would receive the printed sheets and sell
seem to do something."
them on commission. How far the experiment suc-
(II.) As to a new Copyright Bill. I am quite aware ceeded can best be judged from subsequent events. But
that “nothing is known of the intentions of the Govern- this is neither here nor there. Let me trace the effect
ment," and I did not say anything which revealed its inten- of publishing a three-volume novel on the old lines in
tions. What Sir Walter goes on to say is merely to supply comparison with the method now pursued; and before I
considerations which had long ago been considered. proceed further let me just point out that Sir Walter
So far on a subject that has as yet to be settled. Now always talks of the “popular author" and draws his
let me take the points raised on other matters upon which conclusions of profits and sales from those made by the
the distinguished gentleman speaks as one with authority. "great many thousand copies” which sell of a novel by
I. Sir Walter Besant considers as contrary to fact my a popular author. Seemingly, he quite forgets about
statement that “the magazine has almost ousted from the many authors who cannot be called “popular,” but
the attention of the reading public all books other than who contribute more than do the others to make good
those of the first importance"; and he very ingeniously Sir Walter's own statement that “more books are pub-
reads me as if by a magazine I meant the “ Nineteenth lished now than were ever known before."
Century,” “Quarterly," “ Temple Bar," and the rest of The publisher who issued a three-volume novel was
those so-called “high class monthlies.” He states that pretty sure of sales to the libraries sufficient to recoup
“ Harmsworth and Pearson and Newnes have discovered him for his outlay in the manufacture; for royalties ad-
the new mass of readers created by the School Boards "; vanced to the author; and for a profit to go to bimself.
that my statement is " ridiculous "; and that “those who If he issued twenty or thirty such novels a year, he had
buy these magazines have never bought books." an income. Of a very popular work, as Sir Walter points
Of course, Sir Walter Besant cannot support one of out, twelve hundred to eighteen hundred and even two
these assertions—they are simply expressions of opinion, thousand copies might have been sold. All the more
and of opinion by one who has never been actively en- profit, then, for the author and the publisher. But the
gaged either as a general publisher or bookseller. Now writer who was not so popular almost always found a pub-
Ì, on the contrary, speak from experience. “ Readers lisher and almost always was assured of a certain hono-
created by the School Boards "lived long before Newnes rarium. Of a popular author's books, there followed
or Pearson or Harmsworth existed. What did they cheap editions at six shillings, or three-and-six, and even
read prior to the establishing
of these firms? Perhaps two shillings, and these were pretty sure to sell largely.
Besant and Rice's novels. Do they read them now? They were bought by the “readers created by the School
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Boards,” or by those otherwise created who wished to Co. in its new and final form. It is now a volume of 1243
possess a copy of the work of a favorite writer, and who pages, and more useful than ever as a manual of refer-
probably could not afford to pay for the high priced ence in miscellaneous reading.
library edition. Of the works of the second-rate and Brown & Co. is the style of a publishing house re-
third-rate novelists, it often happened that the publishercently incorporated in Boston. Mr. John Howard Brown
never issued cheap editions because he felt they would is president of the Company, and Mr. Frederic Lawrence
not "pay.” If he did, he brought them ou as "yellow Knowles the literary adviser.
backs.” But what happens now? A popular author sells It is announced that “The Critic,” of New York, is
in his tens of thousands in six-shilling form, while the hereafter to be issued from the publishing house of G. P.
author not so popular counts his readers in scores or at Putnam's Sons. Mr. J. B. Gilder and Miss J. L. Gilder
most a few hundreds. Editions cheaper than the six- will continue to edit the magazine.
shilling editions have been practically abolished since
“ Absolom's Hair” and “A Painful Memory,” both
they did not "pay," and now that the more esteemed
from the “ Nye Fortaellingir” of 1894, make up the
works of the better known writers have been published
contents of Volume VIII. in the new English edition of
at sixpence, in rivalry of the sixpenny magazine, there is
Herr Björnsen's novels, published by the Macmillan Co.
still less excuse for bringing out cheap editions of second
The “Wit and Humor” series is the name given to
and third-rate novelists. It comes to this: that the aboli-
tion of the thi
a collection of three small volumes published by Messrs.
e-volume novel has practically ruined the
chances of the second-rate and third-rate authors, who
George W. Jacobs & Co. The contents of the volumes
are derived, respectively, from English, Scotch, and
now feel that they must either accept ludicrously small
or be satisfied with the public and income
Irish sources, and are properly indexed.
which they obtain from “serialising " their stories. Pub-
“ Astronomy,” “ Botany,” and “Flowers," are the
lishers are becoming more and more chary about "touch-
respective titles of three small books of popular science
ing” fiction. The popular author swallows up the profits;
just put forth by the Penn Publishing Co. Mrs. Julia
the others are not worth the trouble expended on them.
McNair Wright is the author of the first two, and Mr.
Sir Walter says “a great many novels are published
Eben E. Rexford of the third. The books are neatly
which bring in nothing; but they ought not to have been
printed and illustrated.
published at all.” What does he mean by this? Does
The Macmillan Co. publish three German texts, as
he mean to say that Mr. Thomas Hardy's “ Far from
follows : Schiller's “ Jungfrau von Orleans," edited by
the Madding Crowd,” Mr. George Meredith's “The
Dr. Willard Humphreys ; Goethe's “Iphigenie auf
Egoist," Emily Brontë's “Wuthering Heights," and
Tauris,” edited by Dr. Charles A. Eggert; and Frey-
others, should never have been published? Certainly, tag’s “ Die Verlorene
Handschrift,” edited (and greatly
these on their first editions brought nothing either to
condensed) by M.
author or publisher. If his remark does not include this
meaning, it contains very little for serious consideration.
une edited by Mr. H. D. Traill, and made up of the
Publishers who show Sir Walter Besant returns of sales
causeries contributed by various writers to the weekly
which amount to a great many thousand copies have their
issues of Literature." There are upwards of a score
own reason for giving him the information. I am con-
of these familiar talks, and their writers include many
tent to let the relative values of publishing novels at
distinguished men and women. The book has no discern-
thirty-one-and-six and at six shillings be judged from
ible unity, but makes pleasant reading for all that.
the sales of Sir Walter's own books. Let Sir Walter The Modern Language Association of America will
Besant publish the actual sales in the British Isles of his hold its next annual meeting at the University of Vir-
latest novel, “ The Changeling," side by side with the ginia (Charlottesville, Va.) on the 27th, 28th, and 29th
sales of “ All Sorts and Conditions of Men" in three-
of this month. The Central Division of this Association
volume and six-shilling forms; and I feel assured that
will hold its annual meeting on the same days, at the
the result of the comparison will bear out my original
University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Neb.). Interesting
statement.
TEMPLE Scott.
programmes have been provided for both gatherings.
Four volumes just published by Messrs. Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons complete the new library edition of the works
of Mr. George Meredith. The final volumes give us "One
LITERARY NOTES.
of Our Conquerors,” « The Amazing Marriage," " Lord
Ormont and His Aminta," and the collected « Poems."
“ Laboratory Exercises in Anatomy and Physiology," The latter volume is complete, except for the French
by Mr. James Edward Peabody, is published by Messrs. “Odes," which have recently been published in a separ-
Henry Holt & Co.
ate volume.
“ The Story of Religions” is a small popular manual Volume XII. of the new edition and translation of the
by the Rev. E. D. Price, which has just been published by fiction of Tourguénieff, prepared by Mrs. Constance
Messrs. M. F. Mansfield & Co.
Garnett, and published by the Macmillan Co., includes
A pretty edition of “ Departmental Ditties and Other three stories, “ A Lear of the Steppes," « Faust,” and
Verses,” by Mr. Rudyard Kipling, has just been pub- “ Acia.” We are particularly glad to have the “ Faust,"
lished by Messrs. M. F. Mansfield & Co.
that gem of purest ray serene among Tourguénieff's
“ The Gate to Vergil,” by Mr. Clarence W. Gleason, stories, at last made accessible to English readers within
is planned upon nearly the same lines as the correspond- the covers of a book.
ing volumes on Caesar and Xenophon. It is published A new edition (the fourth) revised and corrected in
by Messrs. Ginn & Co.
the light of the most recent investigations, of Mr. John
The “ Reader's Handbook" of the late E. Cobbam Bigelow's “Life of Benjamin Franklin," has just been
Brewer was revised and enlarged by the compiler just published in three volumes by the J. B. Lippincott Co.
before his death, and is now issued by the J. B. Lippincott For nearly a quarter of a century now this has been the
this cou. Among My Books” (Longmans) is the title of a vol-
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a
standard biography of Franklin, and is here given what
we may suppose to be its definitive form. Nor is it
likely ever to be superseded by a more complete or trust-
worthy work.
M. Léon Daudet's life of his father, and M. Ernest
Daudet’s “My Brother and I,” both translated by Mr.
Charles de Kay, will be published in this country by
Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co., in accordance with a special
agreement with the late novelist's family. The biogra-
phy is such a chronicle of French home life as seldom
finds its way into type, for Daudet's house was his work-
shop, wherein the services of all the inmates were his to
command. “My Brother and I," which is included in
the same volume, is said to equal in interest the pictures
of Alphonse Daudet given in his son's work.
“ The Home Life of Great Authors,” published over
ten years ago by Mrs. Hattie Tyng Griswold, won a con-
siderable measure of popular favor for its sympathetic
and unaffected delineation of the literary personalities
with whom it dealt. A companion volume, compiled
upon the same plan, and called “Personal Sketches of
Recent Authors (McClurg) has just been issued, and
deserves a word of praise, both for its pleasant manner
of narration and for the exceptionally good photographs
wbich have been chosen to illustrate it. Among the
eighteen subjects included are Renan, Arnold, Huxley,
and Miss Rossetti, among the dead, and, among the liv-
ing, Mr. Howells, Mr. Kipling, and Count Tolstoy,
Negro, The Educated, and Menial Parsuits. Forum.
Philadelphia a Century Ago. Kate M. Rowland. Lippincott.
Pillager Indians, Protest of. F. E. Leupp. Forum.
Professor, American, Status of the. Educational Review.
Rifle-Pits, In the. R. H. Davis. Scribner.
Rostand, Edmond. Ellery Sedgwick. Atlantic.
Ruskin as an Artist. M. H. Spielmann. Scribner.
Signature in Newspapers. Alfred Balch. Lippincott.
Stevenson at Play. Lloyd Osbourne. Scribner.
Symbolist, A New (Sascha Schneider). Magazine of Art.
Taxation, Progressive, in U.S. V. S. Yarros. Self Culture.
Teacher, Training of the. W. H. Payne. Educa'l Review.
Tissot, J. James, Art of. Ernest Knaufft. Rev. of Reviews.
Tissot and his Paintings of Jesus. C. H. Levy. Rev. of Rev.
Tropics, U. S. Control of. Benjamin Kidd. Atlantic.
Tropical Colonies, European Experience with. Atlantic.
Venice, The Greatness of. Cesare Lombroso. Forum.
War, Influence of on Literature. Self Culture.
War, Naval Lessons of the A. T. Mahan. McClure.
Waring, Col. George E., Jr. Albert Shaw. Rev. of Reviews.
“Winslow,” Rescue of the. Ernest E. Mead. Harper.
World Politics through Russian Atmosphere. Rev. of Rev.
Yosemite, Birds of the. John Muir. Atlantic.
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 133 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
December, 1898.
Anglo-Saxon Power, Growth of. G. B. Waldron. McClure.
Annexation and Universal Suffrage. J. B. McMaster. Forum.
Army Supply Department, Our. J. H. Parker. Rev. of Rev.
Art, Coincidences of. M. H. Spielmann, Magazine of Art.
Babylon the Great. Austin Bierbower. Lippincott.
Book-Cover Designing. W. G. Bowdoin. Self Culture.
Books and Politics. D. C. Gilman. Self Culture.
Byron, Unpublished Poem by. Pierre la Rose. Atlantic.
Byron, Wholesome Revival of. Paul E. More. Atlantic.
California and Californians. D. S. Jordan. Atlantic,
Cat Alley, Passing of. Jacob A. Riis. Century.
Civil Service, Political Activity in the. P.S. Heath. Forum.
Cyrano de Bergerac. Gustav Kobbé. Forum.
Developments, Recent, in U.S. Joseph Chamberlain. Scrib.
Dowager Toi An and Emperor Kuang Hsu. Rev. of Reviews.
East and West, Coming Fusion of. E. F. Fenollosa. Harper.
Election, Recent, Lessons of. J. W. Babcock. Forum.
Election, Recent, Meaning of. DeWitt Warner. Self Culture.
Elizabeth, Empress and Queen. A. Hegedius, Jr. Rev.of Rev.
Empire, Seamy Side of. Goldwin Smith. Self Culture.
Federal Anti-Trust Act, Recent Construction of the. Forum.
Flowers and Fancies. C. Wilhelm. Magazine of Art.
Forest Fires. Henry Gannett. Forum.
Government, Our, of Newly Acquired Territory. Atlantic.
Holy City, Imperial Pilgrims to. J. S. Dennis. Self Culture.
Howe, Julia Ward, Autobiographical Reminiscences of. Atla.
Intervention, Doctrine of. Charles Denby. Forum.
Japan, Relation of to Other Nations. I. W.Stevens. Forum.
Journalism. Truman A. De Weese. Forum.
Landscape as Means of Culture. N. S. Shaler. Atlantic.
Latin Author in French Schools. Stoddard Dewey. Edu. Rev.
Lewis Carroll's Child Friends. S. D. Collingwood. Century.
Lincoln, Later Life of. Ida M. Tarbell. McClure.
Louise, Queen of Denmark. Grace I. Colbron. Rev. of Rev.
Lucchesi, A. C., Work of. C. C. Hutchinson. Mag. of Art.
“Maine," Explosion of the. C. D. Sigsbee. Century.
Manila, Fall of. T. Bentley Mott. Scribner.
Massachusetts Public School System. A. W. Edson. Ed. Rev.
'Merrimac," Sinking of the. Richmond P. Hobson. Century.
HOLIDAY GIFT BOOKS.
The Fair God: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico. By Low
Wallace. Illus. in photogravure, etc., by Eric Pape. In
2 vols., 12mo, gilt tops. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $7.
Miss America: Pen and Camera Sketches of the American
Girl. By Alexander Black. With designs and photo-
graphic illustrations by the author. 8vo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 208. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.50.
The Choir Invisible. By James Lane Allen ; illus, in pho-
togravure by Orson Lowell. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 364.
Macmillan Co. $2.50.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
Charles Lamb and the Lloyds: Comprising Newly-Discov-
ered Letters of Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
the Lloyds, etc. Edited by E. V. Lucas. With portraits,
12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 324. J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.
The Jew, the Gypsy, and El Islam. By the late Captain
Sir Richard F. Burton, K.C.M.G., edited by W. H. Wil-
king. With portrait, large 8vo, uncut, pp. 351. H. S.
Stone & Co. $3.50 net.
Miscellanies. By Austin Dobson. 16mo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 364. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25.
Wisdom and Destiny. By Maurice Maeterlinck; trans.
by Alfred Sutro. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 353. Dodd, Mead &
Co. $1.75.
The Poetry of Tennyson. By Henry Van Dyke. Tenth
edition, revised and enlarged, with a new Preface. 12mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 437. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.
Glimpses of Modern German Culture. By Kuno Francke.
16mo, pp. 233. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25.
Social Ideals in English Letters. By Vida D. Scudder.
12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 329. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
$1.75.
Essays on Dante. By Dr. Karl Witte ; selected, translated,
and edited by C. Mabel Lawrence, B.A., and Philip H.
Wicksteed, M.A. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 448. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. $2.50.
Hellenica: A Collection of Essays on Greek Poetry, Philog-
ophy, History, and Religion. Edited by Evelyn Abbott,
M.A. Second edition ; 12mo, uncut, pp. 449. Longmans,
Green, & Co. $2.50.
The Ambassador: A Comedy in Four Acts. By John Oliver
Hobbes. 12mo, pp. 173. F. A. Stokes Co. $1.
English Literature from the Beginning to the Norman
Conquest. By Stopford A. Brooke. 12mo, ancut, pp. 338.
Macmillan Co. $1.50 net.
The Bivouac of the Dead and Its Author. By George W.
Ranck, Illus., 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 73. Robert
Clarke Co. $1.
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Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History. By
George Meredith. 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 94. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
In Palestine, and Other Poems. By Richard Watson Gilder
16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 110. Century Co. $1.
Pictures of Travel, and Other Poems. By Mackenzie Bell.
With portrait, 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 90. Little, Brown,
& Co. $1.25.
The Tale of Beowulf, Sometime King of the Folk of the
Weder Geats. Trans. by William Morris and A. J. Wyatt.
12mo, uncut, pp. 189. Longmans, Green, & Co. $2.
Launcelot and Guenevere: A Poem in Dramas. By Rich-
ard Hovey. In 3 vols., 18mo. Small, Maynard & Co. $4.
The Shadows of the Troes, and Other Poems. By Robert
Burns Wilson. Illus. in photogravure, 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 158. R. H. Russell. $1.50.
A Christmas Garland: Songs and Sonnets. By Clinton
Scollard. 12mo, uncut, pp. 56. Privately printed. Paper.
The Song of Stradella, and Other Songs. By Anna Gannon.
16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 85. J. B. Lippincott Co.
Cuba, and Other Verse. By Robert Manners. 12mo, gilt
top, pp. 155. H. S. Stone & Co.
From Dusk to Dusk. By Cale Young Rice. 12mo, pp. 127.
Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland Presbyterian Pub'g House.
$1.25.
Idyls Twain._By Lloyd Goble. 18mo, pp. 136. Chicago :
Charles H. Kerr & Co.
pp. 280.
The Pleasures of Literature and the Solace of Books.
Compiled by Joseph Shaylor; with Introduction by Andrew
Lang. With photogravure frontispiece, 16mo, gilt top,
pp. 120. Truslove & Comba. $1.25.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English
Arthurian Romance. Retold in modern prose,
and edited,
by Jessie L. Weston. 24mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 96. London:
David Nutt.
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile, Bart., First
Marquis of Halifax, etc. With a new edition of his works,
now for the first time collected and revised. By H. C.
Foxcroft. In 2 vols., with portraits, large 8vo, uncut.
Longmans, Green, & Co. $12.
Philip Melanchthon: The Protestant Preceptor of Ger-
many, 1497-1560. By James William Richard, D.D. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 399. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50.
Mr. Gladstone: A Monograph. By Sir Edward W. Hamil-
ton, K.C.B. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 178. Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. $1.25.
Samuel E. Sowall: A Memoir. By Nina Moore Tiffany.
With portrait, 12mo, gilt top, pp. 175. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. $1.25.
Eminent Missionary Women. By Mrs. J. T. Gracey ;
with introductory Notes by Mrs. Joseph Cook and Mrs.
S. L. Keen. With portraits, 12mo, pp. 215.
Eaton &
Mains. 85 cts.
HISTORY.
The True History of the Missouri Compromise and its
Repeal. By Mrs. Archibald Dixon. With portrait, large
8vo, gilt top, pp. 623, Robert Clarke Co. $4.
The Union of Italy, 1815-1895. By W.J. Stillman, L.H.D.
12mo, uncut, pp. 412. “Cambridge Historical Series."
Macmillan Co. $1.75.
South America. A Popular Illustrated History of the
Struggle for Liberty in the Andean Republics and Cuba.
By Hezekiah Butterworth, Illus., 8vo, pp. 266. Double-
day & McClure Co. $2.
The Story of the Railroad. By Cy Warman. lllus., 12mo,
“The Story of the West." D. Appleton & Co.
$1.50.
The Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North
America. By Evarts Boutell Greene. 8vo, pp. 292.
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