ietudes, and determined not to rest there. of Greek religion is losing itself is due to two
Withal, it was a winning shyness; and when — some causes. (1) The fundamental principles of
what later — his jolly friend Ticknor tapped him on the the science are so involved with religious and
shoulder, and told him bow some lad wanted to be pre philosopbical prepossessions that it is vain to
sented, there was something painful in the abashed
manner with which the famous author awaited a school look for a reconciliation and harmonizing of
boy's homage — cringing under such contact with con opposite schools in any generally accepted con-
ventional usage as a school-girl might.”
ception of the psychology of primitive man and
Mr. Mitchell's chapter on Poe amounts al. the philosophy of prehistoric history. (2) The
most, as with several other of the more con historical verification of the countless hypothe-
siderable authors in his list, to a brief biograph. ses thrown out by learned ingenuity is rarely
ical sketch. A foot-note on Poe's biographers possible owing to the gaps in our evidence, and
briefly summarizes Mr. Mitchell's estimates of even the attempt to win a clear oversight of
their several accounts.
the work accomplished is greatly embarrassed
“ Biographies: by Griswold, harsh in its judgments; by the reluctance of scholars to admit any lim-
Ingram, full, but over-defensive; Stoddard, wholly fair, its to the amount of information wbich plaus-
not extended; Woodbury, faithful, painstaking, cleverly ible speculation may extract from a defective
done, but not wholly sympathetic; the late Professor
Minto's sketch (British Encyclopædia), very misleading; record. In so comparatively simple a matter,
and Lang's note in his piquant • Letters to Dead Au for example, as the literary growth of Greek
thors,' has kindred misjudgments."
legend from Homer to Pindar and the drama.
While dealing charitably and with becoming tists, there is much that we shall never know
reticence with Poe's failings as a man, Mr. for the plain reason that the literature is lost.
Mitchell says:
But a little difficulty like that cannot curb the
“Whether by pre-natal influences or forces of educa- soaring genius of a Wilamovitz-Moellendorf.
tion, the moral sense was never very strong in the poet; He reconstructs an entire lost epic of Hesiod
nor was there in him any harrassing sense of the want
of such a sense. He used a helpful untruth as freely
from three fragmentary lines, and a few no-
and unrelentingly as a man — straying in bog-land –
tices in late mythological handbooks that may
would put his foot upon a strong bit of ground which, or may not be based on Hesiod. “ Das ist ein
for the time, held him above the mire.”
stück Ewiger Poesie,” he exclaims, in ecstatic
The death of Poe's child-wife marked in his contemplation of his handiwork; and he confi-
career, thinks the author, the beginning of an dently looks forward to the time when the “pro-
epoch of general degeneracy, the detailed story gress of investigation ” shall have thus “recon-
of which had better been left untold.
structed ” all the lost poets of Greece as a
“We have hardly a right to regard what he did after basis for the definitive study of Greek religion
this - whether in the way of writing, of love-making, and mythology. But those of us who lack this
or of business projects - as the work of a wholly re- robust faith in divinatory methods must be
sponsible creature.'
content to ask many questions to which we can
But the taint in Poe's character is never mani- hardly expect final answers.
fest in his verse.
What is the relative weight and significance
“ Again, and in highest praise of this erratic genius,
it must be said, that in his pages even in the mag-
for early Greek religion of the various “true
ical renderings of Baudelaire there is no lewdness ;
courses" indicated by the terms totemism, tree
no beastly double-meanings ; not a line to pamper sen worship, disease of language; which is the
sual appetites; he is clear and cool as Arctic mornings." more important factor, Aryan personification
Mr. Mitchell speaks in his preface of “
of nature, the misunderstanding of ritual prac-
great welter of provisionary notes,” yet unused, tices, or half-conscious poetical symbolism ?
touching Motley, Whipple, Holland, Dr. Par Are the earliest allusions in extant literature
sons, Melville, Tuckerman, the Duykincks, and to a deity or a religious conception“ germs
others. We hope to see this budget of mem or “ interpolations "? What is the date of ori-
oranda embodied in a third book of “ American gin and the significance of the religious mys-
Talks” in the near future. The volume is at ticism associated with the name of Orpheus?
tractively made throughout, the profuse and Which of the Greek cults and gods are autoch-
well-chosen illustrations forming a tempting
* RELIGION IN GREEK LITERATURE. By Lewis Campbell.
feature.
E. G. J. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co.


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thonous or“ Pelasgic," and which came in from preoccupation with detail, should be reminded
Phrygia, Ægypt, or Pbenicia ? Are the Ary. that our primary concern in this matter is not
ans or the Semites in possession of the key to the curiosities and the quaintnesses of folk-lore
all Greek mythologies ? Are resemblances be and popular religion, but the thought of the
tween apparently disparate cults to be ex few supreme spirits of Greece:
plained as coincidences or as "contaminations”? “That few is all the world which with a few
On what lines were the various cults diffused
Doth ever live and move and work and strive."
through Greece,—from North to South or from It may even be that the clear utterances of the
East to West, by land or by sea ? To every few will tell us more of the serious and abiding
one of these questions something in our frag- beliefs of the many than we can learn from
mentary evidence suggests a conceivable, some any literal catalogue of quaint practices and
times a plausible, answer. The“ investigator superstitious fancies nominally surviving among
marshals an appalling erudition in the effort them. In Xenophon's “ Economist,” Ischo-
to convert these possibilities to certainties. His machus instructs his child-wife in a gentle and
position is that of the coming New Zealander, wholesome form of Socratic natural religion.
if after two thousand years he finds himself It may well be, as Professor Campbell sensibly
confronted with about half of the best English observes, that “this glimpse of an Attic inte-
poetry, and a miscellaneous collection of docu- rior, idealized though it may be, teaches us more
ments recovered from the corner-stones of about Attic religion than the information that
American churches, and attempts therewith to the person thus instructed had danced the bear
reconstruct not merely the general trend of dance at ten years old, or had carried the bas-
religious and ethical thought in the Nineteenth ket in honor of Athene at fifteen.” And in
century, but the local history of every Amer- another place he shows entertainingly what
ican sect and parish, and behind that the origin, strange conceptions of the religious life of Scot-
diffusion, and history of Christianity in Europe. land might be conveyed by a travelling folk-
In this state of the science I am inclined to lorist who should describe the rites of the local
congratulate Professor Campbell that his “ Re- Bacchus, John Barleycorn, and enumerate vari-
ligion in Greek Literature"- a "Sketch in ous quaint observances alluded to by Burns and
Outline," as he modestly terms it — is not an still kept up, such as burning hazel-nuts on the
“ investigation,” and will probably, like Pater's hearth-stone, hanging out horse shoes as a pro-
admirable Plato and Platonism,” be dismissed tection against the evil eye, making offerings at
by the "selten eischeinende Monatschrift " sacred wells to which the sick and infirm are
with the remark, “ bringt nichts neues.' It brought for healing, touching cold iron after en-
does not bring anything new in the way of bold countering a pig, etc. It will be a pity if the ana-
original generalization and hypothesis, or even logues of these things in Greece should obscure
of patient gathering of hitherto uncollected fact. for us Homer and Plato and Matthew Arnold's
But the combination in Professor Campbell of four prophets of the imaginative reason, Pin-
sobriety and sanity of judgment with sound and dar, Simonides, Sophocles, and Æschylus.
intimate knowledge of the religious thought of Space fails to follow with Professor Camp-
the great Greek writers, and a pleasant and read. bell the process by which the naïve but beau.
able style — these things will be new and very
tiful and wholesome antbropomorphism of
grateful to the amateur in these difficult matters. Homer developed into the sublime monotheism
As his title implies, Professor Campbell deals (for this it virtually is) of the great religious
rather with the religious thought of Greece as odes of Æschylus and Sophocles. Nor can we
reflected in the poets and philosophers than pause to trace the parallel growth of ethical
with picturesque superstitions and survivals, or reflection whereby the prudential or political
the traditional cults and conventional half be morality of Hesiod, Theognis, and the gnomic
liefs of the multitude. In the technical science poets was transformed into the ideal and abso-
of religions he is, as his pretty Greek epigram lute ethics of Plato, perhaps the first European
avows, a late learner of a new-fangled wisdom. to affirm that God is not jealous, that punish-
But he has a life-long familiarity with the best ment should never be vindictive, and that the
that was thought and said in Greece, and there good man will never harm even his enemy.
are probably few specialists in Greek religion The pages on Socrates, and the summing up
who could write as sanely, as comprehensively, on Euripides are especially good.
and as sympathetically as he has done of the These chapters were originally written for
religion of Herodotus, Euripides, Socrates, and the Gifford lectureship on religion, to which
Plato. And it is well that scholars, in their | Professor Campbell was elected by his col-


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leagues upon his retirement from the chair of
SEEN WITH JAPANESE EYES.*
Greek at St. Andrews. A few inaccuracies,
It was the brilliant observation of a wise
to be expected in the manuscript of lectures,
seemed to have escaped the author's eye in the
man that in the foreigner we have contempor-
revision for the press. Horace's line in cute
aneous posterity. The dispassionate eyes of
curanda plus aequo operata juventus is quoted
those who are to come after us exist, in all
from memory nimium studiosa juventus (p.
their critical possibilities, just across the nar-
88). The maxim "to give is nobler than to
row line of nationality. If this is true of the
receive” is quoted as from Hesiod's “ Works
nations of Europe in respect of one another,
and Days." The student will seek it there in
how much more true is it of Japan and its re-
vain. In a few instances the passages cited
lations with Christendom! For the first time
are wrongly translated. Pindar did not say
since the days of Saladin and the Saracens, a
(p. 176), “ in all that is pretty there is com-
nation as alert mentally as any professing faith
pulsion,” but “compulsion [necessity] makes
in the Cross is looking with clear eyes through
anything honorable”—justifies anything. Aris-
the centuries, selecting with marked abilities
topbanes, if the reference on page 21 is to the
the good in our polity, rejecting with scrupul.
well-known passage of the “Clouds," does not
osity all that seems to serve no useful end, bring-
speak of “filling up the image of virtue,” but ing itself into accord with the facts of the
of “polluting the image of modesty." The ren-
modern world, and so within a generation or
derings of Heracleitus on page 91 are inexact.
two accomplishing by a process of artificial evo-
Fr. 91, for example, is not « We can speak lution all that we Occidentals wrought through
with confidence only while we follow the thought
dark and bloody ages.
which comprehends all things, even as the law
Mr. Stafford Ransome, an engineer of re-
of the state controls all things, only much more
pute, and for a time the correspondent in Japan
firmly,” but “ those who speak with intelli of the “ Morning Post ” of London, has pre-
gence must hold fast by the universal, even
pared a book which has for its object the bring.
as a city holds fast by its law, and even more
ing within Western comprehension the pro-
firmly.” The text of the Pindaric passage or
gress of the Japanese Empire since the over-
page 173 must follow some strangely obsolete
throw of China. But while giving us the
edition. For Ermine Rolide (page 246 and opportunity to see with his trained powers of
index) read Erwin. It is misleading to speak observation what it is that has taken place in
(page 322) of a contradiction between phys-
that country, he incidentally provides a pair of
ical and moral courage in the “ Laches." The Eastern spectacles wherewith we may see our-
“ Laches" does not mention moral courage in
selves. This, we are sure, is the greater achieve-
our sense of the word. In a few other cases
ment of the two, and by much the more inter-
the views of the latest and best authorities have esting.
been ignored. Few scholars now mistake for
Mr. Ransome has done wisely in endeavor.
intentional caricature the naïve archaism of ing at the outset to overthrow any conception
the Arcesilaus vase (page 157). The purer
of these most capable people which the traveler
spirituality of Aphrodite Ousania is probably may, base upon life in the treaty ports. He
a Platonic fancy, and the contrasted epithet institutes a parallel between that and the judg-
Pandemos has purely political significance.
ment a Japanese might form of England if
Demeter Achaia is probably simply Achaean
there were established, say at Wapping Old
Demeter and not “Our Lady of Sorrows." Stairs, a foreign commercial community which
The Semitic origin of the Gephyraeans is
did not acquire the speech of the country, but
rightly rejected by Toepfer, and the specula- | lived its own life in its own manner, preserv-
tions about the Semitic strain in Harmodius ing its customs and costumes, and violently
and Aristogeiton are purely fantastic.
abusing in its own press all that it found in
These trifling inadvertencies in no wise impair the stranger land inharmonious with its own
the value of this readable and helpful sketch in ideas, chiefly because the English workmen,
outline of a great subject - a worthy parergon
interpreters, cabmen, and the like, were not
of the author's more serious studies. That he
educated gentlemen. In doing this be goes
may enjoy his Italian retirement for
further, and calls attention to the notions of
fruit-
many
ful years, and crown his work with the promised JAPAN IN TRANSITION: A Comparative Study of the
Platonic Lexicon, will be the hope of all his
Progress, Policy, and Methods of the Japanese Since Their
War with China. By Stafford Ransome. New York: Harper
friends and admirers. PAUL SHOREY.
& Brothers.


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morality these sojourners would form of the brought it about?” is answered decisively, with-
English, basing their conclusions on the dis- out pretence of modesty, and convincingly. It
orders incident to a seafaring and transient certainly was not the leading merchants of for-
population.
eign birth, nor their consuls, nor even their
The writer does not say, as he might have ministers and ambassadors. It was not even
said, that with many men environment serves any one conspicuous in the European colonies
for morality, and the laying off of accustomed in the various treaty ports. As will be shown
associations too often serves as an excuse for presently in more detail, it was not the mis-
hideous immorality; but he calls attention to sionaries, though these contributed to the result
the fact that the complaints brought against with fine unconsciousness. Who, then, was it?
the Japanese by Europeans are largely of hab-
Two classes of educated persons, chiefly
its formed in compliance with European de Englishmen and Americans ; one of them
mands, and, as far as native wit will serve, on laboring in the educational world as professors
European models ; and he goes further, and in the Imperial University and other state
in an illuminating passage replies to the foreign colleges,— men, as the author writes, who
critic by showing that all he urges against the “ were leading a more or less retired life, so
morality of this Oriental race the Japanese far as the rest of the European world in
sends back in kind as an accusation against Japan was concerned ”; the other laboring in
foreigners as he has seen them. This is as it the manufacturing world as engineers and
should be, and it may serve to destroy that executive officers, and also remote from their
cocksureness in the virtues of our own civiliza-countrymen socially. It is only natural that
tion which leads us to obtrude it
upon
others. these unobtrusive elements in the shaping of
One of the recent speeches of Count Okuma
modern Japan should be overlooked, until an
is translated for our benefit :
engineer, who is by reason of his attainments
“Comparing Europeans with Japanese, I do not think
to be classed among them, brings them into
that the Europeans then [thirty years ago) in Japan
the light; but it is not quite what we were
were a particularly high class of persons ; nor do I think expecting.
that those here now are particularly high class. On Hardly less to be foreseen is the entirely
the whole, I think they would not have been reckoned
candid estimate which is set upon the mission-
higher than middle-class in Europe. Among diplo-
matic officials there may have been men of high stand-
aries and their work. In the beginning of
ing, but the general run of merchants were of the middle their career in Japan, each mission sought to
and lower classes. Middle and lower classes though gain the support of the natives by the same
they did belong to, however, when we compare them means now used in social settlements among
with the Japanese of the time, how great was the dif-
our own less favored communities. Chief of
ference in the degree of their civilization. The for-
eigners living in Yokohama, Nagasaki, and so forth,
these were schools, both secular and religious.
seemed to know everything, and were many degrees Coming at a time when the Japanese were
superior to the Japanese. Their ideas were so large seeking knowledge with an avidity we can
that the Japanese were astounded. I was a student at
hardly conceive, these schools were most suc-
the time, and I remember that on one occasion, think-
ing that a certain foreigner was a wonderful scholar, I
cessful. But, Mr. Ransome points out, this
went to ask bim a question, but when I look back now was only until the government could make its
I recognize that he was not even equal to a Japanese own intelligent arrangements for the instruc-
middle-school graduate. Still, I was surprised at the tion of its people ; and to-day the mission
explanations I received from him.”
school which does not afford a better educa-
Here, in a word, is set forth the facts to tion than the government has ceased to exist
which we so-called progressive nations must as a factor in Japanese life. Most of them,
accustom ourselves. If this is news to us, indeed, have had to be secularized in order to
is much of similar purport which Mr. Ransome survive. And as for the scholars, they gained
brings. He warns us more than once against their education, and, not finding Christianity
mistaking the present condition of Japan for a useful, let it fall into desuetude.
new thing brought about by the waging of a If Japan is to become Christian at all, the
particularly successful war. What the sub- book concludes, it will be by some such process
jects of the Mikado are to-day they have been as the missionaries to northern Europe were
fitting themselves for from a time really an familiar with hundreds of years ago, when the
terior to the epoch-making voyage and diplo- king declared for the new faith and his sub-
macy of Matthew Calbraith Perry. The perti- jects meekly followed him into the fold. It
nent question of “Who, among the Europeans, I may suit the purposes of the Japanese govern-


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and their spe-
ment, if it can see the good to be gained by his place among the hard workers of the world. Two
it, to turn the people to the Cross. If the man things are very marked about this book. One of
date is given, it will be obeyed. If it is not them is the author's sympathy for the weaknesses of
given, the people will remain as they are. The average humanity, or his belief that the upright life
one thoroughly effective missionary establish-
is achieved not by a straight path, but rather by one
ment in Japan to-day, says Mr. Ransome, is
that zigzags its way along with many missteps. The
other is the curious and loving intimacy which he
conducted by French Jesuits.
displays with the things of nature—with the woods
Space does not permit consideration of other
and fields and the living things that inbabit them.
things in this excellent work, though many are It is the intimacy that only a country boyhood knows,
of almost equal interest. There is a chapter and that most men lose when other interests super-
on the modern drama which is a masterpiece sede. Mr. Waterloo has preserved this feeling for
of unintentional criticism of us by the native
nature in all its freshness, and his best pages are
actors. The business man will find pages
those which are given over to its expression. As to
devoted to his needs, which he cannot afford
construction, this novel is well-planned, although the
closing episode of the race to record a deed seems
to neglect. Students in many widely different
to be affixed like an incongruous bay-window. The
fields of human endeavor will find matters
falling within the scope of their specialties. commands homely and acceptable English of a vig-
graces of style are not given to the writer, but he
The book is well printed, and excellently
orous sort.
illustrated with half-tone reproductions of When we took up Mr. George Horton's Greek
photographs.
WALLACE RICE. story of “A Fair Brigand,” we feared another idyl
in the manner of his “ Constantine," dealing mainly
with native types, and seeking after poetic effect
more than dramatic incident. But we found instead
RECENT FICTION.*
an exciting story of the same general type as About's
“The Launching of a Man”
“ Roi des Montagnes," with a similarly stirring plot,
seems to us the best
piece of work thus far done by Mr. Stanley Water-
and the substitution of exaggerated American humor
for the more delicate French wit. Mr. Horton is
loo. It is the story of a young man carried through
his college life and into the busy world from which
a journalist, and the temptation to burlesque the de-
he expects to carve out his fortune. It is also a
vices of “enterprising” newspapers
love story of a very simple and wholesome sort.
cial correspondents was doubtless strong, yet this
When it ends, the hero has won both his wife and
introduces a broadly farcical element into what would
otherwise be consistent serio-comedy. The hero of
*THE LAUNCHING OF A Man. By Stanley Waterloo.
this tale is a student in the American school at
Chicago : Rand, McNally & Co.
Athens, which institution the author has viewed at
A FAIR BRIGAND. By George Horton. Chicago: Her-
bert S. Stone & Co.
first hand, but with sufficient detachment of mind to
KING OR KNAVE, WHICH WINS? By William Henry
enable him to discover the humorous aspects of this
Johnson. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.
nest of archæologists. The termination of the story
A GENTLEMAN PLAYER. By Robert Neilson Stephens. is abrupt and unsatisfactory.
Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
Henry of Navarre has furnished material for
THE LADDER OF FORTUNE. By Frances Courtenay Bay-
lor. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
more than one romancer, and his appearance in Mr.
A TENT OF GRACE. By Adelina Cohnfeldt Lust. Boston:
W. H. Johnson's “ The King's Henchman ” will be
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
pleasantly remembered by assiduous readers of cur-
THE MANDATE. A Novel. By T. Baron Russell. New rent fiction. In “King or Knave,” by the same au-
York: John Lane.
thor, we have a continuation of the story of Jean
ADRIAN ROME. A Contemporary Portrait. By Ernest
Fourcade, combined with the courtship of the King
Dowson and Arthur Moore. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
Miss CAYLEY'S ADVENTURES. By Grant Allen. New
and Gabrielle d'Estrées. The story of the Armada
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
is introduced in the early chapters, to be followed
WHEN THE SLEEPER Wakes. By H. G. Wells. New by the conflict of the royalists with the League, the
York: Harper & Brothers.
assassinations of both Guise and the King, and the
A PRINCESS OF Vascovy. By John Oxenham. New triumphal progress of the Béarnais to Ivry and the
York: G. W. Dillingham Co.
certainty of the throne. It is Henry the ardent and
A DASH FOR A THRONE. By Arthur W. Marchmont.
New York: New Amsterdam Book Co.
unscrupulous lover rather than Henry the warrior
CASTLE CZVARGAS. A Romance. By Archibald Birt.
who is presented to us in these pages, and the figure
New York : Longmang, Green, & Co.
is not a sympathetic one. As for Gabrielle, it must
THE GARDEN of SWORDS. By Max Pemberton. New be admitted that she accepted dishonor with her
York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
eyes open, and neither the book of history nor the
IN VAIN. By Henryk Sienkiewioz. Translated from the
novel now before us can make of her a heroine to
Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.
love and admire. Mr. Johnson has certainly caught
PROFESSOR HIERONYMUS. Translated from the Danish of
Amalie Skram by Alice Stronach and G. B. Jacobi. New the trick of the conventional romance of history and
York: John Lane.
deals with his material in very pretty fashion.


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;
In “A Gentleman Player,” Mr. R. N. Stephens putting to naught the ambitions of his parents, and
adds noticeably to the laurels already won for him raising the question of race and religion in all its
by “ An Enemy to the King” and “ The Road to bitterness. As a child, the heroine had been beaten
Paris.” The “gentleman player" of this romance nearly to death by a crowd of angry Christian
of Elizabethan England is one of the performers at children, and the same spirit of Judenhetze pursues
the Globe Theatre, reduced to this state of reverses, her into the after years, and finally causes her murder
although a gentleman born and bred. The author at the hands of a mob of fanatical rustics. Here is
is even daring enough to introduce the figure of evidently the material for an effective story, and it
Shakespeare bimself into the opening chapters, and must be said that Mrs. Lust is thoroughly conver-
to set speech upon his lips. But the Globe and the sant with the scenes and situations of which she
City are soon left behind, for the substance of the writes. But unfortunately she has no delicacy of
story relates to a wild-goose chase which the hero style, and the chromo-coloring of the heightened
leads the Queen's poursuivant, impersonating the episodes, as well as the awkward touches bestowed
friend whom he seeks to save from arrest, and with upon the details, are a constant offence to a refined
such success that for five days of exciting fight taste. We should judge that English was an ac-
northwards, the pursuer
follows the false trail thus quired idiom rather than the birthright of the novel-
laid, and misses his real object altogether. There is ist, and the very considerable force of the book is
a heroine, of course, and equally of course she is offset by the failure to attain to felicitous express-
cold and haughty until the closing chapters, when ion.
she melts in the approved fashion of all such hero “ The Mandate" is a novel of hypnotism, insom-
ines. The author has devised some extremely clever nia, and insanity. Lest this cheerful summary re-
situations, chief among them being that in which pel prospective readers, we hasten to add that,
the “gentleman player," caught at last, contrives to granted the unpleasant stuff with which the writer
escape by enacting the part of Tybalt in a provin- has had to work, the novel is an example of skilful
cial performance of “ Romeo and Juliet,” given by workmanship considerably above the average. We
his former associates in a town where his captors always suspect hypnotism as a motive in fiction ; it
have been delayed for a few hours.
is apt to lend itself to the cheapest sort of sensa-
It is difficult to discover the author of so sweet tionalism, and to imaginings in the name of science
and graceful a novel as " Claudia Hyde” in “The which science would indignantly disavow. But in
Ladder of Fortune,” Mrs. Frances Courtenay Bay- the present case, the motive seems to be used in a
lor Barnum's latest work. Somehow or other, the legitimate way.
Somehow or other, the legitimate way. The hypnotist is a gentleman who
characters with whom she deals seem to react upon happens to be in love with the wife of his subject
her expression, and in the present case, since the (the latter being a most objectionable person of the
characters are hopelessly commonplace and vulgar, cad or bounder variety), and suggests to him when
the effect is unfortunate. The book tells the story in a trance, that he will die at a certain hour on the
of an uneducated and unimaginative American, with following day. The hour comes, and the man dies,
an extraordinary talent for making money, and of but the situation is saved scientifically by presenting
his wife, a woman of the hard, vulgar, unsympa- physical conditions amply sufficient to account for
thetic sort, with an equal talent for elbowing her his taking off, without invoking the explanation of
way into society. It is simply the record of her the hypnotic suggestion. The real centre of inter-
progress up the social ladder, from the frontier town est is not in the death of this most superfluous hus-
in which the start is made to those circles of wealthy band, but in the mental condition of the hypnotist.
Americans and Europeans into which it is possible The latter firmly believes that he has committed
for the energetic parvenu to effect an entrance. murder, and it is from this conviction that we pass
The two characters are remorselessly depicted, and into the tragedy of insomnia and insanity that ends
the writer's attitude toward them is one of mingled the tale. As a psychological study, it is worked out
admiration and loathing. It is hardly needful to re with considerable power, and the novel displays so
mark that no writer who thus stands outside his much general ability that it is really far more inter-
characters can make them live. By way of con esting than this outline would indicate.
trast, we get near the end some refreshing glimpses “ Adrian Rome" is a novel of modern English
of an unspoiled daughter of these parents, and in society, having for its hero one of those“ problem-
the story of her love, the charm of simple and whole atic characters” described by Goethe, and so typi-
some ideals of life finds its way into the story. But cal of our modern age that many a novelist, both
the total impression is unpleasant, and we wonder before and after Herr Spielbagen, has been im-
that Mrs. Barnum should have had the resolution pelled to deal with them. Through defect of will
to write such a book.
and lack of a definite purpose he makes a failure of
“ A Tent of Grace” is a Rhineland story of the a life that seems to offer every opportunity of suc-
middle nineteenth century. The heroine is a Jew cess. Weakly renouncing the love that might have
ish girl, rescued as a child from a life of wretched given him strength to live, he enters into an alli-
ness, and adopted into the family of the village ance of the formal sort that leaves the springs of
pastor. She grows up to be a very beautiful girl, feeling untouched, and a tragic ending is the only
and the son of the family falls in love with her, thus way out of the impasse into which he has drifted.


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There is much excellent observation in this story, lanies, all of which the hero outwits. We have
combined with effective delineation, and a finished to thank the writer for much exciting entertainment.
method of expression.
“Castle Czvargas " is a capital romance of Con-
Mr. Grant Allen's latest book is a pot-boiler un tinental adventure in the seventeenth century. It
abashed. This being the case, we need waste no was in the year of the Great Fire that an English
words in commenting upon style, plot, or character lad was sent by his parents on a journey to Munich
ization. It will be sufficient to state that “ Miss for the purpose of transacting certain business con-
Cayley's Adventures" tells the story of a young
nected with an inheritance. His task performed,
woman who finds herself penniless in London, and he set forth on the homeward journey, but was cap-
who concludes that this is just the time for her to tured and held imprisoned by a robber-baron in the
make a tour round the world. That she carries out wilds of Southeastern Germany. News of his plight
her plan successfully, and has many entertaining reaching England, his brother started upon an ex-
experiences by the way, may be taken for granted pedition of rescue, and the story told us is that of
by those who know the sprightliness of the author's the skill and strength of arm with which the two
invention. The book makes pleasant unprofitable English youths got the better of Count Czvargas,
reading, and holds the attention throughout. captured his own stronghold from him, compassed
“When the Sleeper Wakes" is a somewhat dis his well-deserved death, and carried away from
appointing book. The fertile fancy of the author, captivity at the same time the German maiden who
and his quasi-scientific way of dealing with vast or is the heroine of the romance. It is an exciting
grotesque impossibilities, have not resulted, upon this tale, fit to captivate both old and young.
occasion, in a story that is either clear or convinc “ The Garden of Swords " is the fantastic title
ing. We are simply dazed at the twenty-first cen- | given by Mr. Max Pemberton to a story of the
tury London into which we (in company with the Franco-Prussian War, which culminates in the
awakened sleeper) are incontinently plunged, and siege and capitulation of Strassburg. The heroine
the system of girders, and wind-vanes, and flying is the English wife of a French soldier, and the
stages which are the author's principal marvels, private interest of the story is centred about her
seems to be the outcome of a cheap and confused relations with an Englishman, serving in the Prus-
invention. There is much ingenuity about the sian army, who has befriended her in an hour of
forecast, much skilful elaboration of details, but deadly peril, and risked his own life by entering
there is no imaginative reach, no real impossiveness. the doomed city to bring her news of her captured
Were it not for the copyright of the present year,
husband. The husband learns of all this devotion
we should take “A Princess of Vascovy,” by Mr. only to place upon it the most dishonorable inter-
John Oxenham, for a reprint of some early essay pretation, and his conduct is so contemptible that it
in fiction-writing. Certainly, it has little of the is not easy to rejoice in the reconciliation between
careful style and psychological insight of “God's the two, even though it takes place at the bedside
Prisoner," which we reviewed a few months ago, where he lies fatally wounded by one of the besieg-
and has, in fact, nothing to recommend it save the ers’ shells. With all due pity for the sufferings of
interest of the plot. Considered merely as a story, the French people in their year of agony, the author
however, as an ingenious and straightforward nar. makes his lack of genuine sympathy with them a
rative, it holds the attention closely, and may be little too evident, and it is clear that both his ad-
pronounced successful. The heroine is a princess miration and his heart go with the invaders. For
of a quite imaginary kingdom in Eastern Europe, the rest, the story is prettily told, with some poetry
and she comes to her own after a career of the most of phrase, and a fairly vivid realization of its dra-
varied adventure, beginning in the wilds of South matic possibilities.
America, continued in the islands of the Pacific, The great and deserved vogue of Mr. Sienkiewicz
and ended in the little realm to which fate at last has had its natural consequence in the translation
restores her. The book is somewhat in the fashion of his unimportant and immature work, his trans-
of Mr. Hope's “ Zenda” tales, and its incidents are lator relying on the magic of the author's name to
of a similarly exciting character.
secure a public for the least of his productions. We
Still more suggestive of the “ Zenda” sort of ro cannot say that this result is a regrettable one, for
mance is Mr. Arthur W. Marchmont's “ A Dash for everything that can throw light upon the develop-
a Throne." Here we have an actual personation of ment of so great a talent is of interest, but readers
the prince by the hero, who lends himself to the in. must not expect too much of the book now pub-
trigue, first, because it seems the only way of work- lished, which was the first of the author's literary
ing out the ends of justice, and afterwards, pour
Considered absolutely, “In Vain” is of
les beaux yeux of the heroine, whom he cannot de small value; considered as a first book, written by
sert in her hour of peril. The throne in this case a boy of seventeen, it is one of the wonders of lit-
is specifically that of Bavaria, although the happen erature. Glaringly crude as it is in many ways,
ings described are as far from any actual history as there is in it a distinct foreshadowing of the power
are those chronicled in the imaginary annals of that was to produce “ Without Dogma" and " The
Ruritania. The story is a capital one, reeking with Children of the Soil,” and it has also a consider.
romantic sentiment, and filled to the full with vil able degree of intrinsic interest. It is a novel of


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student days at Kieff, and was written when the gratulation, what apostrophes to the irresistible
author was himself a student at Warsaw. As a joint might of “ Ich und Gott," should we in that
naïve portrayal of university life in Eastern Europe, case have bad! But Prince Charles is, of all Euro-
it offers us something so radically different from pean sovereigns, perhaps the one least touched with
anything that the corresponding conditions in En the royal megalomania. The task which he faced,
gland or America could offer, that for this reason when as a young lieutenant he was called upon, a
alone it deserves attention. But it gives us more quarter of a century ago, to assume the rule of a
than this. It is a story of passion, of abnegation, turbulent principality whose name was synonymous
and of moral triumph ; the wine of youth courses with change and alternating foreign occupation, was
through its veins, and we forgive its faults for the one of the utmost difficulty. His future kingdom
sake of its obvious sincerity.
lay in the cock-pit of the Near East, surrounded by
Fru Amalie Skram, a Norwegian woman who is petty powers whose governments were even more
tbe wife of a well-known Danish scholar, has elected unstable than its own, and jealously regarded by
to write fiction under the banner of “naturalism,” both Russia and Turkey, for each of which powers
and has been seriously likened to M. Zola. Her it had for nearly a century formed a bone of con-
work is now first introduced to the English public tention. Out of this political and financial chaos
by a well-made translation of " Professor Hierony- the young Prince, through the exercise of really
mus.” Herr Björnson, who is a warm admirer of remarkable ability as statesman and soldier, gradu-
the writer, has characterized the book in these terms: ally brought Roumania to its present independent
“ It is the first time that a great author in full pos and comparatively stable and Aourishing condition.
session of her mental powers has had the opportu The story of this achievement is interestingly and
nity of making such a study. Seeking quiet and almost too self-effacingly told in these Reminis-
treatment for a nervous affection, Fru Skram of cences. The narrator touches briefly upon his mar-
her own free will became an inmate of a lunatic riage to the Princess Elizabeth of Wied (the “Car-
asylum. Thus she had a chance of studying one of men Sylva” of letters); and his share in the Turco-
those specialists in mental disease who are too apt Russian war, in which he commanded a division of
to mistake rebelliousness for a sign of mental de allied Russian and Roumanian troops, is dwelt upon
rangement. Of this doctor, of the patients, the in some detail.
The correspondence of Prince
nurses, her whole environment, she gives a picture Charles with Bismarck, Queen Victoria, and the
80 vivid, of such absorbing interest, that it can vie German Emperor, forms an element of considerable
with the most thrilling romance." This praise seems interest, and the book must, on the whole, be re-
to us overdrawn, and, assuming the writer's pur garded as a desirable and an authoritative contri-
pose to be that of establishing abuses in the treat bution to the history of the Eastern Question. The
ment of the insane, she is only half-convincing. It editor provides an intelligently written sketch and
is indeed a chamber of horrors into which she leads appreciation of Prince Charles, a portrait of whom
us, but, barring a few minor instances of heedless forms the frontispiece of the well-appointed volume.
ness, the asylum seems to be conducted upon hu-
mane and scientific principles. As far as Hierony The fight of
Sixty-four years ago, when Mr. R.
mus is concerned, we cannot make out what the
a corporation H. Dana, in his adventurous cruise
with the people.
writer is driving at.
He is certainly an unsympa-
“ Before the Mast,” visited the coast
of Southern California, his ship one day came to
thetic figure, but certainly not the monster she
would have us think him. We should warn prog-
anchor in the roadstead of San Pedro, which he de-
pective readers that the book has no plot whatso-
scribes as "the only port for a distance of eighty
ever; it is the bare journal, day by day, of the
miles.” It was not much of a port, and not much
of one was needed for the slender commerce of those
asylum experiences of the heroine, and does not
even end with her release. This suggests possibil pastoral days. But fifty years later, when the rich
ities of more volumes of the same sort, which may
interior region had been developed, and Los Ange-
Heaven avert.
les, its chief city, had become an important com-
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
mercial centre, the need of an improved harbor was
keenly felt. Two rival points on the sea-coast con-
tended for the improvements which Congress was
asked to make—San Pedro on the south, and Santa
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
Monica on the west, each about twenty miles from
Interesting
In reading the “Reminiscences of Los Angeles, each having railroad connection with
reminiscences the King of Roumania" (Harper), that city, and each having good natural advantages
of a King.
as edited by Mr. Sidney Whitman, for a harbor, though the reports of the U. S. engi-
one may naturally reflect how differently this mod neers sent to make surveys were decidedly in favor
est yet effective story of political effort and achieve of San Pedro. The interests of the great railroad
ment would have been told had the hero and nar corporation of California, the Southern Pacific Com-
rator been, not Prince Charles, but another extant pany, led it to desire the selection of Santa Monica,
scion of the Hohenzollerns, whose Consecrated Per and the claims of this place were pressed with great
son we need not specify. What pæons of self force and determination, and with all the known and


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A Statesman
in Letters.
unknown resources of that almost omnipotent or and Walter Camp, two graduates of that ancient
ganization. The citizens of Los Angeles were no institution whose names are a guaranty at once for
less determined in favor of San Pedro; and a con good workmanship and for a proper Yale spirit.
test was begun which, carried on in California and Just at what is generally felt to be a turning-point
in Washington, was waged for eight years with great in the career of this great university and mother of
stubbornness and sometimes bitterness, and finally universities, a large volume, almost encyclopædic
resulted in a complete victory for the people. Å in scope and intention, is issued, from which may
government appropriation of nearly three millions be had a conception of what Yale men think of
of dollars was secured, and after many vexatious themselves and of their college. No department
and baffling delays, work was finally begun at San of the great university is left without commemora-
Pedro in April last. The story of this memorable tion, and the sub-title gives but a faint hint of this
contest has been well told by Mr. Charles Dwight | inclusiveness. One of the chapters is given the
Willard, a practised and graceful writer, in a volume name, “ For God, for Country, and for Yale.” This
entitled “ The Free-Harbor Contest (Kingsley- represents the feeling throughout the large work;
Barnes & Neuner Co., Los Angeles). It is well yet it must not be taken as a universal panegyric
worth reading, not only for its many interesting and - even though the point of view is that of Yale
often stirring episodes, but for its practical demon men for Yale, and the rest of the world is not con-
stration that even the most powerful corporations sidered except as subordinate. We have a notion
are not all-powerful when opposed by an aroused that the preparation of a work ten years hence of
and determined public sentiment.
similar purpose will show a different idea back of
To be a bookish man and a states-
the university — and perhaps a better and more
man, as Lord Rosebery demon-
generous one. That Yale should feel the defeats
in athletics of a single year sufficiently to call a
strates in one of the best of his recent
“ Appreciations and Addresses" (John Lane), is general alumni meeting for the purpose of ascer-
not an easy nor necessarily a logical matter. Yet he taining the causes leading up to them, has seemed
goes back over the list of the prime ministers of En-
to many friends of American colleges somewhat
gland for more than a century and produces results
disproportionate when other matters in which Yale
has been interested are taken into account. Why
which must fill the American enthusiast for learn-
ing and culture with envy. Among these, surely,
it should be so, this book explains — between the
Lord Rosebery is himself to be ranked, if only for
lines as well as in them. But it is something of
the volume before us, with its interesting and mul-
which Yale men should be proud in the main, and
tifarious table of contents. A distinction, rather
it is admirably presented by the publishers, Messrs.
than a difference, is made between the Apprecia-
L. C. Page & Company.
ions, which include estimates of the life or work or
The life of
The figure of William T. Sherman
character or all three of various persons, and of the Gen. Sherman looms large in any account of the
city of London; and the Addresses, which deal with well re-told.
Civil War, and it is tolerably certain
subjects less personal, the best of them being on that time will rather enhance than diminish its
“Bookishness and Statesmanship." But all are proportions. An intelligent and complete biography
taken from the lips of the speaker in some public of the Union leader now appears in the “Great
place, and have been edited in their present form Commanders " series (Appleton), partly from the
by Mr. Charles Geake. They still retain the flavor pen of the late General M. F. Force, who assumes
of matters which, were they less literary in content, the entire responsibility, and partly from the pen
would make against their reception, yet they have of General J. D. Cox, who is even better known as
with this a certain dry humor which is only less en-
a writer. The career of General Sherman is so
joyable in the printed page than it must have been replete with incident, and that of the more import-
when voiced by the speaker's lips. Many other ant sort, that greater brevity could hardly be
amiable qualities combine with this to make the looked for. The work is, accordingly, somewhat
speeches worthy attention and — for those who long. It is a pity, such being the case, that the
intend to speak in public themselves — of study. index should be so hastily prepared as to leave it a
They are in the best of taste, they are sufficiently lame guide at best to the 350 closely written pages.
erudite, they are always happy in all the meanings Though dealing first of all with the soldier, the
of that greatly abused word, they are neither too work shows Sherman in his private capacity as well.
long nor too short -- in fine, they have every qual. His steadfast refusal to be dragged into politics, on
ity except those which enthusiasm and genius alone the ground that soldiers enough had been seated in
can lend.
the presidential chair, is brought out most strongly,
A commemorative
A clear idea of what an American and is greatly to the credit of the man. So, too,
college really is at a given moment is the lifelong effort he made to bring about a re-
Yale College.
was never perhaps caught with more form in the office of the Secretary of War, a meas-
success nor set down with more animation than ure to which Grant denied his support, yielding, as
characterizes “Yale: Her Campus, Class Rooms, he did too often, to the persuasions of interested
and Athletics,” by Messrs. Lewis Sheldon Welch friends. Most of the evils and accumulated horrors
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literature in
of the recent war with Spain are directly due to of an athletic vigor none too usual in France, and
this, and the contumely heaped upon the recent to have left it at the end of less than two years as
Secretary of War is plainly shown to be the result an invalid not far from death, and despairing of the
of continued refusals to adopt the plain teachings future of his country. That he eventually recovered,
of prudence and common-sense on the part of the and was able to make of himself rather an English-
highest authority in the nation. The book deserves man than a Frenchman, disclosing administrative
careful reading, and should take its place beside and executive abilities such as France stands
the best volumes in the series which it is intended desperately in need of, make the pity the greater.
to accompany.
His native land, indeed, stultified her earlier treat.
Those who have been watching the ment of him by placing him in command of a native
Lessons from our
historic pasl.
changes in public sentiment within transport service during the war in Madagascar,
the last twelve months cannot help but only to bear witness that the casualties of that
being impressed by the lack of knowledge of the expedition would have been annihilation had the
historic past of America, and the disregard into enemy been otherwise than cowardly. Incidentally
which it seems to have fallen. That supposed bul to the narrative, though affording the undoubted
wark against innovation and lack of precedent, the reason for its publication at this time, a bright
American bar, has really led the people away
light is thrown upon the astounding disclosures of
from the uniform traditions of five generations of
the Dreyfus trial. No one reading these pages can
our citizens, back to the point of view of the loyalist doubt that France is virtually lying naked to her
of the Revolution, whose very name has been enemies as a result of flagrant delinquencies and
adopted, all unconscious of the Europeanizing gross favoritisms pervading her armies, and that
tendency common to them both. Why it is that the one animating purpose bebind the officers now
all history should be disregarded, unless there is a before the public is the prevention of further dis-
wide and deplorable ignorance of that history, it is
closures of their worthless and vicious methods.
impossible to say; but the publication at just this
time of such a work as Mr. Edward McCrady's
“ The Fourteenth Century,” by Mr.
European
“ History of South Carolina Under the Royal
F. J. Snell, is the third volume pub-
cross-sections.
Government, 1719-1776” (Macmillan) serves to
lished in the series called “Periods
accent the imputation of ignorance. The entire
of European Literature (Scribner ), edited by
period treated is one in which the inhabitants of
Professor Saintsbury. This method of dealing with
the Carolinas, in common with those of the conti. European literature in cross-sections has both ad-
nent generally, were preparing to throw off just vantages and disadvantages ; the latter are pecu-
such a series of oppressions as they are laboring liarly, apparent in the case of the present volume,
with to-day. It will be seen, as from the chapters
which has to include Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio,
dealing with the Indians, that we have actually lost
Chaucer, and Froissart, on the one hand, and, on
something of the governmental acumen which then
the other, the tag.ends of French court-poetry and
characterized our colonial ancestors.
Icelandic
We are less
saga, the early stages of Scottish romance,
jealous of the rights of others, and far less punctil-
the growth of the new lyric in Italy, and such
ious regarding our own individual rights; we are
names as Marco Polo, Sir John Maundeville, St.
governed with just as little regard for our real wel-
Francis of Assisi, Jean Gerson, and John Wiclif.
fare, and revenue is raised with just about the
There is no English scholar living who could do all
this as it should be done, and it is no reproach to
same conception of the interests of the taxpayers.
Mr. McCrady's book is both voluminous and
Mr. Snell to say that, while he is a trustworthy
interesting, though not well proportioned. The
writer upon the Italian and English phases of his
desire to set down everything, rather than to main period, bis knowledge concerning others is defective.
tain due perspective, leads to loose and illogical
The drama of the fourteenth century is omitted
writing occasionally. But of the value of the work altogether from this survey, being left for the
there can be no doubt.
writer of the volume that will follow in the chrono-
logical order. Mr. Snell's style is good, although
Some discouraging
Such light as the distinguished Afri marred by an occasional bit of misplaced flippancy,
revelalions of can explorer, Mr. Lionel Decle, is and his work is thoroughly readable.
the French army.
able to throw upon the condition of
the French army by a narration of his experience
What shall be said of a book like
Mystifying
as un volontaire d'un an in 1879-81 is lurid, and the mystery
“ Dreyfus: Letters Written to His
the book resulting, “Trooper 3809: A Private
of Dreyfus. Wife from Prison" (Harper)? The
Soldier of the Third Republic” (Scribner), is most writings, translated from the French by Mr. L. G.
discouraging reading for those who, like Abou ben Moreau, cover the period from December, 1894,
Adhem, love their fellow-men. Making allow to February, 1898, and are introduced by Mr.
ances for youth, for bitterness, for a possibly dis Walter Littlefield with a brief summary of this
agreeable manner, and for the personal equation, most extraordinary case. Americans, as a whole,
Mr. Decle appears to have entered the French have made up their minds that the accused French-
service with patriotic enthusiasm in the perfection man is innocent; Frenchmen, on the contrary,


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are resolved to believe him guilty. Real proof, isfactory to the public, that writer after writer has re-
either of guilt or innocence, seems wholly lacking; appeared in its tasteful dress, and no small part of the
though the unfairness of the presumption of guilt best English literature is now obtainable in the volumes
without proof is as hateful to the mind of the
of this design. We need mention only the names of
believer in the common law as the presumption of
Arnold, Church, Gray, Huxley, Lamb, Milton, Morley,
innocence is to the advocates of French criminal
and Wordsworth, in illustration of the scope of the
series.
At present, a Shakespeare is being added,
procedure. If the General Staff of the French
under the editorship of Mr. C. H. Herford, whose notes
army bas brought forth nothing of any moment in
and introductions are scholarly and brief. There are
their attempt to show him a traitor, surely such to be ten volumes in all, of which five have now ap-
letters as these afford neither proof nor presump-peared. They are a little thicker than is usual with
tion of innocence. If their publication at this time this series, but still most convenient to handle, and will,
is for the purpose of influencing public sentiment we doubt not, become very popular.
in favor of this most unfortunate officer, it appears A new edition, with an enlarged glossary of Sanscrit
based upon the curious assumption that letters to terms, of “ Vedanta Philosophy," has just been pub-
a wife, written with the knowledge that they will lished by the Baker & Taylor Company. The frontis-
be opened and read by those interested in proving piece is a portrait of the author, the Swami Vivekananda,
the writer guilty, must contain the whole truth.
so well known to the attendants upon the Congress of
The letters have no literary merit, as such. They Religions in 1893. The book is too well known to re-
are “human documents" undoubtedly, and may
quire further comment, and the present edition will
well serve as models of passion, hope, despair,
meet a growing demand for authentic information of
this sort.
grief, and affection, in combination. But they no
The “ Cumulative Book Index,” published at Min-
more enlighten the understanding relative to the
neapolis by Messrs. Morris & Wilson, appears in a
writer's character than some of the statements of double number for April and May. It covers a period
the General Staff -- and that is saying a great deal. of sixteen months, and makes a volume of between three
and four hundred pages. In other words, it is a com-
Mr. William T. Jacks has written
A popular
plete card catalogue, by author, title, and subject, of all
biography what he styles the first consecutive the books published in this country from January, 1898,
of Bismarck.
“ Life of Prince Bismarck” (Mac. to the date of the present issue. The usefulness of such
millan) composed in the English language. Mr. a publication needs no explanation.
Jacks has succeeded fairly well in his desirable Consul-General Wildman's “ Tales of the Malayan
undertaking, and his book, though rather scrimped Coast” (Lothrop Pub'g Co.) were gathered during his
and superficial and not impeccable in point of style, three years' consular service in the Malay Peninsula.
may be pronounced a good one for popular reading.
The tales are seventeen in number, and include such
titles
The publishers have given it a handsome setting, and
“ Baboo's Good Tiger,” “ A Fight with Illanum
it is liberally illustrated. There is a map of Ger-
Pirates," « The White Rajah of Sarawak,” « King Solo-
mon's Mines,” “The Sarong," “ The Kris,” “ Amok,"
many from 1815 to 1866, and the author has judi-
Busuk,” “ A Pig Hunt on Mt. Ophir,” and “ A Croco-
ciously inserted a chapter dealing with the political
dile
history of Germany during the epoch immediately curdling, and all derive interest from their portrayals of
preceding 1847. It is fair to Mr. Jacks to say that a quarter of the globe regarding wbich we were in so
he has been somewhat handicapped by the necessity profound (and perhaps blissful) ignorance a year ago.
of keeping his narrative within certain prescribed Dr. Fred Morrow Fling, of the University of Ne-
limits within which it would not be possible to com braska, whose helpful pamphlets of source extracts for
press even a measurably full and satisfactory ac the scientific study of history have frequently been com-
count of the Chancellor's career.
mended to our readers, has just published (Lincoln:
Miller) a little volume, entitled “Outline of Historical
Method,” designed to help the progressive teacher to
some acquaintance with the methods of modern histor-
BRIEFER MENTION.
ical scholarship. It is a clear analysis of the work of
M. Seignobos and Herr Bernheim, intended to bring
“ Dante Interpreted,” by Mr. Epiphanius Wilson the methods of bistorical criticism and research within
(Putnam), is a simple and straightforward account of the range of the untrained teacher, and deserves a wide
the poet's life and work, illustrated by many extracts circulation.
which the author has translated into the form of the
The little hand-book on “ English Meditative Lyrics"
Spenserian stanza. The book is of the sort that attempts (Curts & Jennings) is a companion to a similar volume
nothing original, and that may safely be recommended
from the same pen on similar productions in America.
to beginners, although it is by no means upon the plane The professor of English in Princeton, Dr. Theodore W.
of Maria Rossetti's “Shadow of Dante,” or J. H. Sy- Hunt, has again shown his faculty for saying much that
monds's “ Introduction to the Study of Dante.” Of the
is suggestive in little space, and perhaps no work of
latter work, by the way, a new edition (the fourth) has
recent years so ably provokes the reader to better ac-
just been published (Macmillan), at the instance of quaintance with the lovely verses to which reference is
Mr. Horatio F. Brown, the author's literary executor. had. The book will serve for the novice and for the
The “Eversley” form of book, which was devised critic equally, the groupings being as useful to the lat-
by the Messrs. Macmillan many years ago for the ter as the large amount of information must be to the
needs of a new edition of Kingsley, has proved so sat-
former.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FALL BOOKS.
As we predicted some time ago, The Dial's list of
forthcoming Fall publications, presented herewith,
eclipses that of any year in the history of the American
book trade. The number of titles entered is nearly
1600, against 1350 last year, which latter number was a
considerable increase over any previous season. These
lists are therefore a very good index—perhaps the best
that may be had to the condition and progress of the
publishing business in this country. They are prepared
in all cases from advance information procured espe-
cially for the purpose, and represent the output of 62
publishing firms: the highest number from any one
firm being 200, and the average 25 for each firm.
All the books here given are presumably new books-
new editions not being included unless having new form
or matter; and the list does not include Fall books
already issued and entered in our regular List of New
Books. Juvenile books are, from their great number,
deferred to another issue.
The more interesting literary features of this List are
commented upon in the leading editorial in this issue.
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, president
of the Royal Academy, written by his son, J. G. Millais,
with contributions by various writers, 2 vols., illus. in pho-
togravure, etc., $10. (F. A. Stokes Co.)
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, with Preface by his literary
executor, Paul Meurice, trans. by John W. Harding, au-
thorized edition, with photogravure portrait, $2.50. (G. W.
Dillingham Co.)
Life of Pope Leo XIII., by F. Marion Crawford, illus. in photo-
gravure, etc. - - Abraham Lincoln, the man of the people,
by Norman Hapgood, illus. — Autobiography of Clement
Scott.-Sir Henry Irving, a record and review, by Charles
Hiatt, illus. —Sir J. Everett Millais, a record and review,
by J. Lys Baldey, illus. in photogravure, etc. - Life and
Letters of Archbishop Benson, edited by his son, 2 vols.,
illus. — Cardinal Newman as Anglican and Catholic, to-
gether with correspondence, by Edmund Sheridan Purcell,
with portraits. — Francis Lieber, his life, times, and phil-
osophy, edited by Lewis R. Hartley. - "Foreign States-
series, new vols.: Louis XI., by G. W. Prothero;
Ferdinand the Catholic, by E. Armstrong: Mazarin, by
Arthur Hassall ; Catharine II., by J. B. Bury; Louis
XIV., by H. O. Wakeman ; per vol., 75 cts. The Men
Who Made the Nation, by Edwin E. Sparks, illus. - Ed-
ward Thring, his life, diary, and letters, by George R.
Parķin, new and cheaper edition. - Life of William E.
Gladstone, by Justin MoCarthy, new and cheaper edition,
illus. (Macmillan Co.)
Reminiscences, by Julia Ward Howe, with portraits.- Rem-
iniscences of My Life, by Prince Kropotkin, with portraits.
- Horace Bushnell, by Theodore T. Munger, D.D., with
portraits, $2.-" American Statesmen” series, edited by
John T. Morse, Jr., new volg.: Salmon P. Chase, by Albert
Bushnell_Hart; Charles Sumner, by Moorfield Storey ;
Charles Francis Adams, by Charles Francis Adams; per
vol., $1.25.-Life of Charles Henry Davis, Rear-Admiral,
1807-1877, by his son, Captain Charles H. Davis, U.S. N.,
with portrait, $3.- Letters and Recollections of John
Murray Forbes, edited by his daughter, Sarah F. Hughes,
2 vols., with portraits .- Life of Bishop Latimer, by Rev.
A. J. Carlyle, $1.25. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
Life and Letters of Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, 1573–
1631, by Edmund Gosse, 2 vols., illus. in photogravure,
$8. net. - The Life of Goldsmith, by Austin Dobson, new
and revised edition, $1.25. -"Modern English Writers"
series, first vols.: Matthew Arnold, by Professor Saints-
bury; Stevenson, by L., Cope Cornford; Tennyson, by
Andrew Lang; George Eliot, by Sidney Lee: Froude, by
**John Oliver Hobbes "'; Thackeray, by Charles Whib-
loy; per vol., $1.25. - Romance of King Ludwig II. of
Bavaria, by Frances A. Gerard, illus., $3.50. – Reminis-
cences of the Life of Edward P. Roe, to which are added
sketches and other papers of an autobiographical nature,
edited by his sister, Mary A. Roe, illus., $1.50. (Dodd,
Mead & Co.)
The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray, by Lewis Mel-
ville, 2 vols., illus., $10.-Famous Ladies of the English
Court, by Mrs. Aubrey Richardson, illus., $3.50 net.-
Sir Arthur Sullivan, his life story, with letters and remi-
nisences, by Arthur Luwreuce, illus.--Some Players,
reminiscences of the principal actors of our time, by Amy
Leslie, with portraits, autograph letters, etc., $5. net.
edition on Japan paper, $10. bet. (H. S. Štone & Co.)
“Heroes of the Nations " series, new vols.: Bismarck and
the New German Empire, by J. W. Headlam, M.A.; Charle-
magne (Charles the Great), by H. W. Carless Davis, M.A.;
Alexander the Great, by Benjamin Ide Wheeler; each
illas., $1.50. Heroes of the Reformation " series, new
vols.: Desiderius Erasmus (1467-1536), by Ephraim Emer-
ton, Ph.D.; Theodore Beza (1519-1605), by Henry Martyn
Baird, Ph.D.; each illus., $1.50. American Men of
Energy" series, new vol.: A Soldier of the Revolution,
the life and work of Henry Knox, by_Noah Brooks, illus.,
$1.50.-Rupert, Prince Palatine, by Eva Scott, with por-
traits, $3.50.-- Literary Hearthstones, studies of the home
life of certain writers and thinkers, by Marion Harland,
first vols.: Charlotte Brontë, William Cowper, Hannah
More, and John Knox; each illus., per vol., $1.25. (G.P.
Putnam's Sons.)
The Life of William H. Seward, by Frederic Bancroft,
2 vols., with photogravure portraits, $5.- Life of General
Nathan Bedford Forrest, by Dr. John A. Wyeth, illus.,
$4.- Recollections of Sir Algernon West, illus., $3.- Life
and Letters of James D. Dana, by Daniel C. Gilman, illus.,
$2.50.- Admiral George Dewey, a sketch of the man, by
Hon. John Barrett, illus., $1.25. (Harper & Brothers.)
The Life of Prince Otto von Bismarck, by Frank Preston
Stearns, with photogravure frontispiece, $3.50.- The True
William Penn, by Sydney George Fisher, illus., $2.Sarah
Bernhardt, by Jules Huret, trans. from the French by G. A.
Raper, with Preface by Edmond Rostand, illus., $2.50.
- From Howard to Nelson, twelve sailors, edited by John
Knox Laughton, M.A., $3.50. - Cromwell and his Times,
by G. Holden Pike, $1.50. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
Reminiscences of a Very Old Man, 1808–1897, by John Sartain,
illus.— The Log of a Sea-Waif, by Frank T. Bullen. (D.
Appleton & Co.)
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Ida M. Tarbell, 2 vols.,
illus., $5.- Nancy Hanks, the story of Abraham Lincoln's
mother, by Caroline Hanks Hitchcock, illus., 50 cts. net.
(Doubleday & McClure Co.)
Auld Lang Syne, second series, by the Right Hon. Prof. F.
Max Müller, $2.- Mrs. John Drew's Reminiscences, with
Introduction by her son, John Drew, illus. (Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons.)
The Many-Sided Franklin, by Paul Leicester Ford, illus., $3.
(Century Co.)
The Memoirs of Baronesse de Courtot, lady in waiting on
Princesse de Lambelle, edited by Moritz von Kaisenburg,
illus.— Life of Dean Henry George Liddell, by Henry L.
Thompson, illus. (Henry Holt & Co.)
Queen Elizabeth, by Right Hon, and Rev. Mandell Creigh-
ton, D D., with portrait, $1.50.—" Builders of Greater
Britain " series, new vol. : Admiral Philip, and the found-
ing of New South Wales, by Louis Becke and Walter Jef-
fery, with portrait and maps, $1.50. (Longmans, Green,
& Co.)
Memoirs of the Sidney Family, by Philip Sidney, illus.,
$3.50.--Nelson and his Times, by Rear-Admiral Lord
Charles Beresford and H. W. Wilson, illus., $3 --Mary,
Queen of Scots, from the English, Spanish, and Venetian
State Papers, edited by Robert S. Rait, illus., $1.25.
(New Amsterdam Book Co.)
“The Beacon Biograpbies,” edited by M. A. De Wolfe
Howe, new vols.: John Brown, by Joseph Edgar Cham-
berlin; Aaron Burr, by Henry Childs Merwin; Frederick
Douglass, by Charles W. Chestnutt; Nathaniel Hawthorne,
by Mrs. James T. Fields; Thomas Paine, by Ellery
Sedgwick; each with photogravure frontispiece and en-
graved title-page, per vol., 75 cts. (Small, Maynard
& Co.)
Kate Field, a record, by Lilian Whiting, with portraits, $2.-
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a stady, by Lilian Whiting,
with portrait, $1.25. (Little, Brown, & Co.)
A Preacher's Life, an autobiography, by Joseph Parker,
D.D., illus. (T. Y. Crowell & Co.)
The Autobiography of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Vol. III.,
illus., $2.50.-- James Evans, the Apostle of the North, by
Rev. Egerton R. Young, D.D., illus., $1.25. (F. H
Revell Co.)
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HISTORY.
The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, by John Fiske,
2 vols., with maps, $4. — The End of an Era, by John S.
Wise, $2. - The Narragansett Friends' Meeting in the
Eighteenth Century, by Caroline Hazard. (Houghton,
Mifflin & Co.)
The Story of France, by Thomas E. Watson, Vol. II., The
Revolution.- The United Kingdom, a political history, by
Goldwin Smith, D.C.L., 2 vols.-- The Welsh People, their
origin, language, and history, by John Rhys and David
Brynmor Jones, Q.C. - The Roman History of Appian of
Alexandria, trans. from the Greek by Horace White, M.A.,
2 vols.-Syllabus of European History, with bibliographies,
1600-1890, by H. Morse Stephens, M.A.- A History of the
British Army, by the Hon. J. W. Fortescue, 2 vols., illus.
- Select Charters, and other documents illustrative of
American history, 1606-1775, edited by William Mac-
Donald. - American History Told by Contemporaries,
edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Vol. III., National Ex-
pansion, 1783-1845.-Roman Society in the Last Century of
the Western Empire, by Samuel Dill, new and cheaper
edition.-A Survey of Greek Civilization, by J.P. Mahaffy,
D.D., new edition, illus. — The Growth of the American
Nation, by H. P. Judson, new edition. _(Macmillan Co.)
History of the United States, by James Ford Rhodes, Vol.
IV., with maps, $2.50.- Historic Sidelights, by Howard
Payson Arnold, illus., $2.50. — The Northwest under
Three Flags, by Charles Moore, illus., $2.50.- The Philip-
pine Expedition, by F. D. Millet, illus., $2.50.- Grote's
History of Greece, new library edition, 10 vols., $17.50.
(Harper & Brothers.)
The River War, an account of the recovery of the Soudan,
by Winston Spencer Churchill, edited by Colonel F. Rhodes,
D.S.O., 2 vols., illus.- The English Radicals, an historical
sketch, by C. B. Roylance Kent. -A History of Spain, by
Ulick Ralph Burke, M.A., new and cheaper edition, edited
by Major M. A. S. Hume, 2 vols. - Drake and the Tudor
Navy, by Julian Corbett, new and cheaper edition, 2 vols.,
illus. (Longmans, Green, & Co.)
“American Explorer Series," new vols.: On the Trail of a
Spanish Pioneer, being the diary of Francisco Carces,
missionary priest, in his travels through Sonoro, Arizona,
and California, 1775–1776, now first trans, from the orig-
inal Spanish MS. and edited by Dr. Elliott Coues, 2 vols.,
illus., $6. net. (Francis P. Harper.)
A History of the Dutch People, by Petrus Johannes Blok, trang.
by Oscar A. Bierstadt and Ruth Putnam, in 3 parts, Parts
I. and II., each with maps, $2.50.- Roman Life under the
Cæsars, by Emile Thomas, illus.—"Story of the Nations"
series, new vol.: Modern Spain, 1788–1898, by M. A. S.
Hume, illus., $1.50.-The Eve of the Reformation in Great
Britain, by Francis Adrian Gasquet. - Historic Towns of
the Middle States, edited by Lyman P. Powell, D.D., with
Introduction by Dr. Albert Shaw, illus., $3.50. (G. P.
Putnam's Sons.)
A History of the United States during the Civil War, by
James Schouler, $2.25. - A History of the United States
from the Adoption of the Constitution to the Close of the
Civil War, by James Schouler, revised edition, 6 vols.,
$13.50. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
A History of American Privateers, by Edgar Stanton Maclay,
illus. History of the People of the United States, by
Prof. John B. McMaster, Vol. V., with maps. (D. Appleton
& Co.)
History of America before Columbus, by Rev. P. De Roo,
2 vols.- The Heart of Asia, a history of Russian Turkestan
and the Central Asian Khanates, by Francis Henry Skrine
and Edward Denison Ross, illus., $3.50.-Robespierre and
the Red Terror, by Dr. Jan Ten Brink, trang. from the
Dutch by J. Hedeman, illus., $3.50. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, by Hereford B. George,
F.R.G.S., with maps and plans, $4.- The History of Cor-
sica, by L. H. Caird, $1.75.-Lockhart's Advance through
Tireh, by Capt. L. J. Shadwell, illus., $3. (New Ams-
terdam Book Co.)
Seignobos's Political History of Contemporary Europe, 1814-
1896, trans. under the supervision of, and edited by, Prof.
Silas M. Macvane. (Henry Holt & Co.)
Maximilian in Mexico, a woman's reminiscences of the French
Intervention, 1862-1867, by Sara Yorke Stevenson, illus.,
$2.50. (Century Co.)
East Tennessee and the Civil War, by Oliver P. Temple,
with map and portraits, $3.50 net. (Robert Clarke Co.)
Twenty Famous Naval Battles, Salamis to Santiago, by Prof.
E. K. Rawson, 2 vols., illus., $4. (T. Y. Crowell & Co.)
The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, by R. R. Mclan, with
72 plates in colors, $3.50 net. (F. A. Stokes Co.)
The Log of the “Gloucester," published by permission of
the Navy Department, illus., $1.50. (J.H. Taylor & Co.)
The Puritan Republic, by Daniel Wait Howe, $3.50. (Bowen-
Merrill Co.)
Essays ou Subjects connected with the Reformation in En-
gland, by the late Samuel Roffey Maitland, D.D., with
Introduction by Arthur W. Hutton, M.A., $2. (John Lane.)
The Puritan as a Colonist and a Reformer, by Ezra Hoyt
Byington, illus., $2. (Little, Brown, & Co.)
France and Italy, by Imbert de Saint-Amand, with portraits,
$1.50. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
Judea, from Cyrus to Titus, 537 B. C.-70 A D., by Elizabeth
W. Latimer, illus.. $2.50. (A. C. McClurg & Co.)
From Yauco to Las Marias, the story of the recent campaign
in Western Porto Rico, by Karl Stephen Herrmann, late
private U.S. A., illus., $i. (R. G. Badger & Co.)
Biographical Sketches of Some Ancient People, by S. M.
Burnham, M. A., illus., $2. (A. I. Bradley & Co.)
The Territorial Acquisitions of the United States, a historical
review, by Edward Bickwell, 50c. (Small, Maynard & Co.)
A Pocket History of the American Navy and Naval Com-
manders, compiled and arranged by Cromwell Childe,
illus., 25 cts. (Bonnell, Silver & Co.)
GENERAL LITERATURE.
An American Anthology, by Edmund Clarence Stedman.
Contemporaries, by Thomas Wentworth Higginsov, $2.-
Letters and Passages from letters of Ralph Waldo Emer
son to a friend, 1838-1863, edited by Charles Eliot Norton.
- A Century of Science, and other essays, by John Fiske,
$2.-Letters to Washington, edited by Stanislaus Murray
Hamilton, Vol. II., 1756-1758, $5. net.-The Prose of Ed.
ward Rowland Sill, being essays in literature and educa-
tion, and friendly letters. -Sonnets, rendering into English
selections from Bion, Moschus, and Bacchylides, by Lloyd
Mifflin. - Sondets and Madrigals of Michel Angelo Buon-
arroti, rendered into English verse by William Wells
Newell, with Italian text. -Two Tragedies of Seneca, ren-
dered into English verse by Ella Isabel Harris, 75 cts.
(Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Sidney
Colvin, 2 vols., illus., $5. - American Lands and Letters,
by Donald G. Mitchell ("* Ik Marvel"), Vol. II., Leather
Stocking to Poe's Raven, illus., $2.50.--Letters of Sidney
Lanier, selections from his correspondence, 1866-1867, with
photogravure portraits, $2.-Fisherman's Luok and Other
Uncertain Things, by Henry Van Dyke, illus., $2.- The
Authority of Criticism, and other essays, by William P.
Trent. - Search-Light Letters, by Robert Grant, $1.50.
(Charles Scribner's Sons.)
New Letters and Papers of Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, edited
by W. Carew Hazlitt, $1.50. - The Etchingham Letters,
by Sir Frederick Pollock and Mrs. Fuller Maitland, $1.25.
-What Is Good English, and other essays, by Harry Thurs-
ton Peck, $1.50.- The New England Primer, a history of
its origin and development, with a reprint of the earliest
known edition, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, illus.,
$1 50.-The Victorian Age of English Literature, by Mrs.
Oliphant, new edition, 2 vols., $3.–Ballads of Books, ed-
ited by Brander Matthews, $1 25. — Legends of Switzer-
land, by H. A. Guerber, illus., $1.50. A Looker-on in
London, by Mary H. Krout, $1.50. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton,
by Hiram Corson, LL.D.-The Development of the English
Novel, by Wilbur L. Cross. -Studies in Literature, second
series, by Lewis E. Gates.-“National Studies in American
Letters, edited by Prof. George E. Woodberry, new vols.:
Brook Farm, by Lindsay Swift; The Clergy in Amer-
ican Life and Letters, by Rev. Daniel Dulaney Addison.
- Some Principles of Literary Criticism, by C. T. Win-
chester.-Romances of Roguery, an account of the Spanish
picaresque novel, by Frank Wadleigh Chandler, Ph.D.-
Spanish Literature in the England of the Tudors, by John
Garrett Underhill, Ph.D. - Carnac Sahib, a play in four
acts. by Henry Arthur Jones. -The Seege of Troye, edited
by C. H. A. Wager. - Shakespeare, å study, by Georg
Brandes, traps. by William Archer, new and cheaper edi-
tion in 1 vol. – Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
edited, with biographical additions, by F.G. Kenyon, new
edition in 1 vol., illus. - From Chancer to Tennyson, by
Henry Augustin Beers, new edition, illus. - Nature Pic-
tures by American Poets, illus. in photogravure, edited by
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The Troubadours at Home, their lives and their personalities,
their songs and their world, by Justin H. Smith, 2 vols.,
illus., $6.-The True History of Bluebeard, a contribution
to history and folk-lore, by Thomas Wilson, LL.D., illus.
-Writings of James Madison, edited by Gaillard Hunt, in
6 vols., Vol. I., $5.— Writings of James Monroe, edited by
S. M. Hamilton, in 6 vols., Vol. III., $5.—The Wider View,
a search for truth, collected and edited by John Monroe
Dana.-Representative Essays, new edition, with portraits.
-Hampton Songs, cabin and plantation songs, as sung by
the Hampton students, arranged by Thomas P. Fenner,
F. G. Rath bun, and Miss Bessie Cleaveland, revised and
enlarged edition. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)
Laus Veneris, poems and ballads, by Algernon Charles
Swinburne, illus. with portrait and fac-similes, $5. net.
Reprints of Privately Printed Books,” new vols. : Wine,
Women, and Song, mediæval Latin students' songs, trans.
into English verse, with an essay, by John Addington
Symonds, $2.50 net ; Under the Microscope, by Algernon
Swinburne, $2. net. Hand and Soul, by Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, with decorative borders, $1.50 net. The Geor-
gics of Virgil, done into English prose by J. W. Mackail,
2 vols.,, with decorative borders, $1.50 net. 'Old World
Series," new vols. : The Story of Ida, epitaph on an Etru-
rian tomb, by Francesca Alexander, with Preface by John
Ruskin ; A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis
Stevenson ; Monna Innominata, sonnets and songs, by
Christina G. Rossetti ; The Tale of Chloe, an episode in
the history of Beau Beamish, by George Meredith ; per
vol., $1. net. - -"Brocade Series,' new vols. : The Tale of
the Emperor Constans, by William Morris ; The History
of Over Sea, by William Morris ; Emerald Uthwart, by
Walter Pater; Hours of Spring and Wild Flowers, by
Richard Jefferies ; Will o' the Mill, by Robert Louis
Stevenson ; Marjorie Fleming, by John Brown, M. D.; per
vol., 75 cts, net. (Thomas B. Mosher.)
Gypsy Folk Tales, by Francis H. Groome, $4.- A History
of Scottish Vernacular, from earliest times to the close of
the 18th century, by T. F. Henderson, $2.25.-Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight, a modern English translation by
Jessie L. Weston, illus., 75 cts. (New Amsterdam
Book Co.)
Letters of Thomas Gray, edited, with a biographical notice, by
Henry Milnor Rideont, with portrait, $1.-The Trophies,
sonnets by José María de Heredia, trans. by Frank Sewall,
limited edition, with decorations by B. G. Goodhue, $2.50
net. (Small, Maynard & Co.)
The Romancers, a comedy, by Edmond Rostand, trans. by
Miss Mary Hendee, 50 cts. net. — In Chimney Corners,
merry tales of Irish folk-lore, by Seumas MacManus, illus.
in colors by Pamela Colman Smith, $1.50 net.- Studies of
Great Authors, from Warner's “ Library of the World's
Best Literature," by various writers, 4 vols., each 50 cts.
- How to Study Shakespeare, second series, by William
H. Fleming, $1. net. (Doubleday & McClure Co.)
The Personal Opinions of Balzac, gathered chiefly from his
correspondence and miscellaneous writings, trans. by Kath-
arine Prescott Wormeley, $1.50.-Pastels of Men, by Paul
Bourget, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, new edi-
tion in 1 vol., with portrait, $1.50. (Little, Brown, & Co.)
“Literatures of the World" series, edited by Edmund Gosse,
new vol.: Russian Literature, by K. Waliszewski. (D.
Appleton & Co.)
“ Library Series," new vol. : Essays in Librarianship and
Bibliography, by Dr. Richard Garnett, $1.75 net. (Fran-
cis P. Harper.)
Thackeray's Unidentified Contributions to "Punch," by
M. H. Spielmann, illus. (Harper & Brothers.)
The Mind and Art of Poe's Poetry, by John Phelps Fruit.
(A. S. Barnes & Co.)
In the Poe Circle, with some account of the Poe-Chivers con-
troversy, and other Poe memorabilia, by Joel Benton,
illus., $1.25. - Emerson as a Poet, by Joel Benton, with
portrait, $1.25. Kiplingiana, bibliographical and bio-
graphical facts anent Mr. Rudyard Kipling and his works,
illus., $1.25. — The Poet's Corner, a reminiscence of West-
minster Abbey, illus., $1.25. (M. F. Mansfield & A.
Wessels.)
The Homeric Hymns, the 33 hymns attributed to Homer
translated, with critical introductions to each, by Andrew
Lang, illus. in photogravure, etc. (Longmans, Green, & Co.)
A General Survey of American Literature, by Mary Fisher,
$1.50. — Moments with Art, short selections in prose and
verse for lovers of art, collected and arranged by J. E. P.D.,
$1. (A. C. McClarg & Co.)
Paolo and Francesca, a play, by Stephen Phillips, $1.25.-
Osbern and Ursyne, a drama in 3 acts, by John Oliver
Hobbes, $1.25.-From Kensington Garden to Hyde Park,
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by Francis Adams, $1.50. — The Anglo-Saxon Review, a
quarterly miscellany, edited by Lady Randolph Churchill,
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Florilegium Latinum, edited by Rev. F. St. John Thack.
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characteristics, by Richard Le Gallienne, with a bibliog-
raphy (much enlarged) by John Lane, fifth edition, revised,
with portrait, $2.- Rudyard Kipling, a criticism, by Rich-
ard Le Gallienne, with portrait and bibliography, $1.25.-
Sleeping Beauty, and other prose fancies, by Richard Le
Gallienne, $1.50. (John Lane.)
Standard English Poems, selected and edited by Henry S.
Pancoast." (Henry Holt & Co.)
Myths and Legends of our New Possessessions, by Charles
M. Skinner, illus., $1.50. - Old English Ballads, 4 vols.,
$3. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
La Princesse Lointaine, a play, by Edmond Rostand, trang.
by Charles Renauld, with portrait, 50 cts. Pen Por-
trait Series," new vols.: Pansies from a French Garden,
gathered by Henry Attwell; Gleams from Goethe; Thoughts
from Keats; each with portrait, 75 cts. (F. A. Stokes Co.)
French Portraits, appreciations of the writers of Young
France, by Vance Thompson, illus., $2.50. — The Sicilian
Idylls of Theocritus, trans. into English lyric measures by
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A. Clarke, $1.50. (T. Y. Crowell & Co.)
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play, $1.50. — The Kings' Lyrics, poems of the time of
James I. and Charles I., compiled by Fitz Roy Carrington,
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Francis P. Wightman, illus, in colors, $2. (J. F. Taylor
& Co.)
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songs of books and bookmen, compiled by Howard S.
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PAGE
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No. 319. OCT. 1, 1899. Vol. XXVII. words with which Taine closed the chapter, and
for many years his English critics refused to
CONTENTS.
take such a dictum seriously, setting it down
rather summarily as one of those aberrations
FRENCH POETRY AND ENGLISH
227 of judgment into which the best of men are
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229 apt to be betrayed by the conditions of their
The Uses of the Book Review. W. R. K.
own milieu and moment. No doubt the char-
The Civil War and National Sovereignty. James acterization of “In Memoriam" as “cold,
0. Pierce.
An Appeal for Nursery Rhymes and Jingles.
monotonous, and often too prettily arranged
Charles Welsh.
lent color to the assumption that the French
A FIGHTER FOR THE CONFEDERACY. E.G.J. 231 critic was incapable of feeling what Tennyson
THEORIES OF THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION.
meant to his English readers, and that his
James 0. Pierce
233 preference for Musset was nothing more than
BRITAIN AND THE BOERS. Wallace Rice .
an illustration of racial prejudice. After all,
236
Taine was a Frenchman, poor thing, and could
RECENT BOOKS OF POETRY. William Morton
Payne .
not be expected to know any better. These
238
Money-Coutts's The Alhambra.-Hartley Coleridge's
words would fairly sum up the undercurrent
Poems. — Brocklebank's Poems and Songs. - Sam of feeling that ran beneath the various polite
uels's Shadows, and Other Poems. - Holmes's The
phrases with which his bizarre opinion was
Silence of Love. - Eva Gore-Booth's Poems.- Mrs.
Shorter's My Lady's Slipper. - Miss Lucas's Fugi glanced at and dismissed.
tives. – Mrs. Channing's Sea Drift. – Mrs. Sewall's
The subject being thus brought into the
Ode to Girlhood.- Miss Dickinson's Witbin the
Hedge. — Markham's The Man with the Hoe.-
forum of discussion, a great many English
Rogers's For the King. – An Epic of the Soul. writers were found to hold a similar view, and
Cawein's Myth and Romance.-Griffith's The House
it got to be a sort of critical commonplace to
of Dreams.- Sill's Hermione.- Timrod's Poems.
say that, while French prose was an unsurpass-
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
245
able form of expression, French poetry was not
Is war to be impossible ? — Dubious yarns of sailor
life.- A new book on an old worthy.- Robespierre, to be compared with English, that the French
"scapegoat of the Revolution." - A famous maker language was incapable of scaling the higher
of anthologies. — The lives of twelve great soldiers.
- Lugubrious twentieth century prophecies.
peaks of poetical sublimity, or of sounding the
deeper harmonies of song. The weight of
BRIEFER MENTION.
247
Matthew Arnold's authority was added to this
LITERARY NOTES
248
concurrence of lesser opinion, and the question
THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG . 249 seemed to be settled. Moreover, who but an En-
(A continuation of the List of Fall Books in
glishman could enter into the spirit of English
THE DIAL for Sept. 16.)
poetry, and how presumptuous it was for French-
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
250
men, one of the most distinguished of whom had
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
251 called Shakespeare “a drunken savage,” to pre-
tend to understand it. As for the ability of an
Englishman to see all that there was in French
FRENCH POETRY AND ENGLISH.
poetry, and to expose the hollowness of its pre-
The subject of the comparative merits and tensions, that was quite another matter. Mat-
capabilities of the French and English lan- thew Arnold, we are told, was fond of quoting
guages as media for poetical expression comes French Alexandrines followed by Shakespear-
up periodically in the literary journals, and ian verses, whereupon he would exclaim “What
appears to be as far from settlement as ever. a relief”! Now, with all due respect for this
In its modern critical phase, the discussion great critic, such a method of comparison
seems to have found its starting point in that proves nothing more than the possession of a
puzzling final chapter of Taine's “ English Lit- fatuous national self-sufficiency on the part of
erature,” which makes an elaborate comparison the writer who makes use of it, and the fact
between Musset and Tennyson, and returns a
that a French critic would reverse the process,
verdict in favor of the French poet. “I pre- and feel equally relieved by the Alexandrine
fer Alfred de Musset to Tennyson,” were the cadence, is all the answer that such an argument
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for either of these provincial positions to be tha
needs. The ideal method of dealing with the of the blossoms among which he was disporting.
dispute would probably be its reference to a complaining that “Paix, paix, âme troublée!”
court of arbitration composed, say, of Russians for example, was entirely inadequate to repro-
and Hungarians equally familiar with both duce the “Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!” of the
French and English, if such might be found. original—which is undoubtedly true — he said:
In the matter of mutual comprehension and “ The fact is that the French language, limpid and
appreciation, both French and English criti- exquisite though it is, affords no scope for phrases which,
cism have advanced, of late years, far beyond
like this phrase of Shakespeare's, are charged with a
dim significance beyond their meaning and with re-
the point at which it was possible for a French-
verberations beyond their sound. The French language,
man to ignore English literature altogether, like the French genius, can give no hint of thiugs
and for an Englishman to assume complacently beyond those which it definitely expresses. For ex-
the entire superiority of his own poetry over
pression, it is a far finer instrument than our language ;
that of his neighbor across the Channel. There
but it is not, in the sense that our language is, suggest-
ive. It lacks mystery. It casts none of those purple
have been too many careful studies of English shadows which do follow and move with the moving
literature by French critics, and too many in- phrases of our great poets."
terpreters of French poetry to English readers With these observations the train was fired
that led to a series of veritable explosions of
maintained, and it is highly significant that opinion on the part of correspondents of the
recent volume of essays by Professor W. P.
paper, and the discussion which was thus evoked
Trent should again take up the question of is not yet ended, for every week brings to it
Tennyson and Musset, this time to refer to it
some further contribution.
in the following language : • To those of us First of all, another “M. B.” rallied to the
who have been allowed to see the error of our defense of the language thus attacked, denied
way through our reading of Hugo, Leconte de
the charges in toto, and quoted various pas-
Lisle, and Musset himself, who have learned
sages which were certainly not lacking, to a
to our surprise that much of what our teachers properly attuned ear, in the quality of mys-
had told us about the insufficiency of the terious suggestiveness. “I maintain," said the
French language to the expression of high po- writer, " that Racine's lines
etic thought and sentiment was due to mere 'Ariane, ma soeur, de quel amour blessée,
ignorance on their part, a doubt bas perhaps Vous mourûtes aux bords ou vous fûtes laissée !!
come more than once whether Taine was not Are quite as suggestive as Rest, rest, per-
partly justified in his preference for Musset turbed spirit!”” We, for one, will not deny
over Tennyson.” This passage is significant the haunting quality of the couplet, which casts
simply because it abandons the old arrogant shadows quite as purple as those of the Shake-
English attitude, and evinces a disposition to spearian phrase brought into comparison. This
reopen the question once thought to be closed, writer closed his letter with a felicitous revival
to reëxamine it in an enlightened spirit and of the old “ Punch" story about the little girl
with a candid mind. Mr. Trent by no means and her nurse. “And you must know, Parker,
claims to reverse the former decision, but he that in France they say Wee for Yes.” “ La!
does go so far as to say that “it is certainly Miss,” answered the nurse, “ how paltry!”
permissible for those who care for the lyrical The letter above described at once excited
expression of intense passion to maintain that the combative instincts of Professor Tyrrell,
they find little or nothing in Tennyson that takes
who rushed into the fray with the argument
the place for them of Musset's chief poems.” that French is “an essentially emasculated
“C'est cette voix du cour qui seule an ceur arrive, tongue, in fact, pigeon-Latin.” Had the Dub-
Que nul autre, après toi, ne nous rendra jamais." lin professor been content to leave his argu-
The whole general subject of French and ment unsupported by examples, all might have
English poetry has been under discussion by a been well, but in an unfortunate monent he
variety of pens during the past three months added : “ When a Frenchman says a girl is
in the
pages of “The Saturday Review," and beaucoup belle’he is using Latin as a Chinese
it is not often that the “silly season" of En would be using English if he called her "good-
glish journalism gets hold of so interesting a whack good."" The week following this several
theme. The discussion was started by the further communications appeared, but the main
irrepressible “Max," apropos of Mme. Bern- subject was for the moment forgotten in the
hardt's “ Hamlet,” and for once this humming-opportunity offered to say cutting things about
bird critic plunged his beak into the very heart | Professor Tyrrell's “ beaucoup belle.” As one


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writer remarked, “ An Englishman who said the world; but the neat hedges of that gay
this would be treated to the courtesy due to parterre shut in the view, and no man stand-
strangers, but a Frenchman would be prepar- ing by the bosky arbors can behold the vision
ing for himself an unhappy manhood and a of Monsalvat or the awful towers of Carbopek
friendless old age.” After this interlude the far in the spiritual city.” The beauty of these
original theme was again taken up, and illu- words is obvious, and equally obvious their
minated, during successive weeks, by an array sincerity; yet thought of the work of Hugo
of views and pertinent quotations that were alone is sufficient for their refutation. There
unfailing in their interest.
is no note of music that he has not struck, no
It may be said that such a discussion leads to chord of the life of the soul that has not sounded
nothing, which is in one sense true ; but in from his lyre. The lyric rapture of “Le
another sense we must say that it leads to Chasseur Noir” and “Un Peu de Musique
greater catholicity of temper and openness of is essentially one with the lyric rapture of
mind, thus accomplishing a highly useful pur Shelley, and above this height the wings of
pose. But the old misconception of French song may not be borne. The superiority of
poetry as incapable of sounding the depths of English poetry over French is in its quantity
the spiritual life is one that dies hard. We rather than in its quality. It may fairly be
have never seen, on the whole, an abler plea for admitted that Shakespeare and Milton and
this view than was contained in a leading ar. Shelley and Tennyson outweigh Racine and
ticle published last year in “Literature.” Hugo and Musset and Leconte de Lisle, but
“ There are two great ways,” we were told, only those who are “ tone-deaf” to the music
“ by which men and nations may guide their of French verse and untouched by the sub-
thought; the way of materialism, and the way tleties of its emotional suggestiveness can
of mysticism. Surely we may sum up the maintain that it never soars to the highest
whole discussion by saying that the French plane of imaginative beauty and spiritual
nation has chosen the former, and that the insight.
French language reflects the limitations of the
materialistic position.” Surely? Let this con-
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tention be met by Victor Hugo.
Ne possède-t-il pas toute la certitude ?
THE USES OF THE BOOK REVIEW.
Dieu ne remplit-il pas ce monde, notre étude,
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
Du nadir au zénith ?
In the September “ Atlantic” I find a readable arti-
Notre sagesse auprès de la sienne est démence.
cle by Mr. J. S. Tunison on the Book Review. « What
Et n'est-ce pas à lui que la clarté commence,
is the value of the book review ?” is the problem Mr.
Et que l'ombre finit?
Tunison sets himself to solve; and he goes on to solve
“ D'ailleurs, pensons. Nos jours sont des jours d'amertume, it in the necessarily rather discursive and Delphic fash-
Mais, quand nous étendons les bras dans cette brume,
ion imposed on a man who has several pages of space
Nous sentons une main ;
to fill, and cannot, therefore, content himself with a
Quand nous marchons, courbés, dans l'ombre du martyre,
Nons entendons quelqu'un dèrriere nous nous dire :
plain answer to a plain question. Let me try to give a
C'est ici le chemin."
plain answer to Mr. Tunison's plain question. What is
Again, “French literature must have no strange.
the value (or use) of a book review? Why, precisely
that which any description or characterization of a new
ness in the proportion, no vague epithets that thing offered for sale to the public has: it sets forth
hint of worlds unseen and unsuspected secrets." what the new thing specifically is, and helps the reader
But what of M. de Hérédia's magical verses
to judge whether or no the new thing is one which he,
upon the companions of Columbus :
the reader, wants badly enough to buy. Ask us (or
yourself) something harder, Mr. Tanison. Of course
“Chaque soir, espérant des lendemains épiques,
if the reviewer chooses to throw in his personal opinion
L'azur phosphorescent de la mer des Tropiques
Enchantait leur sommeil d'un mirage doré;
of the worlh of the new thing, and even to expand him-
Ou, penchés à l'avant des blanches caravelles,
self a little on topics mooted by his author, well and
Ils regardait monter en un ciel ignoré
good. We, the subscribers, do n't grudge him his little
Du fond de l'Océan des étoiles nouvelles."
literary fling; but it is primarily his exposition that we
Our writer concludes with these eloquent want, and that we impliedly contract for when we sub-
words: “Our debate is not of what is true,
scribe for his journal. We take his journal as a guide to
the book-market.
but of what is beautiful; the artist cannot
Among Mr. Tunison's acquaintances, he tells us, is a
hesitate between the sacramental words and publisher who declares that “ No review ever sold a
the chemical formula, and it must be said
book.” This “ acute” man, it seems, argues it out as
again and again that from the French ports
follows: There are some books (like “ Ben-Hur”) that
have sold well though neglected by reviewers; there
no ship sails into faëry lands forlorn. French
are some other books that bave sold well though
literature is the most delightful garden in “ roasted” by reviewers; ergo, “No review ever sells a


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book.” Logical man! I suppose he would argue, also: take cause and effect. Those who participated in the
Some sick men have gotten well without the aid of a struggle for the maintenance of the Constitution and
doctor; some other sick men bave gotten well though the Union will surely agree with me in the view, not
given up by the doctor; ergo, No doctor ever helped a that nationality resulted as a fact because of the issue
sick man to get well. No review ever sold a book ! of the Civil War, but that the people put down the
Alas, how much richer (in coin, at least) would the insurrection of 1861 in reliance upon and by virtue of
present writer be were that dictum a true one! The the fact that, as the Supreme Court decided in 1793
man given to buying more books than he can afford, and always subsequently held, the United States be-
who subscribes to a Review, deliberately courts danger came a Nation under and by virtue of the Constitution.
and woos his besetting sin.
W. R. K. “ The relations between the States and the Federal
Pittsfield, Mass., Sept. 17, 1899.
Government" were so thoroughly established by law,
that the illegal attempt to sunder those relations proved
THE CIVIL WAR AND NATIONAL
a failure.
JAMES OSCAR PIERCE.
SOVEREIGNTY.
Minneapolis, Sept. 25, 1899.
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
The communication in Tae Dial for September 16,
AN APPEAL FOR NURSERY RHYMES AND
from Mr. E. Parmalee Prentice, concerning the treatise
JINGLES.
of bimself and Mr. Egan on “ The Commerce Clause
of the Federal Constitution,” discloses that the change
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
which he thinks the Federal Constitution has exper-
A short time ago you were good enough to print a
ienced with respect to the question of nationality is a
request from me for American variants of the Mother
change not in law but in fact. In other words, there
Goose Rhymes and Jingles.” This request has bad a
have been in the past dissents upon the subject among
somewhat unexpected and unlooked-for result. Instead
those whose views and actions should have been gov-
of finding any body of evidence that the old favorites
erned by the decisions of the courts. Those decisions
have become corrupt, almost the contrary appears to be
have themselves consistently sustained the nationality
the case, for their purity seems to have been generally
of the Federal Government. The dissenters have at preserved in quite a remarkable manner; this is prob-
last yielded to the views of the majority, and all now
ably due to the fact that the “Mother Goose Books "
agree upon the theory of nationality; and this change
have been for so many years made so cheaply that there
of opinion on the part of the minority is what the
can scarcely be found a home, however lowly, where
authors think has caused the United States to be “com-
there are children without a copy of the received text
of the famous classic.
pletely established as a national government.” Giving
this view full consideration, it seems to me that it jus-
The direct simplicity, the dramatic imagination, the
tifies the suggestions in my review. Those who read
vivid fancy, and the free and spontaneous humor of the
the review will remember that the work was treated
“Mother Goose Rhymes and Jingles ” will probably
by me as a legal essay, intended primarily for lawyers.
never be excelled by any body of modern verse, and will
I do not discover upon the face of the treatise that the
doubtless while our language lasts remain “the light
authors have limited their views upon this subject to
literature of the infant scholar."
the fact of dissent from the decisions of the courts.
But since the collection was first printed by Newbery,
The quotations from the book, made in the review,
about the middle of the last century, many new verses
were found under the headings, “Change in Theory of
and rhymes and jingles have succeeded in getting a
Constitutional Construction " and “The Application of
foothold in the nursery, from which it would be as hard
the Doctrine of State's Rights,” the implication being
to dislodge them as to oust “Mother Goose” herself:
plain that the theories advanced were legal proposi-
such as, for example, some of the inimitable nonsense
tions. If the authors agree that the changes they dis-
rhymes by Edward Lear, Longfellow's “ There Was a
cover were not variations or vacillations in the course
Little Girl," some of the verses of Eugene Field, Ten-
of constitutional decision, should not this circumstance
nyson, and Stevenson, not to mention many others. The
have been made plain upon the face of a legal treatise ?
kindergarten movement, too, has set many people ac-
But if we distinguish history from jurisprudence, tively to work in writing nursery rhymes and jingles,
and take the views of the authors as applicable to our play games, etc., many of them, of course, worthless
history, is it just to treat the dissent from the decisions
and doomed to perish as the sparks fly upward, but
of the courts, wbich is merely agitated but does not
some of them, possessing in the main the characteris-
prevail, as constituting any change in fact, even in our
tics of the “ Mother Goose Rhymes," will doubtless be
constitutional bistory ? Mr. Prentice says that before
perpetuated along with them.
the war the Southern theories of construction had suc-
All this is reflected in the letters which I have re-
ceeded in depriving the Federal Government of many
ceived during the past two or three months from cor-
national attributes ; " that whatever had been the legal
respondents all over the country, and it is evident that
relations between the States and the Federal Govern-
the approved literature of the nursery has enormously
ment, before the war, " they were certainly not estab-
increased during recent years. In making a collection
lished in fact as they were afterward ;” and that, until
of these modern classics of the nursery, it is impossible
the war disposed of secession, “State sovereignty was
for one person to find out all of those which have taken
more thought of than National sovereignty.” Are
a permanent place in the life of the little ones; and I
these suggestions to be written down as a part of our
should like to make another appeal to your readers to
constitutional history? I know of no warrant, either
ask them this time to send me the nursery rhymes and
in fact or in law, for such statements. To argue that
jingles which are familiar and popular in the nursery,
these features distinguish our constitutional history
but are not to be found in the “Mother Goose " collec-
before the Civil War, and that therefore that war his-
tions.
CHARLES WELSH.
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one of the popular heroes of a re-united nation.
The New Books.
While Dr. Wyeth did not serve immediately
under Forrest, he was, during the last two
A FIGHTER FOR THE CONFEDERACY.*
years of the war, a private soldier in an Ala-
Dr. John Allan Wyeth's animated account
bama regiment, four companies of which had
of the life and campaigns of that masterful
been transferred from his command. It was
character and untutored soldier of genius,
the enthusiasm of these men for their former
General N. B. Forrest, is a desirable addition
leader that first awakened his interest in For-
to the literature of the Civil War. Forrest's
rest's career and personality, and led to the
reputation was long under a cloud owing to his systematic researches of subsequent years, the
alleged responsibility for the excesses at Fort
fruits of which are embodied in the present
Pillow, and to the conception of him at the
volume. Dr. Wyeth has evidently taken great
North as
a superior sort of Quantrell who pains in collecting and sifting his material;
fought with little regard for the rules and
and his book, apart from its biographical inter-
amenities of “ civilized warfare” (to use the
est, must be pronounced a historical production
current contradiction in terms); and it is well,
of no mean importance. Its tone, naturally, is
now that the passions engendered by the strug-
eulogistic; and the extremely interesting chap-
gle have cooled, that Forrest's side of the case
ter on the storming of Fort Pillow is an able
should be ably and fully presented. This office plea in vindication of Forrest's conduct on that
Dr. Wyeth seems to us to have performed; deplorable occasion. Nevertheless, Dr. Wyeth's
and while his book is one that will probably at
tone is not wholly uncritical. In his account
some points excite controversy, we venture to
of battles and campaigns he shows a disposition
say that no fair-minded Northern man, intelli-
to judge with a measure of impartiality be-
gent enough to form a liberal and rational
tween the often conflicting accounts of oppos-
opinion somewhat at variance with his general ing commanders, and he frankly admits the
bias and sympathies, will read it without reach-
latent strain of savagery in Forrest's nature
ing the conclusion that the old war-time view
which led to acts of violence that were repented
of Forrest must now be largely revised, and
of in cooler moments, and the memory of which
that this fearless " fighting leader of fighting
undoubtedly shadowed and haunted the Gen-
was, all in all, and despite what we at the
eral's declining years. Forrest, Dr. Wyeth
North believe to have been his errors of politi-
concedes, “ was not an angel by any means”;
cal judgment and what his biographer admits
and his bero-worship does not prevent him from
to have been his grave defects of temper and
furnishing evidence enough in support of the
training, a man of whose genius, courage, and
concession, and in proof of the fact that in
achievements his country at large may now well
battle this guerrilla of genius lived up to his
be proud. It should be remembered that when
maxim that “ War means fighting, and fighting
the struggle ended in the defeat of the South,
means killing.”
Forrest was emphatically one of those who ac-
Forrest's remarkable military ability met
cepted the issue unreservedly and urged his
with tardy recognition from the chiefs of the
neighbors to do likewise. Oblivion of the old
Confederacy. The educated soldiers, graduates
order, and loyalty to the new, was the burden
of West Point, under whom or beside whom he
of his addresses in later years at reunions of
served, were slow to perceive, or at all events
his former comrades in arms. He honestly to admit, that this fighting civilian, who could
labored to expel the enmities of strife and the
not pass a cadet's examination, who knew noth-
bitterness of defeat from his heart; and when,
ing of tactics and strategy save what he had
in his last will, he bequeathed his sword to his picked up in the field, was their equal and
son, he enjoined him to use it, should occasion
often their superior in the actual practice of
offer, under the flag of the Union with the same
war. Forrest's very lack of academic training
devotion with which it had been wielded for
made him, in a special way, a peculiarly dan-
the Southern Confederacy. One may pardon-
gerous opponent. There was no predicting, in
ably conjecture that, had General Forrest lived,
the light of the established principles of mili-
the close of the war with Spain would have tary science, what he was going to do next;
found him, like General Joseph Wheeler,
and the Union generals were constantly baffled
by his erratic movements and bawk-like swoops,
LIFE OF GENERAL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST. By John
Allan Wyeth, M.D. Illustrated. New York: Harper &
as the skilled fencer who fights by the book
Brothers,
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untaught yet a phenomenally strong, swift, that flickers,” was his standing order in battle ;
and resourceful antagonist.
Says General and he was more than once himself the execu-
Sherman, in whose side Forrest was a perpetual tioner. A believer in Christianity, he showed
thorn :
the profoundest respect for its ministers, and
“I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our gave the fullest possible opportunities for re-
Civil War produced on either side. . . . He had never ligious services in camp. Once he greatly
read a military book in his life, knew nothing about
astonished a captured Federal chaplain (who
tactics, could not even drill a company, but he had a
genius for strategy which was original, and to me incom- expected short shrift at the hands of “ Forrest
prehensible. . . . He always seemed to know what I of Fort Pillow ") by not only sending for him
was doing or intended to do, wbile I am free to confess to dine in his tent, but by reverentially invit-
I could never tell or form any satisfactory idea of what ing him to “ ask the blessing.” Next day a
he was trying to accomplish.'
further surprise awaited the good man. He
Jefferson Davis is quoted by the author as
was conducted through the lines and sent on
saying, in reply to Governor Porter of Ten-
his way rejoicing by the General, who humor-
nessee, who had spoken of Forrest as the first ously said, in parting, “ Parson, I would keep
cavalry leader of the war” and as historically you here to preach for me if you were not so
rated as “one of the half-dozen great soldiers
much more needed on the other side." For-
of the country":
rest's respect for the cloth was forcibly mani.
“ I agree with you. The trouble was that the generals fested in the case of Bishop Payne, who bad
commanding in the Southwest never appreciated For-
rest until it was too late. Their judgment was that he
been invited to preach for the command at
was a bold and enterprising partisan raider and rider. Tupelo. After service, relates Colonel Kelley,
I was misled by them, and I never knew how to measure most of the officers called on the Bishop at the
him until I read his reports of his campaign across the General's tent, and one of them so far forgot
Tennessee River in 1864. This induced a study of bis
earlier reports, and after that I was prepared to adopt
himself as to give way to his habit of swearing.
what you are pleased to name the judgment of history."
“ Forrest became so deeply indignant at the outrage-
ous conduct of his subordinate that he could scarcely
General Joseph E. Johnston, the masterly contain himself. He took me to one side, and in an
strategist, pronounced Forrest the greatest sol. earnest though low tone said: “If you think it ought to
dier of the war ; while Lord Wolseley, Forrest's
be done, I'll kick that hog out of the tent.”
most competent foreign critic, says:
Forrest had the vein of dry humor common
“ Panic found no resting place in that calm brain of in the Southwest. He once effectually spiked
his, and no danger, no risk, appalled that dauntless
spirit. Inspired with true military instincts, he was
the guns of a loquacious widow who asked him
verily nature's soldier. It would be difficult to find in in company why it was that his beard was still
all history a more varied career than his, a man who, black while his hair was turning gray, by reply-
from the greatest poverty, without any learning, and ing that “ he did not know, unless it was be-
by sheer force of character alone, became the great
cause he might have used his brain a little more
fighting leader of fighting men, a man in whom an ex-
traordinary military instinct and sound common-sense
than he had his jaw.”
supplied to a very large extent his unfortunate want of Forrest was extremely illiterate; and how
military education. His military career teaches us that carefully we should discriminate between illit-
the genius which makes men great soldiers is not to be
measured by any competitive examination in the science
eracy and ignorance is impressively shown in
Education of a sort that trains a.
of war. •In war,' Napoleon said, ' men are nothing; a
man is everything.' It will be difficult to find a stronger man's powers of action and judgment to the
corroboration of this maxim than is found in the history highest point of efficiency, he had in full meas-
of General Forrest's operations."
ure. But of schooling in the usual sense of the
Forrest was a man of reckless personal daring. term he had little or none. He was one of the
He was usually in the thickest of the fray, fight-ablest and most successful men that the South
ing like a paladin, and inspiring his men by in his time had produced ; but it is doubtful
word and deed. He never carried a field-glass if he had ever enjoyed even the slender advant-
into battle, because his place was at the front. ages of the backwoods country school. Born
He seemed to bear a charmed life, though in a cedar-log cabin in a remote settlement of
wounded many times. He had, in all, twenty- middle Tennessee, and the son of a poor black-
nine horses shot under him; and it is known smith, Forrest was taken by his family at thir-
that he placed thirty Federal officers and sol teen to a still ruder region in Mississippi -- a
diers hors de combat in hand-to-hand encount mere wilderness too sparsely settled to afford
ers. Unsparing of himself, he exacted equal the luxury of a schoolhouse. By sheer native
conduct from his men. - Shoot the first man force of character he fought his way upward in
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of the pen.
civil as in military life. He was by turns far evidence. Such direct testimony as they were
mer, speculator, merchant, broker, and planter. then able to secure all pointed one way, and
When the war broke out he was a rich and chimed with their natural preconceptions. Our
influential man. While he acquired latterly a own judgment is that the secret or the solution
certain sense of literary style, as is shown in of the terrible Fort Pillow business is to be
his clear and forcible dispatches and in his found, not in the character of General Forrest,
sometimes really eloquent addresses, he never
but in the character and composition, the pecu-
quite rid himself of the homely vernacular of liar relation to each other, of the opposing
his boyhood. He always said “mout” for forces. It seems only necessary to point out
might, and “fit” for fought; and his “Tell that the defenders of the fort were composed
Bell to move up and fetch all he's got,” is bis of Southern loyalists (" Tennessee Tories ")
torical. He spelled as badly as Marlborough and runav
and runaway negroes, to indicate why the con-
did. He subscribed himself - Lut Genl”; Alict was so bitter and the victors were so ruth-
and when he wrote a note of acknowledgment less. There is a grim line in Forrest's sum-
to his plucky girl-guide at Black Creek he ex mons to surrender that shows that he foresaw
pressed therein his “ highest regardes to miss and dreaded the scenes that followed the final
Ema Sanson for hir Gallant Conduct," etc. assault: “Should my demand be refused, I
Forrest was frankly conscious of his ortho cannot be responsible for the fate of your com-
graphical weakness and was chary in the use mand." Had the conquered garrison been
“I never see one,” he said, “ but composed of troops from the North there would
what I think of a snake.” It is likely that have been no "massacre of Fort Pillow.”
Forrest inherited a large share of his tremen The volume is a presentable one outwardly,
dous energy and imperious temper from his and contains many portraits of Confederate
mother an Amazonian woman of six feet in officers. We regret that we must here once
height, who survived a grapple with a panther, more enter our old complaint of the lack of an
and of whom it is related that she soundly index.
E. G. J.
thrashed, with four peach-tree switches "cut
for the purpose, an eighteen-year-old son who
had just joined the army and declined to soil
THEORIES OF THE NATIONAL
his 6 soldier-clothes by carrying a sack
CONSTITUTION.*
of meal to the mill at her bidding. One is
The Commentaries on the Constitution of the
not surprised to learn that Mrs. Forrest was
thought by her neighbors to be rather “set in
United States, prepared by the late Professor
Had she commanded a brigade at
John Randolph Tucker, of Washington and Lee
the front she would undoubtedly have - shot University, are now published under the editor-
the first man tbat flickered.”
ship of his son and successor, Professor Henry
In his chapter on the Fort Pillowmassacre"
St. George Tucker. They treat seriatim the
Dr. Wyeth adduces a good deal of respectable several provisions of that instrument, in a form
evidence tending to clear Forrest of the charges somewhat similar to the commentaries of Judge
brought against him at the North. At this dis Story. Agreeing in some respects with that
tance of time most of us will be free to admit
eminent constitutionalist, Professor Tucker
the antecedent probability that the excesses at
differs from him toto coelo in others, notably
Fort Pillow were somewhat exaggerated by the
in his theories concerning the process by which
Northern authorities and newspapers. We all
the nation grew, and the office of the Consti-
realize pretty clearly just now that the spirit of
tution in that process. One of the objects of
truth does not brood over Washington and sit
this treatise is not only to renew the discussion
in the soul of the American press in war-time.
upon that general subject, but to furnish a
Dr. Wyeth thinks that the finding of the Con categorical reply to Judge Story's criticisms
gressional Committee upon the Fort Pillow upon the constitutional views advanced by the
affair was a war measure designed to inflame
elder St. George Tucker as the editor of Black-
and stimulate the North and to damage the
stone. Thus a portion of this work wears the
cause of the South abroad.
This view seems
aspect of a family controversy. Professor
rather far-fetched, though doubtless the publi-
Tucker's style, while often controversial, is
cation of the finding was expected to have those
*THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES: A Critical
effects. The Committee probably gave what
Discussion of its Genesis, Development, and Interpretation,
By John Randolph Tucker, LL.D. Edited by Henry St.
they believed to be an honest verdict on the George Tucker. In two volumes. Chicago: Callaghan & Co.
new
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always so calm and dignified as to appeal power over its members for the common good
strongly to the sober thought of his readers. of all” (p. 2). It is “the source of all au-
He bestows his most elaborate exposition and thority; the government is the agent or trustee
argumentation upon these questions as to the it creates and to which it delegates powers
“Genesis” of the Constitution ; and to this (p. 351). This is the constitution-making
branch of inquiry, as distinguished from the power. A constitution is "the act by which
Development and the Interpretation of that the Body-politic constitutes the government
instrument, he appropriates more than one-third and delegates and limits its powers” (p. 60).
of his entire space.
“ The Body-politic utters its sovereign will
Professor Pomeroy, in his “ Introduction to through the constitution, which calls govern-
American Constitutional Law,” enumerates ment into being, organizes its functions, defines
three schools of thought concerning the genesis and limits its powers, and declares to this, its
of the United States Constitution, namely, the creature, by its creative fiat, thus far shalt
National school, the Secession school, and the thou go but no farther’” (p. 63). And this
intermediate school which bases the supremacy principle, the supremacy of the Body-politic as
of the Federal government on inter-state com constitution-maker, and the subordination of
pact. Professor Tucker ignores entirely the the government as the delegated agent of
Secessionist theory, apparently as not entitled the Budy-politic, is therefore the foundation
to consideration in a legal treatise, and sched- of American Constitutional Law” (p. 66).
ules “two leading schools of thought" on the These extracts are fair samples of the happy
subject. The first is the intermediate school of manner in which our commentator states propo-
Pomeroy's classification, which holds, as stated sitions which most of his readers will recognize
by this devotee of that school, that “the unit as admirably descriptive of that Body-politic,
of sovereignty is the State, which is a Body the People of the United States, which, by its
Politic; that the Constitution of the United creative fiat, established the dual system of
States is a compact between these sovereign Federal and State governments under the Con-
units and Bodies-politic, making a Federal stitution of the United States. The larger part
Union between the States (v. 1, p. 178). of his first three chapters might be incorporated
The second school, as he well and tersely says, bodily into a treatise like Story's Commenta-
“ holds that the Union itself is the unit of ries, in support of the National view of our
sovereignty, of which the States are subordi- Constitution from which Professor Tucker so
nate parts, to which certain powers belong earnestly dissents.
under the Constitution of the United States, Of the supremacy of the government created
while the main powers belong to the National by that Constitution, our author entertains no
Government” (p. 179).
doubt. It is “supreme, within the limits of
Professor Tucker has marshalled very clev the delegated powers, over all the constitutions
erly and forcibly all the arguments which can and laws of the several States, and binding and
be brought to the support of his theory that operating upon the citizens of all the States,
“ the Union is a multiple of units.” If that and by its terms, certain rights and privileges
theory can be sustained by argument and logic, of the citizens of each are intercommunicated
it would seem that he might do it. His elabo to those of every other” (p. 256). And this
rate efforts in that behalf, extending to 140 supremacy is to be maintained through the
pages, will be interesting reading to all stu- judicial department of the States and of the
dents of the constitution-making period in our United States, because it is declared that the
national history. The fatal flaw in the logic judges in every State shall be bound thereby,
employed to support the compact theory is that is, in their judicial action they must recog.
apparent upon Professor Tucker's pages.
nize the supremacy
of the constitution"
In his introductory chapters treating gen- (p. 376).
erally of Sovereignty and the Body-politic, our From these premises, the logic is not obvious
author industriously exposes the fallacy of the by which Professor Tucker reaches his conclu-
Social-Compact theory of the basis of govern- sion that the United States is a “multiple of
ment, and adopts the modern American view units” (p. 179); "a confederacy by State
of the rightful sovereignty of the People as a peoples ” (p. 287); “the multiple of Budies-
Body-politic, distinguished from the govern- politic” (p. 302); and “a confederation of
mental agencies which it employs. In this States, but not a new composite, or one new
Body-politic is vested “all rightful political I civil Budy-politic” (p. 318); and that the


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How can
Constitution is “a federal compact between nation of the created governments (Federal
Budies-politic” (p. 256).
and State) as the delegated agents of the Body-
What authority could erect, by means of politic,' can be seen 6 the foundations of
the United States Constitution, a frame of American Constitutional Law.” Doubtless
government which should be supreme over all these considerations, though not expressed by
the constitutions and laws of the several States, him, were in the mind of Chief Justice Marshali,
short of a Body-politic, answering Professor when he said, in 1823, in the case of United
Tucker's requirements, and composed of the States v. Maurice :
People of the United States ? In what smaller “ The United States is a government, and conse-
or more limited Body-politic would it be pos- quently a Body-politic and corporate, capable of attain-
sible for us to see vested “ all rightful political ing the objects for which it was created by the means
power over its members for the common good corporation was ordained and established by the Amer-
of all ” the people of the entire United States ? ican people."
The Constitution speaks in the language of The basis
upon
which Professor Tucker rests
self-conscious Sovereignty ; why shall we deny his support of his compact theory is stated cat-
that in so speaking, “the Body-politic utters egorically by himself." The written constitu-
its sovereign will ” ? By what process could tion of 1789 must be what those who brought
the thirteen States create a new State, or a new it into being and gave it the sanction of their
governmental agency, greater, for any purposes, ratification believed and knew it to be, and
or to any extent, than themselves ? By what cannot be changed by what men a century there-
process could they authorize the creation of a after choose to think it ought to have been
fourteenth State, or any other additional num (p. 180). But, suppose the men “who brought
ber of States, conferring upon those creatures it into being and gave it the sanction of their
equal power, dignity, and sovereignty with ratification” did not agree as to just what the
themselves ?
we attribute to the Constitution was? Professor Tucker accepts
United States of America a sovereignty supe- the verbal explanation of a portion of those
rior to that of any or all of the States, which men, and rejects the view of others. If there
was created by the act of those States ? This were men who then sincerely believed the Con-
is impossible, as a result of inter-state compact, stitution was merely creating another league,
because it involves the idea of a granting or there were others, equally sincere, whose ver-
transferring of sovereignty ; and Professor bal explanations of its dominant national fea-
Tucker well says that “Sovereignty, as essence, tures are convincing even now to “men a cen-
is one, indivisible, ungrantable, undistributa- tury thereafter.” Our commentator pays no
ble, and always reserved ” (p. 60). Then no regard to the contemporary views, as to the
one of the thirteen Bodies-politic of 1789, if it nationality embodied in the Constitution, of
had so desired, could possibly have granted or Wilson and Morris and Findlay of Pennsyl-
transferred to any new power or State any vania, and King and Gerry of Massachusetts,
portion of its inherent sovereignty. If, then, nor to the opposition raised on this ground by
there were thirteen distinct peoples in 1789, Smith of New York and Martin of Maryland.
which desired to accomplish “a inore perfect He does cite the view of Patrick Henry, that
Union" than a League, there was no process
the result was a consolidated National gov-
which they could employ, save for each several ernment of the people of all the States," only
people to relinquish all its sovereignty, and join to report the contrary ideas of several who, in
all the others in forming a new Body pulitic, replying to Henry, seem to have had an under-
the “ People of the United States." This is standing of what our dual system in fact is.
the only logical theory deducible from Professor Among these is Madison, whose view our author
Tucker's premises. It was this Body-politic does not seem to succeed in apprehending, for
which "uttered its sovereign will through the he quotes from that statesman the argument in
Constitution, called government into being, the Federalist” (No. 39), that the new Consti-
organized its functions, defined and limited its tution would be in certain respects federal and
powers," and declared to each of its creatures, not national, without giving the connoted view
Federal and State, “thus far shalt thou go, but
“thus far shalt thou go, but that in other respects it would be national and
no farther.” On the logic which leads to this not federal, nor the conclusion there reached
conclusion, the human mind can rest; and in that the new government would combine both
these principles, “the supremacy of the Body-these features and be of a mixed character. It
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to draw comfort for the State-compact theory, statesmen. But his own pages furnish justifi-
from the writings of Hamilton, who said in the cation of Mr. von Holst's complaint that Amer-
"Federalist,” that “a Nation without a National ican statesmen have “bona fide, used the same
Government is an awful spectacle” (No. 85); word in most opposite senses, and employed
and that “the streams of national power ought words as synonymous which denoted ideas abso-
to flow immediately from that pure original | lutely irreconcilable.”
fountain of all legitimate authority,” the peo Bent on subjecting every circumstance to the
ple (No. 22). This is a fair expression of one support of his chosen thesis, Professor Tucker
phase of a Body-politic, such as Professor finds in the declaration of the convention of
Tucker describes, but composed of the entire Virginia, on May 15, 1776, in favor “of a
people of the United States. Both Hamilton total separation from the crown and government
and Madison seemed to clearly understand that of Great Britain," some evidence of individual
a new type of popular government had been action as a sovereign State. But Virginia at
created, a dual system, possessing both National the same time declared for united action of the
and Federal features. Jefferson, too, as quoted colonies toward independence, reserving to each
by our author, declared to Madison in 1786: colony the regulation of local and internal con-
“With respect to everything external, we be cerns; and thus, like Maryland, Virginia was
one nation only, firmly hooked together. In at the outset of the movement for independence,
ternal government is what each State should prefiguring the dual system. Again, respecting
keep to itself.” In a labored argument, the the deed of cession to Congress of the North-
commentator seeks to show that the phrase, western lands, made by Virginia in 1784, Pro-
“We, the people of the United States," might fessor Tucker argues that Congress was, by its
perhaps have been employed by the constitution-acceptance of the deed, estopped to deny that
makers in the sense of “ We, the people of the Virginia, and not Congress, had theretofore
confederated States of New Hampshire, etc., “exclusive right of soil and jurisdiction to the
not as one civil Body-politic, but as a league" territory thus ceded ”; not considering the fact
(p. 296). But Richard Henry Lee, the “ Fed that, in yielding as she did, after a hot discus-
eral Farmer,” gave the phrase its simple and sion for several years, to the claim of the
natural construction when he said, in October, smaller States that only the whole nation had
1787, “ It is to be observed that when the peo a valid title in law to that “right of soil and
ple shall adopt the proposed constitution, it will jurisdiction,” and thereupon joining in the
be their last and supreme act; it will be adopted, national legislation for the government of that
not by the people of New Hampshire, Massa- territory on a national basis, Virginia acqui-
chusetts, etc., but by the people of the United esced in the national theory and became in
States."
honor estopped to deny it thereafter.
The difficulty with the arguments advanced The correct method of formulating a satis-
in support of the State-compact theory has factory theory of the genesis of our Constitu-
always been, that they wrest terms from their tion will not permit a reliance upon contempo-
true meaning, and juggle with definitions. The raneous declarations on either side of the
system of our Constitution under which the disputed question. The results accomplished
Federal government exercises the Supremacy, in fact must be allowed their proper weight,
within its appropriate sphere, so distinctly and often these will outweigh contemporary
stated by Professor Tucker, does not allow to theories. So it is true that the lapse of years,
the States the enjoyment of “sovereignty” furnishing a historical perspective, should en-
within the usual meaning of that term. To able “men a century thereafter” to better
attempt to assign to the States their true posi- understand the constitutional process and its
tion by any ordinary use of that term, is nec results. Professor Tucker demurs to this
essarily misleading. So, as we have seen above, method of determining whether the Federal
the idea of a supreme Body-politic, such as Constitution was an inter-State compact or an
our commentator describes, can be applied only authoritative law.
authoritative law. But he has employed the
to the nation; and the attempt to place the same process, with signal success, in his dis-
States in the like category can result only in cussion of abstract Sovereignty and the abstract
confusion of thought. Professor Tucker seems Body-politic. On these subjects he reasons
to take umbrage at the presumption of Mr. a priori, and in disregard of contemporary
von Holst, a foreigner born, in writing upon theory. The Bodies-politic he discovers in the
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stance of men, many of whom firmly believed is making disregarded protestations, vainly
in the Social-Compact theory of government, seeking to turn the sympathy of some friend in
and helped to em body that theory in laws and Europe to real intervention, offering conces-
constitutions and judicial decisions. And here sions which lead only to an increase of demands,
comes Professor Tucker, “a century there- urging an arbitration which is treated with
after,” and says of it: “ This theory is fiction, contemptuous silence, and, finally, arming for
and as an hypothesis is unsound, and must lead a hopeless conflict
a conflict in which over-
to error” (p. 3). So he employs more modern throw is certain, spoliation assured, and a final
canons of study, and tests the processes of the insult added to injury in the statement that it
formation of governments, in part by principles is all for the sake of “ Humanity” — a word
now considered as established, and in part by which the United States has already placed
the results attained. A like independence of on that bad eminence to which Mme. Roland
original investigation, employing the same a raised “Liberty."
priori processes of reasoning, leads us to reject The analogy will go further : Dr. Jameson
on similar grounds the inter-state-compact the was a filibuster, if ever there was one in Africa ;
ory of the Constitution, and to attribute its Majuba Hill, like the destruction of the
creation to the People of the United States as “ Maine,” gives the British government the
a Body politic.
lever of revenge which serves so well in prying
Outside of the controversial portions of his up the sympathy of the populace with aggres-
treatise, in respect to which he seems to hold sion; Gladstone's high-minded regard for
a brief, Professor Tucker's commentaries on treaty obligations, like Cleveland's, becomes
the Constitution are judicious and well-consid the subject of popular abuse; there are stones
ered. He seems to favor, with Chief Justice for those who counsel moderation, loud cheers
Marshall, and as lawyers usually do, a fair and for those who wish to fight, multitudinous dem-
reasonable construction of that great instru onstrations, turgid and self-righteous leaders,
ment, rather than either extreme of a strict inflammatory news columns, and, at the end,
construction which would fetter its necessary deaths from bullets, deaths from disease, all the
operations, or a broad and latitudinarian con wholesale shedding of man's blood and woman's
struction which would render its limitations tears we call war; and then the home-coming
meaningless. JAMES OSCAR PIERCE.
of successful officers to such glory as might
have befallen Goliath had he slain the child
David. So accurately is history repeating
itself, that it is small wonder to find the war
BRITAIN AND THE BOERS.*
organs in America justifying Salisbury and
Those fond of historical parallels can trace
Chamberlain, or else roaring as gently as once
an interesting one in the conduct of the United roared Snug the Joiner. Most of all is it en-
States toward Spain in April, 1898, and the couraging to the Anglo-Saxon alliance to find
conduct of Great Britain toward the Transvaal
as the English found a year ago
Republic in September, 1899. As America
cousins across the sea are not a bit better than
was then, so is England now, busy calling the ourselves.
world's attention to the enormities of the gov-
All those arguments which led us to justify
ernment she intends to overwhelm, to the
the statement of Wendell Phillips, that a Yan-
wrongs she and her subjects suffer by reason
kee's idea of hell is a place where he has to
of her opponent's misdoings, to the gain to
mind his own business, are set forth in detail, as
civilization involved in her success, and to the
if in proof of our kinship, in the work on South
divine mission of the Anglo-Saxon race, all
Africa by the Rev. Mr. Knox Little, written
as justification for an appeal to arms.
That in the good British fashion after a brief sojourn
the world remains unconvinced of the good
in South Africa. Mrs. Olive Schreiner, in her
intentions of the aggressor in both cases, is
statement of the question, makes a woman's
certain.
appeal to sentiment, and directs her appeal to
The Boer, too, like the Spaniard aforetime, England sober, just as the American constitu-
tionalist is appealing to America before she
* SKETCHES AND STUDIES IN SOUTH AFRICA. By the Rev.
W. J. Knox Little, M.A. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott drank the toxic draught of imperialism; though
Company.
neither can be said to present arguments that
THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUESTION. By an English South
avail much when blood is in the eye and re-
African (Olive Schreiner). Chicago: Charles H. Sergel
Company.
venge in the heart. It is perhaps too much
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to ask that Mrs. Schreiner should prove the The Boers held the Transvaal - in so far as they did
aggrieved party in the right. Rather does it hold it -- by the right of "might,' by defeating some of
rest with the Rev. Mr. Knox Little to convince
its previous possessors."
us that the aggressor is unselfish, the more so
Elsewhere in the book it is set forth in
that he holds a brief for his nation.
detail that the English acquired their title to
The Rev. Mr. Knox Little's Sketches and
"Sketches and the Dutch in South Africa from Holland in
Studies” show us a writer with the candor of the manner in which we acquired our title to
a churchman and the special pleading of a
the Filipinos from Spain — by the payment,
conservative politician. His admissions of
in their case, of £6,000,000; that a large
England's series of prodigious misgovernments party among the Boers made earnest protest
in South Africa are followed by professions of against British occupation ; that the British
her eminent fitness to rule. His estimate of entered upon a series of ill-advised and oppres-
Mr. Rhodes as an administrator-based ap. Trek, i. e., the wholesale shaking off of the
sive measures which fully justified the Grand
parently upon no fact more remote than his Trek, i. e., the wholesale shaking off of the
enjoyment of that worthy's profuse hospitality British yoke by an emigration into the savage
-is the complement of his statement that desert and the establishment there of an inde-
Gladstone was President Krueger's dupe. pendent government in spite of almost over-
The Boer, he tells us through his book, is un-
whelming difficulties. It is certain also that
cleanly in his person, unkind to the negro,
Holland stole the land from Portugal, which
indisposed to labor, unwilling to pay taxes,
had stolen it from the Negro; and that no title
averse to learning English, impatient of mi can justify conquest. It will be noted that a
nute control, calvinistic in religion, prone to parity of reasoning would send British armies
set faith before works, a driver of hard bar-
into Turkey, into China, into South America,
gains, cunning in negotiation, and a number Hayti and Central America, into France to
of other things which Mr. Knox Little is not, regulate the Dreyfus case, and so on, to absur-
--all of them perhaps not desirable, but hardly dity; while any nation would be justified in
affording a valid reason for depriving him of seizing Ireland, since the British could not
his bardly won liberties. Some of the author's then urge “ (2),” certainly could not plead a
statements deserve quotation :
better title than “(1)," and would hardly ven-
Krueger is not, perhaps, a statesman in the ordi ture to put forth “(3)” in any event. Noth-
nary sense of the word, much less a very great man in ing can be more convincing of the lack of
any sense ; but he is a representative Boer in the sense good faith of the British than this sort of
that he thoroughly understands the people over whom
he now rules. The Transvaal Boer, speaking broadly,
argument.
is extremely ignorant, extremely prejudiced, profoundly
fanatical, hates government cordially, and consequently of maladministration and corruption brought
[sic] dislikes the law-abiding Englishman. The love by Mr. Knox Little against the Transvaal gov-
of money, the love of being a law unto himself,' scorn
ernment and the individuals composing it,
of refinement or culture, are to him second nature. All
this Mr. Krueger seems clearly to understand. He has
however often repeated, must fail with his fail-
himself, however, in an eminent degree, two powerful ure to recite details or any proofs whatever,
characteristics—dogged determination and extraordi since his handling of the book as a whole shows
nary acuteness.”
that he is sparing nothing to bring them into
This might be taken, for all its naïveté, as contempt. Let his attitude in this respect be
showing the Boer more British than the Briton; contrasted with that of Mrs. Schreiner. He
but it is certainly a high tribute to President says:
Krueger, the higher for its being so manifestly “ It may be hoped that the nation whose proudest
begrudged. Here is another argument:
characteristic bas hitherto been its love for liberty may
“ There was a ridiculous fallacy allowed . . . and
yet recover its self-respect by withstanding injustice
pleaded since to do duty for truth. That was the doc-
and wrongdoing with manly energy. Nothing can be
trine that the Transvaal was the Boer's country,' or,
really done to bring peace and prosperity to South
as Mr. Kruegera British subject born in the colony-
Africa until Great Britain wakens to her duties and
described it with astute effrontery, bis •fatherland.'
wipes out that corrupt Oligarchy, and transforms it into
The right' to a new country must rest (1) upon an
a real and free Republic or, still better, into a self-
arrangement with those previously in possession ; or
governing colony. Where there is freedom, there there
(2) on migbt, the might of conquest and the might to
will be a chance of fair dealing between man and
hold it; and (3) joined with one another of these, the
man."
right of just and good administration. By (1) the
Mrs. Schreiner says:
English hold the Cape and some other possessions, by “We look further yet with confidence, from the indi-
(2) and (3) some other territories in South Africa.
vidual to the great heart of England, the people. The
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RECENT BOOKS OF POETRY.*
great fierce freedom-loving heart of England is not dead
yet. Under a thin veneer of gold we still hear it beat.
Behind the shrivelled and puny English Hyde who cries
only 'gold,' rises the great English Jekyll who cries
louder yet Justice and Honor.' We appeal to him;
history shall not repeat itself. Nearer home, we turn
to one whom all South Africans are proud of, and
we would say to Paul Krueger, 'Great old man, first
but not last of South Africa's great line of rulers,
you have shown us you could fight for freedom; show
us you can win peace. On the foot of that great
statue wbich in the future the men and women of
South Africa will raise to you let this stand written:
“ This man loved freedom, and fought for it; but his
heart was large ; he could forget injuries and deal
generously.""
It may be said, in conclusion, that stock-
jobbing interests have from the beginning
been the controlling cause in the dispute be-
tween Chamberlain and Krueger. The five-
year-residence franchise which Englishmen
notoriously decline in the United States, they
seek in Africa, for no better reason, as Mr.
Knox Little admits, than that mining interests
are taxed more heavily by the Boers than they
would be with the admission of the Uitlanders
to citizenship. But he does not say that the
cause which
operates against the acceptance of
the franchise in the American Republic - the
forswearing of allegiance to the Queen - is
not an element in the British contention with
the Transvaal. The Boers, unless some one
intervenes, are on the horns of a dilemma: If
they grant their franchise to Englishmen who
hold allegiance to the mother country, that
heritage of freedom they carved out of arid
sands and
savage hearts ceases to be theirs ; if
they fail in this, still is that freedom sacrificed
to advancing British bayonets.
WALLACE RICE.
There is no decline from the earlier volumes of
verse by Mr. F. B. Money.Coutts in “ The Alham-
bra, and Other Poems,” just now published. The
anthor is one to reckon with, for he has technical
mastery and his own distinctive form of utterance.
There is poetical satisfaction to be got from every
page of these firmly-knit and harmonious measures.
Since it is sometimes well for a nation to see itself
as it is viewed by others, we select for our illus-
tration the fine sonnet on President Cleveland's
Venezuelan message.
“Yes I it was well, and passing well, that we -
To do their pleasure - for 80 small a thing,
Refused to set wild war upon the wing,
Or to defile that unensanguined sea,
That flows between our Countries of the Free,
With freight of fratricide! We let them ring
A larum; kept us crimeless, and shall bring
White record to the days that are to be!
"The time will come when they will look with shame
On that time-serving message of their Chief;
His use igpoble of their noble name
For paltry purpose, must be charged with grief
For the harvest of their Age, when every sheaf
Is garnered of their folly and their fame."
There are equally vigorous lines dedicated to the
rejection of the Arbitration Treaty by our Senate,
and to our declaration of war against Spain. It is
a friend, not a foe, who says these things, which
should make them the more bitter.
.
M. A. DEWOLFE HOWE has edited a series of short
essays, under the general title of the “ Beacon Biog-
rapbies” (Small, Maynard & Co.). The aim of the
series is to bring within a short compass an account of
the lives of prominent Americans. Thus far the fol-
lowing volumes have appeared: “Daniel Webster," by
Mr. Norman Hapgood; “ Phillipps Brooks,” by the ed-
itor; “Robert E. Lee,” by Professor W. P. Trent;
“ David Farragut," by James Barnes; “J. R. Lowell,”
by Professor E. E. Hale, Jr. These little books are
uniformly well done, and in the cases of Brooks and
Lowell are exceptionally well done. In one or two
instances the general unity of impression is lost by an
attempt at giving too many details, but each volume is
very readable, and as a whole the series will prove val-
uable to the reader, even if at times the author seems
to adopt the point of view of the apologist rather than
that of the biographer. This is perhaps most evident
in the volume upon Lee, and least so in that upon
Webster.
*THE ALHAMBRA, and Other Poems. By F. B. Money-
Coutts. New York: John Lane.
POEMS. By Ernest Hartley Coleridge. New York: John
Lane.
POEMS AND SONGs. By W. E. Brocklebank. London:
T. Fisher Unwin.
SHADOWS, and Other Poems. By E. Samuels. New York:
Longmans, Green, & Co.
THE SILENCE OF LOVE. By Edmond Holmes. New York:
John Lane.
POEMs. By Eva Gore-Booth. New York: Longmans,
Green, & Co.
MY LADY'S SLIPPER, and Other Verses. By Dora Sigerson
(Mrs. Clement Shorter). New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
FUGITIVES. By Winifred Lucas. New York: John Lane.
SEA DRIFT. Poems by Grace Ellery Channing. Boston:
Small, Maynard & Co.
AN ODE TO GIRLHOOD, and Other Poems. By Alice
Archer Sewell. New York: Harper & Brothers.
WITHIN THE HEDGE. By Martha Gilbert Dickinson.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co.
THE MAN WITH THE HOE, and Other Poems. By Edwin
Markham, New York: Doubleday & McClure Co.
FOR THE KING, and Other Poems. By Robert Cameron
Rogers. New York: G. P. Putnam's Song.
AN EPIC OF THE SOUL. New York: Thomas Whittaker.
MYTH AND ROMANCE. Being a Book of Verses. By Madi-
son Cawein. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
THE HOUSE OF DREAMS, and Other Poems. By William
Griffith. Kansas City: The Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co.
HERMIONE, and Other Poems. By Edward Rowland Sill.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
POEMS OF HENRY TIMROD. With Memoir and Portrait.
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Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, inscribing to his At even steals the sweetness of a dream,
father a copy of verses, observes :
And there I see thy face and hear thy voice,
And roam together with thee, soul in soul,
“Mine is a pale and imitative age,
Throughout the fair Elysian fields of sleep,
No purple robe for me
Not knowing that but here, our waiting past,
Thy name, and this poor verse my heritage,
We all in all for evermore are one."
Which here I dedicate to thee."
The modesty of the confession is becoming, for there
“ The Silence of Love,” by Mr. Edmond Holmes,
is nothing in this Mr. Coleridge's volume of Poems"
is a charmingly printed volume of fifty sonnets in
to suggest the royal lineage of the writer. Pious
the Shakespearian form. Their feeling is that of
the man who conceives of love as too beautiful a
musings in reasonably smooth rhythm, and faint
echoes from the song of departed 'masters, are all thing to be realized, as better to dream about than
that is vouchsafed us.
to enjoy in full fruition. It is the feeling, in short,
“Art thou not wounded ? wilt not stay?
that Dr. Ibsen has expressed so forcibly in “Love's
Let us lie down and die.
Comedy." One of the sonnets may be quoted:
The fight is over for to-day,
"Sometimes in dreams I clasp thy breast to mine,
Wby toil in vain, friend, why?
And kiss thy lips and with thy tresses play,
We shall not win to-day, nor yet to-night;
And through the floodgates of some outward sign
Shall never win, but we can always fight!"
Pour all the passion of my heart away.
This composite of the thought of Miss Rossetti,
Sometimes in dreams I tell my secret so;
Then wake to find that it is still untold, -
Clough, and Mr. Swinburne, is a characteristic ex-
That still the surging, storm-fed waters flow,
ample of our author's work.
By Fate's relentless ramparts still controlled.
Mr. W. E. Brocklebank is a poet of gloom and
Oh, better thus,- better that passion's force,
melancholy. He looks at life only to behold the
Which love's impatient raptures had set free,
Pent in the prison of its channelled course,
shadow of death cast upon it, and his lightest mus Should give the river strength to reach the sea.
ings have a funereal tinge. Even love dawns upon Better, for passion's sake, that passion's dream
the trusting soul but to its undoing, as we learn from
Should fade forgotten with the morn's first gleam."
* The Difference.”
This is the note of the entire sonnet series, and we
“Were you the moon and I the sea,
must confess that it grows a little monotonous.
Then love were well; your kiss would fall
Mr. Holmes is master of a simple and even diction
In night's sweet silent hours on me
And my heart's tides obey your call.
which is distinctly poetical at all times, yet which
never exceeds the bounds of the conventional sort
“Were yon the player, I the lute,
Then love were well; your hand would wake
of expression that lies within the reach of almost
The chords that all the world leave mute.
any cultivated mind.
Ah, sweet music we should make!
The “Poems” of Miss Eva Gore-Booth are
• Were you the sea and I the stream,
Then love were well; to your deep breast
mostly brief pieces, inclining to be epigrammatic,
My whole tired life would come and dream,
although now and then striking a sustained note of
Made one with you in utter rest.
high seriousness. The writer scores rather neatly
“But you are woman, I am man,
off “ A Critic” in the following lines :
And therefore love is not all well ;
“ His was the voice
'Tis like all love since Life began –
That - when the morning stars together sang
Heaven's bark upon the sea of hell.”
In their first rapture of awakened life
"These numbers are at least melodious, and melody And God's own angels held their breath for joy,
is an almost unfailing attribute of Mr. Brockle-
Whilst heaven, by that new harmony entranced,
Was wrapped in awful silence - broke the charm,
bank's verse.
He almost makes sorrow seem beau-
Serenely speaking in cold accents thus –
tiful, and the peace of death a boon to be desired. 'I know not, yet methinks 'twas Jupiter
And in such a poem as the dramatic fragment, Went out of tune and spoilt the whole effect.'"
Bellerophon in Argos," his blank verse attains a
The Celtic glamour is about the verse of Mrs. Cle-
dignity of diction that is well-nigh Swinburnian in
ment Shorter, although it does not have the effect
its movement.
of blurring the outlines of her thought as completely
The “Shadows, and Other Poems," of Mr. E.
as with many other writers of the cult to which she
Samuels are but five in number, and make up one belongs. Here is a pretty tribute to Ireland :
of the thinnest of volumes. They reflect the moods
"Here he loosed from his hand
of a man who has imagined happiness but never
A brown tumult of wings,
realized it, and the cast of deep melancholy is over
Till the wind on the sea
Bore the strange melody
them all. Such lines as these give a truthful ex-
Of an island that sings."
pression of the chastened pathos of renunciation :
And here is a charming lyric:
“What is this little parting of our lives
But the short passing of a winter day?
“Little white rose that I loved, I loved,
And we should only mar the perfect bliss
Roisin ban, Roisin ban!
Of coming summer time, if memory
Fair my bud as the morning's dawn.
With aught might charge us we could wish undone.
I kissed my beautiful flower to bloom,
Yet is my life not wholly void of thee :
My heart grew glad for its rich perfume —
Across the bleakness of this winter day
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“Little white rose that I loved grew red,
Hath ne'er unlocked ;-no winged word of fire,
Roisin ruad, Roisin ruad !
No fancy and no freedom, no desire
Passionate tears I wept for you.
Thrilled from the throat in song, - stolen from the fingers
Love is more sweet than the world's fame, -
In subtler speech which burns and glows and lingers.
I dream you back in my heart the same,
Through thousand forms wherein divinely wrought
Little white rose that I loved !
Into divinest life divinest thought
“Little white rose that I loved grew black,
Stands fashioned; whom the Pentecostal flame
Roisin dub, Roisin dub!
Hath never touched ; in whom nor joy nor shame
So I knew not the heart of you.
Nor liberty, nor truth's self clearest shown
Lost in the world's alluring fire,
Hath utterance stirred;
Nor the Beloved's heart upon their own
I cry in the night for my heart's desire,
Wooed forth one whispered word ;
Little white rose that I loved !”
Speechless, whose tongues speak only,- make them whole,
Mrs. Shorter has the instinct of balladry, and her O God, unseal the dumb lips of their soul!"
most important pieces are cast in the narrative form.
This satisfying and exquisite volume of verse tempts
But these we must be content only to mention.
us to endless quotation, but the examples given above
The “Fugitives” of Miss Winifred Lucas are must suffice. The note is always a pure one, and
the merest bits of verse, hardly any of them exceed not infrequently is enforced by harmonies of the
ing the compass of ten or twelve short lines. “The rarer kind. The dominant spirituality of Miss
Dream " is here reproduced.
Channing's song has just enough of sensuousness to
“Am I go bankrupt of delight
keep it in touch with life, but not enough to dim the
I turn upon the stars for pain ?
fine ether which is its natural element.
The happy stars that dream all night
The dream I must not dream again!
Mrs. Sewall's “ Ode to Girlhood " is a somewhat
"Oh not until the stars to use
stiff and labored poem, in which imaginative flashes
The glory of my dream forbear,
and prosaic details are quite curiously blent. Here
Its robe of light need I refuse
As earthly, for myself to wear.”
is one section of the composition:
The subtlety of suggestion here illustrated is char-
“Wherefore so much beyond all need so fair ?
Ye very tender are,
acteristic of most of these fugitive expressions of
And keep small animals to watch and feed,
single thoughts, and makes the pages of the slender
And would not jilt a beetle from his weed,
book fit to be pondered over.
And step around a resting butterfly
With careful courtesy ;
Pictures of travel, from Rome to California,
And from your passion-potent finger-tips,
and impressions from those wider than terrestrial
And long-prepared comfort of your lips,
reaches that the soul knows in its trackless sojourns,
And shoulders hollowed for the weary man
Since earth began,
are what we find in the “ Sea Drift" of Miss Grace
Ye nurse and heal whatever things ye meet,
Ellery Channing. The author would not be true to
Then who can say ye need not be so sweet?"
the name that she bears were her song not informed
with the high ideals of thought and feeling for which
The infelicities of word and phrase are many in the
New England has ever stood amid the breaking poem from which this is taken, yet they are in part
waves of a composite European influx, and she redeemed by touches of originality and a quite un-
would be false to the best traditions of our race
conventional treatment of the whole theme. An
were she not to cherish the history of the island
even more striking piece is called “Youth,” and
home whence our ancestors came. She sings :
thus begins :
“Who comes to England not to learn
"I am the spirit that denies.
The love for her his fathers bore,
Yes, and with full-regarding eyes
Breathing her air can still return
Comprehending the facts of earth's sorrow and shame,
No kindlier than he was before ? -
And denying the truth of it just the same;
In vain, for him, from shore to shore
That takes man's face in two palms soft,
Those fathers strewed an alien strand
And looks deep into its brow and oft,
With the loved names that evermore
Aud finds the good it has longed to find,
Are native to our ear and land,
And denies there is anything hidden behind."
“Who sees the English elm trees fling
In some of Mrs. Sewall's briefer lyrics there are
Long shadows where his footsteps pass,
suggestions, now of the quaintness of Emily Dickin-
Or marks the crocuses that Spring
Sets starlike in the English grass,
son, now of the intimate religious feeling of Christina
Rossetti. Such a poem as
“ How Love Came”
And sees not, as within a glass,
New England's loved reflection rise,
illustrates both of these features at once.
Mists darker and more dense, alas !
Than England's fogs are in his eyes ? "
The poems of Miss Martha Gilbert Dickinson are
The more abstract and spiritual mood of Miss of very uneven quality, at one time giving unexcep-
Channing's verse may be illustrated by this extract
tional embodiment of some happy conception, at
from the beautiful poem, “ Pity, O God.”
another repelling by their confusion of imagery and
* Pity thy dumb ones, God ! – thy speechless ones,
forcing of the note. “ Benedicite," for example,
Only whose tongues free and unfettered are;
would be a true poem were it not for the occasional
Whose lips the secret of the morning star
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“The waves in prostrate worship lie, and cease
Stevenson's essays.
“ When our little poets have
To count the pebbles on their rosary;
to be sent to the ploughman to learn wisdom, we
Over the scourged rocks a smile of peace
must be careful how we tamper with our ploughman.
Deepens the hushed expectancy.
Each small, lost flower lifts her fragrant brow
When a man in not the best of circumstances pre-
Forgotten flocks turn toward the rosy West;
serves composure of mind, and relishes ale and
Day drops her anchor off the world -and now
tobacco, and his wife and children, in the intervals
Awaits her shriving – all her ways confessed.
of dull and unremunerative labor,— when a man in
The patriarchal mountains stand apart,
Far hills are kneeling; birds arrest their fight -
this predicament can afford a lesson by the way to
Then the real Presence crowds all Nature's heart, what are called his intellectual superiors, there is
And benediction falls with night."
plainly something to be lost, as well as something
We note particularly in this example, first, the fine to be gained, by teaching him to think differently.
figure, “ Day drops her anchor off the world,” and It is better to leave him as he is than to teach him
the immediate appearance of the incongruous no whining." The popular success of Mr. Markham's
tion of shriving.” The suggestion of the kneeling single poem has, however, had the excellent effect of
hills is forced, and the word “crowds” is infelici- bringing out a volume of verse which might other-
tous. Why not say, instead,
wise never have seen the light, and which was cer-
“Then the real Presence thrills all Nature's heart?" tainly worth printing. It is not alone in the titular
The most completely satisfactory of Miss Dickin- poem that the author has elected to wear the
son's poems is the one called “Summer's Will.” prophet's mantle, for the same plea for the oppressed
Here there is no confusion, and no straining for and the same vision of a coming human brotherhood
effect, but instead a single figure delicately and con is the strain of most of his songs. The ideal is of
sistently worked out.
the noblest, if here somewhat vaguely conceived,
"These are the clauses of Summer's will –
and we cannot have too many poets for whom the
To Autumn, a languorous haze to fill
message comes in such words as these :
Valley and mountain with vague regret
For her whose beauty they cannot forget.
“Go, be a dauntless voice, a bugle-cry
To Mortals, maples whose colors dare
In darkening battle when the winds are high-
Till scarlet Flamingoes seem nesting there ;
A clear sane cry wherein the God is heard
Also a river woven in gold,
To speak to men the one redeeming word.”
Where willows murmur their stories old;
In his “Song to the Divine Mother," which is per-
Treasures of golden rod, troops of corn,
And sumach torches out-heralding dawn.
haps the finest of his poems, the passionate social-
To Heaven, lest day despair too soon,
ism of the author achieves an expression that would
The silvery horn of her harvest moon.
not have been unworthy of Morris. But for all the
To Wondering Cattle, pastures green
deep human feeling with which these songs of the
Rivalling May in their transient sheen ;
“ Fraternal State” are charged, we are bound to
All her black crows to the lonely Pines.
To Straggling Fences, her madcap vines ;
say that Mr. Markham appeals to us more strongly
But to the Ocean only her tears,
when he forgets man and turns to the consolations
Tempests of parting and desolate fears.
of nature, or when, giving free rein to the imagina-
Sealed in witch hazel, filled in frost,
tion, he has such a vision as this of « The Wharf of
To the witnessing winds 't was all but tossed
When she smiled a gentian codicil -
Dreams."
'My love to the roadside under the hill!'"
"Strange wares are handled on the wharves of sleep:
Aside from its capricious capitalization, there seems
Shadows of shadows pass, and many a light
Flashes a signal fire across the night;
no reasonable fault to be found with this charming
Barges depart whose voiceless steersmen keep
poem.
Their way without a star upon the deep;
It is not our intention to make any contribution
And from lost ships, homing with ghostly crews,
Come cries of incommunicable news,
of our own to the discussion of that over-discussed
While cargoes pile the piers, a moon-white heap-
poem, “ The Man with the Hoe.” We have known
“Budgets of dream-dust, merchandise of song,
Mr. Markham as a poet for many years, and have
Wreckage of hope and packs of ancient wrong,
held the sturdy vigor of his verse in high esteem. It
Nepenthes gathered from a secret strand,
is merely an inexplicable caprice of the public that Fardels of heartache, burdens of old sins,
has singled out this particular poem for extravagant
Luggage sent down from dim ancestral inns,
laudation or censure, as the case may be, and has
And bales of fantasy from No Man's Land."
achieved for its writer a reputation that his previous “For the King," by Mr. Robert Cameron Rogers,
years of work had not won for him. We wish only is a spirited irregular version of the story of the
to say that in his assumption that society has made three mighty men of war who brought some water
“the man with the boe” what he is, there is a beg- from the well of Bethlehem to King David. Spirit,
ging of the whole question. We are rather inclined rather than finish, is the characteristic of most of
to think that men make themselves instead of being the poems contained in this volume, as may be illus-
moulded by pressure from without, and that men trated by a stanza from the so-called lyric ode “To
with hoes and other useful implements play a proper Spain,” a piece having for its ultimate object - it
part in the social economy. And we are also minded might have had a worthier one — the justification
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“We are not a warlike nation,
Fashioned rather for keen trading.
Some will say the style is English,
That from them we get the cut-
East and West our ships went speeding,
Decks awash from heavy lading,
Bowsprits poked in every harbor,
Never seeking quarrels,
But
When our rich Levant trade came and Tripoli claimed tribute
from it,
Tribute paid by other navies trading down the midland sea,
We, the least and last of nations, blew her gunboats to
Mahomet,
Blew the faithful to their houris, made the Straits forever
free."
The conclusion of the argument thus pursued is that
when we could no longer stand the conduct of our
Spanish neighbor we proceeded to clean her out.
Discrete silence is maintained concerning our sub-
sequent adoption of Spanish methods as an outcome
of this spasm of virtue. When he does not attempt
to be stirring, Mr. Rogers appears as a pretty ver-
sifier upon the familiar themes of the minor poet.
But he has done better work than is to be found in
the present volume.
“ An Epic of the Soul” is an anonymous cycle
of eighty short poems, all cast in a form which illus-
trates a distinct novelty in versification. They de-
pict the struggle for faith in the mind of the
doubter, to which the spirit of mysticism comes at
last to reconcile the conflicting currents of thought.
We select the following two consecutive numbers,
because they are fairly typical of the whole, and
also because they show how easy is the descent from
the plane of poetry to that of prose.
“Does God look down upon us from a star
Careless of love or hate, of good or ill ?
And will He send no shining avatar
While man's great spirit beats its prison-bar
Longing to worship, and to know His will ?
“If He be but a great, impartial eye
Expressionless, then let us creep and die,
For we ourselves are more humano by far.
“Yet how can we submit to those inflictions
At which the powers of reason grow satirical,
Or pin our faith to any pleasing fictions,
Though honest seeming, full of contradictions,
Supported by the jugglery of miracle ?
The story seems a beautiful invention-
The birth, the resurrection, the ascension -
And can it move the mind with deep convictions ?”
The author of these reflections is said to be “known
in more than one department of literature.” We
must say that it would be a slender reputation that
could be enhanced by confessing the authorship of
the present work.
If Mr. Madison Cawein would refrain from writing
-80 much, or from printing so much of what he writes,
his niche in the temple of our contemporaneous
poetry would be more securely occupied. In such a
case, he would suppress such hopeless verse as this :
“For, all around me, upon field and hill,
Enchantment lies as of mysterious flutes;
As if the music of a god's good-will
Had taken on material attributes
In blooms, like chords,"
Or as this:
“For he, of all the country-side confessed,
The most religious was and happiest;
A Methodist, and one whom faith still led,
No books except the Bible had he read."
Is the author of these lines, sated with the inspira-
tion of Keats, now groping after the inspiration of
Wordsworth? We trust not, for the change would
not be for the better. The strength of. Mr. Cawein
lies in his sensuous interpretations of nature, in the
attitude of passionate communicant rather than of
high priest. We need not reiterate our often-
expressed satisfaction with the best of his verse.
The new volume, “ Myth and Romance,” while in-
cluding such passages as have been quoted, includes
also many exquisite lyrics, none of them, perhaps,
exceeding in beauty these stanzas inscribed to
“ Youth.”
“Morn's mystic rose is reddening on the hills,
Dawn's irised nautilus makes glad the sea ;
There is a lyre of flame that throbs and fills
Far heaven and earth, with hope's wild ecstasy, -
With lilied field and grove,
Haunts of the turtle dove,
Here is the land of Love.
“The chariot of the noon makes blind the blue
As towards the goal his bui ning axle glares;
There is a fiery trumpet thrilling through
Wide heaven and earth with deeds of one who dares, -
With peaks of splendid pame,
Wrapped round with astral flame.
Here is the land of Fame.
“The purple priesthood of the evening waits
With golden pomp within the templed skies ;
There is a harp of worship at the gates
Of heaven and earth that bids the soul arise, -
With columned cliffs and long
Vales, music breathes among,
Here is the land of Song.
“Moon-crowned, the epic of the night unrolls
Its starry utterance o'er height and deep;
There is a voice of beauty at the souls
Of heaven and earth that lulls the heart asleep, -
With storied woods and streams,
Where marble glows and gleams,
Here is the land of Dreams."
A poet of far wider renown than any Mr. Cawein
has yet achieved would not need to feel ashamed
of these well-nigh faultless verses.
Mr. William Griffith is a bold man to venture
upon “ A Litany of Nations," remembering what
Mr. Swinburne has done with that theme. Here
is one of the twelve quatrains, with the common
refrain :
“SWITZERLAND.
“From mountains crowned with freedom, I repeat
The skies' great secret, Time's eternal quest
Above the nations thundering at my feet
And overlook the West.
“Mother of Nations, as of yore
Remember us and, near us
Beseeching Thee forevermore,
Hear, O hear us !"
We like Mr. Griffith better when the lofty mood is
not upon him, and when he sings of the joys of
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“So, while the moments slip and slide
Arnold's volume. But the most typical expression
From Winter unto Spring,
of Sill's outlook upon life, with all its dominant
With hedges flushing either side
spirituality, is found in such a poem as that called
The country lanes, I bring
Across the mart a foolish heart
"Fertility."
To hear the finches sing."
“Clear water on smooth rock
In this poem, and many others of like strain, the
Could give no foot-hold for a single flower,
Or slenderest shaft of grain :
writer has caught the wilding note of such singers
The stone must crumble under storm and rain -
as Mr. Bliss Carman and Professor Roberts.
The forests crash beneath the whirlwind's power —
And broken boughs from many a tempest shock,
To the two small volumes, dated 1887 and 1889,
And fallen leaves of many a wintry hour,
of verse by the late Edward Rowland Sill, the pub Must mingle in the mould,
lishers have now added " a third and final volume,” Before the harvest whitens on the plain,
entitled “Hermione, and Other Poems." We have
Bearing an hundred-fold.
Patience, O weary heart!
been in the habit of regarding Sill's talent as a
Let all thy sparkling hours depart,
slender one, but in view of these three collections And all thy hopes be witbered with the frost,
taken together, and the fact that even now much of And every effort tempest-tost —
his work remains uncollected, the opinion needs re-
So, when all life's green leaves
Are fallen, and mouldered underneath the sod,
vision, for we are already in possession of some
Thou shalt go not too lightly to thy God,
three hundred printed pages, and many a shining But heavy with full sheaves."
reputation has no more than that to its credit. We
Fated, like Poe and Lanier, to pass into an inher-
doubt if Sill will ever have a shining reputation,
itance of unfulfilled renown at an early age, Henry
for the rare purity of his note was such as to fall
Timrod has been less fortunate than his compeers
upon few ears fit to hear it, but we have no doubt
that his work will be held as a precious permanent fact that the 1873 collected edition of his complete
in posthumous favor. This is due, in part, to the
possession by an audience of whom any poet might
poems became tied up through the bankruptcy of
be proud. Even our expectation that the present
the publishers, and practically unobtainable. To
selection, coming after the two others, would prove
present these poems once more to the public, and
inferior in quality, offering only the lees of his
at the same time to establish a suitable memorial
song, is not fulfilled, for we should hesitate to affirm
of the poet, a cbartered association has been formed
that it was any less worthy of publication than
in South Carolina, and the first-fruits of its activity
either of its predecessors. The work that gives us
takes the form of a “Memorial Edition,” provided
such haunting phrases as “yon dim ghost that
with memoir and portrait, and including a few
last night was the moon,” and that brings to rightly- pieces not heretofore collected. We are glad to have
attuned ears the message of
this volume, for Timrod has been little more than a
“All the holy hills and sacred waters;
name to the reading public at large, and his poems
When the sea-wind swings its evening censer,
Till the misty incense hides the altar
deserve the “place in every cultivated home in the
And the long-robed shadows, lowly kneeling," United States," prophesied for them by Longfellow
is work to be cherished in affectionate remembrance.
a score of years ago.
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
And how ethically fine is the mood that speaks to
us from the depths of spiritual experience in such
verses as “ Tempted.”
“Yes, I know what you say:
Since it cannot be soul to soul,
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
Be it flesh to flesh, as it may;
The huge and exhaustive work by
But is Earth the whole ?
Is war to be
impossible!
“Sball a man betray the Past
I. S. Bloch, said to have given the
For all Earth gives ?
Czar his notion of calling the Peace
‘But the Past is dead?' At last,
Conference which met recently at The Hague, has
It is all that lives.
now been translated in part by Mr. R. C. Long, and
“Which were the nobler goal -
appears before the American public with a long and
To spatch at the moment's bliss,
valuable “prefatory conversation" with the author,
Or to swear I will keep my soul
reported by Mr. W. T. Stead. The title — though
Clean for her kiss ?”
tbe present work contains but one of the books, the
Here is an antidote indeed for the sensual catersixth, of the original
sixth, of the original — is long and cumbersome,
waulings of a host of bardlings who exalt the pas but sufficiently apt: “ The Future of War in Its
sion of a moment to the rank of a Lord of Life. Technical, Economic, and Political Relations — Is
Although his biography is silent upon this subject, War Now Impossible ?” (Doubleday & McClure
we know well from Sill's verse that he felt the im-Co). M. Bloch concludes that it is impossible ; and
perious appeal of love, and suffered as such sensi the reader will agree with him in part — and only
tive souls must suffer when their ardors are spent in part, because, as he observes in relation to other
in vain. The inner meaning is as clear in his love things, he is advancing a theory, and war, unfortu-
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absolute impossibility, under certain conditions, of ent volume he largely eschews fact and tries his
taking intrenchments; yet the dismounted cavalry hand at fiction. The result is distinctly disappoint-
at Santiago did exactly what he sets forth as im- ing, the more so because Mr. Hamblen's former
possible. The combination of a dynamite gun with books were so good. The “ Yarn ” — the strictly
a gatling battery one to unearth the foe, the imaginative part of it at least — is not much better
other to slay him as he flees was unheard of and than the sort of thing served up in the dime-novel,
unthought of before the Americans used them, and and a good deal of it must be pronounced coarse.
overthrows some of the author's best reasoned con and deleterious stuff. We do not think the com-
clusions. This being true, it is likely that future mon sailor is the degraded ruffian, the abject bully
wars will be filled with similar surprises, only on a and blackguard, that the reader of Mr. Hamblen's
greater scale if Europe be the scene. But most of extravaganza may fairly infer him to be. In fact,
the conclusions at which M. Bloch arrives outside we know he is not. There is no handier, cleanlier,
of the actualities of battle, the effect of war upon braver, kindlier, and, according to his lights, hon-
the economic and political side of national life, have ester man than the American sailor; and he will
in them little of uncertainty and abundantly dem not thank Mr. Hamblen for portraying him as phy-
onstrate the appeal to savagery to be not merely sically a hog and morally a Yahoo. Mr. Hamblen's
murderous but self-murderous to all who undertake opening chapters, which appear to be founded on
it. How insane a thing a war is, and how its hor fact, are not so bad; but even here there is too
rors react upon those who habituate themselves to much ruffianism, too much of the low side of mar-
them, is unintentionally displayed by the quotation itime life and character. Even the “ Bucko Mate
given here from the lips of General Dragomiroff: who spins the “Yarn” is a confessed brute, bully,
“ The manœuvres would be infinitely more valuable and cut-throat, whose supposed redeeming trait is.
if one cartridge in a thousand contained a ball.” the harboring of some sloppy sentiment about
Humanitarians have welcomed all the accumulated “ Rose's boy and mine." The opening chapters.
disasters which modern science makes possible, as are, as we have said, fairly good, and depict life as
tending the sooner to do away with the thought of it was on the scandalous old Black Ball packets.
an appeal to arms. Great things are argued in this with some degree of literal truth. After that comes
direction from the new rifles, with their increased the fiction - shooting, stabbing, gambling, robbery,
velocity and decreased missile; but the experience piracy, battle, murder, and sudden death. A treas-
of the Americans now waging war upon the Fili ure buried on a Pacific island furnishes the motif
pinos makes the old-fashioned Springfield with of the closing chapters. Mr. Hamblen's book will
smokeless powder cartridges the more effective not lack readers; but we trust he will return to his
weapon in comparison with the Krag-Jorgensson. last, and give us something next time worthy of
On the other hand, the large proportion of officers himself.
slain in recent wars has had the effect of leaving
Germany without a war party among professional
No one can deny that Mr. Augustine.
soldiers, since an outbreak of hostilities virtually
Jones, in his “Life and Work of
an old worthy.
signs the death-warrant of every man with shoulder
Thomas Dudley, the second Gov-
straps. One thing the author makes quite plain
ernor of Massachusetts ” (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.),
the uselessness of a large navy unless it is to be in
shows careful reading of his sources, and much zeak
some sense or another “supreme.” The ethical
and patience in selecting and bringing together
facts relating to that worthy. Not so much can be
argument against war has no part in the scheme
here, hot blood being notably hotter than cool words
said for his literary method. He has imbedded in
are refrigerating ; yet the economic argument, that
the connecting tissue of his narrative a great num-
war in the future will become a question of starva-
ber of quotations, generally good quotations, some
tion at home, comes to the same thing. Civilized
selected because they convey facts and some because
society has learned individually that violence leads
they convey opinions. Many of these quotations, as
to nothing but disorder; but the lesson is yet to be
well as other matter, are repeated, occasionally more
learned by nations. America, lately an exemplar
than once. The total result is a book that contains.
for lovers of peace, has become as veritable a
a large amount of solid information, but in a style
swashbuckler as the rest; but we are not yet set in
cumbrous, heavy, and not attractive. Perhaps in
the broad path that goes down to death. This book
these particulars the book is in some measure a
should aid us in leaving it.
symbol of its hero. Mr. Jones's secondary object.
in preparing the book, unless indeed it is the primary
Mr. Herbert E. Hamblen's“ Yarn of one, is to clear the name of Dudley of the old charge
Dubious yarns
of sailor life.
a Bucko Mate” (Scribner ) is in- of bigotry and intolerance. “We indulge the hope,”
ferior to his capital book “On Many | he says, “ that the thoughtful reader will conclude
Seas,” chiefly because the author has, in his pres with us that an injustice has been done to the
ent venture, gotten out of his true literary element. memory of an excellent man, who cordially wel-
Mr. Hamblen's forte is the literal narration of his comed truth from every source.” That will depend,
own unusually interesting and varied experiences we imagine, upon the reader's point of view. The
as sailor and as “railroad man.” But in the pres author has shown very conclusively that the Gov-
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ernor had a thorough understanding of the ideas quality of their motives, and thereby miss the
on which the Colony of Massachusetts was founded, lesson of their lives. Potential Robespierres, fanat-
that he believed thoroughly in those ideas, that he ics burning to try their nostrums on society, we
committed his life and fortunes to the attempt to have with us in plenty to day; and if the French
realize them, and that he wrought, suffered, and Revolution teaches us anything of practical value,
sacrificed in the effort to realize them. He entered it is the peril of putting these “ saviors of society ”
deeply into the religious and political life of the in a position to wreak their theories on us unre-
colony from 1630, the time of the great emigration, strained. We are glad to note that Dr. Ten Brink
to 1653, the time of his death, holding perhaps a includes a chapter on Robespierre's youth and early
variant view here, and urging a different practice manhood, a period of his life that throws much light
there, but on the whole in accord with the main on his character, and is too often unconsidered by
stream of thought, feeling, and action. We see no his critics and delineators. History affords no more
reason to put him in a category by himself. He curious psychological study than the evolution into
stands or falls with the Puritans of Massachusetts the inexorable author of the bloody Law of 22nd
Bay. The author says Dudley was as liberal in Prairail of the harmless young sentimentalist of
religion and politics as the public sentiment of his Arras, who sang madrigals and sipped rose-water
age allowed,” and “ was not then regarded as intol with the “Rosatis,” who wept for days over the
erant,” which is, generally speaking, true as re death of a pet pigeon, and who threw up a judicial
spects his environment; but when the author says post in a fit of remorse after sentencing a murderer
“nothing beyond this can be required,” and that to the gallows. Dr. Ten Brink's style is easy and
“the judgment of his neighbors and peers is the discursive, and he makes no flourish of philosophi-
only reasonable one,” he raises again the question cal profundity or novelty of view. The book is
of point of view. These Massachusetts Puritans, well adapted to popular reading, and contains some
upon the whole, were liberal and tolerant beyond interesting portraits and reproductions of old prints.
their time; much can be said to show that they It should be added that the author is a professor at
permitted as much liberty of thought and action as the University of Leyden, and that his translator,
was safe, considering the condition of the colony; Mr. J. Hedeman, has done his work well.
but this leaves unanswered the important and diffi-
cult question of the relation of the idealist to so-
The brilliant circle of English liter-
A famous
maker of
ciety, or of the prophet to the practical statesman.
ary men which has made our gener-
anthologies.
We shall not enter upon a discussion of this subject,
ation famous, and has included such
but merely throw out the question whether Roger
men as Tennyson, Browning, Gladstone, Matthew
Williams and men like him have any real mission
Arnold, Hallam, Newman, Stanley, Shairp, and
in the world, and if so, what it is. It is very evi-
Clough, has suffered sad depletions within the last
dent, for one thing, that they are a different class
decade. Friendly hands have been prompt to gather
of men from the Dudleys, good as the Dudleys are
and publish the scattered memorials of these great
in their place. The mechanical make-up of the
ones, and “Life and Letters" have become a very
book is excellent, and the illustrations of early
popular though somewhat sad feature of recent lit-
erature. One of the best known and best beloved
scenes in Dudley's life are admirable.
within that charmed circle, although not one of the
Robespierre,
Besides recapitulating the events most conspicuous as seen from the outside, was
“scapegoat of and glancing at the protagonists of Francis Turner Palgrave, the story of whose life,
the Revolution."
the remarkable political drama that as presented by his daughter, largely through the
closed with the Tenth of Thermidor, Dr. Jan Ten medium of diaries, letters, and tributes of friends,
Brink's " Robespierre and the Red Terror" (Lip makes a highly interesting addition to our knowl-
pincott) is an intelligent and impartial study of edge both of the man himself and of his generation.
the character and motives of the arch fanatic whom As private secretary first to Mr. Gladstone and after-
Napoleon styled the “scapegoat of the Revolu wards to Lord Granville, as art critic to the “Sat-
tion.” Dr. Ten Brink's estimate of Robespierre urday Review," as Professor of Poetry for ten years
does not differ essentially from that of Mr. John at Oxford, and the author of several books in prose
Morley whose masterly essay ought to be in the and verse, Palgrave is shown to have been a man
hands of every student of the period. Robespierre of singularly varied gifts. But it was in the capac-
was a zealot who shed blood like water to bring ity of compiler that his greatest public service was
about his Utopia. But the old notion that he shed rendered, and the one by which he will be longest
blood merely for the sake of shedding it is a vulgar remembered. The “Golden Treasury of Songs and
error. He sent his victims to the scaffold, as Philip Lyrics” was published first in 1861, and was rec-
II. sent his to the stake, with the best intentions ognized from the beginning as the best existing
in the world. The French bigot aimed to effect anthology of its kind.
anthology of its kind. Without doubt, this little
the reign of virtue, justice, and felicity on earth; book has taught many, in all ranks of life, to know
the Spanish bigot meant to do God service and to and love much of our best lyrical poetry which other-
save mankind from the pit. We rightly abhor the wise might have remained to them obscure and
errors of both; but we are not to lose sight of the neglected. Shortly before his death, in 1897, &


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“Second Series” was added, in order to include less savage than our palæolithic ancestors, and
gems written in the thirty-six years since the first vastly more destructive. We sincerely hope the
collection was made. A “Child's Golden Treasury" Rev. Mr. Mendes is wrong about everything except
was another of this interesting series of anthologies, the settlement of his co-religionists in the land they
all displaying the most correct and refined taste, took so unceremoniously from the Philistines in
and seeming to elevate the humble rôle of compiler days gone by.
almost to the dignity of original or creative work.
The volume is published handsomely by Messrs.
Longmans, Green, & Co., and a fine portrait head
BRIEFER MENTION.
of Professor Palgrave forms the frontispiece.
Among the bundreds of critical essays written by
The lives
To those who prefer their history in English and American scholars for the “Library of
of twelve the form of biography, as well as to
the World's Best Literature," there are many of great
great soldiers.
military men, the volume entitled value, which deserve to reach a wider public than that
“From Cromwell to Wellington,” edited by Mr.
made up of owners of the complete work. The Dou-
Spenser Wilkinson (Lippincott), will furnish good these essays, and published it in a four-volume set of
reading. The dozen careful studies embraced in
small books styled “ The Warner Classics.” We find
its five hundred pages are, with one exception, writ here Mr. Lecky's Gibbon, Mr. Stephens's Carlyle, Dr.
ten by army officers, and consequently show no lack
Garnett's Emerson, Mr. Warner's Byron, Mr. Nortou's
of technical knowledge of campaigns and battles. Dante, Mr. James's Hawthorne, Mr. Trent's Balzac,
The influence of Captain Mahan's writings is, we be Mr. Brownell's Thackery, Mr. Hutton's Newman, Mr.
lieve, discernible in the emphasis which the book lays Shorey's Plato, and perhaps a dozen others. The essays
upon sea power as an all-important element in the are classified, one volume containing poets, another
military history of the British Empire. A second
novelists, another historians and essayists, and another
lesson which it teaches, as pointed out in the intro- philosophers and scientists.
duction, is the necessity of England's maintaining don, a volume of Oriental Wit and Wisdom,” being
We have received from Messrs. Luzac & Co., Lon-
a thoroughly efficient army to take advantage of her
the “ Laughable Stories” collected by Mar Gregory
naval superiority. Disarmament finds no word in
John Bar-Hebræus, an ecclesiastical dignitary of the
its favor in these pages. The overlapping of some thirteenth century. The translation is from the Syriac
of the lives as in the case of Baird, Moore, and text, previously published by the Messrs. Luzac, and is
Wellington - makes this form of history not the made by Mr. E. A. Wallis Budge, of the British
most economical of space, although it serves admir. Museum. These “ laughable stories are upwards of
ably to emphasize the personal element. The lit seven hundred in pumber. The following is a fair ex-
erary excellence of the book, as a whole, is perhaps ample : " Another man bad a pain in his stomach, and
a shade less conspicuous than some of its other
being asked the cause thereof, be said : I have eaten
largely of a little milk and it bath done me barm.'"
merits; nor could it well be otherwise. It is hard
The wit is not exactly side-splitting. Occasionally, an
for a writer to give a short sketch of Wolfe, for
anecdote is too frank for our ears, and is turned into
example, which shall be wholly satisfactory to ad discreet Latin instead of English.
mirers of the man as he is seen in the pages of “State Trials, Political and Social” (Macmillan) is
Parkman and Thackeray; or to trace an outline of the title of a work in two small volumes edited by Mr.
Cromwell's career that shall do him justice in the H. L. Stephen. The text consists of an account of ten
estimation of readers of Carlyle. The portraits famous trials, and includes lengthy extracts from the
in the book are good process prints, and the maps
actual proceedings of the court. These extracts are
and plans are numerous, well drawn, and helpful
taken from the reports of the Howells, father and
to the understanding of the text.
son, while the editor bas supplied the necessary intro-
ductions and connecting links. The most interesting
After a series of most terrific wars
subjects are Raleigh, Charles I., the Regicides, the
Lugubrious
Suffolk Witches, and Alice Lisle. There is a fascina-
20th century
in which both the Christian and Mos-
prophecies.
tion about these circumstantial records of which pro-
lem worlds are involved, the Rev. H.
fessional historians rarely catch the secret, and students
Periera Mendes, in his “ Looking Ahead : Twen of English history will do well to make the acquaint-
tieth Century Happenings” (Neely), finally gets ance of this work.
the Jews safely installed in Palestine. The author “ The Treatment of Nature in the Poetry of the
is the pastor of the Spanish and Portuguese Con Roman Republic,” by Miss Katharine Allen, is a doc-
gregation in New York City, which will in part ex tor's dissertation of the University of Wisconsin, and
plain what may seem to others to be an anti-climax. is published as a bulletin of that institution in the
But even a most conscientious attempt to put one's
series devoted to “ Philology and Literature." It is a
self in the Rev. Mr. Mendes's place fails to elicit painstaking piece of work, with illustrative examples
carefully classified, and, although the subject has
from the situation in any of its details quite the
frequently before been handled, the present writer
satisfaction one is sure he intended to have felt at
appears to have conducted an independent investigation.
the denouement. The book is a prophecy of the
The monograph extends to over one hundred pages, of
occurrences likely to fall during the next century. which Lucretius comes in for nearly one-half, as it is
They show a human being in control only a little l entirely proper that he should.
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by unveiling a bust of the poet in the library of the
LITERARY NOTES.
University. The occasion will be one of great interest,
From Messrs. Macmillan Co. we have just re-
and visitors from many parts of the country will doubt-
ceived volumes six and seven in the new “ Eversley
less respond to the invitation to be present. Poe is
edition of Shakespeare, edited by Professor C. H.
distinctly a “live” subject at present, and his place
Herford.
among our greatest writers becomes every year more
“ A Mountain Europa,” by Mr. John Fox, Jr., hith-
and more firmly assured.
erto published as one of a volume of short stories, is
Messrs. Curts & Jennings are the publishers of a
now reprinted by the Messrs. Harper in a volume by
“ Life of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury,” by Miss
itself, with an excellent portrait of the author.
Jennie M. Bingham. The book gives us a simple and
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons publish a new and re-
interesting account of how the famous philanthropist
vised edition of the work of M. Ernest Lefébure upon
“abolished child slavery in the mining regions of En-
“ Embroidery and Lace: Their Manufacture and His.
gland, how he shortened the hours of labor in the
tory." The translation is by Mr. Alan S. Cole.
factories, and threw the broad shield of British law
Messrs. Mansfield & Wessels publish a small guide-
over the heads of hundreds of thousands of working
book to “ Westminster Abbey,” by the Rev. F. W.
people.”
Farrar, to which is added a chapter on the “poets' cor-
Eleven new volumes are this year added by Messrs.
ner” by the late Dean Stanley. There are several
T. Y. Crowell & Co. to their popular “ Faïence" edi-
illustrations.
tions of favorite books. No less than seven of this num-
ber are American classics recently out of copyright,
The Doubleday & McClure Co. have just published
three new volumes in their series of “ Little Master-
works by Hawthorne, Emerson, Holmes, Curtis, and
Thoreau. The others are Mr. Kipling's “ Barrack-Room
pieces," as edited by Mr. Bliss Perry. Thackeray, De
Ballads,” M. Rostand's "Cyrano,” Jean de la Brête's
Quincey, and Lamb are the respective subjects of these
“My Uncle and My Curé," and Souvestre's “Attic
neat booklets.
Philosopher."
A new biographical series, to be known as “ The
Sock and Buskin Biographies,” is announced by Messrs.
Clough was never a popular poet, and it is a little
Richard G. Badger & Co. The first volume will be
startling to receive at the same time four different new
devoted to Miss Julia Marlowe, and will be written by
editions of his poetical works. A brief inspection of
Mr. Jobn D. Barry.
the volumes, however, clears away the mystery, for
Miss Kate M. Warren's version of “ Piers Plowman”
they all come from the saine publisher (Crowell), and
are all paged alike. They are, in fact, the same book
in modern English is a useful little book for beginners
with certain variations in their binding and other me-
in the study of our literature, and we are glad to note
chanical details. There is an excellent memoir, and
that it has gone into a second edition (Macmillan), the price is low.
which has bad the benefit of many suggestions from
It is extremely doubtful if Mr. Ruskin's autobiog-
Professor W. P. Ker.
raphy will ever be completed ; but possessors of the
A recent bulletin of the Field Columbian Museum
incomplete third volume will be able to make up that
describes several new species of plants, among them a volume, probably. Mr. Allen, the publisher, is pre-
genus which has been named Higinbothamia, after a
paring with this object a new edition of “Dilecta”
well-known citizen of Chicago. Since it belongs to the
(which consists of notes supplementary to the autobi-
Dioscoreaceæ, the new plant seems to be a kind of yam.
ography). Some unpublished material intended by
It comes from Yucatan.
Mr. Ruskin for this latter work will be included, to-
Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. have just published an gether with a comprehensive and elaborate index.
attractive illustrated edition, in two volumes, of George
The “Copley" series is the title given to a new col-
Eliot's “ Middlemarch,” distinguished, like the other
lection of works of standard literature now in course
publications of that house, by neatness and inexpen-
of publication by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. The
siveness. This edition comes in a box.
distinctive feature of this series is provided by the col-
The thirteenth volume in Mrs. Garnett's excellent
ored illustrations which adorn them. Eight volumes
translation of the novels of Tourguénieff (Macmillan) have now been published, as follows : “Cranford,”
includes “ The Diary of a Superfluous Man" and four by Mrs. Gaskell ; “Prue and I," by George Will-
of the other short stories. Two more volumes of short iam Curtis ; “ The House of the Seven Gables," by
stories are yet to follow, and the edition will then be Hawthorne ; “ The Abbe Constantin,” by M. Halévy ;
complete.
“ Lucile,” by “Owen Meredith”; “Barrack - Room
The Oxford University Press has begun to reissue Ballads," by Mr. Rudyard Kipling; and Longfellow's
the “New English Dictionary” in monthly parts of Evangeline” and “ Hiawatha.”
eighty-eight pages each, at ninety cents a part. This The “ What is Worth While" series of white cov-
means a cent a page, and the entire work will extend
ered booklets published by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell &
to about 12,500 pages. It is expected that ten years
Co. is prettier than ever this year with its columbine
more will be required for its completion.
decorations. Nineteen new pumbers of this series have
“Manders," that charming novel by Mr. Elwyn Bar just been issued, and their contents are of varied inter-
ron, the English edition of which was reviewed by us a est, ranging from M. Brunetière's lecture on “Art and
year or so ago, has just been republished in this country Morality” to “Cheerfulness as a Life Power," by Mr.
by Messrs. L. C. Page & Co., and we bespeak for it a 0. S. Marden. Two or three of the more serious titles
cordial reception. It is much the best piece of literary are « The Artistic Ordering of Life,” by Dr. Albert S.
work that Mr. Barron has thus far done.
Cook ; “ The Choice of a College for a Boy," by Dr.
The University of Virginia will celebrate the fiftieth C. F. Thwing; and “The Trend of the Century," by
anniversary of Poe's death on the seventh of this month President Low.


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THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
In continuation of our Announcement List of Fall
Books, in the last issue of The DIAL, we give the fol-
lowing List of Forthcoming Books for the Young.
The Golden Age, by Kenneth Grahame, new edition, illus. by
Maxfield Parrish, $2.50. — Jack of All Trades, nonsense
verses, by J. J. Bell, illus. by Charles Robinson, $1.25. -
Fables of La Fontaine, illus. by P. J. Billinghurst. $1.50.
-The Suitors of Aprille, a fairy tale. by Norman Garstin,
illus. by Charles Robinson, $1.50.- Pierrette, fairy stories,
by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, illus by Charles Robinson,
$1.50. — Gulliver's Travels, illus. by Herbert Cole, $1.50.
-Walter Crane's Toy Books, new vols.: Bluebeard, Sleep-
ing Beauty, and Baby's Own Alphabet; each 25 cts, or
the 3 in 1 vol., $1.25. — The Orber Side of the Sun, fairy
tales, by Evelyn Sharp, illus. by Nellie Syrett, $1.50. (John
Lane.)
Plantation Pageants, by Joel Chandler Harris, illus., $2.-
The Book of Legends, gathered and rewritten by Horace
E. Scudder, with frontispiece.-- Betty Leicester's English
Christmas, by Sarah Orne Jewett, illus., $1.- The Boys
of Scrooby, by Raih Hall, with frontispiece, $1.50 - The
Little Fig Tree Stories, by Mary Hallock Foote, illus. –
Nannie's Happy Childhood. by Caroline Leslie Field, illus.,
$1.- Dorothy and her Friends, by Ellen Olney Kirk, illus.,
$1.25.- Under the Cactus Flag, a story of life in Mexico,
by Nora Archibald Smith, illus., $1.25.– A Jersey Boy in
the Revolution, by Everett T. Tomlinson, illus., $1.50.-
The King's Jester, and other short plays for small stages,
by Caro Atherton Dugan. - A Young Savage, by Lydia
Farrington Krause. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
The Half-Back, by Ralph Henry Barbour, illus.- The Story
of Magellan, by Hezekiah Butterworth, illus.--The Treas-
ure Sbip, by Hezekiah Butterworth, illas.- Dewey on the
Mississippi, by Rossiter Johnson, illus. — The Book of
Knight and Barbara, by David Starr Jordan, illus. —
" Home - Reading Books," new vols.: The Story of the
Fishes, by J. N. Baskett; The Insect World, by Clarence
M. Weed ; Harold's Quests, by J. W. Troeger; About the
Weather, by Mark W. Harrington; The Story of English
Kings, by J. J. Burns; Chronicles from Froissart, and
Stories from the Arabian Nights, by Obdam Singleton;
The Family of the Sun, and Some Great Astronomers, by
Edward S. Holden; each illus. (D. Appleton & Co.)
Gallant Little Patriots, 12 fac-similes in colors of water-color
sketches by Maud Hunphrey, $2. - Little Heroes and
Heroines, and Little Soldiers and Sailors, each containing
6 drawings from "Gallant Little Patriots,” by Maud Hun-
phrey, per vol., $1.25. - The Golf Girl," 4 facsimiles of
water-colors by Maud Humphrey, with verses by Samuel
Minturn Peck, $1. — Indian Child Life, stories of Indian
children, by E. W. Deming, illus. in colors, etc , by the
author, $2. - Little Red People, and Little Indian Folk,
each containing one-half of Indian Child Life," by Ew.
Deming, per vol., $1.25.- The Lively City o'Ligg, modern
fairy tales for city children, by Gelett Burgess, illus. in
colors, etc , by the author, $1.50.-Jack the Young Ranch-
man, or A Buy's Adventures in the Rockies, by George
Bird Grinnell, illus., $1.25.-Humorous books for cbildren,
with movable pictures in colors, by Lothar Meggendorfer,
comprising : Tricks of Naughty Boys ($2.50), The Quick-
Change Artist ($1.50), and Vur Aunts ($1.50). – Å No-
body's Scrap Book, 18 drawings in colors, with humorous
verses, by Gordon Browne, $1.50.- The Treasure Seekers,
by E. Nesbit, illus. by Gordon Browne, $1.50. — Loyal
Hearts and True, by Rath Ogden, $1.50.- A Little Daugh:
ter of the Revolution, by Miss A. C. Sage, illus., $1.50.-
Trevelyan's Little Daughters, by Virna Sheard, illus., $1.
- The Little Panjandrum's Dodo, written and illus. by
G. E. Farrow, $1.50. (F. A. Stokes Co.)
Patience, a Daughter of the Mayflower, by Elizabeth W.
Champney, illus., $1.50.-Elsie in Florida, by Martha Fin-
ley, ilius., $1.25. - Margaret Thorpe's Trial, by Lucy C.
Lillie, illus., $1.25. · Blue Jackets of 189%, by Willis J.
Abbott, illus., $1.50.-The Heir of Sherburne, by Amanda
M. Douglas, illus., $1.50.- A Little Girl in Old Philadel
phia, by Amanda M. Douglas, illus., $1.50. (Dodd, Mead
& Co.)
The Brownies Abroad, by Palmer Cox, illus., $1.50.- The
Dozen from Lakerim, by Rupert Hughes, illus., $1.50.-
Quicksilver Sue, by Laura E. Richards, $1.— The Story of
Betty, by Carolyn Wells, illus., $1.50.--St. Nicholas Christ-
mas Book, by various writers, illus., $1.50. (Century Co.)
Mother Goose, with 250 illustrations by F. Opper, $1.75.-
Pike and Cutlass, hero tales of our navy, written and illus.
by George Gibbs, $1.50.-Miss Vanity, by Any E. Blanch-
ard, illus, $1.25. - My Lady Frivol,' by Rosa N. Carey,
illus., $1.25. — The Brahmin's Treasure, by G. A. Henty,
illus., $1.50.- The Young Master of Hyson Hall, by Frank
R. Stockton, illus., $1.50. — The Spy in the School, by
Andrew Home, illus.. $1.25. - Pilgrim's Progress for the
Young Folks, illus., $1.25. - Bimbi Stories for Children,
by "Ouida," 7 vols., each 60 cts. - Lippincott's Popular
Books for Boys, by well-known writers, 10 vols., each
illns.. $1. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
The Red Book of Animal Stories, edited by Andrew Lang,
illus. by H. J. Ford, $2. - Yule Tide Yarns, edited by
G. A. Henty, illus., $1.50.-The Prince's Story Book, edited
by George Lawrence Gomme, illus , $2.- The Golliwogg in
War, illns. in colors by Florence K. Upton, with words by
Bertha Upton, $2. (Longmans, Green, & Co.)
The Sqnare Book of Animals, drawings in colors of domestic
animals, by William Nicholson, $1.50.-Songs of the Shin-
ing Way, child verse, written and illus. by Sarah Noble-
Ives, $1.25. - In the Deep Woods, a continuation of the
" Hollow Tree" stories, by A. B. Paine, $1.25.- Acrobatic
Animals, comic drawings and rhymes, by Frank Verbeck,
$1.25. — Animal Jokes, comic drawings, by Mary Baker-
Baker, $1.25.-Katooticut, by C. F. Carter, illus. (R. H.
Russell.)
The Court of Boyville, by William Allen White, illus., $1.25.
We Win, life and adventures of a young railroader, by
Herbert E. Hamblen, illus., $1.50. - The Boys' Book of
Inventions, by Ray S. Baker, illus., $2.-Cattle Ranch to
College, by Russell Doubleday, illus., $1.50. (Doubleday
& MoClure Co.)
Boy Life on the Prairies, by Hamlin Garland, illus. — Jingle
Book, by Carolyn Wells, illus. by Oliver Herford. Mrs.
Leicester's School, by Charles and Mary Lamb, illus, in
colors by Winifred Green.- The Listening Child, a selec-
tion of English verse for children, by Lucy W. Thatcher,
with Introduction by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, with
frontispiece.-This and That, a tale of two times, by Mrs.
Molesworth, illus by Hugh Thomson. Stories from
American History" series, new vol.: Soldier Rigdale, by
Beulah Marie Dix, illus., $1.50.- Stories from Froissart,
edited by H. New bolt, illus. — Ben Comee, a tale of Rog-
ers's Rangers, by M. J. Canavan, illus. — Tell Me a Story
and Other Tales, and Rosy and Other Tales, by Mrs.
Molesworth, new editions, each illus. (Macmi