ur beautifully executed and well chosen photo- Mallow; Monkshood; Wild Pink ; Fringed Gen-
graphic plates showing scenes in modern Greece tian; Oswego Tea; etc. The cover is of pale-green
that are hallowed by classic story and association, and pearl grey delicately stamped with title in gilt
architectural remains, sculptures, etc. A good map and conventionalized flower design.
is a decidedly useful feature. The reader of this Little variation from the familiar type is shown
beautiful book, in which a traveller's reminiscences in Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s two-volume


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ered an
• Roman” edition of Hawthorne's “Marble Faun." she chiefly delineates and how touching and es-
The volumes are conveniently small, and are illus sential this side was in the gentle, home-keeping
trated with photographic plates of Roman and Flor-Cowper's case we all know. In fine, these pretty
entine views, sculptures, etc. Gilt tops, red slip- and unassuming books contain much pleasant and
covers, and bindings of cream - white with bold wholesome reading, and they form an exceptionally
design in gilt, complete a fairly attractive exterior. suitable Holiday gift of the modester sort.
Mr. Howard Pyle serves notice on his readers This season's addition to the pretty and tiny
through the title-page of his “The Price of Blood ” volumes of the “ Thumb-Nail Series (Century
(R. G. Badger & Co.), that the tale is to be consid-Co.), comprises “Meditations of Marcus Aurelius,”
extravaganza." Certainly it is a sorry selected and translated by Mr. Benjamin E. Smith;
piece of nonsense, suggestive of nothing save a des and “Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy
perate effort on Mr. Pyle's part to be as nonsensi Hollow" (together in one volume), with an Intro-
cal as possible. And nonsense that is obviously duction by the public's good friend and sterling
labored is seldom amusing. As a vehicle for the entertainer, Mr. Joseph Jefferson. The first-pamed
grotesque drawings that accompany it the story volume is a really delectable little casket of gems -
does very well ; and that we dare say is what it is the miniature embodiment of a specially happy
intended for. But it is a pity to find so capital an thought for which we are indebted, we presume, to
illustrator of the whimsical and bizarre as Mr. Pyle its judicious and scholarly editor. Mr. Smith's
is wasting time spinning out poor extravaganzas of version is unusually easy and fluent accurate and
his own to illustrate, when there are so many good scholarly, yet a suitable one for popular reading.
ones by others ready to his pencil. We should very The tinted double frontispiece shows both sides of
much like to see, for example, what Mr. Pyle would an old coin bearing the head of this noblest of all
make of von Chamisso's “ Peter Sohlemihl”- that wearers of the Imperial purple in profile. The
strange mingling of pathos and folly. The scene Irving volume is also a pretty one outwardly, with
of Mr. Pyle's “extravaganza” is laid in New York, | its tinted title-page, and frontispiece showing the
temp. 1807. The hero is Nathaniel Griscombe, a pathetic figure of the returned sleeper of the Catskills.
young attorney-at-law with no practice, and a turn Under the new title, “Historic Mansions and
for conviviality. Griscombe's threadbare and com Highways around Boston,” Messrs. Little, Brown,
monplace fortunes become suddenly entangled with & Co. issue a revised edition of Mr. Samuel Adams
the lurid and tragic or tragico-comic ones of Drake's useful and exhaustive local guide-book orig-
a deposed East Indian Rajah who holds his court inally entitled “Old Landmarks and Historic Fields
secretly on Broadway, who is pursued by the ven of Middlesex.” In its revised form the book is, for
geance of “an Oriental Potentate," and who has a the modern reader, a great improvement on its
brother (also “pursued ”) named “Michael Des-original, the practical value of which had become
mond” (!) living at Bordentown, N.J. The Rajah impaired through changes wrought by time and
becomes a client of Griscombe's, confides to him his municipal progress, on the face of the storied dis-
secret and a hat-box full of jewels — and then fol. trict described. With a view of making the descrip-
lows the nonsense, "clotted” and plenty of it, and tions in the volume correspond with present condi-
for the most part unredeemed by the light and tions, the old places have been revisited, and, where
whimsical fancy that make Mr. Pyle's illustrations necessary, redescribed. An added feature of import-
80 delightful. The pictures in this very attractively ance is the very interesting illustrations, comprising
manufactured volume are printed in colors, and the twenty-two full-page plates and a liberal number of
showy frontispiece is in the artist's best style. text cuts on wood. The pictures add much to the
Marion Harland's facile pen has been well em usefulness and attractiveness of the book, which
ployed in the little biographies of Charlotte Brontë forms an excellent guide to this region so rich in
and William Cowper, which form the initial volumes historic shrines and landmarks. It is, as Longfellow
of Messrs. Putnams' promising series of studies of wrote of it in the seventies, “a perfect store-house
the home-life of certain writers and thinkers, col of information."
lectively entitled “Literary Hearthstones.” The A novel, thoroughly artistic, and delightfully man-
volumes are shapely 16 mos, containing, with pre ufactured little book is Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson's
face and index, some 320 liberally margined and “ The Trail of the Sandhill Stag" (Scribner). The
clearly printed pages, and a liberal sprinkling of well story is a capital one a hunter's yarn with an
chosen illustrations. The bindings are pretty and infusion of poetry, and a touching, finely conceived
appropriate, and while not strikingly ornate, they dénouement. The hunter, in fact, as the tale ends,
are enough so to suggest the gift-book. The au is so struck by the majesty, the pathetic mute ap.
thor's treatment of her theme is popular, yet by no peal as a fellow-creature, as a dumb sharer in the
means merely “gossippy” or trifling. Her aim is common life that binds us to the lowest forms of it,
to show what the subjects of her studies were, rather of the noble beast that after years of fruitless track-
than what they did — to portray them familiarly as ing stands at last helpless before the muzzle of his
men and women, rather than as members of the rifle, that he forbears to fire, and relinquishes for-
guild of authors. It is, more specifically, the domes ever the “ Trail of the Sandhill Stag.” “Go, now,”
tic side, the “Hearthstone” side, of their lives that he
says,
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what Buddha learned. I shall never see you again.” it the choicest and most really artistic of the season's
The author's full-page drawings are charmingly and more inexpensive publications.
(from the naturalist's point of view) faithfully done, Books on stage folk are usually sure of their
and the tiny thumb-nail sketches -- deer-tracks, In welcome ; and Mr. Lewis C. Strang's
“ Famous
dian signs, bits of snowy landscape, etc.- scattered, Actresses of the Day in America” (L. C. Page &
not too lavishly, on the margins have a good effect. Co.) is one of those which will deserve it. Mr.
To Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson; is due the Strang modestly disclaims having secured “ any
no small credit for the general design of the volume. great amount of new matter" regarding the careers
Decidedly clever and “catchy” in its literary of his thirty-one heroines, and acknowledges him-
and material ground.plan, as well as pictorially self a compiler and editor in so far as biographical
pleasing, is Mr. James L. Ford's “Cupid and the details are concerned. His facts have been gleaned
Footlights" (Stokes), with illustrations and decora. from newspapers and magazines — in some cases
tions by Mr. Archie Gunn. This unique piece of from the actresses themselves. The sketches are
Christmas bric-ú-brac rather baffles description; and necessarily brief (there are only 360 pages, index
we advise the reader to examine it for himself. included, in the little volume), and there is a modi-
However, Mr. Ford's story is told in a series of cum of criticism. Each sketch, however, suffices to
letters, telegrams, and press-clippings, given in fac inform the reader in a general way who its heroine
simile, what are supposed to be the original docu is and whence she came, what are her best parts
ments being pasted to the leaves, in scrap-book and what her salient characteristics. Mr. Strang
fashion, of the flat 4to volume. Mr. Gunn's full writes pleasantly and intelligently, and with due
page drawings are appropriately interspersed. Mr. sympathy with his theme. There are twenty-five
Ford's dramatis personce are a lot of sprightly and portraits, including those of Miss Maude Adams,
very“ up-to-date" young people whose love affairs Miss Marlowe, Annie Russell, Maxine Elliott, Ada
and notions of each other's pursuits and identities Rehan, Viola Allen, Julia Arthur, Effie Shannon,
get tangled up in an amusing way, and are finally Marie Burroughs, May Robson, etc. All are stage-
unsnarled much to their own and the reader's satis- favorites of to-day. The cover, in white and gold,
faction. We get a glimpse of the gayer and slightly is a notably dainty one.
Bohemian side of New York life, and the letters of The points of interest described in Mr. Charles
the stage-people are amusingly spiced with the argot Hemstreet's “Nooks and Corners of Old New
of the fairer half of the “profession.” Mr. Ford's York ” (Scribner) lie in that tangled maze of streets
touch is light and graceful, and he is evidently very and alleys that bewilder the provincial pilgrim to
much at home in the world whereof he writes. It the lower and historic part of the Island of Man.
is decidedly a publication that the fin-de-siècle young hattan. Mr. Hemstreet is clearly an oracle on the
man and young woman should not overlook. ancient history, actual, legendary, and topograph-
The wide range and good quality of the extracts ical, of this swarming and not always delectable
contained in the twin volumes “In Friendship’s district of Gotham, and his method of imparting
Name" and "What Makes A Friend "(Brentano's), information is terse and practical. The little work
and the fine quality of their paper and typography, is a good one for the reader who wants to make
should commend them to seekers of gift-books who the most, especially in the shrine-hunting way, of a
care little for gay bindings and showy pictorial ramble through the region treated. Mr. Peixotto's
attractions. Mr. Volney Streamer is the compiler, pen-drawings are clever and instructive, and the
and he has selected and strung his pearls of thought book is decoratively bound.
on the prolific theme of friendship with unusual Mr. Seumas MacManus's pretty volume of tales
taste and judgment. The scope of selection is wide, of Irish folk-lore, entitled “In Chimney Corners
ranging from the great masters of prose and verse, (Doubleday & McClure Co.), has the right Celtic
down to the lesser and more familiar lights of our smack. There is just the least touch of the brogue
own time who have contributed their mite of strik. indicated in the spelling, and the wit is genuine
ing thought or phrase concerning the sentiment that and as different from the article purveyed in the
Montaigne styles “the highest degree of perfection comic papers, and popularly thought to be Irish wit,
in society." These chastely manufactured volumes “ Mr. Dooley's” turn of speech and humor is
are bound in pliable covers of vellum, and will be from that of his bog-trotting ancestors. There are
found edifying to read and useful to refer to. sixteen tales, all replete with the arch fun and art-
The fine artistic fancy and skill of execution of less fancies of the quick - witted, nimble-tongued
Mr. Walter Crane are well displayed in Messrs. R. imaginative peasant of Erin. Miss Pamela Colman
G. Badger & Co.'s attractive Holiday publication Smith's bright-colored illustrations are highly deco-
entitled “The Sirens Three.” Script and decora rative and sympathetic-just the sort that Paddy'
tions are printed in uniform light sepia on rather himself would approve in their present setting.
thick paper of medium smoothness. Mr. Crane's Marion Harland's “Some Colonial Homesteads
work is quite elaborate, and is informed, we think, and Their Stories" is now followed by a kindred
with a somewhat more serious and symbolical spirit and companion volume entitled “More Colonial
than usual. At any rate it well repays close inspec Homesteads and Their Stories" (Putnam). The
tion, and it makes the well-made volume containing present work treats of such interesting and storied
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old mansions as Johnson Hall, Johnstown, N. Y.; apparently inclines, as a compiler at least, to the
La Chaumière Du Prairie, near Lexington, Ky.; more modern and the more easily appreciated poets ;
the two Schuyler Homesteads, Albany, N. Y.; the and we should
say
that as a particularly “fetching
Carroll Homestead, Maryland ; Belmont Hall, near gift-book the young man in search of a Christmas
Smyrna, Del. ; Langdon and Wentworth Homes, token for the object of his affections will scarcely
Portsmouth, N. H.; etc. The author has in each find anything better or more eloquent of the state
case visited the seat described, and has spared no of his heart and the seriousness of his “ intentions"
pains in making minute and personal research into than this book of Mr. Westley's. The essential
its history and archives. The book has a certain fact that “ Barkis is willin'" lurks in its
very
title.
value as a chronicle of Colonial times and manners, The text is clearly printed on moderately glazed
and its attractive pictorial features and handsome paper, and there is a sprinkling of illustrations,
appearance generally make it a suitable gift-book. full-page and marginal.
full-page and marginal. The chaste binding of
There are eighty illustrations, comprising views of white, light-blue, and gold calls for special praise.
the homes described, po its, coats-of-arms, hig “ Historic Towns of the Middle States," which
toric apartments, pieces of Colonial furniture, etc. forms Volume II. of the Messrs. Putnams' useful
“The Romance of Qur Ancient Churches ” (Dut “ American Historic Towns” series, presents mono-
ton) is an account, sympathetically written, of the graphs on Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady, New-
earlier structures of Great Britain erected for burgh, Tarrytown, Brooklyn, New York, Buffalo,
ecclesiastical purposes, by Miss Sarah Wilson, with Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Princeton, Wilmington.
an abundance of illustrations by Mr. Alexander The general Introduction is by Dr. Albert Shaw,
Ansted. The churches dealt with are rather the who points out some interesting special facts in the
smaller parish houses of worship than the well early history and colonization of the Middle States,
known cathedrals ; but the flavor of romance and notably the mixed and cosmopolitan character of
antiquity is none the less strong. It is a matter of their original population, which served to differen-
surprise to find so many Saxon foundations still tiate them pretty sharply from the other two sec-
surviving as meeting places for the faithful, and it tions, and to make them, as it were, a useful buffer
shows the strength of the hold the old church has between the morally and socially rather antagon-
on the English heart.
istic groups of New England States and Southern
“For Thee Alone" (Dana Estes & Co.) is the States. Dr. Shaw's observations are interesting,
melting, if not very explicit, title of an anthology and we should like to see them more fully devel-
of love-poems compiled by Miss Grace Hartshorne. oped. The several authors bave made the most of
Miss Hartshorne has aimed “to present a selection of the limited space at their disposal, and the volume
the best poems of love and lovers in the English lan is both readable and instructive. It is handsomely
guage, as well as a few notable translations." In printed and contains over 150 illustrations.
this aim she appears to us to have succeeded very “Shakespeare's Sonnets” are obviously and not
well indeed, her list of poets and titles displaying due unpleasingly exploited for pictorial and decorative
refinement as well as catholicity of taste. The older purposes by Mr. Henry Ospovat, in the square little
masters of verse are suitably represented, and there volume of them published by Mr. John Lane. The
is a liberal sprinkling of the later and the humbler spirit of pre-Raphaelitism has entered Mr. Ospovat
poets - Mr. Whitcomb Riley, Migs Thaxter, Phoebe to some extent, and his bold wood-cuts are quite in
Cary, Mr. Samuel Minturn Peck, Miss Thomas, etc. the neo-mediæval, church-window style of Morris
The volume is a small one, (283 pp.), and seems
and the rest. The full
page plates, of which there
especially so when we consider the wide field of are a dozen or so, recall very forcibly the work of
selection from which its contents are culled. It is the brothers Rhead, which was strongly in evidence
a notably pretty and dainty one outwardly, well last season. The text is handsomely printed on
printed, and delicately bound in pale blue with cover rather thick cream-tinted paper, and the cover is of
ornament in lavender and sea-green. A rather effec buff and gold. The book is artistic, and should
tive and original feature is the sixteen illustrations form an unexceptionable gift.
consisting of half-tone reproductions of paintings by For a low-priced yet sound and tasteful gift-book,
artists mostly modern - Alma Tadema, Edouard nothing better could be selected than a volume
Bisson, Tito Conti, W. Menzler, N. Sichel, F. of the “Copley Series " (Crowell), which com-
Andreotti, etc. The connection of pictures with prises “Abbé Constantin," Kipling's “Barrack-
text is of course rather vague and fanciful; but Room Ballads,” “ Cranford,” “ Evangeline," “ Hia-
they serve the end of beautifying the book and watha,” “ The House of the Seven Gables,” Mere-
making it an attractive and a suitable one for a gift. dith's “ Lucille," and Curtis's “ Prue and I.” The
Another attractive, but in range of authors some text is printed on good deckle-edge paper with lib-
wbat less comprehensive, anthology of poems of eral margins, and the bindings show a notably
love is entitled For Love's Sweet Sake” (Lee & tasteful design in dark-green with floriated gold
Shepard). The editor is Mr. G. Hembert Westley, borders. The colored illustrations have a pleasing
and his selections in the present volume evince the effect, and, altogether, the volumes must be pro-
same good taste shown in its predecessor and com nounced of marvellously good quality, considering
panion, “ Because I Love You." Mr. Westley the low price asked for them.


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I.
What the
Mr. Rupert Hughes's “ The Dozen from Lakerim"
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
(Century) is almost exclusively athletic, with more of
track and team events to distinguish it from its fellows.
First of all the reflections we children of a
There is a thesis underlying these stories
larger growth are likely to have on looking
Student life
of the boys at school and college, ably de-
season brings.
of girls.
over the long lists of books for the young
fended by all these writers except Mr.
is the great number of the better books. While there Kipling, to the effect that athletics increase the capacity
are quite as many of the other sort as there used to be, for school work, and eminence in both is attained quite
the enormous increase in the number of volumes in-
as readily as eminence in either. Yet the books which
tended for the oncoming generation is made up from deal with girls in school and college show nothing of
tales and picture-books of a sort wholly unknown thirty this tendency, for all the woman's athletics and golfing.
years ago. With this goes a consciousness of many Miss Frances Freiot Gilbert, in “The Annals of My
world-movements,- all the noisier ones, in fact, the College Life” (Lee), provides an illustrated blank-
echoes of which come back from the children's world. book (to use a seeming paradox) wherein, as she says,
War is dominant in their reading matter, almost to the girls may record the bright features of student days.”
exclusion of the healthier excitement of travel and ad She provides for “My Arrival,” “My Chums," My
venture. Historical tales are evidently popular with Spreads," and the like, but not for “My Athletic Suc-
the youngsters, as with their elders ; and of all the cesses.”—In “Beck's Fortune” (Lee), Miss Adele E.
various kinds of these, topics taken from colonial days Thompson turns the interest attaching to her school-
are most in vogue. Just as the man of complex civili girl in romantic directions, the story being both strong
zation turns most lovingly to nature, so the American and wholesome.— And in “ The Boys and Girls of
who is leaving the simplicity of bis national life behind Brantham" (Little, Brown, & Co.) Miss Evelyn Ray-
him harks back to the more natural days when the na mond depicts a coëducational military academy in
tion was still in swaddling clothes. But one difference which both sexes drill with fervor, but fails to make
is to be noted: the gentler sex is said to dominate the athletes of either her boys or girls. The book, for all
fiction for the adult reading population, and the novel its incipient militarism, with all our American girls po-
which makes no appeal to womankind is said to be fore tential Molly Starks, is exciting; a crime and the sus-
doomed. Among these works for children and youth, picions it gives rise to heightening the interest.
on the contrary, boys' books are greatly in the majority.
How much work is done by men of letters
It may be that girls like boys' books better than those Tales of war
to-day in comparison with an earlier day,
originally intended for themselves, while girls' books
and action.
illustrating the high pressure under which
make no corresponding appeal to their brothers; still, we moderns have to work, is best proved by the new
a more likely solution comes to the same end, in the publications of Mr. George Alfred Henty, already suf-
assumption that here too the little woman is doing the
ficiently well known to have a class of literature, the
work of the little man, as in so many other things in “ Henty books,” named from him. His methods are
real life.
simple and natural, though he deals with the more ex-
Stories of
Stories of school and college are numerous citing events of history, and therefore leans away from
and wholesome.“ Stalky & Co." (Double the normal always. This method consists in taking an
and college.
day), from the pen of Mr. Rudyard Kip historical episode of sufficient consequence, and weav-
ling, is the sincerest of these, since it goes to the pains ing into it the fortunes of a boy. Three of his new
of showing the boy as he is rather than the boy as his books are published by Scribner, and of these “ Won by
parents would have him. The ignoring of the evolu the Sword” deals with the Thirty Years' War, “No Sur
tionary idea that the individual repeats in himself the render" is concerned with the rising in La Vendée, and
history of the race is one of the troubles with most “ A Roving Commission " treats of the black insurrec-
children's reading matter, as anyone may prove who tion in Hayti. Another of his stories, “The Brahmin's
will
back to the “Eric, or Little by Little" of Canon Treasure, or Colonel Thorndike's Secret” (Lippincott),
Farrar, which Stalky and his companions so detest. is more of a novel than the others, and for boys some-
English schools are healthy in sentiment, and give the what older; while a fifth volume bearing the Henty
youthful savage scope for his savagery, as in the present name is “ Yule Tide Yarns " (Longmans), in which Mr.
instance; and the fact that it contains an autobiography Henty furnishes the first story, its companions coming
of the author as a lad heightens the value of it.--"The from pens as competent as those of Messrs. Bloudelle
Adventures of a Freshman” (Scribner) is written by Burton, David Ker, George Manville Fenn, and others.
Mr. Jesse Lynch Williams to tell what may befall a These novels are distinctly historical, and of value on
healthy young countryman during his first year at that account, apart from the interesting manner in
Princeton, proving that boys gain by temptations, if they which they are set forth.— With them goes Mr. Henry
are the right kind of boys.—“The Half Back” (Apple- Newbolt's “Stories from Froissart " (Macmillan).
ton), by Mr. Ralph H. Barbour, is a tale of a fitting Unlike Sidney Lanier in his “Boy's Froissart," Mr.
school and of the freshman year in Harvard, thinly Newbolt takes most of his narrative directly from the
disguised as “Harwell."— Similarly, “Ward Hill at pages of Lord Berners's great translation, though it is
College” (A. J. Rowland), by Dr. Everett T. Tomlin greatly abridged, even in comparison with the other.-
son, deals with life in Rutgers, the name of that re “ The Story of Magellan" (Appleton) of Mr. Hezekiah
spectable foundation being sufficiently apparent in the Butterworth is pleasant to read, as anything dealing
anagram “Tegrus." All these have a lot of Rugby with a life so full of wonders must be. It has added
football in them, while Mr. Barbour's volume treats of interest at the present time because of the great navi-
golf as well.—“Cattle Ranch to College" (Doubleday) | gator's connection with the Philippines.—Mr. Henry
is by Mr. Russell Doubleday, and portrays a boy too St. John uses Sir Francis Drake in a similar manner in
busy earning an honest living to go in for athletics, “ The Voyage of the Avenger” (L. C. Page & Co.),
though he wins a bicycle race at just the right time. which has to do with the Spanish Inquisition and other
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to the
matters of more or less fascination.- Mrs. Molly Elliot shows somewhat desultorily in “ Henry in the War, or
Seawell leaves America for a time to follow a young The Model Volunteer” (Lee & Shepard), by General
French-English-Scotchman, “Gavin Hamilton” (Har 0. O. Howard. It is a sequel to his former book for
per), through the wars between Maria Theresa and boys, and contains an interesting glance at West Point
Frederick the Great. It makes excellent reading. in a day now remote.-- A semi-historical book relating
So does Mr. O. V. Caine's “ In the Year of Waterloo to the Rebellion is “On General Thomas's Staff"
(A. I. Bradley), a book of good fighting, opening with (McClurg), the second of the sort from the pen of Mr.
the somewhat usual “sound of revelry by night.” Byron A. Dunn. It is undoubtedly readable, and con-
American
The books which deal with the past of
tains some spirited pictures of events among our fight-
history to the America, from days very remote to those
ing armies in the great Southwest.— “An Undivided
Revolution.
quite recent, are well nigh innumerable. Union” (Lee & Shepard) is the last new publication
“ The Treasure Ship” (Appleton), also by Mr. Heze which will ever bear the name of “Oliver Optic,” the
kiah Butterworth, has to do with Sir William Phipps
late William T. Adams, though it owes its completion
and his lucky find (which, like a number of other to Mr. Edward Stratemeyer, who has evidently made a
things worth having, was not so much luck as good study of his predecessor's methods, since he follows
sense) and the American regicides. — “The Boys of them closely in his original books as well as in this. It
Scrooby” (Houghton), by Miss Ruth Hall, goes back
is a tale of Kentucky fighting, ending with Chicka-
to an earlier period 'still, baving to do with Captain mauga, and abounds in the sort of incident which won
John Smith first, and then with the Mayflower.-"Fife
Mr. Adams a sale of two million volumes for his vari.
and Drum at Louisbourg” (Little, Brown, & Co.) is a
ous books, a sale which shows no signs of abatement.
pleasant story of a pair of Yankee twins during the
Prom Cuba The war with Spain and associated events
French War, by Mr. J. Macdonald Oxley ; and “The
is not the mainspring of as much action in
Young Puritans in Captivity” (Little, Brown, & Co.),
Philippines. this sort of reading-matter as it was a year
the third of the “ Young Puritan" series written by ago. “ Forward March!” (Harper) is a well-told tale
Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith, treats of the fortunes of of deeds about Santiago, by Mr. Kirk Munroe, in
Prudence Ellis and Submit Carter, who were carried which the Rough Riders appear for the sixth or seventh
away from Hadley in King Philip's war. - Another time in books. — “Cleared for Action” (Dutton), by
tale of King Philip's war is Mr. Edward S. Ellis's Mr. Willis Boyd Allen, has to do with the navy, and is
“ Uncrowning a King" (Penn Publishing Co.). The also worth reading.- Mr. James Otis adds two slender
hero does wonders, but modern sympathy goes out volumes to his “Stories of American History" (Dana
to the unfortunate Philip nevertheless. Coming Estes) with “Off Santiago with Sampson ” and “When
down to Revolutionary times, Mr. Elbridge S. Brooks Dewey Came to Manila.” Necessarily, the young men
makes a very good book indeed of “In Blue and in the former book were not on the “New York," for
“White" (Lothrop), which has to do with a member they contrived to take part in the sea-fight of July third,
of General Washington's Life-Guard.—"A Jersey Boy and the father of one of them was on the “Brooklyn."
in the Revolution (Houghton), by Dr. Everett T. - Mr. Rossiter Johnson prepares an excellent account
Tomlinson, reminds us that New Jersey was a scene of of Admiral Dewey, both as a young man on the Missis-
constant struggle during the earlier days of our inde sippi and in his later exploits, with the title of “The
pendence, and is correspondingly engrossing to those Hero of Manila” (Appleton). It is profusely_illus-
who like war's alarums.-Colonel Charles Ledyard trated.—“Two American Boys in Hawaii” (Dana Estes)
Norton strikes the note we used not to hear at all, in leads
up to the actual scenes of annexation in Honolulu,
“ The Queen's Rangers ” (Wilde), in which some Amer and Mr. G. Waldo Browne tells the story convincingly
ican boys take service with Britain in New York, and and well. The same author also goes back to the
later desert to the patriot cause. “The Minute Boys struggle between Massachusetts and New Hampshire
of Bunker Hill” (Dana Estes) is by Mr. Edward for the debatable ground between them in 1740 and the
Stratemeyer, a slight but not uninteresting tale ; and succeeding years, and “The Woodranger" (Page) is
"A Revolutionary Maid” (Wilde), by Miss Amy E. the pleasing and instructive result.— The indefatigable
Blanchard, begins in New York, when the old statue Mr. Stratemeyer brings his “Old Glory" series down
on the Battery was pulled down by the Liberty Boys, to date with « Under Otis in the Philippines, or a Young
and goes through Valley Forge. It has a pleasant little Officer in the Tropics ” (Lee & Shepard), in which
romance woven in it.
Americans have the melancholy pleasure of reading of
“On Fighting Decks in 1812” (Dana the undoubted bravery of their soldiers exhibited in a
Estes) is by Mr. F. H. Costello, and takes war with men fighting for liberty. Finally, a tolerably
us down to the second war for independ complete survey of our greatness in men of many kinds
ence. The hero of the book is in sufficiently good luck appears in the brief and admirably designed series of
to be on the “Constitution" under Commodore Hull “ Historic Americans” (Crowell), by Mr. Eldridge S.
when she meets the “ Guerriére," and on the same gal-
Brooks.
lant ship under Commodore Bainbridge when she met
It seems to be generally true that women
the “Java.” It is good reading. — “Midshipman
Invention and
do not enjoy stories of fighting, so that all
discovery.
Stuart, or The Last Cruise of the Essex” (Scribner)
the tales of war just enumerated are not
could be made more realistic by the use of less end-of intended for girls, unless these are so much nearer
the-century slang, and it is not as well-told a narrative barbarism that their taste for bloody scenes or bloody
as others of Mr. Kirk Munroe's.— “Captain Tom the deeds is not yet effaced. It is to be noted generally,
Privateersman" (Dana Estes) is by Mr. James Otis, however, that the real horrors of war, the inevitable
aud sets forth the adventures of a boy on the brig facts which make it, as General Sherman said, “hell,”
“Chasseur,” which was one of the best fighting ships are glossed over by all the writers mentioned, and only
America ever sailed under her flag, and abundantly its splendors, as set apart from its horrors, are permitted
deserving all the recognition possible. The Civil War to appear. Even in the tales of the Revolution, when
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the American cause was just and aided in the cause of to one of “The Boys of Marmiton Prairie” (Little,
human freedom, there is a tendency to minimize the
justice of the cause in favor of the glory of mere courage that eventually flows from it, make excellent reading;
on the scene of battle afloat or ashore. This must ap while “The Voyage of the Pulo Way” (Fenno) is as sen-
peal to the lower instincts of boys; and we like to think sational as Mr. Carlton Dawe knows how to make a
that the girls, at least, have no share in it. But the boy's book, with piracy and fighting around the Philip-
rest of the books for boys are for the most part wholo- pine islands among its incidents.— A curious mingling of
some and hearty, when they are not most interestingly unusual information and mishap is “ The Golden Talis-
instructive. In this last class, “ The Boy's Book of man” (Wilde), by Mr. H. Phelps Whitmarsh. It con-
Inventions " (Doubleday), by Mr. Ray Stannard Baker, tains an account of a young captive who supplies a
must be given very high rank indeed, and it is difficult scentless kingdom with all manner of agreeable per-
to imagine anyone who will not be fascinated by the fumes, to the delight of all concerned. “Captain
wonders it describes. Also dealing with mechanics and Kodak" (Lothrop) is a camera story, and the proficiency
its kindred topics is “Dorsey, the Young Inventor" of Mr. Alexander Black, its author, is shown by the
(Fords, Howard & Hulbert), by Mr. Edward S. Ellis. illustrations reproducing photographs he has taken. It
The author makes use of the boy's genius to pay off a is what boys with a tendency for picture-making will ask
mortgage, which is not particularly original with him, for.— Mr. William Drysdale has done a difficult thing
but makes the book a desirable one nevertheless. very well in his “Helps for Ambitious Boys” (Crowell).
“The Young Boss” (Crowell), by Mr. Edward William He takes up various handicrafts successively, pointing
Thompson, also treats of some engineering feats, and is out their respective merits, adds to it accounts of the
a pleasant account of difficulties overcome.
learned professions so called, and produces a book which
Among the few books of travels in the will be a real assistance to boys and their parents both:
Travel and
usual sense of the word is Mr. Paul Du a thing frequently attempted and seldom carried out to
adventure.
Chaillu's “ The Land of the Long Night” anything like a successful conclusion.
(Scribner). This deals with experiences, some of them
What a pleasant picture of a lad's happi-
downright hardships, in the Scandinavian peninsula, and
For boys
est days in Scotland Mr. S. R. Crockett
chiefly.
has the intimate knowledge of children's tastes and
gives in “Kit Kennedy, Country Boy”
fancies which characterize this writer's earlier works. (Harper), returning to an earlier (and better) manner!
- Another tale of life in high latitudes is the “ Winter And the traths in his pages, which give a man that
Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land curious start, as if he had renewed his youth for a mo-
(Eaton & Mains), by Mr. Egerton R. Young. The land ment, are told in another form, of American boys in a
in question is Labrador, and the Hudson Bay Company's Western country town, by Mr. William Allen White in
men provide the other persons of the story.- A third “ The Court of Boyville" (Doubleday). Mr. White's
volume from the busy pen of Dr: Everett T. Tomlinson boys do not get as old as Kit, and they are correspond-
is “Camping on the St. Lawrence, or on the Trail of ingly free from the finalities; but they are all the more
the Early Discoverers" (Lee & Shepard). In the last real. Mr. Orson Lowell's illustrations in the American
vacation before entering college, four boys go into the book are just what is needed to finish the picture.— A
wilderness which the French had passed through con book which every boy can read to his profit, in more
turies before, and have the sort of time which men try senses than one, is Mr. William 0. Stoddard's.“ Ulric
to have when they go off camping.--"To Alaska for the Jarl" (Eaton & Mains). Daring, but not improb-
Gold” (Lee & Shepard) deals with the recent dis able, is the conception that the penitent thief was a
coveries of precious metals along the Yukon, and Mr. viking from the north; and the book has real merit.-
Stratemeyer, though he gives his young men consider Of an older fashion is Mr. Harry Castlemon's “The
ably better fortune than most of the prospectors have White Beaver" (Coates), where there are crimes and
had in the Klondike, still paints the difficulties of that retributions galore. With this goes another long familar
remote region.— Hunting, rather than travel, makes up name, that of Mr. Horatio Alger, Jr., with “Rupert's
the argument in “Grant Burton the Runaway” (Lee Ambition " (Coates), in which everything bappens at
& Shepard), wherein Mr. W. Gordon Parker carries on precisely the right moment, in precisely the manner in
the adventures of the boys he introduced his readers to which everything fails to happen in real life.—Another
last year, with some additions. The story has a fine boy who wins his way up from straitened circum-
manly tone.- Another book devoted to the search for stances is the hero of “The Bishop's Shadow” (Revell),
gold, in the Rocky Mountains this time, is “ The Treas the bishop being the late Phillips Brooks, of glorious
ure of Mushroom Rock” (Putnam), by Mr. Sidford F. and saintly memory.- If there is anything which ought
Hamp.—And still another is “ The Young Goldseekers" to make a small boy proud, it is the manner in which
(Penn Publishing Co.), by Mr. Edward S. Ellis, Alaska other small boys wage successful warfare with a tribe
being the scene of the treasure hunting. How easy it of red Indians in war-paint, in the pages of Mr. Ed-
is to find the end of the rainbow in books!
ward S. Ellis's “ Iron Heart, Chief of the Iroquois
More stories than one have been woven (Coates). It is really worth while.--" Three Times
around the Victoria Cross, and many more
Three" (Revell) is a composite tale of a boy's tempta-
of heroes.
will continue to be told of the deeds of tions in a large city, written by many hands, including
valor which it rewards. “Tom Graham, V.C.” (Nel-
those of Mrs. G. R. Alden, Miss Faye Huntington, and
son), by Mr. William Johnson, is the latest of these, others. It is moral.
and tells us how Tom was able to distinguish himself in
Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine's latest book,
Books for both
the Afghan war to his heart's content.—“ Jack the Young
“ The Beacon Prize Medals, and Other
boys and girls.
Ranchman” (Stokes), from the pen of Mr. William
Stories” (Baker & Taylor Co.), includes
Bird Grinnell, is a pleasant medley of Indians, Rocky also the thrilling tale of happily averted accident, “Out
Mountains, and boys on a ranch, with adventure and with the Tide." The short stories of which the volume
enterprise apparent on every page.- A serious accident is composed are intended for both boys and girls, and
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they make this double appeal successfully. It is a curi and the happiness that came from this relation. That
ous fact that boys in stories always gain by being asso thoughtless selfishness which is at the bottom of half
ciated with other boys' sisters, so far as gentleness and the world's ill is exposed in its perfect ugliness by Mrs.
kindliness are concerned.—“The Fugitive” (Scribner) Lucy C. Lillie in “Margaret Thorp's Trial” (Dodd,
of Mr. John R. Spears is an instance of a contrary sort, Mead & Co.). Margaret has a sister to whom she is
showing all the assorted evils which come to a lad devoted unreasonably at first, but her devotion finally
deprived of feminine influence. The book is melo brings about a realization of the truth.- Mrs. Ellen
dramatic, and not up to the author's own standard Olney Kirk has a cheerful admixture of sea and shore
after the earlier chapters are passed. It has to do in “Dorothy and Her Friends” (Houghton), a book
with slaves and with slave ships.—Even more ambi for quite little girls.-— " A Flower of the Wilderness
tious, and a book to be read with profit by young and (Little, Brown, & Co.) is a nice little Puritan maiden
old alike, is Mr. Thomas Nelson Page's “Santa Claus's whose portrait is painted with both pen and pencil by
Partner” (Scribner), as pretty a bit of adventure in Miss A. G. Plympton.—“Elsie in the South” (Dodd,
domestic circles as can well be written.—“The Young Mead & Co.) is the fortieth book from the workshop
Master of Hyson Hall” (Lippincott), by Mr. Frank of Mrs. Martha Finley, all very well liked, and all
R. Stockton, reminds us that Mr. Stockton's first suc flavored with the language of the Sunday school.—
cesses were with children's stories. This has less than “ The Island Impossible” (Little, Brown, & Co.) of
usual of the somewhat characteristic whimsicality of Miss Harriet Morgan has its whimsies drawn into pic-
the author, and is none the worse on that account. tures by Mrs. Katharine Pyle, and the resulting volume
Informed with the spirit of poetry, Mrs. Maud Balling is out of the common and laughable.—"Harum-Scarum
ton Booth’s “ Sleepy Time Stories" (Putnam) are Joe” (Dana Estes) is slight and Southern, by Miss
models of writing for the young, being wholly free from Will Allen Drumgoole. It is rather a story for little
mawkishness, and much to be treasured.- “Uncle girls than boys, though written about a boy.-Of colo-
Remus” might have inspired Mr. Joel Chandler Har nial interest, showing something of the history behind
ris's “ Plantation Pageants” (Houghton), and all that “ Evangeline,” is Miss Eliza F. Pollard's “ A Daughter
made his first book world-famous enters into this last of France" (Nelson), an account of a little Huguenot
work of his. It is funny, and it is considerably more, child in Acadia.— The rather unusual Australian girl
by way of good measure. Mr. Elbridge S. Brooks makes « Trefoil” (Nelson), by Miss M. P. Macdonald,
weaves the poet Longfellow into his story of a vacation more than ordinarily interesting. There are three of
summer, “On Wood Cove Island” (Penn Publishing her, and they have a society of their own, showing the
Co.), making him the centre of interest to a number of pervasiveness of the club movement. The “Wheat
little people.--In a somewhat similar fashion General and Huckleberries” (Wilde) of Mrs. Charlotte M.
Grant is woven into “ Under the Tamaracks” (Penn), Vaile is another wholesome book from a competent
also by Mr. Brooks. The story was popular several hand, telling of three girls from the West who spend a
years ago.
summer in New England. With a little of the fash-
Of books more distinctly for girls, none ionable sociological interest, and a great deal more of
About girls
could be more delightful reading than
and for them.
humanity in it, Miss Carolyn Wells has turned her
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett's “ Betty Leices manifest talents to excellent use in “ The Story of
ter's Christmas” (Houghton). It is an international Betty" (Century). It is an account of a little Irish
work, telling how a simple-hearted little American girl maid-of-all-work who adopts a most curious family of
made one of the stately homes of England the merrier her own as soon as she can afford it.-"We Four Girls "
for her presence.
“ My Lady Frivol” (Lippincott), (Lee & Shepard) sets forth the adventures of some
by Miss Rosa Nouchette Carey, is for girls almost girl friends who spend a summer vacation together in
grown up, and is almost a full-fledged English novel.-- the country. The author, Miss Mary G. Darling, shows
“ Under the Cactus Flag" (Houghton), by Mrs. Nora how their divergent characters act and react to the
Archibald Smith, tells of a young American girl who advantage of them all.–A judicious blending of Italian
went to teach school in Mexico, and what delightful art and American girlhood is the distinguishing feature
experiences she had in the neighboring republic.--Mrs. of Miss Deristhe L. Hoyt's “ Barbara's Heritage, or
A. D. T. Whitney tells a story which bids fair to equal | Young Americans among the Old Italian Masters"
the best of her well and favorably known stories for (Wilde).— If an ideal farm is lovely, so is Mrs. C. F.
girls, in " Square Pegs" (Houghton). Estabel, the Fraser's little book about one, called “Strawberry
heroine, is charming.--Mrs. Amanda M. Douglas pub Hill” (Crowell).—When “Wee Lucy's Secret” (Loe
lishes two books (Dodd, Mead & Co.), one of them & Shepard) is said to be the fourth volume of “Little
telling of “ A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia," as a com Prudy's Children" series, everyone knows all about it.
panion to her former book about a little girl in old It is a pleasant thought that Sophie May (Miss Clarke)
New York, and the other a sequel to a better-known can write as spontaneously for the grandchildren as she
series, “The Heir of Sherburne." Both can be com did long years ago for the grandmothers.—“Sunbeams
mended.--"Peggy” (Dana Estes) is a school-girl book and Moonbeams” (Crowell) takes its name from two
by Miss Laura E. Richards, and is filled with fun and olubs, one of girls and one of boys, which Mrs. Louise
frolic; while “Quicksilver Sue" (Century), by the R. Baker brings into contrast, with interesting and
bame author, has a little of the pathos in it that made sometimes laughable results.—A happy combination of
her “Captain January” so acceptable.- Sweet little imagination and history makes “The House with Sixty
tales, short as sweet, make up the “Little Fig Tree Closets” (Lee & Shepard) of Mr. Frank Samuel Child
Stories” (Houghton) of Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote. justify its sub-title of “A Christmas Story for Young
They make the bewintered Easterner long for the Folks and Old Children.” The pictures, unfortunately,
glories of the California climate.--"Roses" (Ketcham) detract from the illusion of the narrative.--"Little
is as English as possible, Miss Amy Le Feuvre telling Miss Conceit” (Bradley) is by Miss Elinor D. Adams.
us in it of a little girl adopted by her old godmamma, It is the useful account of a spoiled child's becoming


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For the
younger
readers.
unspoiled.- Pictures by Miss Bess Goe enhance the (Scribner) has its comical drawings and equally comical
charm of a rather mature book for girls, Miss Amy E. verses from the same hand, that of Mr. Oliver Herford.
Blanchard's “ Miss Vanity” (Lippincott). The story It is the sort of book grown-up people buy to give their
is a sweet and wholesome one.—“Two Wyoming Girls” children so they can read it themselves.- Out of the
(Penn Publishing Co.), by Mrs. Carrie L. Marshall, ordinary sort is “ The Adventures of a Siberian Cub”
tells of life in the far West under discouragements and (Page), translated from the Russian by M. Léon Golsch-
trials which are made right at last by womanly stead mann, and plentifully supplied with pictures by Miss
fastness and courage.-"My Lady Barefoot” (Penn Winifred Austin. It is a pleasant account of a little
Publishing Co.), by Mrs. Evelyn Raymond, recounting bear who attains his maturity in captivity. - Miss
the hardships and final success of a little backwoods Etheldred B. Barry's pitiful story, “Little Tong's Mis-
woman, is really new in its scenery and episodes.-Miss sion” (Dana Estes), is as pathetic as a little crippled
Annie M. Barnes has a Georgia background for her boy can make it. Tong is the boy, but Jeff, his dog, is
• Ferry Maid of the Chattahoochee” (Penn Publishing almost as important in the story, and adds greatly to its
Co.), in which a little girl succeeds in supporting a fam value.— The escape from zoological gardens of a parrot,
ily by dint of great cheerfulness and much hard work. and the results, make “Madam Mary of the Zoo"
-A combination of history and religion is “A Maid of (Little, Brown, & Co.) one of Mrs. Lily F. Wesselhoeft's
the First Century” (Penn Publishing Co.), by Mrs. most successful books for children. It is humorous,
Lucy Foster Madison, following as it does a little mai instructive, and interesting.–“ Bruno" (Little, Brown,
den from Palestine to Rome, and her speedy conversion & Co.) is Mr. Byrd Spillman Dewey's narrative of a
to the new faith.
fine hunting dog, and a most excellent book for boys
Books, whether their charm lies in their with pets or without them.
text, their pictures, or both, seem to be-
The American Indian comes in for sym-
Indians and
come epicene when told for the very young.
golliwoggs.
pathetic treatment in children's books,
It is this which gives most of them a little-boy-and-girl
if nowhere else. «Indian Child Life"
interest, rather than one peculiar to either sex taken (Stokes), with many entertaining and truthful pictures
singly. “Told Under the Cherry Trees" (Lee & Shep in both color and black-and-white by Mr. Edwin Willard
ard), gives Miss Grace Le Baron an opportunity to Deming, the reading matter by Mrs. Therese O. Deming,
bring two orphans, Willie and Miriam, together. Then is an excellent example of this.—“ Docas, the Indian
Willie goes off and grows up and gets rich in the most Boy of Santa Clara" (Heath), by Mrs. Genevra Sisson
conventional manner.-Its scene laid in the vicarage of Snedden, is another, being accompanied by more than
a small English village, “ Rob and Kit” (Little, Brown, a score of full-page pictures. Of another sort, since
& Co.), by the author of " Miss Toosey's Mission," is the Indians are used in caricature as illustrations for a
a placid little tale, ending in a break-up and the coming parody of “ Hiawatha,” is “Our Indians, a Midnight
of Rob to America.- Mr. James Otis, who is as versa Visit to the Great Somewhere-or-Other” (Dutton),
tile as he is industrious, makes a very good story, in sketches and hand-lettering being done by Mr. L. D.
which old acquaintances appear, of “Christmas at Bradley.-Other books filled with pictures for small
Deacon Hackett’s” (Crowell). It is bright without children and their kinsfolk are not so numerous as in
being forced. — “King Pippin” (Page) is a good little
“ Outside of Things, A Sky Book”
boy who is still not too good for his health. It is the (Dutton) has some astronomical verses done by Miss
last addition, by Mrs. Gerard Ford, to the “Gift Book' Alice Ward Bailey, with more or less appropriate illus-
series.- Not a little people's book, though there are trations by Miss Annita Lyman Paine. — “The Golli-
little people in it, is “ The Wild Ruthvens ” (Page), by wogg in War" (Longmans) is another of the books by
Mr. Curtis Yorke. They become tamer in the course the Misses Upton, funny enough for very small chil-
of the narrative.- In the “Cosy Corner" series (Page), dren, and indicating that the martial spirit has fairly
there are three volumes, one, "Two Little Knights of invaded the kindergarten. Of the same sort is “Gal-
Kentucky," by Miss Annie Fellows Johnson, with a large lant Little Patriots" (Stokes), with text by Miss Mabel
bear in it; another, “ Little King Davie," is by Miss Humphrey and pictures by Miss Maud Humphrey. It
Nellie Hellis, with a boy in a hospital who is almost too shows various babes in soldier and sailor uniform,
self-denying; while the third is “ A Little Daughter of potential enlargers of the empire we older ones shall
Liberty,” by Miss Edith Robinson, in which the heroine leave them.— Two quaint translations from the Ger-
is a little Revolutionary girl whose descendants, let us man of Wilhelm Busch have been made by Mr. Charles
hope, are as zealous for freedom in America as she T. Brooks, “ Plish and Plum” and “ Max and Maurice"
:-"A Pair of Pickles” (Bradley) tells of two Eng- (Little, Brown, & Co.). The pictures are as old-fash-
lish children, one of them a Sir Lionel, and is written ioned and Teutonic as possible, and the heroes of the
by Mrs. Evelyn Everett-Green.
two stories very mischievous indeed.
Stories of animals are numerous enough to
Of fairy tales there is no lack. Mr.
Stories of
form a category by themselves, and Mr.
Fairy tales
Charles J. Bellamy tells six delightful
and fables.
Andrew Lang's “Red Book of Animal
ones in his “ Return of the Fairies” (Little
Stories" (Longmans) surely heads the list with its more Folks Publishing Co.), and they have the real feeling
or less mystical references to “ The Wuss, the Azorkon, of wonder and simplicity.-“Nannie's Happy Child-
and the Pod.” It is a collection of unusual creatures, hood” (Houghton), by Mrs. Caroline Leslie Field, is
and in its inventor's happiest manner.--"Father Goose, an every-day story, with fairies coming in by way of
His Book" (George M. Hill Co.) has its pages filled variety, to show how natural it all is after one under-
with animals and children by Mr. William Wallace stands it. With these are to be classed two re-publica-
Denslow, Mr. L. Frank Baum furnishing the inerry tions, “Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales” and “Old French
jingles which accompany them. The book makes a field Fairy Tales” (Little, Brown, & Co.), both being selec-
for itself, being quite of its own kind and immensely tions from the tales of Charles Perrault, Madame
entertaining.--"A Child's Primer of Natural History” | D’Aulnoy, and many more. They are plentifully illus-
former years.
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the substitution of pictures by Blanche McManus (Mrs. Man New Higher Algebra," by Mr. Webster Wells,
trated.— A new “Mother Goose” (Lippincott) has the “Chatterbox” (Dana Estes); the orthodox “Sunday
advantage of being interpreted by the pencil of Mr. Reading for the Young" (E. & J. B. Young); and
F. Opper, who puts a new and most oddly modern the admirable “St. Nicholas Christmas Book” (Cent-
aspect on the old rhymes. The book is as funny as a ury), with its wealth of pictures, and contributions by
book can be, for the pictures exceed two hundred and scores of the best known writers for children.
fifty in number.— A new edition of the late William
Brighty Rand's “ Lilliput Lyrics ” (John Lane) owes
its undoubted fun to the spirited and delicious sketches
LITERARY NOTES.
of Mr. Charles Robinson, quite as much as to the
classical verses they interpret.-" Alice in Wonder-
Messrs. Ginn & Co. publish a revised edition of G. A.
land” loses in one direction and gains in another with
A“
M. F. Mansfield) for those of Sir John Tenniel. But
Messrs. Mansfield & Wessels have given it a presenta-
is published by Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co.
tion quite worthy of its merits in every respect.-
Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. publish a neat two-vol-
ume reissue of the “ Poetical Works” of Dante Gabriel
Equally munificent is a new edition of Hans Christian
Rossetti.
Andersen's
“ Fairy Tales” (Truslove, Hanson &
Comba), for which Dr. E. E. Hale has written an intro-
“Cæsar and Pompey in Greece," being selections from
duction and Miss Helen Stratton drawn more than four
Book III. of the “ Civil War," edited by Mr. E. H. Ath-
hundred pictures.- To these must be added luxurious
erton, is published by Messrs Ginn & Co.
editions of Charles and Mary Lamb's “Mrs. Leisces-
The last five books of the “Iliad," edited by Profes-
ter's School” (Dent), with pictures in color by Miss
sor Edward B. Clapp, is published by Messrs. Ginn &
Winifred Green, and their “Tales from Shakespeare”
Co. in their “ College Series of Greek Authors.”
(Truslove), with an introduction by Mr. Andrew Lang
“ The Dawn of a New Era, and Other Essays," by
and numerous pictures by Mr. Robert Bell.— And Dr. Paul Carus, is the latest issue in “ The Religion of
there is a new edition called “ A Hundred Fables of Science Library," issued by the Open Court Company.
Æsop” (John Lane), for which Mr. Kenneth Grahame Mr. Samuel Dill's “Roman Society in the Last Cen-
has prepared a charming prefatory statement, the illus tury of the Western Empire” (Macmillan), reviewed by
trations being by Mr. Percy J. Billinghurst. This follows us only a few months ago, has already gone into a sec-
the perfect English of Sir Roger L'Estrange.--The ond and revised edition, which is published at a reduced
“ Tales of Languedoc" (Macmillan), from the French price.
of Samuel Jacques Brun, is done by Mrs. Harriet W. Mr. Francis P. Harper is the American publisher of
Preston, and is all that can be desired in its account, the sixth edition of “Old English Plate," by Mr. Wil-
fully illustrated, of romance and history in that land of fred Joseph Cripps. This work has for twenty years
song and story." The Prince's Story Book” (Long been a standard authority upon its subject, and in its
mans) is a companion to the “Queen's Story Book" of present revision becomes more useful than ever. It
Isat year, and, like it, is edited by Mr. George Laurence contains over 2,600 facsimiles of plate marks and 123
Gomme. It deals with selections, taken from many illustrations of ancient pieces.
sources old and new, all of which carry on the account Professor G. R. Carpenter's “ Elements of Rhetoric
of English kings. -“ The Talking Thrush and Other and English Composition" (Macmillan) is the revision
Tales from India” (Dutton) is an excellent collection and expansion of an earlier work having substantially
of fairy and folk stories from Hindustan, made by Mr. the same title, and now withdrawn from circulation.
W. Crooke, re-told by Mr. W. H. D. Rouse, and beau It bears the impress of the latest educational thought
tifully illustrated by Mr. W. H. Robinson. The tales relating to the beginnings of secondary school work, and
are familiar in Europeanized forms. Of the same sort deserves warm commendation.
is “ Fairy Tales from Far Japan” (Revell), translated Mr. Charles Annesley's “The Standard Operaglass”
by Miss Susan Ballard, with an introduction by Mrs.
(Brentano's) contains brief synopses of the plots of no
Isabella L. Bishop, the illustrations being from the less than one bundred and twenty-three operas, which
hands of native artists. The stories are fascinating: is many more than the average opera-goer, however as-
“ Tales of an Old Chateau ” (McClurg) is an agglom siduous, gets a chance to bear in a whole lifetime. The
eration of French folk-lore stories, gathered by Miss present is the fifteenth edition of this popular work, to
Margaret Bouvet, the different bits being pleasantly which Mr. James Huneker contributes an entertaining
told. Following stories of the Iliad and Odyssey comes introduction.
"The Story of the Æneid” (Penn Publishing Čo.), by The 1898 volume of the American Art Annual hav,
Dr. Edward Brooks. Virgil's charm is, of course, un ing been published late in the season, it has been found
translatable, but the effect here is seemly, as a whole. advisable to issue only a pamphlet supplement, which
Anthologies, Deserving mention of a particular kind is will be published at once (Macmillan). This will con-
new editions, “The Listening Child” (Macmillan), an tain a diary with dates of the principal exhibitions, meet-
and annuals.
anthology of verse, narrative and descrip- ings of art societies, etc., for the season of 1899-1900,
tive, and all the rest, done by Mrs. Lucy W. Thacher, a list of important sales of the season of 1898-1899,
with a prefatory note by Colonel T. W. Higginson. and other matter.
Nothing we know in English is more likely to give a “ A First Manual of Composition" (Macmillan), by
child of impressionable age a downright love for the Dr. E. H. Lewis, is a text-book prepared for that edu.'
highest form of literary expression than the contents of cational limbo which includes the upper grammar and
this admirable volume, whether he listens to another's lower high school grades. This work serves as an in-
reading or reads it for himself.—There remain to be troduction to the “ First Book in Writing English ” of the
noted new editions of “Robinson Crusoe” and “Swiss same author, and also to certain “manuals " upon which
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Greek in High Schools. W. F. Webster. Forum.
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THE MANTLE OF ELIJAH.
ELEANOR.
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No. 324.
DEC. 16, 1899.
Vol. XXVII.
CONTENTS.
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A QUESTION OF ETHICS
479
COMMUNICATIONS
481
Arnold as an Abiding Force. Vida D. Scudder.
Mr. Sartain and Poe. A. G. Newcomer.
MILLAIS AND THE PRE-RAPHAELITES. E.G.J. 483
MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE. D. L. Maulsby 486
THE EGYPT OF TO-DAY. Shailer Mathews . 488
VARIOUS ASPECTS OF HAWAII. C. A. Kofoid 489
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne .
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Mason and Lang's Parson Kelly,
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS – II.
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A QUESTION OF ETHICS.
A passage in Mr. Lecky's recent work,
“The Map of Life," has caused some little stir
in ecclesiastical circles. The great historian
of morals takes occasion to speak of a biog-
raphy of the late John Boyle O'Reilly, and of
a eulogistic preface written for the book by no
less distinguished a personage than Cardinal
Gibbons. This action of the eminent church-
man is somewhat harshly characterized as be-
ing a condonation of the crime committed in
early manhood, which led to O'Reilly's convic-
tion and transportation to a penal colony. In
reply to this criticism, the Cardinal contributes
to the London “Tablet" the following state-
ment:
“ Assuming I was acquainted with the facts, Mr.
Lecky complained that I have not uttered a single word
in condemnation of O'Reilly's violation of his oath. I
feel it due to myself and in the interests of truth to
declare that till I read Mr. Lecky's criticism I did not
know O'Reilly had ever been a Fenian or a British
soldier, or had tried to seduce other soldiers from their
allegiance. In fact, up to this moment I have never
read a line of the biography for which I wrote an intro-
duction, and I hope that the author of the life, if he
comes across this letter, will not regard me as discour-
teous to him for making this avowal."
This statement is so remarkable that it de-
serves more than passing attention, for it in-
volves a question of the utmost importance to
the ethics of literature.
In the first place, and by way of preface, we
wish to say that few men in the public life of
America are deserving of the respect and ad-
miration which are the just due of Cardinal
Gibbons. Not only as a leader of his own
church, but also as a leader in that wider
sphere which embraces all the activities that
go to the making of good citizenship and the
promotion of social health, the distinguished
prelate of Baltimore has deserved well of his
fellow-countrymen. Nor would we willingly
speak harshly of O'Reilly, who, as an adopted
citizen of the United States, lived a blameless
life, and won an enthusiastic following among
the better elements of our society. But, hav-
ing made all these reservations, the bare facts
remain that (1) O'Reilly was once guilty of
an act for which no defense is possible, (2).
that his friendly biographers have glossed over
this act if they have not suppressed mention.
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of it altogether, and (3) that his ecclesiastical men the function is made almost a profession
eulogist wrote the preface in question, upon by frequency of performance.
his own admission, without knowledge of so Up to this point, no particular harm is done,
essential an episode, and even without reading for editors and publishers are wary people, who
“a line of the biography ” for which he thus have a cold blooded way of remaining uninflu-
became a sponsor.
enced by the warmest of “introductions." It
It is evident that the plea made by Cardinal is only in the case of actual entry into print
Gibbons in reply to Mr. Lecky's criticism of that the public becomes concerned with the
fers no real defense of the act concerned, and plot, and the function of the “introducer
leaves him, if anything, in worse case than be takes on a questionable ethical aspect. Here
fore. The matter is very simple. A man the publisher, no less than the writer, is im-
whose calling is such that he is bound by it to plicated in a sort of confidence game, and the
lay special stress upon ethical considerations victim is now the unsophisticated general reader,
writes in eulogistic strain of a character upon who is not upon his guard as the publisher is
which a dark blot has been fixed, and does not in the initial stages, and with whom the ægis
take reasonable pains to find out whether that of a respected name really serves as a protec-
character is deserving of unqualified praise. tion and a commendation for some work that is
Added to this first count there is the second, as likely as not to be intrinsically worthless.
that a man whose position gives unusual au Sometimes the imposition takes the shape of a
thority to his utterances is found willing to prefatory chapter of commendation or eulogy,
recommend to the public, by implication at sometimes it assumes the more insidious
least, a book which he confesses that he has form of a dedication, “ by personal permis-
never read. The first of these counts calls for sion and with the greatest respect,” to the
no particular comment. The evidence is plain, eminent person selected, sometimes it is prac-
and there can be but one judgment upon the ticed by the naive insertion of extracts from
duty involved and the admitted fact of its solicited testimonials — but in all cases there
neglect. Upon the second count there may is the same attempt to create a favorable pre-
be some variety of opinion, for it opens a possession by an adventitious appeal to some
question which has many ramifications, and achieved reputation.
which comes peculiarly within the province The harm in all these devices is that the ap-
of a journal devoted to the interests of liter proval given or implied is frequently lacking
ature.
in sincerity. So flagrant an example of the
The practice of “introducing” books and abuse as that which furnishes the text for our
their authors to the public begins before the present discussion is not common enough to be
act of publication. Some obscure writer pre- typical, but it shows to what an extreme the
pares a manuscript for the press, and casts abuse may possibly be carried. We are will-
about for a publisher. He is apt to entertaining to credit the “ introducer," as a rule, with
the delusion that his chances of a favorable some knowledge of the subject and some ex-
hearing will be enhanced if he goes upon his amination of the book to which he lends his
quest armed with testimonials of some sort. name, but even in the majority of cases the
With this idea in mind, he seeks out some re task seems to be performed in a rather per-
putable person whose name is widely known - functory manner. And how the name of the
more frequently a clergyman than anyone else victim is exploited! He may have contributed
- plays at once upon the vanity and the good no more than a page or two of platitudinous
nature of his victim, and secures one of those generalization, but his name looms large upon
vague and kindly letters with which editors the title-pages, and is boldly flaunted in the
and publishers are so familiar, and the sight advertisements. And there are, unfortunately,
of which makes them so weary. Having ob too many men of reputable rank who are found
tained these credentials, he submits his manu. willing, whether out of mere kindliness or in
script and awaits results. These depend, of return for a payment of money, to allow their
course, almost solely upon the merits of what pames to be so used as to produce a mislead-
he has to offer, and not, as he fondly supposes, ing impression concerning the publications with
upon the good-will of the sponsor whom he which they are connected. The instance of
has chosen for his work. Already we have in William Cullen Bryant is a conspicuous one
this practice the first appearance of the insin that will occur to the memory of older readers.
cere professional “introducer," for with some In the case of large collective enterprises, such


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as a dictionary, an encyclopædia, or a “ library
of literature,” the practice is growing more and
more common to place some familiar name or
collection of names in the forefront of the work
in question, although these names represent
little or none of the actual responsibility for
its character. It is refreshing to read Mr.
Andrew Lang's recent protest against this use
of his name in connection with a recent Ameri-
can enterprise. He says, substantially, that
he was engaged to make a few extracts from
Scott for a “library" of selections from stand-
ard literature, and that, to his surprise, his
name is being widely and flamboyantly adver-
tised as one of the editors of the work.
Even the grosser superchéries littéraires,
which Dumas practiced with so magnificent an
audacity, are not unknown in our own time, and
represent but one step beyond the practices to
which we have hitherto referred. It is an open
secret among those having practical acquaint-
ance with literary affairs that men who cannot
write at all sometimes achieve reputations as
brilliant essayists. The desire to assemble
notorieties in a table of contents has led more
than one magazine editor to connive at the de-
ception whereby some public man signs his
name to a paper prepared for him by his lit-
erary mercenary or his private secretary. The
ambitions of politicians and actors and mem-
bers of the professions to shine also in the
sphere of literature has led to many an act of
this sort, and will continue so to lead as long
as the birer and the hired are willing to make
terms with each other, and the editor is willing
to abet the deception. It is evident that the
practices to which our remarks have been de-
voted range all the way down the graduated
scale that begins with what is barely question-
able and ends with downright dishonesty. It
is clearly unsafe to enter upon this path at all,
lest one be tempted to step lower than was at
first anticipated. The literary conscience
should be at least as exacting as the commer-
cial conscience, and those who derogate from
the highest possible standard in these matters
are sinning against a greater light than is set
for the feet of men whose life is essentially one
of action rather than of thought.
ARNOLD AS AN ABIDING FORCE.
( To the Editor of The DIAL. )
May I say through your columns with what pleasure
and sympathy I read Mr. Johnson's thoughtful plea for
the permanent value of Arnold's writings, in your issue
of November 16? Mr. Johnson quotes for condemna-
tion and dissent from my “Social Ideals in English
Letters the phrase, “ Already we look back to Ar-
nold's strong and vivid work as belonging rather to bisa
tory than to the things that are.” Taken alone, the
phrase is, to be sure, sweeping enough, a clumsy and
inadequate expression of what was in my mind; but the
whole trend of my treatment of Arnold was to bring
into evidence, what it seems to me bas been too much
ignored, the remarkable breadth and solidity of his
social criticism, its clearness of insight, and the curious
prophetic quality it possesses. The “succès de scan-
dale” of Arnold's theological work threw his social
writings for a time into the shade; but they have as-
suredly an abiding interest and suggestiveness, and they
are as fresh to many of us to-day as when they were
written.
At the same time,- quite apart from anyone's desire
to “better social conditions," a desire which assuredly
should not affect literary judgments,- is it not true as
a matter of fact that the mood of men bas changed
since Arnold's day? Our estimate of the relative value
of various truths is simply a question of emphasis.
Surely, I did not in my book depreciate the permanent
worth or the genius of Arnold's predecessors, Carlyle
and Ruskin. I do not know whether they are among
the immortals; I don't know whether Arnold is. No-
body knows yet, or will know for at least several gen-
erations. But while criticism refrains from judgment,
heart and imagination, I am not ashamed to say, still
owe allegiance to Carlyle and Ruskin, still owe allegi-
ance to Arnold. And yet, no one can say that our em-
phasis to-day falls just where Carlyle placed it. I
refrain from characterizing Carlyle's attitude, lest some
wounded disciple rise against me in anger and sorrow;
but it is obvious that we can no longer look at life from
precisely his point of view. Just so with Arnold. Aside
from all personal sympathies, is it not evident that after
1880 there arose a generation of men of lette quite
remote from the often hysterical, usually Utopian, im-
pulses of the men of '48, yet on the other hand inclined
to emphasize the value of audacity rather than caution
in social experiment ? Profiting in a measure by the
soberer ideas of social methods fostered in the long re-
action, they yet felt that irresolution is as grave an in-
tellectual danger as rash and precipitate action, and
that exclusive harping on the dangers of rash action is
likely to produce a kind of academic cowardice. They
did not deny the force or importance of Arnold's teach-
ing: they simply shifted the emphasis. Perhaps he
might have been with them had he been a man of their
day. These men were and are our own contemporaries;
the Fabians were of them; and I have been surprised,
in reading Mackail's Life of William Morris, to find
much more serious thought and significant conviction
than I had supposed, existing behind his æsthetic and
emotional revolt.
It is not easy to trace these subtle changes of em-
phasis and of mood from generation to generation; per-
haps it is not worth while. They may prove quite un-
“The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John
Keats," with a prefatory memoir by Mr. Horace E.
Scudder, form a welcome addition to the “Cambridge"
poets of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. We are
particularly glad to have the letters as here given in
chronological arrangement and the edition as a whole
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important in the great drama of the race. On the other
hand, they may prove to have more significance than
The New Books.
we know, and the society of the future may be glad that
some obscure people tried, however stupidly, to follow
them. We should be grateful to-day for sixteenth cen MILLAIS AND THE PRE-RAPHAELITES.*
tury interpretations of the phases of experience that
preceded the Reformation; we treasure all records of Mr. John Guille Millais' life of bis father
the shifting convictions which led up to the French is an exceptionally rich and delightful book-
Revolution. As to Arnold, Mr. Johnson leans perhaps
a book likely, we should think, to provoke de-
a little to the “personal” estimate of his work, I to the
“historic "; what the “real” estimate will be cannot
nial and perbaps rather heated protest from
yet be said. Opinions may differ as to whether his em certain quarters in so far as it strays into the
phasis is that most distinctively and imperatively needed region of art politics, but one whose narrative
by the world just now; but that the method and atti-
charm and importance as a contribution to the
tude he inculcates hold permanent and vital value, I
literature of modern art cannot be denied.
should be the last to deny. All authors, even the small-
est, live their life with their contemporaries, affecting
With the salutary movement which, about the
them for good or ill; the time comes when they may middle of the century, began to affect the Brit-
be said to die as authors as they have died as men. But ish school of painting and ended by placing it
those who have in them something of the immortal rise
anew in the path of progress, the name of Mil-
again; that which is permanent in their achievement is
now set free, to act no longer with the peculiar mag-
lais must ever be intimately and honorably
netism possessed probably by the contemporary alone,
associated ; although his critics have, not with-
but with the higher efficiency of a spiritual force, se out a certain show or color of truth, charged
renely interacting with the other forces which proceed him with a measure of apostasy from the stand-
from the spirits of the ever-wise from the birth of time. ard under which he battled in his militant and
The contemporary power of Arnold is rapidly passing reforming days. A word about this movement
away; but already, for some of us, he is uplifted among
the illuminating stars.
and Millais' share in it may be in order here.
VIDA D. SCUDDER.
When the century began, the influence of a
Boston, Mass., Dec. 5, 1899.
great group of masters headed by Reynolds
and Gainsborough was still potent for good
MR. SARTAIN AND POE.
in British painting, and men like Laurence,
(To the Editor of The DIAL.)
Hoppner, and Morland were carrying on the
I bave no desire to take part in the controversy over
teaching and exemplifying the methods of these
Poe, but I feel that a word of comment upon your re-
earlier chiefs of the national school. During
view (Nov. 16) of Mr. Sartain's “ Recollections of a the first decade, Constable, Crome, Cox, Wil.
Very Old Man" is needed. The reviewer seems to be
kie, and Etty appeared to prove by their
under the impression that the book contains new testi-
mony in regard to the last hours of Poe which contra-
achievements the vitality of British art and the
dicts statements made by Professor Woodberry. There success that might attend the efforts of those
is nothing new in the matter quoted at length by your workers who rightly grasped the aims and fol.
reviewer. Mr. Sartain has only reproduced, for the lowed the methods of their great predecessors
most part word for word (though he refrains from the
- who, be it understood, while seeking in the
use of quotation marks), what Dr. Moran published in
his Defense of Poe in 1885. The statements in this
schools all that the schools could give them,
Defense are at variance with Professor Woodberry's while reverencing the precepts and diligently
statements, but they are also at variance with a letter studying the works of the masters, still never
written by Dr. Moran himself in 1849. Professor forgot to turn, as those masters themselves had
Wood berry was aware of Dr. Moran's later version, but
naturally regarded the evidence of the letter of 1849, turned, to Nature as the source and wellspring
which he reprints, as the more trustworthy. See Wood-
of all high and vital artistic achievement. But
berry's "Life of Poe,” American Men of Letters, p. 343; by the middle of the century a blighting change
Dr. J. J. Moran's “ Defense of Edgar Allan Poe,” came over the spirit of British painting. Ped.
Washington, 1885.
A. G. NEWCOMER. antry and convention reigned ; and a style, a
Stanford University, Cal., Dec. 6, 1899.
bastard and so-called Grand Style, founded
not upon the study of Nature, but upon ab
[Sarely the repeated use of Dr. Moran's name by stractions, and therefore declared to be essen-
Mr. Sartain shows the fact to be as Professor New- tially and nobly intellectual and imaginative
comer states it. Mr. Sartain's use of Dr. Moran's
and free from the taint of gross and trivial
material was cited, not as new matter, but as matter
which seemed quite true to so intimate a friend of
* LIFE AND LETTERS OF SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS,
Poe's as Mr. Sartain shows himself to have been.
President of the Royal Academy. By his son, John G. Mil-
lais. Two volumes. Illustrated. New York: F. A. Stokes Co.
Certainly Mr. Sartain's acceptance of it lends it an
SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS: His Art and Influence. By
authority it lacked before.-EDR. THE DIAL.] A. L. Baldry. Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Co.
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material things, swayed the schools and the
ment, as may be gathered from Millais' reply
critics. A strange degeneracy in the works of to his son's question as to the extent of Ros-
the English artists followed. Forbidden to look setti's influence upon the style and character of
upon the face of Nature as an unclean thing, his work. That he resented the supposition
they sunk into the slough of convention. that such influence had been exerted, is plain.
To save the national art from extinction, “I doubt very much whether any man ever gets the
drastic measures were necessary, and the stand credit of being quite square and above board about his
ard of revolt must be raised against the sacro-
life and work. The public are like sheep. They fol-
sanct doctrines about intellectual art, and the (Omne ignotum pro magnifico), and rarely take a man at
low each other in admiring what they don't understand
current blind worship of a pompous style, and what he is worth. If you affect a mysterious air, and
vague and bombastic abstractions. With the are clever enough to conceal your ignorance, you stand
crying necessity of the time, and when matters
a fair chance of being taken for a wiser man than you
were at their worst, a group of young painters
are; but if you talk frankly and freely of yourself and
your work, as you know I do, the odds are that any
suddenly and dramatically rebelled against the silly rumor you may fail to contradict will be accepted
solemn pedantries of their elders, and asserted
as true.
That is just what has bappened to me. The
with the courage of youth their disbelief in the papers are good enough to speak of me as a typical
creed of the day, and their determination to
English artist; but because in my early days I saw a
good deal of Rossetti — the mysterious and un-English
revert to a type of art based upon the closest
Rossetti they assume that my Pre-Raphaelite im-
study and imitation of nature, and hence con pulses in pursuit of light and truth were due to him.
taining the germs of great achievement. They All nonsense! My pictures would have been exactly
decided that the principles which guided the
the same if I had never seen or heard of Rossetti. I
earlier masters, and the observations which lay
liked him very much when we first met, believing him
to be (as perhaps he was) sincere in his desire to further
at the root of all great work, were being delib-
our aims Hunt's and mine — but I always liked his
erately decried by modern men, whose borrowed brother William much better. D. G. Rossetti, you must
methods were bred of conventions set up by a understand, was a queer fellow, and impossible as a
long line of degenerate successors of Raphael. opposed. His aims and ideals in art were also widely
boon companion - so dogmatic and so irritable when
Thus came into existence that revolutionary
different from ours, and it was not long before he
little band of associates, the Pre-Raphaelite drifted away from us to follow his own peculiar fancies.
Brotherhood, who so profoundly influenced the What they were may be seen from his subsequent works.
history of the British School. Of the origin They were highly imaginative and original and not
of the famous “P. R. B.," Mr. Holman Hunt
without elements of beauty, but they were not nature.
At last, when he presented for our admiration the
favored Mr. Millais with the following account:
young women which have since become the type of Ros-
“It was in the beginning of the year 1848 that your settianism, the public opened their eyes in amazement.
father and I determined to adopt a style of absolute And this,' they said, 'is Pre-Raphaelitism!' It was
independence as to art-dogma and convention. This nothing of the sort. The Pre-Raphaelites had but one
we called •Pre-Raphaelitism.' D. G. Rossetti was al idea to present on canvas what they saw in nature ;
ready my pupil, and it seemed certain that he also, in and such productions were absolutely foreign to the
time, would work on the same principles. He had de-
He had de- spirit of their work.”
clared his intention of doing so, and there was begin At first, the significance of the Pre-Raphael-
ning to be some talk of other artists joining us, although
ite movement was lost upon the general public,
in fact some were only in the most primitive stages of
art, such as William Rossetti, who was not even a stu-
and Millais' painting of “Lorenzo and Isa-
dent. Meanwhile, D. G. Rossetti, himself a beginner, bella," exhibited at the Academy in 1849,
had not got over the habit (acquired from Madox failed to provoke the onslaught of the critics,
Brown) of calling our art · Early Christian'; so one
although it asserted plainly enough bis adher-
day, in my studio, some time after our first meeting, I
protested, saying that the term would confuse us with
ence to the new art heresy. In the following
the German Quattro Centists. I went on to convince year the short-lived “ Germ was issued ; and
him that our real name was • Pre-Raphaelites,' a name when, in the spring of 1850, the next batch of
which we had already so far revealed in frequent argu-Pre-Raphaelite productions was exhibited the
ment that we had been taunted as holding opinions
abominable enough to deserve burning at the stake.
storm burst. Its fury was chiefly directed
He thereupon, with a pet scheme of an extended coöper against Millais as the ablest and therefore the
ation still in mind, amended my previous suggestion most dangerous of the group of innovators.
by adding to our title of • Pre-Raphaelite' the word His chief pictures, “Ferdinand Lured by
• Brotherhood.'
Ariel” and “ Christ in the House of His
Rossetti has always been popularly regarded Parents,” were attacked with a bitterness and
as the leading light of Pre-Raphaelitism and an unscrupulous disregard of their obvious tech-
the chief exponent of its creed and methods. nical merits that plainly indicated the alarm of
This view involves a misconception of the move the supporters and beneficiaries of the old sys-
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tem. But the attack of 1850 was mild com. “ Another specimen from the same brush inspires
pared with the frenzy of the following year, laughter rather than disgust. A Ferdinand of most
ignoble physiognomy* is being lured by a pea-green
when it was found that the Brotherhood, so
monster, intended for Ariel, whilst a row of sprites, such
far from bending to the storm of abuse, were as it takes a Millais to devise, watch the operation with
quite ready to go to even greater lengths than turquoise eyes. It would occupy more room than the
before in the pictorial avowal of their revolt thing is worth to expose all the absurdity and imperti-
against the established order. Millais was
nence of this work."
defiantly to the fore with his “ Return of the
These sufficiently venomous assailants of the
Dove to the Ark” and “ Mariana in the little band of revolutionaries seem to have taken
Moated Grange"; and it was he, again, as
their cue from the “ Times,” which hounded
the heresiarch and préraphaélite enragé, who
them on, and demanded that “ no quarter” be
bore the brunt of the assault. The cbief wea.
given to Millais and his friends. Referring to
pon used against him was misrepresentation. Millais’ « Mariana,” it proceeded to say:
According to one type of the arguments em-
“These young artists have unfortunately become no-
ployed, “Pre-Raffleism” was “a dodge,” a
torious by addicting themselves to an antiquated style
and an affected simplicity in painting. . :. We can
bid for notoriety, and Millais had thrown him- extend no toleration to a mere senile imitation of the
self into the movement merely to get himself cramped style, false perspective, and crude color of
advertised and to win the sort of distinction remote antiquity. We do not want to see what Fuseli
that attaches to eccentricity. Other writers
termed drapery snapped instead of folded,' faces
bloated into apoplexy, or attenuated skeletons; color
gravely hinted that his art was sinister and
borrowed from the jars in a druggist's shop, and ex-
reactionary in aim, and savored of black Jesu- pression forced into caricature.”
itry and the wiles of Rome. “ Christ in the It was the above criticism in the Times that
House of His Parents," in fine, was “an drew into the arena the doughty champion of
avowal of mediæval superstition, a piece of the Brotherhood, whose powerful onset, skill
Romanist propagandism designed to pervert of fence, and mastery of his theme, presently
the morals and upset the religious convictions turned the tide of battle, gave pause to the
of the community.” This time, however, the flood of mere unthinking abuse, and gradually
cry of “No Popery” was so obviously and
was so obviously and awoke the general public to the fact that in the
ludicrously a false alarm that the British pub- decried and derided Pre-Raphaelitism lay the
lic turned a deaf ear to it. Undoubtedly the
germ of great achievement and of the revival
unsparing and perhaps deliberately over of the national art — Mr. Ruskin. The battle
strained realism of the Christ in the House
was not won at once; but the tone of even ad.
of His Parents" did shock a great many peo verse criticism gradually changed, new adher-
ple, and was regarded by them as a species of ents gathered to the support of the once de
pictorial blasphemy. This view was fairly ex-
spised cause, and the truth that underlay the
pressed by the writer in the “Literary Gazette," doctrines and shone through the sometimes
who flatly denounced the picture as “a name eccentric and affected performances of the
less atrocity supposed to represent a verse of
young painters prevailed in the end. As the
Zecharia.” He went on to say:
smoke of strenuous battle slowly cleared away,
“ A miserable carpenter's shop with two children em and it became clear that the despotic rule of
bracing in front of the bench, and a naked distorted
academic pedantry and convention was broken,
boy on the right side, are presented to us as high art,
in which there is neither taste, drawing, expression, or
a change came over the style and methods of
genius. And yet this style pertains to an imitative
Millais. For ten years, about the period of
school, which, the sooner it is sent back to the dryness militant Pre-Raphaelitism, he adhered in his
and wretched matter-of-fact of old times will be the work to the letter of the creed. But as the
better. Such things are simply disagreeable, if not necessity for the defiant and literal assertion
worse, and neither can be called the true end of the
fine arts."
in his canvasses of the principles of the sect
passed away, and with it the combative mood
Another critic of this positivistic and matter of the zealous and persecuted propagandist, he
of-fact conception of the Holy Family kindly began to abandon the rigid and elaborate nat-
wound up his tirade of contumely by observing uralism, or literalism, of his earlier efforts,
“We have great difficulty in believing a report and to drift toward the breadth, the sug-
that this unpleasing and atrociously affected gestiveness, the riotous freedom of touch and
picture has found a purchaser at a high price";
* This was doubtless pleasant for Mr. F. G. Stephens, who
and he then went on to pay his respects to the
sat for Ferdinand, and whose "physiognomy" was portrayed
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no
treatment that mark and ennoble his later and importance of the book lies, of course, in the
more characteristic works. There was fact that the name of Millais is the greatest
swerving in his devotion to truth and nature, and most significant one in the history of mod-
but the transition in the mode of expression, ern English painting. That history cannot be
though gradual, is pronounced. It is a far told without reference to the influence and
cry indeed from, say, “Sir Isumbras at the achievements of Sir John Everett Millais.
Ford,” that quaint and elaborate piece of as In a thoughtful and discriminative little
sertive Pre-Raphaelitism, to such canvasses as book that may be read to advantage in con-
the “ Souvenir of Valasquez.” Millais was nection with the lively and reminiscential nar-
practical man, a thoroughly modern man in rative of Mr. Guille Millais, Mr. A. L. Baldry,
his pursuits and way of thinking. He craved a competent art writer of a rather philosoph-
success, substantial and tangible success, and ical turn, discusses the work of Millais and its
he sought it by the path which alone leads to bearing upon the artistic trend and production
it. There is no doubt that he popularized, so of his time. Disclaiming the intention go-
to speak, his art; but he did not vulgarize it. ing in detail into the personal history of Mil-
His pictures are refinement itself, wonderfully lais, though he sets forth in a special chapter
executed withal, but a child can enjoy them. the essential biographical facts, Mr. Baldry
At the exbibitions, a painting by Millais had proceeds to weigh and analyze the result of his
always its crowd of admirers before it; and intervention, as an artist, in the æsthetic move-
their admiration was spontaneous and sincere. ments embraced within the period of his career.
He painted for the public, and he painted the The story of Pre-Raphaelitism is outlined, and
sort of pictures the public could understand its import, aim, and ultimate effect are satis-
and like and which would sell. His works
His works factorily brought out, although, of course,
are eminently English; they commonly tell a there is not much said of the movement except
little story, convey a bit of sentiment or illus in so far as it was embodied in the career of
trate a well-known incident in literature. Their Millais. A general introductory chapter on
technical merit is great; but their appeal is the history of the British School of painting
always a dual one the appeal to the few who
paves
the
way
for a due appreciation of that
can appreciate the skill of the artist and his famous episode - which was, be it said, not
mastery of tools and material and technical altogether without its ridiculous side, and of
process, and to the many who see nothing in a which its heroes seemed in their riper years to
picture save its theme. Millais was far and be just a little ashamed. Rossetti, especially,
away the most popular of latter-day English the least amiable of the mystic original trio,
painters — a capable, sound, naturally gifted, came finally to seriously resent any mention of
and rarely versatile painter, but hardly, we the P. R. B. In 1880, as his brother records,
imagine, destined in the future to be accounted he said testily to Mr. Caine :
a painter of high and original genius.
“ As for all the prattle about Pre-Raphaelitism, I am
In writing the life of his father, Mr. Guille weary of it, and long have been. Why should we go
Millais has had the advantage of an unusually on talking about the visionary vanities of half-a-dozen
attractive and fruitful subject. Millais was a
boys? What you call the movement was serious enough,
but the banding together under that title was all a
thoroughly wholesome, genial, and manly char-
joke."
acter, preëminently a man with the social gift To a lady who, about 1870, innocently asked
and the faculty of winning friends. Into the
story of his career is unavoidably woven the
him if he was "the Pre-Raphaelite Rossetti,"
richly anecdotal record of his professional and
he testily replied, “ Madam, I am not an ite'
of any kind; I am only a painter.” But, adds
personal association with the celebrities of his
time. It was the fashion to be painted by
his brother, “it is not the less true that in
Millais, just as it had been the fashion to be
1848 and for some years afterwards he meant
painted by Reynolds. The chiefs of the world
a good deal by calling himself Pre-Raphaelite,
and meant it very heartily."
of politics, of literature, of fashion, sat to him
Mr. Baldry's book presents a very good re-
as a matter of course; and wherever Millais
found a sitter he made a friend. Of these con-
view of Millais' purely professional career,
nections of his father's Mr. Millais has freely
and it is copiously and attractively illustrated.
availed himself, and his pages are brightened
There is a chronological list of paintings re-
with many a capital story of men and women
printed from Mr. M. H. Spielmann's “Millais
of whom the world likes to read. The real
and his Friends."
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Yet moral compromise is one of the great
MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE.*
lessons of life. In the fictitious conventions of
The author of the “History of European society, in the suspensions of the moral law
Morals,” the “History of Rationalism," and exemplified in war, in the swerving from strict
Democracy and Liberty," has now issued an. right on the part of the advocate and the judge,
other work, which will add to his already con-
in the adherence of statesmen to a political
siderable reputation. The subject of this latest party while voting for the details of law-making,
book, although nowhere explicitly stated, is, in the adjustment of conflicting religious beliefs
in effect, “ How to make the most of life.” The and forms of worship in the church itself,— in
point of view is somewhat Baconian in assum-
all these fields of human activity there exists,
ing throughout the interest of the individual as and there must exist, a compromise between the
paramount in the discussion.
moral ideal and the existing circumstances.
After consideration of the value of reason. A chapter follows upon the management of
ing upon happiness, and the different means of character, commending a happy childhood, ap-
attaining it, the author accepts, with some quals plauding athletics in moderation, and approv-
ification, the English method of seeking happi- ing that kind of education which acts upon the
ness through improved circumstances. A few desires and the will. “Money,” “ Marriage,”
general rules follow, including Carlyle's gospel “Success," " Time," and “ The End,” are the
of work, and Ovid's "(In) medio tutissimus captions that follow. Money is a genuine ele-
ibis.” But the Utilitarian philosophy is found ment of bappiness, but its value in this regard
insufficient: virtue is not to be identified with decreases rapidly in proportion to its amount.
happiness, notwithstanding their intimate rela “ Whatever else marriage may do or fail to do,
tion. Unselfish interests are commended, de it never leaves a man unchanged,” and so
spite the harm that has been done in the world should be approached with consideration which
by disproportioned compassion. Different ages
shall take account of all the facts. Success
have had different moral standards, the moral depends upon character more than upon for-
influences of the present being much more tune, and upon tact as much as upon either.
various and complex than in the past. Our If time be spent proportionately in work and
civilization is primarily an industrial civiliza- pleasure and sleep, life will prove long enough ;
tion, and our current virtues (as prudence, and
and death is not to be dreaded, nor to be un-
the like) are the result rather of Industrialism duly thought of: as long as a man is living
than of Christianity. Science, too, has affected right, he may leave the end to take care of itself.
our judgments of right and wrong. While the It is impossible, in thus briefly stating, fre-
world will never greatly differ about the essen quently in the author's own words, some of the
tial elements of right and wrong, there is likely main ideas in a book like this, to do justice to
to be a steadily increasing tendency to judge his details and his perspective. In particular,
courses of conduct mainly by the degree in which the judicial quality of mind that marks all Mr.
they promote or diminish human happiness. Lecky's thinking, and the multitude of his
Our moral judgments are extremely fallible historical references, past and contemporary,
when we attempt to measure degrees of guilt, elude such a summary.
and therefore our criminal code should be con Among the subsidiary ideas that strike the
fined as much as possible to acts which more
reader is the statement that the diminution of
directly injure others. Human nature is neither disease and the prolongation of average human
essentially depraved nor essentially perfect : life that have been achieved by medical science
the origin of evil lies mainly in the weakness
are not necessarily accompanied by a corre-
of the distinctively human quality, and the sponding improvement in the general health of
chief need is a restraining conscience, in the
the people; one cause of this state of things
absence of which law and society are called being the saving of the lives of children consti-
upon to impose the needed restraint. Political tutionally weak, who thus grow up and propa-
and commercial dishonesty are publicly con-
gate feeble offspring. Again, vivisection is
doned in a degree which raises a doubt whether defended, and also field sports that involve the
social morality in England and America has destruction of animals. In the Irish land legis-
not seriously retrograded in these respects.
lation of Gladstone and his followers, the sym-
pathy of the writer is strongly on the side of
* THE MAP OF Life: Conduct and Character. By William
Edward Hartpole Locky. Now York: Longmans, Groon,
the landlords, who have been deprived of their
& Co.
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which are characterized as fraudulent. The can best govern it is looked upon as a supreme end.
author's farthest departure from a judicial atti-
Wars are not really undertaken for this end. The
philanthropy of nations when it takes the form of war
tude is exemplified in frequent derogatory ref-
and conquest is seldom or never unmixed with selfish-
erence to the Roman Catholic Church, though
ness, though strong gusts of humanitarian enthusiasm
even here it is but just to say that facts are often give an impulse, a pretext, or a support to the cal-
commonly cited to confirm the position taken. culated actions of statesmen. But when wars, however
Those phases of Anglican ritual that approach aries of civilization, to stimulate real progress, to put
selfish and unprovoked, contribute to enlarge the bound-
the Roman ceremonial are deplored, while full
an end to savage customs, to oppression, or to anarchy,
recognition is given to the conspicuous place they are now very indulgently judged even in the many
the Anglican clergy has taken in English liter cases in which the inhabitants of the conquered Power
ature, poetry and prose. The military unrest
do not desire the change and resist it strenuously in the
field.”
that pervades Europe is summarized in a single
pithy sentence : “ After eighteen hundred Again, as a bit of description of a concrete
years' profession of the creed of peace, Christ- fact, somewhat surprising to those unacquainted
endom is an armed camp.'
with the English method of taking a "division
The American reader will note that the num-
of a vote in Parliament, this may be quoted :
ber of young men of ability preparing for the
“ Every member of Parliament is familiar with the
scene, when, after a debate, carried on before nearly
service of the English Church is said to be
empty benches, the division bell rings, and the mem-
diminishing, and will compare this testimony bers stream in to decide the issue. There is a moment
with the evidence on this side the Atlantic that of uncertainty. The questions • Which side are we?'
the hold of the Church the
"What is
people is re-
upon
about ?' may be ard again and again.
laxed, whatever be the cause. He will contrast
Then the Speaker rises, and with one magical sentence
clears the situation. It is the sentence in which he an-
the "
aggravated treachery and perjury” as-
nounces that the tellers for the Ayes or Noes, as the
cribed herein to John Boyle O'Reilly with the case may be, are the Government whips. It is not argu-
action of Boston in 1896 in accepting an artistic ment, it is not eloquence, it is this single sentence which
in countless cases determines the result and moulds the
monument to this Irish poet-patriot, to remain
in her public ways so long as the stone shall legislation of the country.”
endure. And he will note with pleasure, in a
Mr. Lecky's book shows the result of wide
discussion of the ethics of war, the following reading. Among the writers with whom the
tribute to American humanity :
author shows familiarity are Tocqueville, Hugo,
“The great civil war in America probably contrib- Rousseau, Mme. de Staël, among the French;
uted not a little to raise the standard of humanity in Goethe, of the Germans; Shakespeare, Tenny-
war; for while few long wars have been fought with son, Lamb, Swift, Gibbon, Darwin, Hamerton,
such determination or at the cost of so many lives, very
few have been conducted with such a scrupulous ab-
Mrs. Browning, and Cardinal Newman, of
stinence from acts of wanton barbarity.”
British writers; and of Americans, Emerson,
Franklin, Cable, and Hawthorne. Of the
It is fitting that the quality of this note-
thinkers of an earlier day, reference is made
worthy book should be judged by one or two
further extracts, chosen with intention to give Aurelius, and Thomas Aquinas. Carlyle has
to Plato, Tacitus, Seneca, Propertius, Marcus
specimens of the author's method of handling a
subject, and his rhetorical style. First, we will proved not only by the frequent mention of
been read with peculiar appreciation, which is
take a passage representing reflection upon a
general topic, which, however, will suggest tion of Carlylean thoughts and phrases. The
this author by name, but also by the assimila-
actual American conditions :
book is plainly the mature product of a mind
“There is one belief, half unconscious, half avowed,
accustomed to view and reflect upon life in the
which in our generation is passing widely over the
world and is practically accepted in a very large meas-
many phases of its present and past activity.
ure by the English-speaking nations. It is that to It is seldom that one gets a sweep of vision
reclaim savage tribes to civilization, and to place the that includes, on the one hand, the Reforma-
outlying dominions of civilized countries which are an-
tion and its concomitants, and on the other so
archical or grossly misgoverned in the hands of rulers
who govern wisely and uprightly, are sufficient justifi-
recent events as the Jameson raid and the
cation for aggression and conquest. Many who, as a
Dreyfus case. Seldom is philosophical reflec-
general rule, would severely censure an unjust and un tion so combined with a mastery of concrete
provoked war, carried on for the purpose of annexation details, in a result which, whatever the reader's
by a strong Power against a weak one, will excuse or
scarcely condemn such a war if it is directed against a
opinions, will awaken his thought and increase
country which has shown itself incapable of good gov-
his knowledge.
ernment. To place the world in the hands of those who
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field says:
receivership, Egypt is growing rich. Its fella-
THE EGYPT OF TO-DAY.*
heen are getting to be landed proprietors in a
“ He who has once tasted the water of the small way; the Delta is covered with cotton,
Nile, longs for it inexpressibly forevermore the Nile is lined with sugar factories, and its
80 runs the Arab proverb; and to read Mr. Pen. waters are even now being dammed into new
field's book on “ Present-Day Egypt,” so ad serviceability to agriculture and electricity ;
mirably published by the Century Co., is to the railroad, which will soon run from Cairo to
feel the proverb's meaning. We have plenty
We have plenty Khartum — if not to Cape Town - already
of guide-books and histories dealing with Egypt, clears fifty-seven per cent of its gross income;
but this volume is neither a guide-book nor a while the exports have risen from fifty-five
history. It is, rather, a collection of impres millions in 1880 to sixty-six millions in 1896.
sions, appreciations, facts, opinions, and de These results of English occupation make one
scriptions, arranged in a somewhat desultory look with interest for Mr. Penfield's judgment
fashion, and often showing less literary than upon the matter. It is candid, and, to say the
other merits. Perhaps it gives a truer unity least, certainly does not rest upon Anglomania.
of impression for its very miscellaneity. For Mr. Penfield is a friend of Khedive Abbas,
where else in the world can we find the equal and one feels throughout the book an effort to
of Egypt for thriving under that which is in keep from expressing certain sentiments con-
consistent and unsystematic ? The volume
The volume cerning England's general attitude. Nor are
boasts no great descriptive charm, yet it is vivid criticisms upon England's administration want-
and certainly enables one to get something of ing. But notwithstanding all this, Mr. Pen-
life in Cairo and Alexandria. Of course there
is the Egypt of the scholar, and its glories, like “Is Egypt capable of self-government? The can-
the light upon the Mokattam Hills, are always dor prompting one, after long and disinterested study
of Egyptian matters in the country itself, to say that
upon the Egypt of the tourist. Of the two
England has performed her self-appointed task better
is
than any other nation could have performed it, likewise
not an archæologist by trade, and he handles compels one to state frankly that Egypt is not capable
history a trifle generously — as when he allows of complete self-government at the present time, for she
Plutarch to become a contemporary of Cleo-
has no class of officials trained in the higher ranges of
administrative work. No other nation should ever be
patra. His interests are those of the man of
permitted to supplant England as administrator or
affairs; and while he does admirably share with * occupier' certainly” (p. 333).
his readers something of the opera bouffe that
It is such judgments as this — and one meets
is one element of Egyptian life to-day, at bottom
he is more concerned with the complicated prob-
them frequently — that give the volume a value
quite above its descriptions and anecdotes. In
lem of Egyptian administration. It is his com-
Nr. Penfield's opinion, English “occupancy'
ment upon this subject which, in the light of
his peculiarly advantageous position as Diplo- has proved beneficial to Egypt in almost every
matic Agent of the United States, gives the
particular, and would (so it is fair to interpret
book value to the student of modern history.
some of his statements) be even more beneficial
if the anomalous international courts and offi.
The administration of Egypt to-day is prob-
cials were abolished. As to the future, he is
ably the most remarkable of any country of its
size and importance. Because of bankruptcy
cautious but equally candid. With the com-
pletion of the great dam at Assuan, the tillable
resulting from the conscienceless “ promotion
area of Egypt will be greatly increased, and
of the Suez Canal by De Lesseps, and the fab-
England will be all the less likely to give up
ulous prodigality of Ismail Pasha, Egypt is
what she has so sturdily won.
really governed by several European countries,
though the Khedive has a nominal independ-
“ A dozen years hence, all that portion of the Nile
valley from the Mediterranean to Khartum and farther
ence, limited only by his loose relations with
south will be represented in school-books as a pendant
Turkey. As a matter of fact, the country has from Britain's red girdle of the globe. How it is to be
really gone
into the hands of a receiver
En-
accomplished, legally and morally, is a matter regard-
gland who, in the person of Lord Cromer, is
ing which I do not conjecture. In time, something may
turn up 'helpful to the legal aspect of England's posi-
managing all of its affairs. Thanks to this
tion in Egypt."
* PRESENT-DAY EGYPT. By Frederick Courtland Penfield, And may we not venture to hope that the moral
U. S. Diplomatic Agent and Consul-General to Egypt, 1893–
97. Illustrated by Paul Philip Poleaux and R. Talbot Kelly,
aspect as well will be recognized ? Is there not
and from photographs. New York: The Century Co. certain to be, sooner or later in international
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law, a sort of “right of eminent domain” that This is minutely related with especial reference
will not allow an unprogressive, selfish, or mis to the charges subsequently made against Min-
gover d little nation to stand in the way of ister Stevens and Captain Wiltse. The blunt
universal progress ? The idea may be visionary, sincerity of the tale will at least go far toward
but any careful reader of Mr. Penfield's book confirming the opinions of the author's fellow
will certainly feel that the interference of En. partisans. He is confessedly an advocate, and
gland in Egypt, so violent and questionable at spares no pains to advance his case and to be-
the start, and to-day so much at variance with little his opponents. Barring this excess of
the proclamations of Wolseley and Seymour zeal and some uneliminated repetitions, the
during the Arabi rebellion, is a strong argu- book is a welcome addition to the literature of
ment in its favor. At all events, the volume the subject.
itself is timely and worthy of being widely read. Miss Mabel Craft represented some of the
SHAILER MATHEWS. leading American newspapers in the Islands
during the last days of the Republic, and in
her - Hawaii Nei” she writes of recent events
and of the more picturesque phases of Hawai-
VARIOUS ASPECTS OF HAWAII.*
ian life. Her book is interesting - indeed,
The many lines of interest which converge
there is not a dull page in it; and her well-
chosen themes are not hackneyed. A keen eye
in the cosmopolitan life of the Hawaiian Is-
lands make it possible to present their story style assist her sympathetic portrayal of the
for the picturesque, a facile pen, and a piquant
from different points of view. This is well ex-
emplified in the many recent books upon the
wronged native, the oppressed laborer from the
Orient, and the persecuted witch-doctor, and
subject.
Lieutenant Lucien Young, of the United add spice to her righteous indignation at the
millionaire missionaries with their chill New
States Navy, was on the “ Boston,” stationed England ways who have invaded this Eden.
at Honolulu for seven months prior to, and also
Miss Craft has evidently taken her cue from
following, the overthrow of the Hawaiian mon-
the stratum of Honolulu society which was in
archy. Believing that the Blount report un favor at the court of the recent queen — a point
fairly represented the diplomatic and naval
officers of the United States, he requested per-
of vantage for access to certain phases of Ha-
waiian life which she alone of recent writers
mission to print his account of the incident, but
has fully portrayed. But there are other circles,
was denied the privilege. This has since been
alike of native and of Anglo-Saxon constitu-
granted by Secretary Long, and his report was
ency, whose acts and motives she neither ade-
published as “ The · Boston' at Hawaii,” a re-
vised and enlarged edition of which is now at
quately understands nor justly portrays, and too
often indiscriminately condemns. Discerning
hand under the title " The Real Hawaii.” The
readers will enjoy her book, though they may
book is crammed full of descriptive matter of
smile at her zeal for her friends, and may be
an unusually wide range from the point of view
compelled at times to adjust her rhetoric to the
of a very observant naval officer. While much
facts of history. The illustrations are new,
of this is not new, it is unusually complete and
appropriate, and well executed.
is tersely told; and an appendix of statistical
data adds further to its usefulness. Of espe.
In her “Transformation of Hawaii,” Miss
cial interest are the chapters upon the natural
Belle M. Brain has prepared for young readers
a brief account of the work of evangelical mis-
resources of the country and upon land tenure.
The main feature of the book, however, is the
sions among the Hawaiian people. The book
contains well-selected descriptive matter, and
narrative of the Revolution, which gives not a
more than the usual reference to the native
little inside history of the events which cul-
minated in the overthrow of the monarchy. ening of 1837 to 1843 comes from a sympa-
tongue. The story of the great religious awak-
* THE REAL HAWAII. By Lucien Young, U.S. N. New thetic pen. The relation of Hawaiian missions
York: Doubleday & McClure Co.
to similar work among other Polynesian and
Hawan NEI. By Mabel Craft. San Francisco: William
Doxey.
among Micronesian peoples is explained, and
THE TRANSFORMATION OF HAWAII. By Belle M. Brain. the interesting history of the children's mis-
Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Co.
sionary ship, “The Morning Star," is told at
THE MAKING OF HAWAII. A Study in Social Evolution.
By William Fremont Blackman. New York: The Mac: length. The entrance of the Roman Catholic
millan Co.
mission is described, but those who seek a full
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account of the present religious status in the tract labor, the pros and cons of which are
islands must look elsewhere — for example, to impartially given, the author is inclined to
Professor Blackman's book for statistics think that white labor has not yet had a fair
showing the spread of Catholicism and Mor- trial, and that better wages and a better class
monism, and for an account of the revival of of labor are not impossible under present eco-
paganism and the defection from and present nomic conditions. The author is also sanguine
decline of the native evangelical churches due as to the success of the Anglo-Saxon in tropical
to social and political causes. The author has colonization, at least in these islands. The
failed to portray the survival of the missionary work is to be commended for the spirit of can-
spirit and the varied religious and philan- dor in which all vexed and debatable questions
thropic agencies still at work in the transfor are discussed, for the breadth of view with
mation of these islands.
which topics of wide import are treated, for the
From these books of passing interest, one perspective manifest in the choice of material
turns with pleasure to the substantial and schol- presented, and for the thoroughness with which
arly work of Professor Blackman upon “ The the task has been completed. It is a standard
Making of Hawaii.” It is a serious study of work for all who wish a judicial estimate of
the social and economic conditions of the prim- the social, economic, and political factors at
itive Hawaiian race, and of the introduction work in the making of American civilization in
and rapid growth of the institutions of Western
the Hawaii of to-day.
civilization in the midst of a population of ever
CHARLES A. KOFOID.
increasing complexity. We quote from his
preface:
“ The Hawaiian Islands afford better facilities, per-
haps, than any other field for a study of some important
RECENT FICTION.*
social problems. This fact is due to the blending there
A new era seems to have dawned in our Amer-
of the temperate and tropical climates; the admixture
of divers and widely different races; the contact of
ican historical fiction. During the last year or two,
civilized and native peoples under unique conditions,
the subject of the American Revolution has been
and with results in some respects unexampled, and in
dealt with by three writers upon a largeness of scale
all respects instructive; the collision of the Christian, and with a wealth of equipment that quite outdis-
the secular, and the pagan, each in very vital forms; tance the sketchy and episodical narratives to which
the rapid evolution from a primitive to a highly devel we have hitherto been accustomed, and which takes
oped condition of the four fundamental and perduring us back, in one direction, to “ The Spy,” and in
social institutions, the family, the Church, the State,
another to “ The Virginians.” Of Dr. Mitchell's
and property; the control of industries by corporations,
“Hugh Wynne" and Mr. Churchill's “ Richard
to an unusual degree; the close juxtaposition in recent
years of the wealthy few and a poor multitude,- and
Carvel” we have already spoken at some length;
all this within narrow and manageable limits of time, of
our third novel is Mr. Paul Leicester Ford's “ Jan.
area, and of population."
ice Meredith.” The whole subject of the Revolu-
The author divides his subject into the earlier,
* JANICE MEREDITH. A Story of the American Revolu-
tion. By Paul Leicester Ford. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
middle, and later periods, the last constituting
ACTIVE SERVICE. A Novel. By Stephen Crane. New
the greater part of his work and treating of York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
present-day problems of general interest. A A CONFIDENT TO-MORROW. A Novel of New York. By
Brander Matthews. New York: Harper & Brothers.
spirit of unusual candor pervades his treatment
A DRAMA IN SUNSHINE. A Novel By Horace Annesley
of the missionary movement, and its successes Vachell. New York: The Macmillan Co.
and failures in the moral, religious, and ethical HENRY WORTHINGTON, IDEALIST. By Margaret Sher-
wood. New York: The Macmillan Co.
regeneration of a people of low ideals debased
DIONYSIUS THE WEAVER'S HEART'S DEAREST. By
by contact with the vices of Anglo-Saxon civil-
Blanche Willis Howard. New York: Charles Scribner's
ization. The growth of constitutional law and Sons.
the legal code is traced from the chaotic con-
RED POTTAGE. By Mary Cholmondeley. Now York:
Harper & Brothers.
ditions of the early feudal life to the annexa-
THE HUMAN INTEREST. A Study in Incompatibilities.
tion of the republic. Land tenures and the By Violet Hunt. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co.
distribution of land holdings are treated very
THE KING's MIRROR. A Novel By Anthony Hope.
New York: D. Appleton & Co.
fully, while the commercial and industrial
YOUNG APRIL. By Egerton Castle. New York: The
development is discussed more fully than in any Macmillan Co.
recent work. The causes of the decline of the MIRANDA OF THE BALCONY. A Story. By A, E, W.
native race are inquired into, and the Asiatic
Mason. New York: The Macmillan Co.
invasion is condemned. In the matter of con-
PARSON KELLY. By A. E. W. Mason and Andrew Lang.
New York: Longmans, Green, & Co.


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tion is too complex to be brought readily within the personal reasons no less than for the glory of his
scope of a single work of fiction, if anything like ‘yellow” newspaper, extricates the party from the
unity of plot is to be preserved, and Mr. Ford has clutches of the Turk, and marries the young woman.
done wisely in not attempting so much as that. But The story is not without grave faults. The profes-
his work does cover, and with reasonable thorough sor is a caricature, and his students are of the slangy
ness, these phases of the struggle that were centred sort that would never by any possibility be found
about Pennsylvania and New Jersey, together with members of such a party as is described. The jour-
the closing years of the campaign in the South. nalist is an example of the “smart” and unscrup-
And we feel an unusual confidence in our guide ulous type developed by the most objectionable sort
through this tangle of battle, of military plot and of newspaper enterprise, and the young woman for-
counterplot, from the fact of his thorough scholar feits our sympathies by caring at all for such a
ship, so well approved by his numerous books of a fellow. But the story has consecutive development
more formal historical character. Mr. Ford em. and abundance of excitement, for which qualities it
bodies the rare combination of a wide and accurate may be exempted from complete condemnation.
knowledge of the facts of history with the peculiar “ A Confident Tomorrow,” the latest novel by
talents of the novelist. His characters are drawn Mr. Brander Matthews, is everywhere charming,
to the life, although it must be admitted that he is although in no respect to be characterized as pow-
a shade less successful with the figures he takes erful. It is a story of New York society, and of
from history than with those whom his imagination the career of a young man from the West who seeks
creates. His Janice is one of the most winsome his fortune in the field of letters. The crudity of
of creatures, feminine to the finger-tips, and spark- his culture, when he makes his early appearances
ling with animation. The hero is hardly less attrac upon the scene, appears to us a little overdone, and
tive in his sterner way, and the whole group of it is something of a strain to believe that even a
private characters about wbom the story centres young man from Topeka would, under all the cir-
are made very real to us by the creative skill of the cumstances, accept social invitations upon postal
writer, deftly reinforced as it is at so many points cards, or think ready-made clothing the proper ap-
by bits of antiquarian fact and flashes of light upon parel for evening entertainments. The somewhat
colonial ways of thinking and living. The closest colorless young woman with whom he promptly falls
parallelism which the work suggests is with that in love is not depicted with an attractiveness 80
fine novel of an earlier period, Miss Mary Johnston's convincing as to account for his passion, and when
“Prisoners of Hope.” In both cases the hero is a the affair is settled between them at the end, it
“ redemptioner” loved by the daughter of a master rather takes us by surprise. But of the lighter
who has all the crusted prejudices of a gentleman graces of fiction-writing Mr. Matthews has enough
of the old school. The likeness of the two books and to spare. The bit of decorative incident, the
in this respect is too striking to be overlooked. But humorous or pathetic episode, the easy small talk
Mr. Ford need not be offended by this comparison, of office and drawing-room, all these things are done
for he would be the first to recognize the excellences to the life, done almost as well as Mr. Howells
of the book which he calls to mind. Beyond this, could do them, and this finished sort of detail is
his treatment is his own, and we have to thank him what constitutes the real charm of the novel. The
most cordially for his picture of a stirring time and literary "shop" talk, which is necessarily intro-
a great action. Few novels of the year will be duced over and over again, is absolutely convincing
likely to equal “ Janice Meredith” either in interest in its naturalness, and provides the novel with one
or in wholesome instructiveness.
of its most satisfactory features.
Recollections of that study in chromatic emotion, Mr. Horace Annesley Vachell has promptly fol-
“ The Red Badge of Courage,” and of the ineffec lowed up his recent success with “ The Procession
tual pieces of realism by which it was followed, have of Life” by a new novel of California entitled “A
not led us to expect work of any sort of real inter Drama in Sunshine.” The new book is a story of
est and value from Mr. Stephen Crane. His repu- land-speculation and the unscrupulous methods by
tation seems to have risen like a rocket amid the which the foundations of more than one Californian
glare of colored fires, and come down to earth like fortune have been laid during the last fifty years.
the proverbial stick. It is, then, with considerable The character of the heroine is the principal achieve-
surprise that we find in “ Active Service” a novel ment of the novel, and her purity and strength go
which, while not exactly meritorious according to a far to soften its otherwise sordid 'and repellant
serious standard, is at least readable and entertain theme. The man upon whom she bestows her love
ing, by virtue of having a real story to tell, and of is a weak creature, ethically considered, although
telling it with much effectiveness. The story is of he stands in the eyes of the world as the type of
an American journalist in love with the daughter aggressive will and outward success. At the end,
of a college professor. The professor takes his some sort of moral regeneration seems to be begin-
family to Greece, together with a class of archæo- ning in him, as he is brought face to face with the
logical students, and gets into a position of much danger of losing the woman whom he has at last
difficulty by reason of the war with Turkey. The learned to value at her true worth. There is much
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her one
of dramatic effect. We are brought into close con it assails require a more careful analysis than they
tact with the realities some of which are grim are here given. We wish in closing to pay a re-
indeed of the fresh and feverish life of the far newed tribute to the noble spirit of the work which
West, and we feel that this life, at least in certain Miss Sherwood has sought to do, and to the skill
of its more obvious phases, has found in the author in characterization which makes her book so read-
a stronger and more clear-sighted exponent than it able, despite its lack of intellectual balance and its
has hitherto had save in the person of Mr. Bret excess of emotionalism.
Harte. Mr. Vachell's style is thus far too nervous The posthumous novel of Mrs. Blanche Willis
and direct to allow of the higher finish, but even Howard von Teufel deserved a better title than the
in this respect he has been gaining rapidly since his awkward “ Dionysius the Weaver's Heart's Dear-
first publications, and there seem to be in him the est,” which is as Teutonic in its ungainliness as
makings of a novelist of the better sort.
much of the dialogue which it contains. The dia-
Sermons in the guise of fiction have been over logue has this character of necessity, because it be-
much our lot in recent years, but we do not often longs to a group of Swiss peasants, whose rude,
have to reckon with a tract so unabashed as “Henry direct form of speech is reproduced with admirable
Worthington, Idealist.” It might have for its sub- fidelity. It is a simple story, almost wholly con-
title “ an argument in defence of the Consumers' cerned with one person, the beloved daughter of
League and a protest against educational endow. the weaver, and the heroine of whatever plot the
ments of questionable origin.” Indeed, some such story may be admitted to possess. It is the life-
prefatory heralding of its purpose seems almost story of this girl, of her successful career,
morally obligatory in this case, for Miss Margaret error, and her atonement. She has her own notions
Sherwood, the author of the book, has an excep of right and wrong, and refuses to allow her life to
tional command of the literary graces, and the be utterly wrecked by a single act of wrongdoing.
power to make a dull theme attractive by virtue of Her independence and directness of character, her
keeping fast hold of the fundamental human inter native scorn of the shams encouraged by conven-
ests concerned. Her book is an intensely feminine tional society, and her determination to live her own
production, feminine in its many minute details and life in accordance with her own standards of con-
in the exaggeration of sentiment wherewith it is duct, are presented to the reader with singularly
infused. It turns upon a university endowment appealing force, and admiration for her virtues is
provided by a merchant whose gains are derived mingled with pity for her fault. The book is not
from a system of department stores in several large of the writer's best, and has numerous pages that
cities. The social and economic evils attendant might easily be spared, but the story which it has
upon this form of gainful occupation are pictured to tell commends itself to all honest sympathies.
with passionate indignation rather than with calm It is some time before the reader comes to under-
acceptance of all the facts involved, and when the stand why Miss Cholmondeley's “ Red Pottage
merchant sets aside a portion of his wealth for ed should be (as it seemingly is) the English novel of
ucational uses, he encounters the earnest opposition the year. The caprices of public taste in such mat-
of a young teacher in the favored institution, who ters are so inexplicable that one is inclined, by the
investigates the origins of this wealth and denounces time he gets half through with the book, to aseribe
its acceptance by the university as the condonation its vogue to some such popular vagary as that which
of a crime. As a matter of course, this youthful not so long ago singled out “ Trilby," and more
idealist is promptly dismissed by the trustees; but recently “ David Harum,” for such ephemeral dis-
compensation comes to him with the love of the tinction. The situations outlined seem strained,
merchant's daughter, who views her father's wealth and the style is far from impeccable. Moreover,
with a like abhorrence. We say as a matter of the interest, which at first is sharply focussed upon
course, meaning simply that the demands of the a certain character, becomes diverted into numerous
writer's scheme make this outcome imperative, and secondary channels, and the reader grows singu-
not that such a dismissal, made in such a way, larly impatient. But as the story is pursued to the
has much inherent probability. There has been end, and the threads so long left loose are gathered
much talk of this sort of persecution during re up into a single tragic knot, and the writer's powers
cent years, but we are inclined to doubt that such of characterization become more and more firmly
things really occur, and we are quite sure that they established, and a relentless destiny finally asserts
never occur as here described - in other words, its controlling and implacable claims upon all the
that college professors in good standing are dis- lives concerned, a revision of the earlier opinion is
missed from their posts in secret session, and with forced upon us; we are compelled to recognize the
out even knowing that they are being arraigned, strength of the work, and its success is made ration-
because their teaching differs from the opinions ally intelligible. The point of honor upon which
held by the authorities. The thing is so overdone by the plot all hangs is an artificial one, and it may
be
the present novelist that her book loses all real held that fate deals too harshly with the hero for
force. Written with the best of intentions, and his sin, but according to the conventional code of
inspired by the finest of idealism, it is not dispas- the society in which he lives, there is no other pos-
sionate enough to carry weight, and the evils which sible outcome. Yet if poetic justice is thus inex-


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orably worked out in the one case, we can but feel and prescriptions which set a king apart from other
that its hand is unduly stayed in the case of the other men, are set forth with much insight and human
criminal (of so different a sort !) who is simply a sympathy. This is the life-story of a real king, not
fool, and who escapes chastisement because he is one. of a puppet like the ruler of Ruritania, and it is told
The contrast between these two offenders is one that with convincing truthfulness. It is much the finest
extends to other characters of the novel, and which piece of work that the author has thus far done,
divides them sharply into two classes — those whose although we must warn its readers that it provides
lives
made up of thought and feeling, and those less of mere entertainment than his earlier ro-
who live vegetable existences, never knowing what
But it certainly marks an advance in his
it is to think clearly or to feel sincerely. There is art, and in the power of his appeal to the serious
something impressive in the tragic irony that invests intelligence.
the life of the clergyman who figures so largely in Mr. Egerton Castle’s “ Young April” is also, in
this story, and makes him the instrument of a trag- part, a book about a king, but here the interest is
edy which he can never even remotely comprehend. purely romantic, and nothing in the nature of
The chapter which deals with this episode is fitly psychological insight is for a moment displayed.
headed with the motto, “Les sots sont plus à craindre The escapade of a young English nobleman, just
que les méchants.” We would not convey the idea emancipated from tutorial thraldom, and plunged
that the novel is all gloom. So far from having into the intrigues of a petty German principality,
this exclusive attribute, it is enlivened to a notable forms the theme of this captivating tale. A group
degree with flashes of quiet humor, and gentle of deeply interesting characters, both men and
touches of social satire. And it is a book which women, set in a variety of passionate interrelations,
engages the closest attention, whether for its minor hold the attention absorbed, until a brief month is
incidents or for the larger lines upon which it is past, and the scene dissolves. It is a romance of
constructed.
the springtime of life — when a few weeks may
To write comedy which shall skirt the borders of hold in quintessence all the reality vouchsafed to a
tragedy without once overstepping the boundary whole lifetime, and, having taken flight, leave noth-
line is no easy task, but this is what Miss Violet ing behind but the embers of passion, and “ a world
Hunt has done, and done with charming success, in of memories and sighs.” The diction of this book
“The Human Interest.” We get very close to the
We get very close to the is strange and beautiful, riotous in its expression of
danger-point in one scene, but even then the situa- surging emotion, and marred only now and then by
tion is saved by the opportune death of a husband some infelicitous word, some Gallic construction,
who is distinctly in the way, both of his wife and some sense of incongruity arising from an occasional
of the novelist's plans. This device is a trifle banal, realistic brush-stroke upon the imaginative canvas.
but banality is the last attribute to be credited to But it is not pleasant to be over-critical in the pres-
Miss Hunt's work as a whole, for that work offers ence of such full-blooded romance, and the book has
audacious groupings, epigrammatic dialogue, and 80 many exquisite pages that the few lapses from
general sprightliness of manner, all of which quali- its inherent idealism may well be permitted to pass
ties combine to make a book in which hardly one unmentioned. It is a book to enjoy and not to
dull page is to be found.
dissect.
Kings have always figured largely among the In writing “ The Courtship of Morice Buckler,"
heroes of romantic fiction. Their exalted station, Mr. A. E. W. Mason proved himself one of the best
and the artificial splendors that hedge them about, of our contemporary romantic novelists, and his
have proved irresistible magnets to the imagina name upon a title-page is an unquestionable pass-
tions of novel-writers and to the interests of novel. port to popular favor. The name now reappears
readers. Given an attractive kingly personality for upon two title-pages, that of “ Miranda of the Bal-
the central figure, and the success of a romance was cony,” where it stands alone, and that of “ Parson
already half-assured. But the king as a psycho-Kelly," where it is associated with the name of Mr.
logical type, as a special character-study to be Andrew Lang. A close comparative study of these
viewed from within, is a comparatively new devel two books would yield some interesting results. Mr.
opment in fiction. The interest with which such a Mason's own unaided work is a tale of Englishmen
character
may become invested in the hands of a and Moors with a Spanish setting. It offers a great
master-craftsman of letters is evident enough to variety of incident, skilfully handled, although re-
those who are familiar with Herr Björnson's "Kon- lying too much for the loosening of its knots upon
gen” and Heer Couperus’s “ Majesteit.” It also those coincidences and contretemps that rarely hap-
becomes evident in the latest novel of Mr.“ Anthony pen in real life, and that strain the credulity of
Hope," entitled “The King's Mirror.” The naive readers well nigh to the breaking point. The loose
question put in “Huckleberry Finn,” “How much threads of the plot are in the end most ingeniously
does a king get?” is typical of the new curiosity interwoven, and the product is undeniably enter-
about kings which such books as these serve to taining. The romance has, moreover, an impres-
gratify. “ The King's Mirror" takes the form of sive degree of virile strength, and is constructed
an autobiographical narrative in which the life of with such economy of material that it must be read
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link in the narrative. In the joint work of Mr. The elaborately illustrated edition of “Janice
Mason and Mr. Lang, on the other hand, there is Meredith” (Dodd, Mead & Co.) attests both the
a tendency to indulge in episodical matter that is liking of the public for its author, Mr. Paul Leices-
not so essential to the development of the story, ter Ford, and for the Revolutionary times which
and the setting of the whole, while still romantic, are commemorated in it. A curious bit of history
is also historical, and more conscientiously histor lies in the fact that we are getting nearer our great-
ical than is usually the case with books of this sort. great-grandfathers' days in books in inverse pro-
In a word, “Parson Kelly” is a romance of the portion to our regard for their precepts in actual
Jacobite plottings of the quarter-century that led up life. Janice has a double set of friends, and the
to the Forty-Five, and the minute historical detail colored medallion portrait which Mrs. Lillie V.
must be credited to Mr. Lang, whose intimate ac O’Ryan bas made of the gently gallant heroine jus-
quaintance with the subject is equalled by few pro tifies them all. Another miniature, of the General
fessional historians. To him, also, must be credited George Washington whose farewell address has
many a quip, conceit, and scholarly allusion, all of come into disrepute among American statesmen of
which bear the unmistakable stamp of his peculiar late, is from the Sharpless, original, and serves as
talent. These matters supply the very salt of the frontispiece to the second volume. The black-and-
work, and, although Mr. Mason's name takes the white illustrations are by Mr. Howard Pyle and his
first place upon the title-page, we find much more pupils, exhibiting all the painstaking attention to
of Mr. Lang's handiwork in the contents. The the costume and architecture of that time which
story itself is one of the most readable that have have always marked this artist's work. The story
come to our notice of late years, and deserves warm itself is of sufficient worth to bear these extraneous
commendation, both as a study of the historical aids without loss of dignity, the effect being un-
period concerned, and as a specimen of the novel usually harmonious.
of plot, counterplot, and intrigue.
More than holiday interest is lent Charles Reade's
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
“ Peg Woffington” (Doubleday & McClure) by Mr.
Austin Dobson's "Introduction," replete as it is
with that essayist's charming erudition respecting
eighteenth century people and places. If Mr. Reade
idealized an actress who has always had a peculiar
charm for the folk on both sides of the footlights,
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
Mr. Dobson gives us the real woman quite without
the adventitious glamour of natural beauty or stage
Mr. Francis Marion Crawford adds himself to artificiality - and both are lovely, with a touch of
the number of novelists who have explained that pathos which makes them lovelier. The task for
their portraits in literature are not mere photo both writers is the easier because of the lack of
graphs, in the little preface he has written for the precise knowledge respecting pretty Peggy, enabling
new holiday edition of “Saracinesca” (Macmillan). the artist to fill out the slight sketch which authentic
It speaks ill for the discernment of his readers, and history furnishes with radiant colors from his own
those of the other novelists who have made similar palette. If her life, as Mr. Dobson says, was hardly
explanations recently: or is it that the realist is to be ranked as “either worshipped or blameless,"
really in the saddle to an extent which assumes all it was more - and less - exciting both love and
romance to be history written small? Much more pity. We can hardly, now that this Introduction
to the point is the inference of the author here that has been furnished the novel, conceive of the novel
it is the humanity of the book which has given it without it. And the pictures of Mr. Hugh Thom-
twelve years of unfading popularity and now calls son are scarcely less essential, now they have been
forth this admirable two-volume edition with all introduced to us.
Mr. Orson Lowell's delightful photogravures and The playwright was careful to keep “ Becky
pen drawings. The book is human as human as Sharp" distinct from Thackeray's “Vanity Fair,”
“ Patient Grisel” — and its persistence in the face but the substantial unity of the two is manifest in
of an overwhelming majority of feminine readers what is called the “Becky Sharp " edition of the
indicates less emancipation than many have hoped. great “novel without a hero" now published by the
The Italian character has never been more skilfully Harpers. Forty-eight photographs of Mrs. Minnie
interpreted to an alien audience than in the three Maddern Fiske and her fellow-players have been
novels of which this is the first and best; and this, reproduced in half-tone for the illustration of the
though not given by Mr. Crawford among
work, the stage costumes and accessories, strictly
sons for survival, is assuredly not the least of them. achronistic, adding to their effectiveness. The test
Just at this time, when Latin civilization is in apo is, of course, a severe one; for not only must the
gee, it is worth while recalling from the pages of actors conform themselves to the requirements of
“Saracinesca" the half-forgotten fact that all peo the stage, but they must also look the parts in re-
ples are from the same root, and all European peo pose, and in the face of those readers whose pre-
ples and their descendants sufficiently close to make possessions are, for example, in favor of Thackeray's
the interest of one a concern for all.
own drawings. These latter, lacking as they were
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in some respects, are filled with spirit and are neces. poets represented in it appear to be, with hardly
sary for the comprehension of the book; yet we can an exception, alive and not stuffed ; and its speci-
imagine the delight with which the author would mens of Colorado scenery are as indubitable as
welcome the sympathy here given by a sister art grand. There are twenty-four full-page plates, in
and its fellow-artists.
colors, showing Hanging Rock, the Palisades, Gate-
That sterling critic of art, Mr. Cosmo Monk way to the Garden of the Gods, Seven Falls, Ute
house, has performed a most valuable and unusual Pass, Royal Gorge, Manitou, Ouray, Twin Lakes,
task in his fine quarto, “ British Contemporary Platte Cañon, Cathedral Rocks, etc. Each plate is
Artists" (Scribner). The word "contemporary," printed on heavy paper, and the verses facing and
describing as it did the series of essays when they accompanying it are on tissue bond. The side-stamp
were conceived less than six years ago, has ceased on the cover is a bit of mountain landscape in nat-
to be applicable to Leighton, Millais, and Burne ural colors set in a gilt frame of Florentine pattern.
Jones, whose work nevertheless will not be taken The work is at once a decidedly interesting Colo-
as work of the past. Mr. Monk house regrets that rado souvenir and a charming Holiday book.
the principle of seniority gives Mr. George Fred Another fine volume of the steadily-growing lux-
erick Watts the first place: we fail to see the ap ury edition of Mr. George W. Cable's works of
plication when the final pas has been given by the fiction (Scribner), “ Les Grandissimes,” illustrated
King of Terrors to these others — even while we by Mr. Albert Herter, is in all respects a worthy
agree with his reasons for objection. A mystical example of American book-making at its best. A
seven are named in the book, the others being Mr. cover design of pond-lilies distinguishes the book
William Quiller Orchardson, Sir Lawrence Alma- externally. Within, the essential quality of French
Tadema, and Sir Edward J. Poynter. All were, life in Louisiana has been caught by the artist
of course, members of the Royal Academy. The and reproduced in not less than a score of photo-
book is illustrated with considerable profusion, full gravures, carefully conceived, excellently wrought,
page engravings from the works and smaller repro and fully interpretative of the novel. In size, the
ductions from sketches and studies lending point volume is a large octavo, its proportionate thickness
to the questions raised in the text. Incidentally, being achieved by the use of heavy paper, making
though this was doubtless part of the critic's orig the turning of the leaves a pleasure in itself. When
inal intention, there is a tolerably complete survey the series is completed, Mr. Cable will have a literary
of the present status of painting in England, which and bibliophilic monument granted to few writers.
makes the work of more than ordinary interest. It England, seen by the appreciative American eyes
is one of the chefs d'oeuvre of the season in all re of Mr. C. J. Taylor, whose sketches are published
spects.
by Mr. R. H. Russell, is as foreign and as home-
One of the prettiest and freshest of the season's like as it must always be to us.
There are no
lighter and more essentially ornamental and pic- fewer than eighty large drawings in Mr. Taylor's
torial publications comes to us from Colorado collection, nearly all in tone, interpreting the sim-
from away out in Colorado, so far from Attic ples and gentles, the city and country, the haunts
Boston. But if Boston itself has produced this sea of Shakespeare and Carlyle, and the resorts of
son anything so pretty and tasteful in its modest A
'Arriet and her 'Enery. The humor of the work is
kind as the flat octavo volume entitled “Colorado broad upon occasion, and the social side of English
in Color and Song," published by Mr. Frank S. life is brought out very clearly — and in marked
Thayer of Denver, we have thus far failed to see contrast to the more sorrowful pleasures of the
it. Mr. Thayer, if we mistake not, is the enter United States. The art of interpreting these dif-
prising gentleman who several years ago published ferences in terms common to both peoples is pecu-
a book containing, as alleged, photographic views liarly the province of this interesting and amusing
of live wild animals of the region in their native book, for which we are greatly indebted to the
haunts, after negatives secured on the spot by a artist. Why can't an Englishman - Mr. Phil May,
noted hunter who, in the interests of education and for example – do as much for us?
the book trade, kindly consented for a season or 80 Perhaps when Mr. William Dean Howells's vari-
to substitute a camera for his Winchester. It after ous and admirable qualifications as a novelist and
wards leaked out that the animals photographed prose-artist are considered separately, none of his
were stuffed and mounted specimens of indigenous qualities may take higher place than what
may
be
fauna, which had been wheeled out into the rural called his “ happiness.” This shows with more than
environs of Denver and there appropriately posed usual plainness in " Their Silver Wedding Journey”
before the camera of the “noted hunter," who, be (Harper), a luxurious holiday edition of which, in
ing a man of some humor, entered with spirit into two volumes, now makes its timely appearance. To
Mr. Thayer's little joke. The reviewers of the book take our old friend March
that average Ameri-
generally were “taken in ” by it — ourselves among can who is the transatlantic Pendennis with all his
the number. But we bear Mr. Thayer no malice, differences — and our good friend Mrs. March, who
and, on the contrary, hasten to say that his present stands for the most creditable work of modern civ-
venture is a very attractive one in which there lurks ilization, the American woman, vingt ans après
not the slightest possibility of a hoax. The native plus five more, and send them abroad, is a device as


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ingenious as it is interestingly instructive in its re one, the playfulness and fancifulness of Elia himself
sults. The illustrations for this edition, some in if one could conceive of an Elia in the end of the
half-tone reproductions from photographs, others
century !
from drawings by artists of repute, add to the reality Mr. Robert Barr has gone travelling, and “The
of the work and increase its many charms.
Unchanging East, or, Travels and Troubles in the
Mrs. Elisabeth Luther Cary writes a valuable Orient" (Page) is the two-volume product of his
summary of the work of one of the great English wanderings. Mr. Barr is a good hand at finding
poets, entitling it, " Browning, Poet and Man: A amusement and even comparative comfort out of
Survey" (Putnam), choosing the word “survey,” as situations otherwise hardly endurable. He shows
she says, because she has relied rather upon the the American's understanding of foreigners rather
work of others than on any investigations of her than a Briton's aloofness, and he thus exhibits to
own. Yet the work is vigorous at times if not orig. his readers the sympathy they do not always find
inal; and gives a tolerably fair collective view of in accounts of Eastern life. The Mediterranean,
the poet's virtues and literary faults. It is filled Antioch, Damascus, Jerusalem, — these form the
with good pictures, most of them portraits of Brown text for pleasant and profitable discourse. The
ing and his more famous contemporaries and friends, book is fully illustrated, in photogravure, etc., and
the rest being scenes from his works. The book is has a cover design which is particularly successful.
a worthy commemoration of a life of great accom Mrs. Alice Morse Earle's “Child Life in Colonial
plishments and many charms.
Days" (Macmillan ) is both a holiday book and a
That commingling of art and history which is book for children — the two being so closely com-
oftener attempted than realized makes pleasant and bined as to make it equally within either category.
profitable reading of “The Stones of Paris in His What it is, the title and Mrs. Earle's other work of
tory and Letters" (Scribner). It is written by Mr. the same genre abundantly indicate. A wide read-
Benjamin Ellis Martin and Mrs. Charlotte M. Mar- ing of earlier American history, biography, and cor-
tin,quite in the spirit of Mr.W.C. Brownell's "French
respondence, a good sense of fitness and proportion,
Traits," and justifying the dedication to that essay a sure knowledge of the eternally interesting child.
ist. The idea of the book is to follow the fragments ishness which age cannot wither, a keen eye for the
remaining of the walls of Philip Augustas, bringing picturesque, the bizarre, and the interesting - all
to light half-recalled, half-forgotten relics of the past, these things are combined with illustrations attest-
ancient, mediæval, and modern. There are eleven ing similar qualities to produce a living whole. We
several essays in the two volumes, bearing such have long known our ancestors as heroes; we are
typical titles as “ The Scholars' Quarter of the Mid now learning them over again as husbands, wives,
dle Ages,
“ Molière and his Friends,” “The South fathers, mothers, youths, hobbledehoys, giggling
ern Bank in the Nineteenth Century,” and “The “ females," and babies. Will the Filipino of the
Paris of Victor Hugo.” Many illustrations add to Twenty.first Century — like Macaulay's New Zea-
the interest of the pleasant, chatty volumes, which lander - find in such books an indication of national
preserve the literary feeling and charm throughout. decay?
A reissue of Mr. Hamilton Wright Mabie’s “ My We should like Mr. Joseph Jacobs's “Tales from
Study Fire" (Dodd, Mead & Co.) is welcome at Boccaccio" (Truslove, Hanson & Comba) better if
this time — or any other. The present addition has there were more of them. True, among the four
to commend it further the numerous illustrations chosen for this handsome volume,
appear “Griselda,"
from the pencils of those gifted young women, the “Saladin and Torello," and " Isabella,” two of wbich
Misses Maude Alice and Genevieve Cowles. These gave rise to great English poems. But when the
pictures take the form — common enough to-day,
common enough to-day, translator himself tells us, in a pleasant introduc-
but none the less charming — of little symbolic tion, that seventy-two of the hundred tales in the
sketches and suggestions scattered through the “ Decamerone are not “more broad than they are
pages, besides the well-drawn men and women of long," and the connecting links or machinery of the
the narrative whose imaginative portraits for once book are quite as free from trespass upon modern
do not disturb the reader's ideals. To the lover of avention, why should he so limit himself? Were
literature or of life, the volume makes equal appeal. the turning from Italian to English less successful,
If one could have personal acquaintances like the the feeling of deprivation would be less strong.
characters in the “ Essays of Elia”! Charles Lamb One compensation is found in Mr. Byam Shaw's
left the feeling of placid intimacy in his work, and delicate and artistic interpretations of the text,
we have gone on making editions of it, year by which are both beautiful and profuse.
year, showing the one appreciation of the work we Garlands of prose, quite as much as garlands of
are able to show - by reading and re-reading it. poetry, are characteristic of the day. The latter
Just now, Mr. Augustine Birrell has written an in come, it may be, from the distaste felt for verses by
troduction and Mr. Charles E. Brock has made pic most Americans; the former, in all probability,
tures for a sumptuous two-volume edition imported from the desire to place varied information at the
by the Scribners, differentiated as " Essays" and disposal of the reader. All such books, like others
.“ Last Essays.” In Mr. Birrell's selection there is affording a more or less royal road to learning, are
a certain appropriateness, since he represents, if any. probably enervating in their effect; but it is still
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difficult to believe this of such a book as “Great The author of “Vacation Days in Hawaii and
Pictures Described by Great Writers” (Dodd, Japan,” Mr. Charles M. Taylor, Jr., has been tak-
Mead & Co.). The book is compiled by Miss ing another vacation - in Great Britain, this time
Esther Singleton, whose “Turrets, Towers, and - and “The British Isles through an Opera Glass”
Temples" of last year will be recalled. She has (Jacobs) is the pleasant result. The title might be
drawn freely on the great writers of England and held as an indication of a journey with the objects
France and Germany for her descriptions, trans to be viewed held at rather more than arm's length,
lating from the two foreign tongues herself the ex but it may be taken to indicate that the author's
cerpts needed for her purpose. The result is a camera enables the reader to see what he saw as
well-rounded whole, the greatest works of the great-through an opera-glass. The tour began in France
est painters being turned into literature by the and extended through England, Scotland, and Ire-
greatest writers in Europe - nearly all of the critics land. While there is little new for the traveller in
being modern, and many of them living. The the book, it is fresbly told, and not without a cer-
painters range from Bordone and Botticelli to tain crispness of impression, such as characterized
Goenze and Turner, with illustrious examples from the former book from the same band.
Spain, Germany, and Holland in profusion; while Readers of the illustrated literary magazines have
Pater and Ruskin, the De Goncourts and Ste. seen from time to time pictures of Mr. H. Rider
Beuve, Goethe, and Thausing, with many more, Haggard in the guise of a practical student of agri-
supply the text. There will even be found Mr. culture. They may now read a book in which this
Swinburne's comment on Rossetti's “Lilith' attitude is maintained throughout -“A Farmer's
why not also his sonnet from the “ Heptalogia”? Year, Being his Commonplace Book for 1898 ”
The final touch of interest is given by a profusion (Longmans). There is no airy pretense about the
of illustrations of the pictures discussed, of work, nor writing de haut en bas. Mr. Haggard
- which contrive to give one an almost has evidently been at it long enough to have gained
adequate idea of their excellence in spite of the profound respect for tillers of the soil, and his views
process work which has made them possible. are practical, set forth month by month in the ap-
Good editions of the Sonnets of Shakespeare are proved manner of this most ancient art. With all
namerous and varied, but we can recall none more the rest, there is a reposeful and pleasantly literary
attractive to the eye than that lately issued by the manner, such as we have looked for in vain in this
Roycroft Printing Shop of East Aurora, N. Y. The author's successive novels. A combination of the
volume is unillustrated, and contains no Introduc- two methods would result, we are convinced, in
tion or critical matter of any kind. The text is something better than he has yet done, though this
printed in bold-faced type on a fine quality of hand last book is a desirable acquisition in itself.
made paper, and the binding is of plain dark paper Mr. J. Campbell Phillips has eyes to see for him-
boards with back and corners of a rough cinnamon self and a pencil to draw “ Plantation Sketches”
colored leather. The initial letters throughout the (Russell). The old South and the new are drawn
book, drawn by Mr. W. W. Denslow, are colored by with comprehension and kindliness, interpreted in-
hand in the same deft and artistic way that has dividually through the negro boys and girls who
made this feature of the Roycroft publications such are to constitute a problem for the next generation
a distinctive one. In many respects this is the most
to solve - or leave alone. There is true humor in
satisfactory volume that the Roycrofters have pro the sketches — humor with the thought of tears at
duced as yet, and a choicer Christmas gift for a no great distance, and they should serve to give
book lover could hardly be found.
the North a better understanding of what these
As artistically beautiful as it is wittily droll, Mr.
brave and tender-hearted fellow-citizens of ours
Oliver Herford's “Alphabet of Celebrities” (Small, really are.
Maynard & Co.) has the pictures and letter-press
Miss Howard Weeden not only draws the Negro,
as they appeared in “Life.” But to these have but she sings him as well, in “ Bandanna Ballads
been added a border and initial letters by Mr. (Doubleday & McClure). Mr. Joel Chandler Harris
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, with a cover design writes a brief introduction, in which he extols the
and end papers by Miss E. B. Bird, the whole be fidelity of the work and its timeliness in catching
ing profusely rubricated. That unexpected and
the old house-servant who was much more “gentle-
almost irreverent turn of the fancy wbich is cbar-
folks” than either his successors in service or in
acteristic of Mr. Herford's rhymes appears at its
masterhood. “A new generation has arisen,” says
best here. What could be more ludicrously incon-
Mr. Harris, “and it has become incredulous and
gruous than this?
skeptical in regard to the traditions and legends of the
A's Albert Edward, well meaning but flighty,
old plantation in general, and of the old-time quality
Who invited King Arthur, the blameless and mighty,
negro in particular.' This is true in the North as
To meet Alcibiades and Aphrodite."
well as the South, and the “ Bandanna Ballads"
Unless it be the accompanying picture, which shows will be a treasure to all those families which have
the British King lowering and the Greek leader enjoyed the perfect devotion of the older kind of
leering at the goddess, while the heir apparent servant depicted in them. In addition to these bal-
stares from eyes absurdly Guelph.
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as belongs to the delightful pictures, the author's grown-up people in flourishing circumstances. Bat
“Shadows on the Wall,” which had so marked a that Mr. Woolf had his admirers is undeniable; and
success when privately printed, are subjoined. to all such the flat oblong quarto entitled “Sketches
“Kemble's Sketch Book” (Russell) contains a of Lowly Life in a Great City" (Patnam), and con-
score or so of that humorous illustrator's 66
“coons,” taining over 150 of his drawings, will appeal. Most
together with a sprinkling of other odd types — a of the pictures are selected from the artist's contri-
Florida 'gator hunter, an “Old Sport,” an over butions to “Life” and “Judge,” but some of them
seer, a Kentucky mountaineer, a Cape Cod ancient have never before been published. The Biograph-
mariner or two, and so forth. The drawings are ical Note informs us that Mr. Woolf was born in
rough but expressive, and the publication is as England. We suspected it.
modest in price as in make-up.
Sidney Lanier's study of a mocking-bird, in the
The publications of Mr. T. B. Mosher for the best manner of Mr. Burroughs or Mrs. Miller, is
present season include twelve volumes, six of which brought out in a most elaborate form by the Scrib-
are in the “ Brocade" form and four in the “Old ners. This accurately picturesque story of a bird,
World” series, while the other two give us Mr. from near the egg until, like most wild things, it
J. W. Mackail's translation of the “Georgics" of died by violence, has its virtues enhanced by the
Virgil as companions to the single volume of the combined art and industry of Mr. A. R. Dugmore,
“ Eclogues” published a year ago. The new “Bro who made repeated photographic studies of mock-
cade” booklets give us two more of the old French ing birds at various ages, finally coloring the best
romances translated by William Morris, add a new of these and using them as illustrations here. A
number to the Pater set of “ Imaginary Portraits," brief comment on the lamented Lanier's habit in
and give us also “ Hours of Spring and Wild Flow- regard to living nature is prefixed by his son, Mr.
ers," by Richard Jeffries, “Will o' the Mill,” by Charles Day Lanier; while the book closes with the
Robert Louis Stevenson, and Dr. John Brown's little-known sonnets “ To Our Mocking. Bird, Died
ever-delightful “Marjorie Fleming.” The new of a Cat, May, 1878,” by way of lending a final
“Old World” books are divided equally among charm.
prose and verse. The two prose volumes are Miss That there should be demand enough for Moore's
Alexander's “The Story of Ida," as introduced by “ Lalla Rookh" to warrant putting forth a super-
Mr. Ruskin, and Mr. George Meredith's little illustrated edition of that masterpiece of senti-
known “ Tale of Chloe.” The two volumes of verse mentality at this time, will be a surprise to many.
are Christina Rossetti's “ Monna Innominata " and The beauty of the edition (Dana Estes) is marked
Stevenson's " A Child's Garden of Verses.” Of the enough to justify its existence, if only for the pic-
mechanical charm of all these publications, and of tures. The artists contributing to this result in-
their peculiar fitness for gift purposes, we have clude Messrs. Kenyon Cox, W. H. Low, F. S.
spoken so frequently in the past that there is noth Church, Frank Myrick, W. L. Taylor, and many
ing new left to say.
more. The book is substantially a re-issue of the
A pretty and inexpensive gift for a friend of edition of fifteen years ago.
musical tastes would be a copy of Mr. Henry C. An artistic, quaintly fancied little publication,
Lahee's “ Famous Violinists of To-Day and Yester with a distinctive savor of the book-stall or other
day” (L. C. Page & Co.). The volume is daintily haunt of the Nimrod of the old and curious in book-
bound in white with elaborate peacock and foriated making, is “ The Kings' Lyrics” (R. H. Russell),
design in gold, and contains ten portraits of famous being a selection of lyrical poems of the reigns of
mæstros, Ole Bull, Corelli, Paganini, Joachim, Sau Kings James I. and Charles I., together with Dray-
ret, Ysaye, etc. The writer has endeavored to give ton's Ballad of Agincourt. Mr. Fitzroy Carring-
“bird's-eye view" of the most celebrated violin ton is the editor. The selections are made with
ists from the earliest times to the present day, rather taste ; but why has Mr. Carrington, especially in a
than a detailed account of the very few; and those Caroline anthology in which so much space is given
who have won fame as public performers have been to poems of a religious cast, entirely omitted
selected in preference to those who were best known Vaughan — who, to our thinking, is, at his inspired
as teachers. There is a general Introduction, a best, almost better than any of his fellows at their
chapter on Famous Quartettes, and a Chronological best. There are nine selections from Herbert, and
Table. The little book is pleasantly and intelli four from Crashaw. Campion, Carew, Drummond,
gently written, biography, anecdote, and criticism Herrick, Lovelace, Quarles, Shirley, Suckling, and
being blended in due proportion.
Wither are liberally represented. There are por-
We own that we have always been rather imper traits of the two kings, and of most of the poets;
vious to the pictorial fun of the late M. A. Woolf. and the pleasant suggestion of archaism is carried
It always appeared to us a little flat, and of the into the typography.
sort usually made in England for home consump Mr. Richard Harding Davis's publishers have
tion. Mr. Woolf's specialty as a humorist was the dealt royally with his fiction. Anything more en-
drawing of very diminutive and supernaturally rag ticing than the six pocketable little volumes, in their
ged and "slammy" children, and making them talk flexible bindings of olive-green leather stamped
(by means of a line or 80 of text underneath) like in gold with title and design, it would be diffieult
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to imagine. The print is bandsome and the paper Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. publish in a single
of good quality, and each volume contains an etched small volume, delicately bound in white and gold,
frontispiece. The titles comprise : “Gallegher," “ Poems by Keats and Shelley.” The selections
“Soldiers of Fortune," “ The King's Jackal,” “ The from Keats are: “ La Belle Dame Sans Merci,"
Lion and the Unicorn,” and “Cinderella.”
“ Isabella,” « The Eve of St. Agnes,” and “ Lamia";
Mr. Samuel Minturn Peck, the American golfers' those from Shelley are: “The Cloud,” “ To a Sky-
laureate, has supplied the seven sprightly poems of lark,' “Ode to the West Wind,” « The Sensitive
the links that form the text of the showy flat quarto Plant,” “The Witch of Atlas.” The text is clearly
entitled " The Golf Girl" (Stokes), and Miss Maud printed on light-glazed paper. There are a number
Humphrey is responsible for the accompanying of drawings, full-page and wash, by Mr. Edmund
colored plates. Miss Humphrey's pictures are H. Garrett, whose work is pretty and graceful as
bright and pleasing, and we rather think they are usual. But the frontispiece of "Isabella," it must
portraits. If such be the case, we beg leave to be admitted, is in our poor judgment a sad thing,
compliment her on her taste in selecting her models. and a quite libellous conception of that lugubrious
The young man who “golfs” should look up this damsel. The Lycius (p. 92) is much better, and
pretty publication in the course of his Christmas the “ water-lilies," on page 42, is as charming as
shopping
unpretentious.
Famous Actors of the Day in America" (Page), Mr. Elbert Hubbard's “Little Journeys to the
like its predecessor dealing with the actresses, is Homes of Celebrated Painters” (Putnam) is a
from the pen of Mr. Lewis C. Strang. In brief bright and chatty little book, packed with anecdotes
space it sets forth the virtues of twenty-five men, and racy ana, and not devoid of solid information,
representing all the living generations, from Mr. which is conveyed in a colloquial and popular style,
Joseph Jefferson to Mr. Otis Skinner, in the history sometimes a thought too free-and-easy to fit the
of the American stage. Counterfeit presentments subject. Ten painters are treated : M. Angelo,
of these brilliant players, generally in some one of Rembrandt, Rubens, Meissonier, Titian, Van Dyck,
their favorite roles, eke out the characterizations of Fortuny, Ary Scheffer, Millet, Reynolds, Landseer,
the text, which are sound rather than brilliant. Mr. and Doré. Mr. Hubbard's book is very liberally
Strang would have us think he had left behind him and very pleasingly illustrated with portraits of the
the blandishments of the theatrical advance agent; painters and choice examples of their work.
nevertheless he has preserved a portion of that The early life of old New York has yielded ma-
scintillating functionary's vocabulary - to his own terial for a number of pleasant volumes, and Mrs.
misdoing in sentences here and there.
Amelia E. Barr has produced such a one in “ Trin-
Cupid and Coronet” (Russell) is a little story ity Bells” (J. F. Taylor & Co.). The work has a
told in pictures — with a thread of little needed charming little Dutch maiden for a heroine, and
text - by Mr. Malcolm A. Strauss. It is a port some stirring episodes are added from our wars
folio book after the manner of Mr. Charles Dana with the Algerian corsairs in the Mediterranean.
Gibson. It would hardly be fair to assume that it There are sixteen full-page illustrations, and the
would not have been done at all if it were not for volume has a pretty cover design showing the
Mr. Gibson ; but it cannot well be imagined other. Trinity bells whose silvery music rings through the
wise.
story.
The author of the book whose extended title has "Legends of Switzerland" (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
been shortened by use into plain “ Mary Powell” is the unpretentious title of a fourth volume of Miss
may well rejoice in the beautiful printing of “ The H. A. Guerber's series dealing with the myths which
Colloquies of Edward Osborne (imported by have gathered about the sturdy little republic and
Scribner), with its ten drawings by Mr. John Jel its various cantons. History and myth are here
licoe. The book has added to its own merit these mixed in unequal measures, the realms of art and
skilfully executed illastrations, fine paper, beautiful nature being drawn on for the accompanying pic-
type and printing, rubricated title-page, and all the tures in half-tone. So pure a republican democracy
careful detail which make a finished work of the as this deserves American study and sympathy, and
printer's art.
both can be given it by means of this pleasant work.
The more men find themselves in the unnatural That tour de force of Mr. Rudyard Kipling,
world of city streets and city clangor, the more “ The Brushwood Boy,” is issued in a small volume
they turn with longing to the mild pleasures of the by Messrs. Doubleday & McClure, illustrated by
field and garden. It was so in imperial Rome, it is Mr. Orson Lowell with his usual artistic discrimina-
true of unimperial New York and Chicago. So "A tion. The plates, which have genuine worth, suffer
World in a Garden" (Macmillan), by Mrs. R. Neish, somewhat in the printing, those interspersed through
is a welcome addition to a library none too rich in the text not showing with the clearness which was
georgics. The book is something more than mere evidently intended. The story is an evident one, of
horticulture. It has the life of man, with its pleasures course, and requires no exegesis, pictorial or verbal;
and pains, uncertainties and compensations, bound but it is the gainer by such work as this.
up in the conduct of the friendly flowers. The photo The rapidity with which the modern world
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II.
The best
publication of books like “ Rambles in Dickens ter Loomis, and "A Revolationary Calendar," with
Land " (Truslove, Hanson & Comba). Mr. Gerald pictures by Mr. Ernest C. Peixotto. Mr. Loomis's
Brenan introduces and Miss Helen M. James illus work is in comic vein; and his up-to-date handling
trates Mr. Robert Allbut's attempt to save out of the of our old zodiacal friends, Aquarius, Pisces, Tau-
swiftly vanishing past the actualities about which rus, Cancer, and Co., is sufficiently amusing. Pat-
Charles Dickens built bis great novels. The work riotism is Mr. Peixotto's refuge (we don't mean to
leaves some things to be desired, largely through be personal), and he has adorned each of the twelve
the hero-worship which Mr. Allbut permits himself. sizable cards of his calendar with pictures supposed
Dickens's place in literature is sure, and enthusiasm to illustrate such events as Paul Revere's Ride, the
is permissible. Here, however, the insistent use of Lexington and Bunker Hill fights, the Retreat from
« The Master" and similar terms carries it to the Long Island, the Surrender of Cornwallis, etc. As
point of sentimentality.
patriotism of the “strenuous” order is in the air
The second series of “Some Colonial Mansions” just now, Mr. Peixotto's stirring almanac will doubt-
(Coates) is bound uniformly with the first, and re less find many admirers.
sembles it closely in plan and scope. Mr. Thomas
Allen Glenn still acts as editor, which seems to be
too slight a title to indicate all his multifarious ac-
tivities. Not only does he write historical sketches
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
of leading families in America before the Revolu-
tion, preparing in several instances genealogies and
From the books for the young received
lists of living descendants of them, but he describes
since the instalment treated in TAE DIAL
for the last.
the houses they lived in, including the Washingtons
for December 1, it is still possible to
at Mount Vernon, the Jeffersons at Monticello, the make a selection which will be all that the childish heart
Rawles at Laurel Hill, the Philipses at Philips-
desires, no matter what the age of the person fortunate
borough, the Waynes at Waynesborough, and the enough to possess it. Indeed, these books remaining,
Prestons, Schuylers, and Macphersons. The book
though fewer in numbers, are of an even higher stand-
is accurate and painstaking, and the work as a
ard of excellence, indicating either more care in their
whole promises to attain a high place among recent
preparation, speaking broadly, or that the best have
been saved for the last. When we «oldsters " look
historical researches.
upon these marvels of book-making, it is with a double
Mr. Charles Keeler writes and Miss Louise Kee-
sigh: of regret that we were not so favored in our
ler decorates “A Season's Sowing” (A. M. Robert own days of complete appreciation and unjaded tastes,
son), a book of quatrains and couplets, nearly all and of wonder as to what manner of book will be turned
with didactic purpose. The book is unusually well out for our children's children a long generation hence.
executed; the presswork (done in San Francisco)
Among really notable literary achieve-
Biography
commending it to all those who like white paper and fiction.
ments, addressed to young people and their
and black ink properly applied thereto. The deco-
elders rather than to children, “ Spanish
rations, too, deserve much praise; but the illustra Peggy" (Stone), by Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood,
tion — by which is meant the figure-drawing more
is to be given very high place. It is an account of the
boyhood of Abraham Lincoln at New Salem, and such
particularly — is not so happy nor of equal merit.
an account as quite puts the formal biographies of the
As a work of western art, taken in all its bearings,
last few years to shame, being idealized into beauty
it deserves many encomiums, and the metropolis of while retaining all the rugged fact that makes the great
the Pacific States is to be congratulated for mak emancipator the hero of the common people.— Beside
ing it possible.
this is Mr. Hamlin Garland's “ Boy Life on the Prairie"
A pretty, well-planned introduction to Raphael (Macmillan), a book in which the author is much more
a Raphael primer, one may call it - is the at home than he was in telling what little girls did
modest little volume of the “Riverside Art Series,”
under somewhat similar circumstances. The story of
compiled by Miss Estelle M. Hurll, containing a
the circus is what any boy (and most men as well)
frontispiece portrait of the painter, together with
would call “ bully." — Of a similar sort, treating of hunt-
ing, fishing, and all manner of out-of-door life, is the
half-tone reproductions of fifteen of his pictures,
bouk "Just About a Boy” (Stone), written by the Mr.
with general introduction and running interpreta W. S. Phillips who is best known under his pen-name
tion and commentary (Houghton). The subjects of “El Comancho.” It is health and freshness com.
selected for illustration are largely such as have a bined. Certain to recall Uncle Remus are the tales
certain narrative or literary interest, the portraits gathered by a Jamaica girl, Miss Pamela Colman
being ignored and the Madonnas but slightly repre-
Smith, from the negroes of the West Indies, and now
sented, while the text has only the modest aim of
published with her own illustrations under the name of
making the pictures intelligible. Historical data
the “ Annancy Stories" (Russell). They show folk-lore
at its best.- Mr. Gelett Burgess prefixes a touching
are relegated to the tables, and the Introduction is
intended for teachers, with whom the volume should
essay on
“ The Cidivation of Inauimate Things for
Sceptic Parents” to “The Lively City o' Ligg"
find favor.
(Stukes), which he has written and illustrated. An ap-
A brace of rather taking and fairly practical pic- peal to the tastes of all sorts and ages of men is thus
torial calendars come to us from Mr. R. H. Russell: made, as in the case of “ The Lark."— That President
the “ Zodiac Calendar," with pictures by Mr. Ches David Starr Jordan should have told stories of his two


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toith them.
children, Knight and Barbara, and that these, with pic with the pictures, rhymes, and lettering by Mr. Ralph
tures made by those children, should now be published Bergengren, is a sort of “Slovenly Peter” for adults,
as “ The Book of Knight and Barbara” (Appleton), are its modernity attested by the use of rubaiyat for the
bits of good fortune wholly unexpected. There will be verses. Both elaborate and witty, the book is eminently
found in the numerous tales of which the book is made suitable for a bachelor's Christmas gift, always a diffi.
ap some old friends with new faces and some new cult thing to acquire, while it will serve a useful pur-
friends as well.— “ Pierrette" (Lane) is a lovely little pose with the married as well. There are moral head-
story of a prince who was lost and found, told by Mr. ings in the “ New England Primer" style, and such
Henry de Vere Stacpoole, with illustrations by Mr. sage advice as this, entitled “ Those Who Postpone
Charles Robinson.- Loveliness is also the characteristic Will Later Groan”: “Remember, Friend, the task
of Miss Gertrude Smith's pretty book, “ The Wonder that it is right to meet at its own moment, do not slight:
ful Stories of Jane and John” (Stone), for which Miss He who neglects his morn-appointed shave oft finds
Alice Woods has provided color sketches of more than scant time to shave himself at night.” — In every way
ordinary merit. After the manner of Lewis Carroll, commending itself, “Child Verse: Poems Grave and
Mrs. Sheila E. Braine describes the doings of “ The Gay” (Small, Maynard & Co.) is a delightful book of
Princess of Hearts” (imported by Scribner), the draw real poetry from the pen of the Reverend John Ban-
ings being by Miss Alice B. Woodward.
The resem-
ister Tabb. Almost unconscious piety is an unusual
blance is more than adventitious.- Quite of its own note here sounded most worthily.
kind, and a fitting sequel to her former book, “ Wabeno
Without verses, but filled with pictures,
the Magician” (Macmillan) is an interestingly fanciful
Pictures
books of the sort represented by Mr. Frank
chiefly.
rendering of natural scenes and objects by Mrs. Mabel
Verbeck's “The Three Bears ” (Russell)
Osgood Wright, with admirable pictures by Mr. Joseph are as funny as caricatures of animals funny in them-
M. Gleeson.
selves can possibly be.- Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine, in-
Books with rhymes and pictures, which ap-
ventor of the 16
Rhymes,
Dumpies " and some other laughable
and pictures peal to the adult through one and the child things, has told the story of the 'possum, the coon, the
through the other, are not uncommon, and rabbit, and the crow “In the Deep Woods" (Russell),
certainly serve a useful purpose. Probably the first to the pictures by Mr. J. M. Condé.- Mr. Condé, too,
place should be awarded for originality to Miss Carolyn provides the humorous drawings for Mr. C. F. Carter's
Wells's “Jingle Book” (Macmillan), for which Mr. book, “ Katooticut, or The Rooster Who Wanted to Be
Oliver Herford has made the drawings. It more than Rich" (Russell), in which a dragon, a genie, and a
justifies its name, for what is thought to be the best nightmare flourish with the more usual types of crea-
alliterative jingle in the language here has place, run-
tion.—“Animal Jokes” (Russell), the jokes by Mr. A.
ning as follows: “ Betty Botta bought some butter; Crawford and the reproductions of the animals by Mrs.
.but,' said she, “this butter 's bitter! If I put it in my M. Baker-Baker, is a very funny book indeed. What
batter it will make my batter bitter, but a better bit o' might be styled reversed silhouettes make up the pic-
butter will but make my batter better.' Then she tures in “ The Sculptor Caught Napping : A Book for
bought a bit o' butter better than the bitter butter,
the Children's Hour” (Dutton). These are done by
made her bitter batter better. So 't was better Betty Mrs. Jane E. Cook, who cuts her pictures from card-
Botta bought a bit o' better butter!” This out-pipers board, traces the necessary detail on them with a stil-.
Peter Piper!—“A Moral. Alphabet in Words of From etto, and presents them here against a deep purple
One to Seven Syllables" (Edward Arnold), is a repeti- background. The effect is that of low relief, and very
tion of the success of the “ Bad Child's Book of Beasts" pleasant as well as very novel. The subjects treated
and “ More Beasts for Worse Children” of two and are those of the nursery, generally speaking.
three years ago. The words are by “H. B.” (Mr.
Of the various books treating of the naval
Hilaire Belloc) and the out-of-drawings by “B. T. B.” group of aspect of the war with Spain, Mr. Willis
- Nut in the least for children, though hardly for any-
J. Abbot's 6 Blue Jackets of 1898"
body else, are the “Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless (Dodd, Mead & Co.) is by far the most accurate and
Homes." (Edward Arnold), by Colonel D. Streamer, the most interestingly written. Both boys and men
with pictures by “G. H." It seems to be American will be the gainers by its perusal.— Mr. William 0.
humor strained through British intelligences, much to Stoddard, who wrote one of the first of the books of the
its worsening.— Any of Mr. William Nicholson's pic late war, now has published a volume containing three
tures are certain to be welcomed, and “ The Square stories, of wbich the third is a wrecker's tale, rather
Book of Animals” (Russell) is no exception to the rest, than a warrior's. It is named from the first of these,
though the designs for it were done in 1896. But why Running the Cuban Blockade” (Stone), and is thril-
should Mr. Nicholson's excellent ideas serve as a vehicle ling and well told throughout.- Ruth Ogden (Mrs.
to carry, first, the worst rhymes Mr. Kipling ever wrote, Charles W. Ide) tells how patriotic small boys and girls
secondly, the worst rhymes Mr. Henley ever wrote, and, could be during the recent war, in “Loyal Hearts and
thirdly and fiually here, the worst rhymes Mr. Arthur True” (Stukes). Doubtless the little Spanish children
Waugh ever wrote? Why not try the artist solus ? — were quite as loyal on their side.— The rediscovery of
Both rhymes and illustrations are by Mrs. Sarah Noble our ancestors continues in Mrs. Agnes Carr Sage's “A
Ives in Songs of the Shining Way" (Russell), a thin Little Daughter of the Revolution” (Stokes), illus-
but pleasing book which would bave been improved trated by Miss Mabel L. Humphrey, wherein quite
mechanically by the use of a paper more nearly opaque. small children meet the heroes of that day.- Revulu-
A single person also serves both for draughtsman tionary sea-fighters begin, and the sailors of the Span-
and rhymester in“ Peter Newell's Pictures and Rhymes ish war end, Mr. George Gibbs's “ Pike and Cutlass
(Harper), and the combination of Mr. Newell's talents (Lippincott), thus presenting a connected picture of the
is most successful. — “ In Case of Need (l'hese May national navy. Two things about the book are not quite
Come Handy)," published by Small, Maynard & Co., I comprehensible: Why does the author take pains to
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children.
mention every sailor who did anything during the last decorative purposes than indicating any great knowl-
war with the solitary exception of Admiral Schley? edge of ornithology, “ Dickey Downey: The Autobiog-
And why does he, in the pictures be drew for the book, raphy of a Bird” (A. J. Rowland), by Mrs. Virginia
depict “ Fighting Bob" Evans in the uniform of the Sharpe Patterson, is still a necessary book. Intended
war of 1812 ? Were there conning towers in those primarily for children, it deserves circulation among
days?— Mr. Gibbs makes the pictures for Mr. M. J. their elders, so long as dead birds are used in millin-
Canavan's “ Ben Comee, a Tale of Rogers’s Rangers, ery.— A fourth edition of Miss Maud Menefee's “Child
1758–59” (Macmillan), which goes back of the Revo Stories from the Masters ” (privately printed) will be
lution quite a distance, but revolves around Lexington welcomed by the intelligent everywhere. It is more
as a centre.- One long step farther back is Mrs. Beulah beautiful than its predecessors by a cover design from
Marie Dix's “Soldier Rigdale, How he Sailed in the Mr. Leyendecker's clever pencil; but its charmingly
Mayflower, and How he Served Miles Standish " (Mac-simple account of the great masterpieces makes it
millan). The pictures are by Mr. Reginald B. Birch, almost indispensable in teaching children the nobility
and the book is of historical interest. — “With Perry of art.—“A Life of St Paul for the Young" (Jacobs),
on Lake Erie” (Wilde) is a good story of the second by Mr. George Ludington Weed, is a direct and Chris-
war of independence, told by Mr. James Otis. It has tianly sympathetic account of the great missionary and
the merit of introducing the reader to the facts prelim- dogmatist, not above the grasp of the childish mind.-
inary to the great battle.- Concerned with the Revo “Ways of Wood Folk” (Ginn) is an instructive and
lution again is “ An Unknown Patriot” (Houghton), pleasantly written account of forest animals and animal
by Mr. Frank Samuel Child. It is instructive to see life, by Mr. William J. Long.
the former hatred of Great Britain slipping away in all
The really interesting books for smaller
these books; we are apparently as anxious to please the For little
children may be headed by that excellent
mother country now as we used to be anxious when she
publication, “The Little Folks' Illustrated
gave us dispraise in days gone by.- Dr. Gordon Stables
Annual ” (Dana Estes). Both in prose and verse, the
is belated in point of time with his Remember the selections are of the sort which cannot fail to entertain
Maine" (Jacobs), and, we trust, in point of sentiment the youngsters.- “The Little Browns” (imported by
as well. The book is chiefly interesting as showing a Scribner) are a wholesome and happy set of small chil-
British point of view.- Never failing in its appeal to dren for whose acquaintance we are indebted to Miss
all English-speaking boys and men, the life of Sir Mabel E. Wotton. A real burglar comes upon the scene
Francis Drake carries a tradition for seamanship and in the guise of an uncle, and the children play detective
daring down the ages. Mr. James Barnes bas rather
in the most approved manner. - Another housebreaker
followed the beaten path of the bold captain's biog is the hero of “The Burglar's Daugbter” (Jordan,
raphers than marked one out for himself, as he has so
Marsh & Co.), written by Miss Margaret Penrose and
often; but “ Drake and his Yeomen” (Macmillan) is illustrated by Mr. Frank T. Merrill. This hero is saved
a good book nevertheless. Why can't Mr. Barnes
by his little girl, whose room he enters under a misap-
write another and tell of Drake's singeing the King of prehension, discovering his inadvertence when he is
Spain's beard?
about to take a present he had made her.— Mrs. Moles-
If Mr. George Riddle bad given a little worth is the author of “ This and That, a Tale for Two
A little of
more American verse in his « Modern Tinies” (Macmillan), the pictures being by Mr. Hugh
everything.
Reader and Speaker" (Stone), it would Thomson in an earlier manner. The book has the merit
have left nothing to be desired. There is surely no rea of all Mrs. Molesworth's work, and shows how real and
son why boys should not have a chance at the good how trivial the grief and trouble of the child always is.
things of to-day as well as at those of day before yes -Four of the “ Nister” books are published by Dutton
terday. That it is vastly more amusing to keep ani on this side of the Atlantio: “The Voyage of the Mary
mals and watch them than to shoot them for specimens, Adair," by Miss Frances E. Crompton, with pictures by
is the humane lesson of Mr. Wardlaw Kennedy's Miss Evelyn Lanse; “ Tattine,” by Mrs. Ide (“Rath
“ Beasts, Thumb-Nail Studies in Pets” (Macmillan). Ogden”); “ Honor Bright, a Story of the Days of
Most of the beasts are reptiles, and a more interesting King Charles," by Mrs. Mary C. Roswell, illustrated
book could hardly be found.- Miss Charlotte M. Yonge by Miss E. Stuart Hardy; and “The Kingfisher's Egg,
(familiar name) writes The Herd Boy and his Her. and Other Stories," of which the first is by Mrs. L. T.
mit” (Whittaker), a characteristic story of medieval Meade, and the others by Miss Ellis Walton, Miss Ger-
piety, for which Mr. W. S. Stacey provides some inter aldine R. Glasgow, and several more. All have attrac-
esting pictures.— Phil and I" (Nelson) is a story of tive cover designs in bright colors, and are filled with
an English boy and the heir of an exiled French noble pictures.--"Mother Duck's Children” (Russell) is by
man during the Napoleonic wars. The times and the “Gugu,” and has decided merit. “Master Martin
story are well set forth.- Real mischief-making boys (Jacobs) is all that the title of dignity implies, and
and girls have their lives portrayed by E. Nesbit (Mrs. there is also a child Sir Theodore in the book to give it
Hubert Bland) in “ The Story of the Treasure Seek an air. It is written by Mrs. Emma Marshall. - Miss
ers” (Stokes). The children were not looking for mere Amy E. Blanchard, purveyor of pleasant and innocuous
gold. Messrs. Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer make tales for the young, finds a congenial theme in “A
the pictures for the book in all sympathy.- Boys at Sweet Little Maid” (Jacobs), who is as sweet as any
school and their capacity for dramatization afford the small child may lawfully be: almost sweeter.—“Old
fun in “Mobsley's Mohicans” (Nelson), by Mr. Harold Father Gander; or, The Better Half of Mother Goose "
Avery. The book is praiseworthy.- Another of the (Page) is a book of jingling and rather elderly rhymes
unwearied Mr. James Otis's books, and the third of his accompanied by any quantity of pictures in color and
“ Telegraph” series, is “ Telegraph Tom's Ventures” in black and white. Mr. Walter Scott Howard is the
(Werner). Crime and melodrama are its portion.— person responsible for it all.-- Of more importance and
Rather teaching the cruelty of slaughtering birds for rather different in its appeal, “Little Leather Breeches,
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and Other Southern Rhymes” (J. F. Taylor & Co.) is a roads, railroads, telegraph lines, stations, and all phys-
collection of original verses, folk lore tales in rhyme, ical features necessary to a clear understanding of the
negro songs, street cries, and other matter from the other country in which the British and Boers are at present
side of Mason and Dixon's line. The numerous colored fighting, and as the map was prepared under the super-
pictures are from the band of the collector and rhyme vision of the War Department, its official nature guar-
ster, Mr. Francis P. Wightman.
antees the correctness of the details.
No book for the holidays, whether for “ The Mirror of Perfection,” the oldest life of St.
Old favoriles
young or old, has more attractiveness than Francis of Assissi, discovered by M. Paul Sabatier and
in new dress.
« The Golden Age,” Mr. Maxfield Parrish by him edited in the original Latin, has now been put
providing most admirable pictures for Mr. Kenneth into English by Mr. Sebastian Evans, and published by
Grahame's delicious text, and Mr. John Lane giving it Messrs. L. C. Page & Co. It makes a very pretty book.
content. It is a book to be treasured by bibliophiles.-As on Modern European History” (Macmillan), prepared
a worthy companion to “ A Hundred Fables of Æsop,” primarily for the use of his students by Professor H.
Mr. Percy J. Billinghurst illustrates “ A Hundred Morse Stephens, is a volume of much usefulness to
Fables of La Fontaine” (Lane), making a most desir teachers of history, and embodies the experience gained
able pair of minor classics.—Another reprint, appropri- | by five years of work in Cornell University.
ate for very good children indeed, is Swift's “Gulliver's The latest publications, in fiction, issued by Mr.
Travels" (Lane), with pictures by Mr. Herbert Cole Drexel Biddle, Philadelphia, include “Giles Ingilby "
and the text duly bowdlerized.
by W. E. Norris, “ La Strega" by Ouida, “ An Atlantic
Tragedy" by Clark Russell, “ Zuleka" by Clinton
Ross, "Strong as Death" by Guy de Maupassant, “ The
Laurei Walk" by Mrs. Molesworth, and “The Money
Market" by E. F. Benson.
LITERARY NOTES.
Volume II. of Professor Alfred Gudeman's “ Latin
“ Cæsar for Beginners," a first Latin book by Mr.
Literature of the Empire” (Harper) includes selections
William T. St. Clair, is published by Messrs. Longmans,
from the poets, a dozen or more, Juvenal, Lucan, Sen-
eca, Statius, Claudianus, and Silius Italicus being rep-
Green, & Co.
resented by something like forty pages each.
It is a
Mr. G. Bernard Shaw's novel, “ Cashel Byron's Pro-
useful anthology, for students do not often get hold of
fession,” has been published by the Messrs. Brentano
some of the poets represented.
in a new edition.
President Hadley of Yale will deliver an address on
“ The Surgeon's Daughter" is imported by the
“Economic Theory and Political Morality" at the
Messrs. Scribner as the latest volume of the “ Temple” opening of the annual meeting of the American Eco-
edition of Scott's novels.
nomic Association, at Cornell University, December 27.
A work on “Embroidery,” by Mr. W. G. Paulson
The programme of papers and discussions is one of un-
Townsend and others, has recently been published by usual interest, the problems of Trusts and Combinations
Messrs. Truslove, Hanson, & Comba.
occupying especial prominence.
That diverting little book, Mrs. Hugh Bell's “ Conver A “Catalogue of the Best Books "in all departments
sational Openings and Endings,” bas just been brought of literature is issued by The Burrows Brothers Com-
out in a revised edition by Mr. Edward Arnold.
pany of Cleveland. The titles are properly classified in
Villette,” in two volumes, has just been published departments, and the triple index entries — by author,
in the handsome library edition of the Brontë novels, subject, and title—make everything instantly accessible.
which the Scribners import for the American market. The volume has four hundred pages, well printed, and
Volume IV. of the “Critical and Miscellaneous Es is a very creditable bibliographical production.
says ” of Carlyle, in the new “Centenary” edition, has Professor William Macdonald's “Select Charters and
just been imported by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. other Documents Illustrative of American History
Mythology,” « Law,” « Palmistry,” and “Dancing," (Macmillan) covers the pre-Revolutionary period, and
are the respective titles of four small manuals for pop- places within the hands of the student a great mass of
ular instruction just issued by the Penn Publishing Co. material not easily accessible otherwise. It affords
Dr. Guy Carleton Lee is the author of a work on the another indication of the praiseworthy tendency, so con-
• Principles of Public Speaking," which is published by spicuous of late in our educational literature, to bring
the Messrs. Putnam. It includes a list of subjects for original documents to the hands of our teachers.
debate and a section on parliamentary law.
Mr. Henry S. Pancoast's “Standard English Poems"
Seneca's - Medea” and “The Daughters of Troy," (Holt) is a compilation intended for school use in connec-
put into English blank verse by Miss Ella Isabel Harris, tion with any text-book of the history of our literature,
and provided with an introductory essay, are published although, of course, prepared with special reference to
in a small volume by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. the author's own excellent manual of the subject. The
“England in the Nineteenth Century" (Longmans), selections range from “Chevy Chase" to Mr. Kipling's
by Mr. C. W. Oman, is a condensed historical manual “ Recessional," which latter is the only example given
that might fitly be used as a school-book, but may also from any poet now living. The book has seven hun-
claim the attention of the general reader as a succinct dred and fifty pages, of which about two hundred are
summing-up of its subject and period.
notes and other editorial matter.
A valuable map of the seat of war in Africa, thirty The Bibliographical Society of Chicago was organized
two by forty-six inches in size, accompanies the “Na on the evening of Dec. 8, at a meeting held in the
tional Geographic Magazine" (Washington, D. C.) for Public Library rooms. Its membership comprises rep-
December. The map shows in detail the mountain resentatives of the libraries of the city, of the Univer-
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 237 titles, includes books
received by TAE DIAL since its last issue.]
sity and other educational institutions, of the publishing
interests, and of the general book-loving element of the
public. It is a national rather than a local association
in scope, having the field to itself as far as the United
States is concerned. The aims of the Society are stated
as follows: 1, to encourage and promote bibliographical
study and research; 2, to compile and publish special
bibliographies; and, 3, to arouse interest in the history
of books and libraries.
Mr. William S. Lord some months ago asked two
hundred "representative literary people" to send him
lists of twenty-five of the best short poems in nine-
teenth century English literature. The poems receiving
the highest numbers of votes are now printed in a neat
booklet entitled - The Best Short Poems of the Nine-
teenth Century” (Revell). They are headed by “The
Chambered Nautilus,” and footed by Wordsworth's
“ Daffodils.” It goes without saying that they are all
good poems, and also that they are not the best. That
is, they are the favorites of intelligent readers, not the
masterpieces recognized by authoritative critics. Ten-
nyson has four of the number, Wordsworth three, and
fifteen other poets one or two each.
The publishing and bookselling fraternity, and the
book world generally, will learn with regret of the de.
struction by fire of the large establishment of the J. B.
Lippincott Company of Philadelphia, one of the oldest
and best equipped houses in the country. Although the
loss of stock was complete, most of the plates of the
standard works published by the house were found to
be uninjured, and the presses and binderies of the city
were at once set at work in producing new editions, so
that orders can shortly be filled as before. With praise-
worthy enterprise the firm at once secured new quarters
and began the construction of a new building, which,
with new and complete machinery and equipment, may
be expected to place the house in a more advantageous
position than it before enjoyed.
“ The International Monthly,” further described as
"a magazine of contemporary thought,” is to be launched
by the Messrs. Macmillan on the first of next month.
It is to be edited by Mr. Frederick A. Richardson, with
the assistance of an advisory board made up of twelve
distinct committees, having in their special charge the
twelve departments of history, philosophy, psychology,
sociology, comparative religion, literature, fine art, biol-
ogy, medicine, geology, physics, and industrial art.
Each committee is supposed to include an American, an
Englishman, a Frenchman, and a German. Thus the
department of literature is under the direction of Pro-
fessor W. P. Trent, Dr. Richard Garnett, M. Gustave
Lanson, and Professor Alois Brandl. These names cer-
tainly inspire confidence, and are fairly typical of the
sort of scholarship enlisted for the entire enterprise.
Not less than five essays will be included in each num-
ber of the journal, and these essays will be given suf-
ficient space to permit their respective subjects to be
treated seriously, if not exhaustively. In fact, it looks
as if we were now to have for the first time in this
country a review in which writers may express them-
selves at such length as to make it really worth their
while. We understand that it is the plan of the man-
agement to select such subjects as may be dealt with
instructively from the standpoints of the four nations,
and to assign each subject of this sort to an American,
an English, a French, and a German writer for treat-
ment. The plan is a praiseworthy one, and should re-
sult in some valuable comparative studies.
HOLIDAY GIFT BOOKS.
The Grandissimes. By George W. Cable; illus, in photo-
gravure by Albert Herter. Large 8vo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 491. Charles Scribner's Sons. $6.
Saracinesca. By F. Marion Crawford ; illus. in photogra-
vure by Orson Lowell. In 2 vols., 8vo, gilt tops, uncut.
Macmillan Co. $5.
Janice Meredith: A Story of the American Revolution. By
Paul Leicester Ford. Holiday edition ; with frontispieces
in colors, and illustrations by Howard Pyle and his pupils.
In 2 vols., 8vo, gilt tops, uncut. Dodd, Mead & Co. $5.
Some Colonial Mansions and Those Who Lived in Them.
With genealogies of the various families mentioned. By
Thomas Allen Glenn. Second series. Illus. in photograr-
ure, etc., large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 503. Henry T.
Coates & Co. $5.
Browning, Poet and Man: A Survey. By Elisabeth Luther
Cary. Illus. in photogravure, large ovo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 282. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $3.75.
Plantation Sketches: Drawings of Negro Life. By J. Camp-
bell Phillips. Oblong 4to. R. H. Russell. $3.
Tales from Boccaccio. Done into English by Joseph Jacobs ;
illus. by Byam Shaw. 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 118. Trus-
love, Hanson & Comba, Ltd. $2.50.
My Study Fire. By Hamilton Wright Mabie ; illus. in pho-
togravure, etc., by Maude, Alice, and Genevieve Cowles.
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 288. Dodd, Mead & Co. $2.50.
Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance. By Thomas Moore.
Illus., 12mo, gilt top, pp. 296. Dana Estes & Co. $2,50.
Vanity Fair. By William Makepeace Thackeray. “Becky
Sharp" edition. Illus. with 48 scenes from the comedy as
presented by Mrs. Fiske and her company. 8vo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 676. Harper & Brothers." $2.50.
Peg Woffington. By Charles Reade; with Introduction by
Austin Dobson ; illus. by Hugh Thomson, 12mo, gilt top,
pp. 298. Doubleday & McClure Co. $2.
Sketches of Lowly Life in a Great City: A Book of Drav-
ings by Michael Angelo Woolf. Edited by Joseph Henius.
Oblong 4to, pp. 185. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.
Cupid and Coronet: Drawings by Malcolm A. Strauss.
Oblong 4to. R. H. Russell. $2.
The British Isles tbrough an Opera Glass. By Charles
M. Taylor, Jr. Illus. from photographs, 12mo, gilt top,
uncat, pp. 320. George W. Jacobs & Co. $2.
Famous Actors of the Day in America. By Lewis C. Strang.
Illus. in photogravure, etc., 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 354.
L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
Legends of Switzerland. By H, A. Guerber. Illus., in
colors, eto., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 310. Dodd, Mead
& Co. $1.50.
The Brushwood Boy. By Rudyard Kipling ; illus. by Orson
Lowell. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 119. Doubleday &
McClure Co. $1.50.
Bob: The Story of our Mocking-Bird. By Sidney Lanier.
Illus. in colors, 8vo, uncut, pp. 69. Charles Scribner's
Song. $1.50.
A Season's Sowing. By Charles Keeler; decorated by
Louise Keeler. Large 8vo, uncut, pp. 43. A. M. Roberson,
$1.25.
Bandanna Ballads. Including “Shadows on the Wall."
Verses and pictures by Howard Weeden; with Introduc-
tion by Joel Chandler Harris. 12mo, uncut, pp. 91.
Doubleday & McClure Co. $1. net.
Julia Marlowe as Barbara Frietchie": A Collection of
Pictures. 4to. R. H. Russell. 25 cts.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
Drake and his Yeomen: A True Accounting of the Char-
acter and Adventures of Sir Francis Drake. By James
Barnes ; illus. by Carlton T. Chapman. With frontispiece
in colors, gilt top, uncut, pp. 415. Macmillan Co. $2.
Pierrette. By Henry de Vere Stacpoole ; illus. by Charles
Robinson, 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 294. John Lane. $1.50.
Old Father Gander; or, The Better Half (?) of Mother
Goose: Rhymes, Chimes, and Jingles. By Walter Scott
Howard ; illus. in colors, etc., by the author. Large
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Gulliver's Travels. By Jonathan Swift ; illus. by Herbert
Cole. 12mo, pp. 356. John Lane. $1.50.
Little Leather Breeches, and Other_Southern Rhymes.
Collected and arranged by Francis P. Wightman ; illus.
in colors by the author. 4to. J. F. Taylor & Co. $1.50.
Annancy Stories. Written and illus. by Pamela Colman
Smith;
with Introduction by Thomas Nelson Page. Large
4to, pp. 79. R. H. Russell. $1.50.
Blue-Jackets of '98: A History of the Spanish-American
War. By Willis John Abbot. Illus., 12mo, pp. 367. Dodd,
Mead & Co. $1.50.
A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine. With pictures by
Percy J. Billinghurst. Large 8vo, pp. 202. John Lane.
$1.50.
Katooticut. By C. F. Carter ; illus. by J. M. Condé. Large
8vo, pp. 153. R. H. Russell. $1,50.
In the Deep Woods. By Albert Bigelow Paine ; illus. by
J. M. Condé. Large 8vo, pp. 134. R. H. Russell. $1.25.
Remember the Maine: A Story of the Spanish-American
War. By Gordon Stables, C.M. Illus., 12mo, pp. 329.
George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.25.
A Sweet Little Maid. By Amy E. Blanchard. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 215. George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.
The Sculptor Caught Napping: A Book for the Children's
Hour. From designs by Jane E. Cook. Oblong 8vo. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $i.
The Voyage of the Mary Adair, By Frances E. Crompton.
Illus , 8vo, pp. 48. E. P. Dutton & Co. 50 ets.
Honour Bright. By Mary C. Rowsell. Illus., 8vo, pp. 48.
E. P. Dutton & Co. 50 cts.
The Kingfisher's Egg, and Other Stories. By L. T. Meade
and others. Illus., 8vo, pp. 48. E. P. Dutton & Co. 50 cts.
Tattine. By Ruth Ogden (Mrs. Charles W. Ide). Illus., 8vo,
pp. 48. E. P. Dutton & Co. 50 cts.
Master Martin. By Emma Marshall. Illus., 12mo, pp. 143.
George W. Jacobs & Co. 50 cts.
A Life of St. Paul for the Young. By George Ludington
Weed. Illus., 12mo, pp. 239. George W. Jacobs & Co.
50 cts.
Telegraph Tom's Venture. By James Otis. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 228. Werner Co. 75 cts.
Our Three Admirals: Farragut, Porter, Dewey. By James
E. Homans. Illus., 12mo, pp. 94. New York: James T.
White & Co.
HISTORY.
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest
of the Soudan. By Winston Spencer Churchill; edited by
Col. F. Rhodes, D.S.O. In 2 vols., illus, in photogravure,
etc., large 8vo, uncut. Longmans, Green, & Co. $10.
A History of Italian Unity: Being a Political History of
Italy from 1814 to 1871. By Bolton King, M.A. In 2 vols.,
with map, large 8vo, uncut. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$7.50.
Twenty Famous Naval Battles: Salamis to Santiago.
By Edward Kirk Rawson. In 2 vols., illus., 8vo, gilt tops.
T. Y. Crowell & Co. $4.
A Historical Geography of the British Colonies. By
C. P. Lucas, B.A. Vol. IV., South and East Africa.
With maps, 12mo, pp. 500. Oxford University Press.
$2.40.
Historic Side-Lights. By Howard Payson Arnold. Illas.,
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 331. Harper & Brothers.
$2.50.
The English Radicals: An Historical Sketch. By C. B.
Roylance Kent. 12mo, uncut, pp. 451. Longmans, Green,
& Co. $2.50.
A Self-Verifying Chronological History of Ancient
Egypt, from the Foundation of the Kingdom to the Be-
ginning of the Persian Dynasty. By Orlando P. Schmidt.
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 569. Cincinnati : George C. Shaw.
$3. net.
How England Saved Europe : The Story of the Great
War, 1793–1815. By W. H. Fitchett, B.A. In 4 vols.;
Vol. I., From the Low Countries to Egypt. Illus.,
12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 361. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$2.
Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Em-
pire. By Samuel Dill, M.A. Second edition, revised ;
8vo, uncut, pp. 459. Macmillan Co. $2. net.
Select Charters and Other Documents Illustrative of Amer-
ican History, 1606-1775. Edited by William MacDonald.
12mo, pp. 401. Macmillan Co. $2.
Third Annual Report of the Historical Manuscripts
Commission. Large 8vo, uncut, pp. 175. Washington :
Government Printing Office. Paper.
England in the Nineteenth century. By C. W. Oman.
12mo, pp. 276. Longmans, Green, & Co. $1.25.
The Scottish Jacobites and their songs and Music. With
a succinct account of their battles. By Thomas Newbig-
ging. Illus. in photogravure, 12mu, gilt top, uncut, pp. 147.
London: Gay & Bird.
The Territorial acquisitions of the United States: An
Historical Review. By Edward Bicknell. 24mo, pp. 110.
Small, Maynard & Co. 50 cts.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his family and
Friends. Selected and edited, with Notes and Introduc-
tion, by Sidney Colvin. In 2 vols., illas, in photogravure,
etc., large 8vo, gilt tops, uncut. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$5. net.
The Anglo-Saxon Review: A Quarterly Miscellany. Ed-
ited by Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill. Vol. II., Sep-
tomber, 1899. With photogravure portraits, 4to, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 264, John Lane. $6. net.
The Homeric Hymns (A New Prose Translation), and Es-
says, Literary and Mythological. By Andrew Lang. Illus.
in photogravure, etc., 12mo, gilt top, unout, pp. 255.
Longmans, Green, & Co. $2.
Shakespeare's Sonnets, Reconsidered, and in Part Re-
arranged, with Introductory Chapters, Notes, and a Reprint
of the Original 1609 Edition. By Samuel Butler. Large
8vo, uncut, pp. 328. Longmans, Green, & Co. $3.50.
Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography. By Richard
Garnett, C.B. 12mo, uncut, pp. 343. Library Series."
Francis P. Harper. $1,75 net.
Spanish Literature in the England of the Tudors. By
John Garret Underhill. 12mo, uncut, pp. 438. Macmillan
Co. $2. net.
The Unpublished Legends of Virgil. Collected by Charles
Godfrey Leland. 12mo, uncut, pp. 208. Macmillan Co.
$1.75.
The Mind and Art of Poe's Poetry. By John Phelps
Fruit. 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 144. A.S. Barnes & Co.
$1.25.
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, President
of the Royal Academy. By his son, John G. Millais. In
2 vols., illus, in photogravure, etc., large 8vo. F. A. Stokes
Co. $10.
Sir John Everett Millais: His Art and Influence. By
A. L. Baldry, Illus. in photogravure, etc., 12mo, gilt
top, pp. 123. Macmillan Co. $3.
The Reminiscences of a Very Old Man, 1808–1897. By
John Sartain. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 297. D.
Appleton & Co. $2.50.
Autobiography of Dean Merivale with Selections from
his Correspondence. Edited by his daughter, Judith Anne
Merivale. With photogravure portrait, large 8vo, uncut,
pp. 368. London: Edward Arnold.
The Life of James Dwight Dana, Scientific Explorer, Min-
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sity. By Daniel C. Gilman. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 4
9. 409.
Harper & Brothers. $2.50.
The True William Penn. By Sydney George Fisher,
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Co. $2.
Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew. With
Introduction by her son, John Drew; with Biographical
Notes by Douglas Taylor. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 200. Charles Scribner's Sons. . $1.50.
A Preacher's Life: An Autobiography and an Album. By
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Francis Lieber: His Life and Political Philosophy. By
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My Father and I: A Book for Daughters. By the Countess
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John Brown. By Joseph Edgar Chamberlain. With por-
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James Hogg. By Sir George Douglas. 12mo, pp. 154.
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