555 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY 1 ! THE DIALAR A Semi-Montbly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information VOLUME XXXI. JULY 1 to DECEMBER 16, 1901 CHICAGO THE DIAL COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1901 7.31 YARGO INDEX TO VOLUME XXXI. PAGE . . . . . . ABYSSINIA, THROUGH UNKNOWN . AMERICAN ACTRESS, MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN COLONIES, INNER LIFE OF THE AMERICAN HISTORY, A COMPOSITE AMERICAN PEOPLE, NEW HISTORY OF THE ANIMALS, INNINGS OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY PUBLICATIONS, SOME EARLY BIOGRAPHY, MODERN, POPULAR FORMS OF . Bogus KING, HISTORY OF A BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG, 1901 BOOKS OF THE FALL SEASON OF 1901 Busy LIFE, LEAVES FROM A CELTIC FOLKLORE . CENTENNIALS, Two CENTURY, INVENTORY OF A . CHINA'S INTELLECTUAL LIFE “ CIVILIZATION," UNCIVILIZED . CONTINENTAL LITERATURE, A YEAR OF CRITIC, OUR LATEST . CROMWELL AS A MILITARY TYRANT DANTE BOOKS, THREE EARNEST LIFE, STORY OF AN EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS, STUDIES IN ENCYCLOPÆDIA BIBLICA, CHEYNE'S ENGLISH CARICATURIST, REMINISCENCES OF AN ENGLISH LAKES, STORIES OF THE . ENGLISH TEACHING, SOME RECENT PHASES OF EPOCHS AND EPOCH-MAKERS Ethics, SOME PRESENT-DAY METHODS IN EUROPEAN CULTURE AND POLITICS, FOUR CENTURIES OF EUROPEAN PEOPLES, ORIGIN OF FICTION, MR. HOWELLS TALKS OF FICTION, RECENT FISKE, JOHN FRENCH LITERATURE, MASTERS OF GARDENS OLD AND New. GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY, RELATIONS OF GEORGES, THE FOUR. GREEK THINKERS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT GREEN, JOHN RICHARD HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS, 1901 . JEFFERSON, THE TRUE THOMAS LIBRARY COÖPERATION LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL LYRICAL ANTHOLOGIES, THREE MCCLELLAN AS A GREAT COMMANDER MEMORIAL OF Two GREAT AUTHORS, AN INTERESTING MIDNIGHT SUN, OUR LAND OF THE NATURE BOOKS, A GROUP OF NATURE BOOKS, SOME NEW NEGRO LEADERSHIP, EVOLUTION OF NEW TESTAMENT CRITICISM AND HISTORY NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE NOVELS, NOTES ON PASTON LETTERS, THE PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY, A DICTIONARY OF Play, PsychOLOGY OF John J. Holden 363 Ingram A. Pyle 322 F. H. Hodder 51 Francis Wayland Shepardson . 321 Francis Wayland Shepardson . 181 Charles Atwood Kofoid 439 F. H. Hodder 310 Annie Russell Marble Marble 125 Percy F. Bicknell 511 449 520 173 Wallace Rice 178 Clark Sutherland Northup 76 501 W. H. Carruth 131 Wallace Rice 316 Wallace Rice 73 69. 95 9 Benjamin Terry 361 William Morton Payne 512 Wallace Rice 231 A.S. Whitney 106 Ira M. Price 79 Ingram A. Pyle 504 Lewis Worthington Smith 440 Rose M. Kavana. 353 Josiah Renick Smith 235 Frank Chapman Sharp 183 A. M. Wergeland 509 Frederick Starr 360 Richard Burton 506 William Morton Payne 25, 135, 365 47 Samuel C. Earle . 104 George M. R. Twose . 12 E. D. Adams 103 Charles W. French 105 Paul Shorey 100 William Morton Payne 430 442, 513 Francis Wayland Shepardson . Lodilla Ambrose 49 William Morton Payne . 312 Charles Leonard Moore , 175 Isaac R Pennypacker. 318 Anna Benneson McMahan. 229 Charles Atwood Kofoid . 273 Sara A. Hubbard 14 Sara A. Hubbard 185 W. E. Burghardt Du Bois . 53 Edgar J. Goodspeed . 55 William Morton Payne . 277 30, 369 James Westfali Thompson - 132 Joseph Jastrow 276 Frederick Starr 237 . . . . . 1 157535 INDEX. iii. . William Morton Payne . F. H. Hodder Edith Kellogg Dunton Duane Mowry Edith Kellogg Dunton Josiah Renick Smith Charles Welsh Edward E. Hale, Jr. Frederick W. Gookin . . POETRY, RECENT POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE UNITED STATES PRINCESS, TRIBULATIONS OF A . PUBLICIST, ORATIONS AND ESSAYS OF A QUEEN'S COMRADE, A * R. L. S.” Right READING FOR VERY YOUNG CHILDREN ROMANCE, CLIPPING THE WINGS OF Rugs, A BOOK ABOUT. SCHOLARSHIP AND CULTURE SELBORNE NATURALIST, THE SHAKESPEARE, FAMILY OF SHORT STORY, ON THE SOUTH AFRICA, UNDER Both FLAGS IN SOUTHERN RECONSTRUCTION, Two VIEWS OF SPORT, SOME RECENT BOOKS OF STATESMAN, OPINIONS OF A . TRAVEL, RECENT BOOKS OF TYPOGRAPHIC TASTE, STANDARDS OF UNHAPPY QUEEN, ROMANCE OF AN WARNING, A WORD OF WOMAN AND THE ESSAY . WORLD LITERATURE PAQE 238 364 77 133 435 356 427 433 232 351 129 74 271 279 234 17 280 20 438 52 227 309 269 Percy Favor Bicknell Anna Benneson McMahan . Henry Seidel Canby John J. Holden Edwin E. Sparks Edward Gilpin Johnson Charles H. Cooper Wallace Rice Wallace Rice Percy Favor Bicknell . . . . Edith Dickson . ANNOUNCEMENTS OF Fall Books, 1901 BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING, LIST OF ONE HUNDRED BRIEFS ON New Books BRIEFER MENTION NOTES. TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS Lists OF NEW BOOKS 191, 250 35 55, 80, 108, 140, 187, 245, 282, 324, 374 . 58, 83, 111, 142, 248, 285, 327, 377 35, 59, 83, 111, 143, 190, 249, 286, 328, 378, 456, 523 36, 84, 144, 255, 329, 457 37, 60, 84, 112, 144, 252, 287, 329, 378, 457, 524 , , , PAGE 276 . . . AUTHORS AND TITLES OF BOOKS REVIEWED. PAGE Abbot, Alice Balch. Frigate's Namesake 451 Baldwin, J. M. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psy. Adams, F. U. The Kidnapped Millionaires 33, 137 chology Adams, G. B., and Stephens, H. Morse. Select Balfour, Graham. Life of R L. Stevenson 356 Documents of English Constitutional History 456 Balzac's The Chouans, "Luxembourg" edition 449 Adams, John. Self-Educator Series 328 Bancroft, Alberta. Royal Rogues . 454 Adams, J. C. Nature Studies in Berkshire 16 Bangs, John K. Mr. Munchausen 517 Adler, Cyrus. American Jewish Year Book, 5662 249 Barbour, Ralph Captain of the Crew 521 Agnus, Orme. Jan Oxber, and Love in Our Village 445 Barry, William. The Wizard's Knot 30 Alcott, Louisa M. Little Men, illus. by R. B. Birch 455 Bashkirtseff, Marie. Last Confessions 108 "Alien." Another Woman's Territory 33 Bate, Percy. Pre-Raphaelite Painters, second edition. 448 Allen, Emma S. Ruby, Pearl, and Diamond 456 Bateman, George W. Zanzibar Tales 454 Allen, Grant. Florence, in "Travel-Lover's Series' 447 Bates, Arlo. Talks on Writing English 273 Allen, Grant. Linnet 138 Bates, Morgan. Martin Brook 27 Allen, Grant, White's Selborne, smaller edition 516 Baum, L. Frank. The Master Key 522 Allen, Walter. Ulysses S. Grant 248 Bayles, George J. Woman and the Law 377 Altsheler, J. A. The Wilderness Road 135 Becker, Charlotte. Glass of Time 244 Anthony, Geraldine. A Victim of Circumstances 28 Beers, 'H. A. English Romanticism in the 19th Cen- Arber, Edward. British Anthologies 143 tury 433 Archer, William. Ibsen's League of Youth 58 Belden, Jessie van zile Antonia 33 Armstrong, Jessie. My Friend Anne 450 Bell, Adelaide F. King's Rubies 521 Arnold, Augusta F. Sea-Beach at Ebb Tide 15 Bellamy, Edward. Duke of Stockbridge 31 Arnold, Sir Edwin. Voyage of Ithobal 241 Bennett, C. E., and Bristol, G. P. Teaching of Latin Ashton, Mark. She Stands Alone 371 and Greek 106 Ayrton, Mrs. Chaplin. Child Life in Japan Benson, B. K.: A Friend with the Countersign 371 Babcock, William H. Tower of Wye 31 Benson, E. F. Luck of the Valls 138 Bache, Constance. Brother Musicians 326 Berenson, Bernhard. Italian Art 374 Bacheller, Irving. D'ri and I 135 Berkeley's Three Dialogues, in “Religion of Science Bacon, B. W. Introduction to New Testament 55 Library" 112 Bagehot, Walter. Shakespeare the Man 328 Besant, Walter. 'Lady of Lynn 369 Balley, H. C. My Lady of Orange 31 Besant, Walter. Story of King Alfred 143 Balley, L. C. Cyclopædia of Horticulture, voi. iii. : 5 "B. H. L." Chevrons 455 Baker, James H. Education and Life 107 Bible, American Revised 59. 187 Baker, Louise E. Rosey Posey's Mission 456 Bible, The, “Temple" edition 456 Baldry, A. L. Hubert von Herkomer 442 Bicknell, Frank M. The Double Prince 454 Baldwin, James. Conquest of the Old Northwest 456 Bigelow, Poultney. Children of the Nations 24 . 450 1805 iv. INDEX. • • 455 • 328 . · 378 . 141 . . . • 371 • 518 . . . . • 372 • PAGE Bigham, Clive. A Year in China 21 Bignell, Ellie. Mr. Chupes and Miss Jenny 16 Bingham, Clifton. Animals' Picnic 522 Binyon, Lawrence. Artists' Library 283 Binyon, Lawrence. Odes 239 Bird Calendar for 1902 519 Birrell, Augustine. Boswell's Johnson, illustrated edi- tion Blanchard, Amy E. Mistress May 521 Blashfield, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Masques of cupid . 517 Bleloch, w. New South Africa 324 Blodgett, Harriet F. Songs of Days and Year 523 Boardman, W. H. Lovers of the Woods 15 Boaz, Mrs. Frederick. England “Bonehill, Ralph " Boys of the Fori 450 “Bonehill, Ralph." Three Young Ranchmen 450 “Bonehill, Ralph." With Taylor on the Rio Grande 451 Booth, Maud Ballington. Lights of Childland 456 Boothby, Guy. "Farewell, Nikola" Boothby, Guy. My Strangest Case 371 Boothby, Guy. Mystery o the Clasped Hands 34 Bourland, B. P. Tellez' Don Gil de las Calzas Verdes 456 Bouvet, Marguerite. Bernardo and Laurette 521 Boyd, James H. College Algebra 523 Boynton, H. W. Golfer's Rubaiyát 449 Bradley, A. C. Poetry for Poetry's Sake 111 Bradley, A. G. Highways and Byways in the Lake District 440 Bradley, A. G. Owen Glyndwr 326 Brandes, George. Emigrant Literature 277 Brereton, F. S. A Gallant Grenadier 520 Brereton, F. S. Dragon of Pekin 520 Brewster, Frances S. When Mother Was a Little Girl 521 Bridges, Robert. Principles of Hymn-Singing 59 Brine, Mary D. Mother and Baby 449 Britton, N. L Manual of Flora of Northern States 456 Brontë Sisters, Works of, “Temple'' edition 378 Brooks, Amy. A Jolly Cat Tale 454 Brooks, Amy. Randy's Summer 452 Brooks, E. S. Under the Allied Flags 451 Brooks, Geraldine. Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days and of the Young Republic 515 Brooks, Noah. First Across the Continent 449 Brooks, Noah. Lem 452 Brooks, R. C. Bibliography of Municipal Problems 59 Brown, Abbie F. Lonesomest Doll 453 Brown, Alice. King's End 30 Brown, Helen Dawes. Her Sixteenth Year 453 Brown, Miss L F. Prince Harold 454 Browne, G. Waldo. Hero of the Hills 451 Brownell, Elizabeth B. Dream Children 522 Brownell, W. C. French Art, Illustrated edition 442 Browning's Poems, Oxford Miniature edition 519 Browning's Saul, illus. by F. 0. Small, cheaper edition 448 Brush, Mary E. 0. Little Maid of Doubting Castle 456 Bryn Mawr College Calendar for 1902 519 Buell, W. H. Newson's Modern Language Text-Books 111 Burch, H. E. Wind and Wave . 450 Burgess Nonsense Book 515 Burlamacchi, Marchesa. Luca della Robbia 81 Burton, Richard John Greenleaf Whittier 57 Butterworth, Hezekiah. In Days of Audubon 522 Butterworth, Hezekiah. Little Sky-high . 452 Butterworth, Hezekiah, Traveller Tales of China 449 "C." Home Thoughts 57 Caine, Hall. The Eternal City 368 Calkins, Mary W. Introduction to Psychology 376 Candee, Helen C. An Oklahoma Romance Carmichael, Montgomery. In Tuscany 23 Carr, A Comyns. Fairy of the Rhone 454 Carrington, FitzRoy. Rossetti's New Life of Dante 513 “Carroll, Lewis." Alice's Adventures, illus. by Peter Newell 455 Carus, Paul. History of the Devii 55 “Castlemon, Harry." Winged Arrow's Medicine 520 Catherwood, Mary H Lazarre 365 Cawein, Madison. One Day and Another 243 Cawein, Madison. Weeds by the Wall 243 Century Classics 377 Chambers, Robert W. Cardigan 366 Champlin, J. D. Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Liter- ature and Art 524 Champney, Elizabeth w. Romance of Renaissance Chateaux 514 Chapman, Frank M. 'Bird Life, cheaper edition : 186 Chatterbox for 1901 455 Cheever, Harriet A. Madame Angora 454 PAGE Cheyne, T. K., and Black, J. S. Encyclopædia Biblica, Vol. II. 79 Children's Favorite Classics Chipman, W. P. and C. P. An Aërial Runaway 450 Chumley, C. H., and Outhwaite, R. H. Wisdom of Esau 33 Church, A. J. Stories from Homer, and stories from Virgil 455 Churchill, Winston. The Crisis 25 Churchill, Winston. The Crisis, holiday edition 520 Clark, E. B. Bird Jingles 522 Clark, E. B. Birds of Lakeside and Prairie : 522 Clark, Felicia Buttz. Beppino 456 Clark, Francis E. New Way around an oid woria 20 Clark, Kate U. How Dexter Paid his Way 452 Clarke, Hugh A. Highways and Byways of Music Clarke, Jonas. Battle of Lexington 190 Clerke, E. M. Fable and Song in Italy 110 Cloister Library. Clover, S. T. Paul Travers's Adventures 450 Clute, W. Our Ferns in their Haunts 185 Cobb, Thomas. Little Clown 452 Cocke, Zitella. Grasshopper's Hop. 454 Colby, F. M. International Year Book for 1900 58 Common, Thomas. Nietzsche as Critic, Philosopher, Poet, and Prophet 83 Comstock, J H. Insect Life, edition in colors 185 Conway, Sir Martin. The Bolivian Andes 24 Copeland, Walter. Bairn Books 523 Corelli, Marie. Barabbas, holiday edition 519 Cornman, 0. P., and Gerson, Oscar. Brief Topical Survey of United States History 190 Cotes, Mrs. Everard. The Crow's Nest 31 Cowdrick, J. C. Tommy Tucker 456 Cram, Ralph Adams. Church Building 375 Crockett, S. R. Cinderella. 372 Crockett, S R. Love Idylls Crompton, Frances E. Gatty and I 453 Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler. Valencia's Garden 32 Curtis, W. E. True Thomas Jefferson 508 Daskam, Josephine D. Imp and the Angel 452 Daudet, Alphonse. Monday Tales, and Letters from My Mill, holiday editions 445 Davie, Eleanor E. Gibson's Blossom Hosts and In- sect Guests 143 Davis, A. McF. Currency and Banking in Province of Massachusetts Bay. 143 Davis, Mrs. M. E. M. Jacoretta, her Loves 453 Davis, Noah K. Elements of Ethics Davis, R H. Her First Appearance, holiday edition , 519 Day's Work Series 286 De Koven, Mrs. Reginald. By waters of Babylon 32 Delmas, D. M. Speeches and Addresses 81 Denslow, W. W. Mother Goose 454 Descartes' Meditations, in "Religion of Science Li- brary" 286 Devereux, Mary. Up and Down the Sands of Gold 373 Dexter, Almon. And the Wilderness Blossomed 185 Diaz, Abby M. Flat-Iron and the Red Cloak 453 Dickens's Works, Oxford India paper edition . 178, 456 Dickens's The Holly Tree, illus. by C. E. Brock 446 Dickerson, Mary C. Moths and Butterflies 14 Dilke, Lady. French Furniture and Decoration Dinsmore, Charles A. Teachings of Dante Ditchfield, Peter H English Villages 326 Dix, Beulah M. Making of Christopher Ferringham 28 Dix, Edwin Asa. Old Bowen's Legacy 34 Dixon, W. Hepworth. Tower of London 444 Dodge, H. Augusta. Gail Hamilton's Letters 178 Dodge, Mary M. Hans Brinker, new edition 455 Dole, N. H., and Walker, Belle M. Flowers from Persian Poets 514 Dorys, George. Private Life of the Sultan 327 Douay, Gaston. Elementary French Reader 378 Doubleday, Russell. A Year in a Yawl 450 Douglas, Amanda M. A Little Girl in Old New Or- leans. 451 Douglas, George. House with the Green Shutters 370 Douglas, Marian In the Poverty Year 452 Dowden, Edward. Shakespeare's Works 111 Downer, Charles A. Frederic Mistral 142 Dresser, Horatio. Education and the Philosophic Ideal 107 Drummond, Hamilton. A King's Pawn 370 Drummond, Hamilton. Seven Houses 370 Drysdale, William. Pine Ridge Plantation 452 Duffy, James O. G. Glass and Gold 370 Dumas, Works of, Crowell's edition 285 . . . . • 183 . . . · 513 • 512 . 371 . . 1 1 . 1 INDEX. V. . . 455 . • 518 . . . . . . PAOR Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time 447 Dunn, Bryon A. From Atlanta to the Sea 451 Dunn, Martha Baker. Lias's Wife . 372 Duruy's History of the World, Crowell's edition 447 Dutt, W. A Highways and Byways in East Anglia 24 Earle, Alice Morse. Old Time Gardens 515 Edgren, H., and Burnet, P. French and English Dic- tionary 83, 112 Edwards, Marion. Grimm's Fairy Tales 455 Edwards, Osman. Japanese Plays and Playfellows 21 Effinger, J. R., Jr. Hugo's Cromwell and Hernani 190 Eggleston, Edward. Transit of Civilization 51 Eggleston, George C. A Colonial Cavalier 33 Eggleston, George C. Camp Venture . 452 Eldridge, Clement. Rescued by a Prince 520 Eliot, George," Works of, “Personal" edition 190 Ellis, Edward S. Our Jim 451 Ellis, Havelock. The Nineteenth Century 56 Ellis, J. Breckenridge. Garcilaso 32 Embree, Charles F. A Heart of Flame 34 Ensign, Hermon L. Lady Lee . 283 Erskine, Payne. When the Gates Lift up their Heads 33 Escott-Inman, H. Gobbo Bobo . 521 Espenshade, A. Howry. Forensic Declamations : 378 Everett-Green, Evelyn. Miss Marjorie 521 "Fane, Violet." Two Moods of a Man 189 Farquhar, Anna. Devil's Plough 32 Fea, Allan. King Monmouth 511 Field, Eugene Tribune Primer, illus. by F. Opper 142 Field, Roswell. Passing of Mother's Portrait 378 Fitzgerald, Joseph. Word and Phrase 246 Flick, A. C. History in Rhymes and Jingles 523 Flick, A. C. Loyalism in New York 142 Flowers of Parnassus Series 378, 520 Ford, Mary. America 378 Forman, Á. B. Works of Keats, Crowell's edition 285 Forrester, Izola L. Rook's Nest 521 Foster, Mary H., and Cummings, Mabel H. Asgard Stories 456 Foster, Maximilian. In the Forest 440 Fouque's Sintram, trans. by A M. Richards 328 Fox, John, Jr. Blue Grass and Rhododendron 516 Francis, Claude de la Roche. London. 514 Francis, Beata, and Keary, Eliza. Francis Letters 245 Fraser, A. C. Bishop Berkeley's Works 58 Fraser, Mrs. Hugh. Marna's Mutiny 373 Frazer, W. A. The Outcasts 440 French, Allen. The Junior Cup Fretwell, John. Christian in Hungarian Romance 285 Frisbie, W. A. The Pirate Frog 454 Frothingham, Jessie P. Senancour's Obermann 438 Fry, Roger E. Giovanni Bellini 284 Fuller, Anna B. Katharine Day 371 Fuller, Emily F. The Prize Watch 453 Furniss, Harry. Confessions of a Caricaturist 504 Gairdner, James. Paston Letters, new edition 132 Gallon, T. Man Who Knew Better 514 Garden of a Commuter's Wife 449 Gardens, Old and New 12 Gardiner, S. R. Commonwealth and Protectorate, Vol. III. 361 Garland, Hamlin.' Her Mountain Lover 26 Garner, James M. Reconstruction in Mississippi 234 Gaskell, Mrs. Charlotte Brontë, “Thornton” edition 523 Gates, Josephine S. Story of Live Dolls 521 Geddes, Patrick, and Thomson, J. Arthur. Evolution of Sex, revised edition 524 Geddie, John. Romantic Edinburgh Genung, J. F. Stevenson's Attitude to Life 328 George, H. B. Relations of Geography and History 103 Gerard, Dorothea. The Million 373 Gerberding, Ellzabeth. The Golden Chimney 453 Gibbon, J. M. Old King Cole 454 Gibbs, George. In Search of Mademoiselle 31 Giberne, Agnes. The Mighty Deep 327 Gibson, C. D. A Widow and her Friends 445 Gifford, Franklin K. Aphrodite 373 Gilder, R W. Selections from Lincoln 446 Gillespie, Mrs. E. D. Book of Remembrance 56 Gilllat-Smith, E. Story of Bruges 188 Girdner, John H. Newyorkitis 247 Glentworth, Marguerite L. A Twentieth Century Boy 452 Going, Mand. With the Wild Flowers 15 Gollancz, I. Temple Classics 35, 83, 329 Gomperz, Theodor. Greek Thinkers 100 Goodwin, Mand Wilder. White Aprons, Illustrated edition 447 PAGE Gooch, C. P. Annals of Politics and Culture . 509 Goss, Harriet, and Baker, Gertrude A. Index to St. Nicholas. 248 Gould, E. P. 'Biblical Theology of New Testament 55 Gould, Elizabeth L. Little Men and Little Women Plays Graeff, F. E. 'The Minister's Twins : 456 Great Religions of the World 326 Greene, Sarah P. McL. Flood-Tide 371 Greenough, J. B., and Kittredge, G. L. Words and their Ways 325 Groos, Karl. Play of Man 237 Groos, William B. 144 New Epigrams 520 Grundtvig, Svend. Fairy Tales from Afar 454 Guerber, H. A. Empresses of France 142 Gummere, Amelia M. The Quaker Gwynn, Stephen Queen's Chronicler 240 Habberton, John. Caleb Wright 373 Habberton, John, Some Boys' Doings 520 Haggard, H. Rider. Lysbeth. 138 Hains, T. J. Cruise of the Petrel 34 Hale, E. E., Jr. Selections from Walter Pater 523 Hall, Ruth. The Golden Arrow 451 Hallworth, Joseph. Arline Valère 143 Halsey, F. W. American Authors and their Homes 286 Hamerton, P. G. Contemporary French Painters, and Painting in France, new editions 4to Hammond, Thomas W. On Board a Whaler 450 Hancock, Albert E. Henry Bourland 136 Handy Volume Classics 248 Harben, Will N. Westerfelt 367 Harbour, J. L. Marcia and the Major 453 Harper, G. McL. Masters of French Literature 104 Harriman Alaska Expedition 273 Harris, Charles. Lessing's Hamburgische Dramaturgie 249 Harris, Frank B. Road to Ridgeby's 370 Harrison, Benjamin. Views of an Ex-President 280 Hart, A. B. American History Told by Contem- poraries 321 Hart, Beatrice. Seven Great American Poets 111 Hartmann, Sadakishi. American Art . 443 Hassall, Arthur. Periods of European History 285 Hay, Helen. Rose of Dawn 245 Hayden, Eleanor G. Travels round Our Village 445 Headlam, Cecil. Marriage of Mr. Merivale 372 Headley, F. W. Problems of Evolution 284 Heart of the Empire 245 Heartsease 242 Heath's Home Library 455 Hebberd, S. S. Philosophy of History 141 Heddle, Ethel F. Three Girls in a Flat 521 Helps, Sir Arthur. Thoughts in the Cloister, Dent's edition 518 Hemmeter, J. C. Diseases of the Intestines 249 Hemstreet, Charles. Story of Manhattan 451 Henty, G. A. At Point of Bayonet 451 Henty, G. A. To Herat and Cabul 451 Henty, G. A. With Roberts to Pretoria 451 Herford, Oliver. More Animals 518 Herkless, J. Francis and Dominic 235 Herrick, F. C. Home Life of Wild Birds 16 Higginson, T. W. American Orators and Oratory 82 Hill, Francis. Outlaws of Horseshoe Hole 450 Hinkson, Katharine T. A Daughter of the Fields 31 Hinkson, Katharine T. That Sweet Enemy 372 Hinsdale, B. A. Art of Study 106 Hodder, F. H. Outline Maps 456 Hodges, George William Penn 80 Hodgson, Lady. Slege of Kumassi 22 Holland, Clive. Mousmee 34 Hollander, Bernard. Mental Functions of the Brain 324 Holme, Charles. Hokusai 284 Holt, Henry. Talks on Civics 59 Holt, Rosa Belle. Rugs 232 Holt-White, Rashleigh. Life and Letters of Gilbert White 129 Home, Andrew. Out of Bounds 452 "Hope, Anthony.” Dolly Dialogues, illus. by H. c. Christy 448 Hopkins, Tighe. Man in the Iron Mask 247 Horace Club, Book of the 242 Hornung, E. W. Raffles 372 Horton, George. Tempting of Father Anthony 369 Howard, L. O. Insect Book 284 Howard, L. O. Mosquitoes . 110 Howells, W. D. Heroines of Fiction 506 Howells, W. D. Italian Journeys, holiday edition 516 . 521 . . . . . · 111 . . . vi. INDEX. 446 . . . . : . 14 243 30 • 327 PAGB Hudson, W. H. Life of Scott . 140 Hume, Martin A. S. The Spanish People 80 Hume, Martin A. S. Treason and Plot 108 Hutton, A. W. Lives of the English Saints 329 Hutton, Alfred. Sword and the Centuries 18 Hyde, Henry M. One-Forty-Two 373 Hyde, Mabel and Helen. Jingles from Japan 454 Hyde, Mary C. Hollyberry and Mistletoe 450 Inglenook Tales 456 Jackson, A. W. Deafness and Cheerfulness 375 Jackson, Gabrielle E. Caps and Capers 453 Jackson, Gabrielle E. The Colburn Prize 521 Jade, Book of 243 James, J. A., and sanford, a. 81. Government in state and Nation 524 „James, Martha. My Friend Jim : 452 Jameson, M. Ethel. Bibliographical Contribution to Study of Ruskin 286 Jameson, Mrs. Shakespeare's Heroines, Dent's edition 518 Jenks, Tudor. Galopoff 452 Jerrold, Walter. rey 375 Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Tory Lover 365 John Crerar Library Report for 1900 143 Johnson, Clifton. Isle of the Shamrock 445 Johnson, Margaret. Where Was the Little White Dog 455 Johnson, Owen. Arrows of the Almighty. 26 Johnston, Charles. Ireland 514 Jokai, Maurus. Day of Wrath 139 Jokai, Maurus. Dr. Dumany's wife 139 Jokai, Maurus. Manasseh 31, 139 Jones, C. H. Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe : 83 Jones, Dora M. A Soldier of the King 31 Jones, Jenkin Lloyd. A Search for an Infidel 141 Jordan, Elizabeth C. Tales of a Cloister 370 Joy, Jane E. When the River Rose 455 Judd, Mary C. A B C of Birds 522 Kedney, John 8. Problems in Ethics 183 Kellogg, Vernon L. Elementary Zoölogy 523 Kennedy, Sara B. Joscelyn Cheshire . 33 Kenyon, James B. Poems 244 Kester, Vaughan. Manager of the B. and A 367 Kingsley's The Heroes, illus. by H. M. Squire and E. Mars 522 Kingston, W. H. O. Cruise of the Mary Rose 450 Kinross, Albert. Philbrick Howell 368 Kipling, Rudyard. Kim 368 Kirk, J. F. Prescott's Conquest of America, “Bohn" edition 286 Knapp, Charles. 'Virgil's Åneid 327 Knowles, F. L. American Golden Treasury, popular edition 190 Knowles, Ė. L. Ön iife's stairway 244 Knowles, F. L. Year Book of Famous Lyrics 524 La Farge, John. Considerations on Painting, new edition 111 Lahee, Henry C. Grand Opera in America 456 Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare, Illus. by W. Paget 522 Lanclani, R. New Tales of Old Rome 443 Landor, A. Henry Savage. China and the Allies : 73 Lane, E. W. Arabian Nights, Dent's edition 445 Lane, Elinor Macartney. Mills of God 370 Lang, Andrew. Violet Fairy Book 454 Lark Classics, new edition 517 Lassie 455 Laut, A. c.' Lords of the North 29 Lear's Nonsense Songs, Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke 522 Le Baron, Grace. Jessica's Trlumph 453 Lee, Agnes. The Round Rabbit 454 Le Feuvre, Amy. Heather's Mistress 373 Le Gallienne, Richard. Love Letters of the King 32 Legge, A. E. J. Town and Country Poems 240 Lempert, Leon, Jr. Junk 519 Leonard, J. W. Who's Who in America, 1901 246 Leonard, Mary F. Candle and the Cat 454 Le Row, Caroline B. English as She Is Taught, new edition 286 Lichtenstein, Joy. For the Blue and Goia : 82 Lighton, William R. Lewis and Clark 184 Lindsay, Lady. Prayer of St. Scholastica 242 Litchfield, Mary E. Selections from Five English Poets 143 Little, Archibala.' Mount Omi and Beyond 21 Lloyd, John U. Warwick of the Knobs 369 Lockwood, Sara E. H. and Emerson, Mary A. Com- position and Rhetoric 190 Lodge, R. Close of the Middle Ages 59 Long, William J. Wood Folk Series 186 PAGE Long, William J. Beasts of the Field, and Fowls of the Air Loomis, Elisha S. Original Investigation 328 Lounsbery, G. Constant. An Iseult Idyl 241 Lovers' Library 456 Lovett, Eya. Billy Stories 520 Low, A. Maurice. The Supreme Surrender 367 Lucas, Mrs. Edgar. Grimm's Fairy Tales 455 Lush, Charles K. The Autocrats 136 Lysaght, S. R. Poems of the Unknown Way 239 McCabe, Joseph. Peter Abelard 282 McCarthy, Justin. Mononia 33 McCarthy, Justin and Justin H. Four Georges 105 McClure, A. K. To the Pacific and Mexico 25 McCullough, J. G. Orations and Essays of E. J. Phelps 133 McCurdy, J. F. History, Prophecy, and the Monu: ments, Vol. III. 374 McCutcheon, G. B. Graustark · 137 McElroy, Lucy C. Juletty 31 McIntyre, Robert. A Modern Apollos 372 McLaw, Lafayette. When the Land Was Young 372 McManus, Blanche. Told in the Twilight 455 McManus, Blanche. True Mother Goose, new edition 454 Mabie, Hamilton W. A Child of Nature 444 Mabie, Hamilton W. Norse Stories 443 MacGrath, Harold. The Puppet Crown 137 Mackern, H. F. Side Lights on the March 23 Macy, Jesse. Political Parties in the U. S. 364 Madden, Eva. Stephen . 450 Maeterlinck, Maurice. Life of the Bee Major, Charles. Bears of Blue River 450 Malan, A. H. Other Famous Homes of Great Britain 443 Malone, Walter. Songs of North and South Mann, Millicent E. Margot . 450 Marchesi, Matilde. Ten Singing Lessons 140 Marden, Orison S. How They Succeeded 452 Marden, O. S. Self-Help Booklets 249 Marillier, H. C. D. G. Rossetti, second edition 282 Marnan, Basil. A Daughter of the Veldt 32 Marriott, Charles. The Column Marston, E. Booksellers of Other Days Martin, W. A. P. Lore of Cathay . 316 Masson, David. Chatterton, revised edition 286 Mathews, Frances A. My Lady Peggy Goes to Town 372 Matthews, Brander. The Historical Novel 58 Maurice, Arthur B. New York in Fiction 58 May, Sophie. Lucy in Fairyland 454 Meade, Mrs. L. T. A Very Naughty Girl : 455 Meade, Mrs L. T. Daddy's Girl 453 Meakin, Budgett. Land of the Moor 22 Meredith, Ellis. Master-Knot of Human Fate 34 Meredith, George. A Reading of Life 238 Merwin, Henry C. Thomas Jefferson 80 Merwin, S. W., and Webster, H. K. Calumet "K" 369 Mezes, S. E. Ethics . 184 M'Hardy, George. Savonarola 236 Michie, Peter S. General McClellan 318 Mikszath, Kalman. St. Peter's Umbrella 139 Miller, Olive Thorne. Second Book of Birds Miranda's Library 518 Mitchell, J. A. Amos Judd, illus. by A. I. Keller 448 Mitchell, W. B. School and College Speaker 35 Moffett, Cleveland. Careers of Danger and Daring 520 Molesworth, Mrs. Miss Bouverie 455 Molloy, Fitzgerald. The Queen's Comrade 435 Montgomery, D. H. English History, revised edition 59 Moore, F. Frankfort. Nell Gwyn-Comedian 31 Moore, George. Sister Teresa 368 Moore, T. Sturge. Altdorfer 284 Mora, John J. Reynard the Fox 455 Morris, Clara. Life on the Stage 322 Morris, Sir Lewis. Harvest Tide 239 Motley, J. L. Dutch Republic, Crowell's edition 446 Munroe, Kirk. A Son of Satsuma. 451 Munroe, Kirk. Belt of Seven Totems 451 Murray, Hilda. Flower Legends for Children 522 Muzzarelli, Antoine. Brief French Course 524 Myers, Jane P. Stories of Enchantment 522 Myers, W. C. Maryland Constitution of 1864 142 Nash, Henry S. History of Higher Criticism 55 Naylor, James B. Sign of the Prophet 372 Neidlinger, W. H. Owl and the Woodchuck 454 Nelson, C. A. Books on Education in Columbia Uni- versity 523 "Nesbit, E." Nine unlikely Tales 521 "Nesbit, E." The Wouldbegoods 453 • 186 . . INDEX. vii. . . . . . . . . . . . . • 107 . . PAGE Niagara Book, The . 25 Nineteenth century, The . 131 Norris, Frank. The Octopus 136 Norris, Mary Harriott. Grapes of Wrath 32 Northrop, Henry D. John Winslow 34 Ober, F. A. Tommy Foster's Adventures 450 O'Dea, James Jingleman Jack . 454 Ollivant, Alfred. Bob, Son of Battle, illustrated edition 516 Oman, c. w. c. History of Greece, seventh edition 328 Onderdonk, J. L. History of American Verse 285 Ormond, A. T. Foundations of Knowledge 248 Ostertag, Blanche. Old Songs for Young America 454 Ostrander, Fannie E. Frolics of the A B C 454 Otis, James. Larry Hudson's Ambition 452 Otis, James. Our Uncle the Major 451 Otis, James. Story of Old Falmouth 190 Otis, James. When We Destroyed the Gaspee 451 Oughton, E. H. Crazes, Credulities, and Christian Science Overton, Gwendolen. Heritage of Unrest Oxenham, John. Our Lady of Deliverance 29 Palne, Albert B. The Little Lady, her Book 453 Paine, Albert B. The Van Dwellers 373 Palmer, Francis H. E. Russian Life 189 Palmer, John M., Personal Recollections of 231 Paret, J. Parmly. Woman's Book of Sports 19 Parker, Gilbert. Right of Way 368 Parker, w. Gordon. Two Boys in the Blue Ridge 452 Parr, Louisa. Dorothy Fox, new edition 378 Patterson, S. Louise. Pussy Meow 522 Payne, Will. Story of Eva 137 Payson, William F. John Vytal 26 Peattie, Ella W. How Jacques Came into the Forest of Arden 325 Peet, Louis :. Who's the Author 285 Pemberton, Max. Pro Patria 138 Pepper, Mary S. Maids and Matrons of New France 447 Percival, Olive. Mexico City 24 Perry, Francis. St. Louis 283 Perry, Walter C. Boy's Odyssey 455 Peterson, Maud H. Potter and the Clay 30 Phelps, Eleanor G. As a Falling Star 372 Phillips, E March. Pintoriccio 81 Phillips, P. Lee. List of Maps of America 524 Phillips, W. Allison. Modern Europe 285 Phillpotts, Eden. The Striking Hours 370 Phyfe, W. H. P. 5000 Facts and Fancies 513 Physician's Visiting List for 1902 456 Pidgin, Charles F. Blennerhasset 366 Pollard, A W. Library of English Classics 35, 286 Potter, Margaret H. House of De Mailly 29 Potter, Mary Knight. Peggy's Trial 453 Powell, L. P. Historic Towns of Western States 517 Powers, G. W. Handy Dictionaries of Quotations 285 Pratt, Ella Farman. Little Cave Dwellers 452 Prescott, E. Livingston. A Small, Small Child 453 Preston, Sydney H. The Abandoned Farmer 32 Prichard, Hesketh. Where Black Rules White 24 Prichard, K. and H. Karadac 373 Prinll-Bon, Contessa. Sodoma. 81 Pritchard, Myron T. Poetry of Niagara 249 Progress of the Century . 131 Purves, G. T. Christianity in the Apostolic Age 55 Pyle, Katharine. As the Goose Flies 522 Rae, Jobn. Contemporary Socialism, third edition 248 Rand-McNally's Handbook to Pan-American Exposi- tion 111 Rankin, Reginald.' Wagner's Nibelungen Ring, vol. 11. 524 Rawlings, Gertrude B. Story of Books 328 Rawnsley, H. D. Literary Associations of the En- glish Lakes 441 Ray, Anna Chapin. Teddy, her Daughter 455 Raymond, Evelyn. A Pair of Them 453 Raymond, Rossiter w. Peter Cooper 81 Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature 456 Redway, Jacques W. New Basis of Geography 107 Reed, Helen Leah. Brenda's Summer at Rockley 453 Reed, Myrtle. Spinster Book 376 Reld, W. Max. The Mohawk Valley 517 Remsen, Ira. College Text-Book of Chemistry 523 Rendall, G. H. Marcus Aurelius, “Golden Treasury" edition 328 Repplier, Agnes. 'The Fireside Sphini 513 Rhoades, Nina. Only Dollie 453 Rhys, John. Celtic Folklore 78 Rice, Cale Young. Song-Surf 242 PAGE Richards, Laura E. Fernley House 455 Roberts, C. G. D. Heart of the Ancient wood 84 Robertson, Louis A. Dead Calypso 244 Robertson, Morgan. Masters of Men 33 Robins, Edward. A Boy in Early Virginia 520 Robinson, A. Mary F. Mrs. Browning's Casa Guidi Windows 456 Robinson, c. M. improvement of Towns and Cities 189 Robinson, Edith. A Little Puritan Pioneer 451 Robinson, Edith. Captain of the School 453 Rodziewicz, Marga. Anima Vills 139 Ropes, Arthur R., and Mary E.On Peter's Island 137 Rose, William. Tin Owl Stories 454 Rossetti, w. M. Facsimile reprint of the Germ 325 Rothenstein, Will. Goya 284 Rowlands, Walter. Among Great Masters of Painting and Oratory 444" Runkle, Bertha. Helmet of Navarre 29 St. John, Ohristopher. The Crimson Weed 29 Saints and Sinners Calendar for 1902 519 Sampson, M. W. Poems of Milton 328 Sanborn, Frank E. Ralph Waldo Emerson 142 Sangster, Margaret E. Talks between Times 520 Sargent, Adeline. My Lady's Diamonds 372 Saunders, Marshall. 'Tilda Jane 453 Schaeffer, N. C. Thinking and Learning to Think 107 Scisco, Louis D. Political Nativism in New York 142 Scollard, Clinton. Son of a Tory . 34 Scott, C. B. Nature-Study and the Child Scott, Mrs. 0. W. The Upstairs Family 456 Scudder, Horace E. James Russell Lowell 312 Scudder, Vida D. Introduction to English Literature 59 Seawell, Molly Elliot. Papa Bouchard 371 Sedgwick, H. D., Jr. Father Hecker 188 Sendall, Sir W. J. Poems of Calverley 84 Serao, Matilde. Land of Cockayne 140 Sergi, G. The Mediterranean Race 360 Serials in Public Libraries of Chicago and Evanston, List of 523 Serviss, Garrett P. Pleasures of the Telescope 188 Seton-Thompson, Ernest. Bird-Portraits 17 Seton-Thompson, Ernest. Lives of the Hunted 439 Sewall, Frank. Heredia's The Trophies. 56 Shakespeare's Songs, Illus. by H. Ospovat . 286 Shakespeare's Works, “Twentieth Century” edition 442 Sharp, D. L. Wild Life near Home 440 Sharp, Evelyn. Youngest Girl in School 453 Sharts, Joseph. Ezra Caine . 34 Shaw, Edward R. School Hygiene 107 Shelton, Jane DeF. Salt-Box House, illus. edition 518 Shepperd, EU Plantation Songs 447 Shipman, Louis E. Curious Courtship of Kate Poins 32 Shirley, Penn. Boy Donald and bis Chum 452 Showerman, Grant. Great Mother of the Gods Silver Series of Classics 378 Singleton, Esther. Love in Literature and Art 516 Skeat, W. W. Notes on English Etymology 247 Slattery, O. L. Felix Reville Brunot 376 Smith, Benjamin E. Odes of Horace 446 Smith, Helen A. The Thirteen Colonies Smith, Mary P. Wells. Four on a Farm 453 "Somerville, Henry." Jack Racer 371 Sommerville, Maxwell. Sands of Sahara 22 Spalding, J. L. Aphorisms and Reflections 141 Spielmann, M. H. Royal Academy Pictures, 1901 142 Spofford, Harriet P. Children of the Valley 453 Stadling, J. Through Siberia 20 Stainer, C. L. Speeches of Cromwell 110 Starr, Frederick. American Indians 450 Starr, Frederick. Strange Peoples 450 Steinmann, Ernst. Botticelli Stephen, Leslie. Letters of J. R. Green 430 Stephens, Robert N. Captain Ravenshaw 366 Stephenson, H. T. Patroon Van Volkenberg 26 Stephenson, Nathaniel. They That Took the Sword 367 Stevenson, B. E. A Soldier of Virginia . 135 Stoddard, W. O. Jack Morgan . 451 Stoddard, W. 0. Slavers of oid New York 34 Stone, W. M. Some Children's Book Plates 519 Stopes, Mrs. Charlotte C. Shakespeare's Family 74 Strang, L. C. Famous Actors and Actresses of the Day in America, second series 249, 286, 448 Stratemeyer, E. American Boy's Life of McKinley · 520 Stratemeyer, Edward. With Washington in the West 451 Straus, 0. S. Origin of Republican Form of Govern. ment in the U. S. 103 Streamer, Volney. Book Titles from Shakespeare 59 . . . • 143 . • 109 . . . . . . 249 . . . . . . . . . vili, INDEX. . . Vol. 11 . . • 521 . . . . j • 369 PAGE Strong, Armour. Dear Days 521 Strong, Frank, and Shafer, Joseph. Government of American People 377 Sturgis, Russell. Dictionary of Architecture, 82 Sumichrast, F. C. de. De Maistre's Voyage 438 Sunday Reading for the Young, 1901 455 Sutcliffe, Halliwell. Mistress Barbara 371 Sutphen, Van Tassel The Nineteenth Hole 370 Sweetser, Kate D. Ten Boys from Dickens 522 "Sylva, Carmen." A Real Queen's Fairy Tales 521 Symons, Arthur. French Novels of 19th Century 456 Tappan, Eva M. England's Story. 286 Tappan, Eva M. In Days of William the Conqueror 450 Tappan, Eva M. Old Ballads in Prose 455 Taunton, Ethelred L. Jesuits in England 377 Taylor, Bert L. The Bilioustine 59, 111 Taylor, Sophie C. Story of a Little Poet 452 Temple Classics 35, 83, 329 Terry, c. 8. Chevalier de St. George 83 Thackeray, W. M. Mr. Brown's Letters, limited re- print 439 Thackeray's Works, Dent's edition : 518 Thayer, James B. John Marshall 189 Thilly, Frank. Introduction to Ethics 184 Thomas, A. C. History of U. S., revised edition 35 Thompson, Adele E. Betty Sheldon, Patriot 451 Thompson, Maurice. My Winter Garden 57 Thomson, Clara. George Eliot 110 Thoreau, H. W. Of Friendship 83 Thorpe, 'F. N. History of the American People 181 Thumb-Nail Series 446 Thurston, Ida T. Citizen Dan 451 Tiddeman, Miss L. E Celia's Conquest 455 Timlow, Elizabeth W. A Nest of Girls 453 Timlow, Elizabeth W. What Came to Winifred 453 Todd, W. C. Biographical and Other Articles 327 Tolstoi, Count. Anna Karenina, Crowell's holiday edition 518 Torrey, Bradford. Everyday Birds : 17 Torrey, Bradford. Footing it in Franconia 376 Townsend, E. W. Days Like These 27 Tozer, H. F. Commentary on Dante's Divine Comedy 512 Travis, Walter J. Practical Golf 18 Trench, Herbert. Deirdre Wed 240 Trent, W. P. War and Civilization 437 Tribulations of a Princess 77 Trier, Sigurd. Jesus fra Nazaret 112 True, John Preston. Morgan's Men 451 Tucker, Elizabeth S. The Magic Key 454 Tuyn, W. J. Old Dutch Towns and villages 374 Unger, F. W. With “Bobs” and Kruger 279 Upton, Bertha and Florence. Golliwog's Auto-Go- Cart 454 Vachell, Horace Å. John Charity 27 Van Bergen, R. A Boy of Old Japan 450 Van Praag, F W. Clayton Halowell 34 Venable, William H. A Dream of Empire 366 Viele, Herman K. Last of the Knickerbockers 370 Vincent, L. H. Corneille, and The French Academy 59 Vivian, Herbert. Abyssinia 22 Voss, Richard. Sigurd Eckdal's Bride 139 Voynich, E. L. Jack Raymond 138 Wade, Mary Hazleton. “Little Cousin Series' 450 Wahlenburg, Anna. Swedish Fairy Tales 454 PAGE Wait, Minnie C., and Leonard, M. C. Among Flowers and Trees 447 Walkley, A. B. Frames of mind : 81 Walpole, A S. Little Arthur's History of Greece 450 Walsh, George E. The Mysterious Burglar 34 Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery 53 Watanna, Onoto. A Japanese Nightingale 445 Watson, W. F. Elementary Experimental Chemistry. 328 Weed, Clarence M. Nature Biographies 185 Weeden, L. L. Hauff's Lichtenstein 35 Welch, A. C. Anselm and his Work 236 Wellby, M. S. 'Twixt Sirdar and Menelik 363 Wells, Carolyn. Folly in Fairyland Wells, Carolyn. Patty Fairfield 455 Wells, Carolyn. The Merry-Go-Round 454 Wells, David D. Parlous Times 33 Wells, H. G. First Men in the Moon 373 Wells, H. P. Fly-Rods and Fly-Tackle 17 Wells, Kate Gannett. Little Dick's Son 452 Wells, W. J. Souvenir of Sir Arthur Sullivan 284 Wesselhoeft, Lily F. High School Days at Harbor- town 452 Weston, Jessie l: Legend of sir Lancelot du Lac 83 What Is Worth While Series 328 Wheeler, Candace. Content in Garden 57 Wheelright, John T. A Bad Penny 452 White, Percy. Grip of the Bookmaker 373 White, W. A. Stratagems and Spoils Whitmore, Frederic. Tasso's Amyntas 328 Wiggin, Kate D. Cathedral Courtship, Illus. by Brock 519 Wilkins, W. H. Love of an Uncrowned Queen 52 Willett, A. H. Economic Theory of Risk and Insur- ance 143 Williams, F. C. J. Devlin-Boss Williams, James. The Oxford Year 241 Williamson, George C. Cities of Northern Italy Williamson, George C. Perugino 81 Wilson, Calvin Dill. Story of the cid'. 450 Winans, Walter. Art of Revolver Shooting 19 Windelband, Wilhelm. History of Philosophy, second edition 286 Windle, B. c. A. Wessex of Thomas Hardy 444 Winfield, Arthur M. A Young Inventor's Pluck 452 Winfield, Arthur M. Nelson the Newsboy 453 Winfield, A. M. Rover Boys on the Great Lakes 450 "Winter, John Strange." Career of a Beauty 33 Wood, Charles W. Glories of Spain 448 Wood, S. T. Primer of Political Economy 378 Woodberry, G. E. Shelley's Poems, “Cambridge" edition 523 Woolley, Edwin c. Reconstruction of Georgia : 234 Wormeley, Katherine P. Balzac's Works, pocket edition 286 Wright, Julia McNair. Seaside and Wayside 522 Wright, Mabel Osgood. Flowers and Ferns 15 Wyatt, Edith. Every One his Own Way 32 Ximenez, F. S., and Skinner, H. M. Centiloquio of Santillana 328 Yeats, W. B. The Shadowy Waters 238 Young, J. W. A. Teaching of Mathematics in Germany 107 "Zack." Dunstable weir 370 Zola, Emile. Labor 140 Zollinger, Gulielma. Maggie McLanehän 453 • 370 109 . . . . . . . . . 1 . MISCELLANEOUS. Abbott, Evelyn, Death of 190 “Indian Summer," Origin of. Albert Matthews 100 Aguilar Free Library Society, Report of 84 Japan, Notes from. Ernest W. Clement . 355 Books Children Prefer. J. Breckenridge Ellis 429 Jessup, Mr., as a Critic of Mr. Frederic Harrison. Browne, F.G., Assumes Charge of A.C. McClurg & Co.'s R. Harold Paget 355 Publishing Department 111 Land of Sunshine, The " 59, 378 College Degrees, Simplifying of. David Y. Thomas Max Müller Library of Japan, The Ernest W. Clement 503 College English – Has It Improved ? James Melvin Lee 99 Philanthropy, Democratic Forms of. Duane Mowry. 50 Country Life in America" 286 Shakespeare First Folio, Clarendon Press Collotype Fac- “Current Encyclopedia, The" 83 simile of 143, 190 De Heredia, Sonnets of. Benjamin B. Warfield . Stillman, William James, Death of Harrison, Mr. Frederic, as a Critic of Tennyson. Alex- Stoddard, Lorimer, Death of 190 ander Jessup . 311 “Young Folks Library," Announcement of . 328 . . • 178 59 . . . . 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By reading both a more complete knowledge of the Louis just before the war and during its first years. Miss war can be obtained than from many volumes of military Norris describes with equal vividness those pathetic, thrill- history. ing days in Richmond before the surrender, the night of "The Grapes of Wrath” differs in almost every respect pillage at the hands of the mob, the entry of the Union from the conventional Civil War novel. Miss Norris plunges forces, and the last desperate battles of the dying Confed- her readers at once into the midst of the war. Her story eracy. There is a superb description, unforgettable in opens in a New Jersey village in 1864, and the reader follows the impression it leaves, of the Wilderness through which the fortunes and adventures which give a more diversified our armies fought, inch by inch, against the intrenched picture of life in the North and South than any other story South. of the great conflict. Perhaps the most remarkable portion of "The Grapes of By contrast, bistorically, with “The Crisis," we find in Wrath " is the long account of the Union Captain Haldane's "The Grapes of Wrath" full and vivid descriptions of the captivity in the abandoned mine in the Wilderness where a last year of the war in Virginia, from the opening of the horde of negroes who had run away from their masters had Battle of the Wilderness to the Surrender, instead of scenes gathered, and lived collecting plunder and wealth of all early in the war. In "The Grapes of Wrath" is a fine scene, sorts in preparation for freedom. We see the faithful negro, graphically described, in which the heroine is present at a but we also encounter the predatory negro, sacking houses, council of war of General Lee and his staff. In another robbing the dead, plundering everywhere, and holding wild dramatic scene General Lee tries to show President Davis orgies. Obviously the author did not write it to please any- the absolute necessity of evacuating Richmond before it body, but to give a truthful picture of both sides in all their becomes too late. phases during the most important year of the Civil War. THE GRAPES OF WRATH is published by SMALL, MAYNARD & Co. Price, $1.50. THE ROAD TO RIDGEBY'S. By Frank BUR-ANTING-ANTING STORIES And Other Strange LINGAME HARRIS. Tales of the Fili- A simple and powerful story of farm life in the West, pinos. By SARGENT KAYME. Stories as novel and fresh which, while imitative of no other book, does for the wheat as were Mr. Kipling's Indian Tales when they first appeared. fields of Iowa what David Harum and Eben Holden have Like Mr. Kipling, the author, with a perfect knowledge of done for rural New York and the North Country. A book his characters and their country, knows how to tell a story to make the reader better by strengthening his belief in the effectively. 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THE MUTUAL BOOK COMPANY TANDY, WHEELER & CO., Publishers, Denver, Colorado. 79 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass. 1901.] 9 THE DIAL The Macmillan Company has Just Published AN AMERICAN NOVEL 9 was Two years ago Mr. Winston Churchill's “ Richard Carvel ” published — the most successful novel of its kind ever issued — Two weeks ago to-day Mr. Churchill published his new novel — THE CRISIS THE BEST STORY THIS AUTHOR HAS YET WRITTEN During the past few weeks the publishers have been watching the comments of the Press with deep interest, and they have not yet seen a single adverse criticism. Out of the many notices already received, the publishers take the liberty of quoting a few OPINIONS OF THE PRESS : “Mr. Winston Churchill has gained greatly in the power of making a character live and breathe before your eyes, and reveal its own personality through its part in conversation and through its deeds.” — Boston Herald. “ The love story is charmingly told. Mr. Churchill, it must be acknowledged, has scored a distinct success with this book. It is full of brilliant bits, clever epigrams, flashing analysis, and displays withal a broad grasp upon the meaning of things as they stood related to events and to history in those dark years of the nation's travail. It is not too much to say that it is the best novel founded on the Civil War period that has yet been published.”— Brooklyn Daily Eagle. “A book that presents the great crisis in our national life with splendid power, and with a sympathy, a sin- cerity, and a patriotism that are inspiring. The several scenes in the book in which Abraham Lincoln figures must be read in their entirety, for they give a picture of that great, magnetic, loveable man which has been drawn with evident affection and exceptional success.”—Chicago Tribune. “The reader is swept along by a relentless series of events toward the inevitable crash which shook the nation. 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In size and style it is uniform with “ Richard Carvel,” being 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.50. THE CRISIS Published by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 66 Fifth Ave., New York 10 [July 1, 1901. THE DIAL BOOKS FOR THE SUMMER A Sailor's Log By Rear-Admiral SEVENTH EDITION ROBLEY D. EVANS Illustrated. Large 12mo, cloth. Price, $2.00. “It is American to the core, and fascinating from cover to cover.”—Nashville American. “One of the most entertaining volumes that has ever been added to the annals of the United States Navy.”—Milwaukee World. “ Not Clark Russell, not Captain Marryatt himself, ever wrote a more animated story of sea life than bas · Fighting Bob'Evans in this narrative of his forty years' experience in the navy of the United States.”— Boston Literary World. Sirius A Volume of Fiction. A Volume of Fiction. 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His Letters By JULIEN GORDON, author of " Mrs. Clyde,” « A Puritan THE PASSION OF LOVE ” “ A Pagan,” etc. New Edition 12mo, cloth, $1.50. “The writer's style and diction are charming, and these passionate letters touch the chords of emotion and sympathy in the reader's heart." — New Haven Journal and Courier. New Volumes in Appletons’ Town and Country Library Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cts. From the Unsounded Sea The Claim Jumpers A Romance. By NELLIE K. BLISSETT, author of A Romance. By STEWART EDWARD WHITE. “ The Wisdom of the Simple," etc. A Royal Exchange The Mystery of the Clasped Hands A Romance. By Guy Boothby, author of “ Dr. A Novel By J. MacLAREN COBBAN, author of Nikola,” “My Indian Queen," etc. “ Pursued by the Law." D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue, New York THE DIAL a Semi ftonthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information. PAGI . - - No. 361. JULY 1, 1901. Vol. XXXI. OUR LATEST CRITIC. When the Union League Club of Chicago, CONTENTS. last February, invited Mr. Frederic Harrison to join in its annual observance of the birthday OUR LATEST CRITIC 9 of George Washington, it made a singularly COMMUNICATION . 11 happy choice. Mr. Harrison is not only a The Simplifying of College Degrees. David Y. finished public speaker, but he is also a his- Thomas. torical scholar of broad-minded view, and a "GARDENS OLD AND NEW.” George M. R. Twose 12 political philosopher of the first rank. Few A GROUP OF NATURE BOOKS. Sara M. Hubbard 14 Englishmen are as free from the insular preju- Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee. – Mrs. Dicker- dices that are apt to warp the opinions of the son's Moths and Butterflies. – Mrs. Arnold's The best-intentioned of his fellow-countrymen, and Sea Beach at Ebb-Tide. - Mrs. Wright's Flowers and Ferns.-Mrs. Hardinge's With the Wild Flowers. in his mental bearing there is no trace of “a - Boardman's The Lovers of the Woods. — Adams's certain condescension toward foreigners." He Nature Studies in Berkshire. - Herrick's The Home is, moreover, noticeable for a tendency to exalt Life of Wild Birds. - Miss Bignell's Mr. Chupes and Miss Jenny. – Torrey's Everyday Birds. - Seton- the role of the great man in history, while free Thompson's Bird Portraits. from the erratic temper of such men as Carlyle SOME RECENT BOOKS OF SPORT. Edward Gilpin and Emerson, whose selection of figures for the Johnson 17 illustration of this principle was sometimes Wells's Fly-Rods and Fly-Tackle. — Travis's Prac- peculiar. The wisdom which chose Mr. Harri- tical Golf. - Hutton's The Sword and the Centuries. - Winans's The Art of Revolver Shooting. -,Paret's son as the panegyrist of the first great American The Woman's Book of Sports. was as fully justified as that which has made RECENT BOOKS OF TRAVEL. Wallace Rice him the most prominent figure in the approach- 20 Clark's A New Way around an Old World. -Stad- ing millenary of the first great Englishman. ling's Through Siberia. - Little's Mount Omi. – When Mr. Harrison returned to his own Bigham's A Year in China. - Edwards's Japanese Plays and Playfellows. - Sommerville's Sands of country, after remaining with us for several Sahara. - Meakin's The Land of the Moor. weeks, we confidently expected that he would Vivian's Abyssinia. – Lady Hodgson's The Siege of have some “impressions of America ” to give Kumassi. - Mackern's Side Lights on the March. – Carmichael's In Tuscany. - Dutt's Highways and the English public, and would have felt keenly Byways in East Anglia. — Prichard's Where Black disappointed bad he kept the impressions to Rules White. – Bigelow's The Children of the bimself. Mr. Harrison, with the possible ex- Nations. — Conway's The Bolivian Andes. – Miss Percival's Mexico City, – McClure's To the Pacific ception of Mr. James Bryce, has been the most and Mexico. - The Niagara Book. distinguished of our English visitors since RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne 25 Matthew Arnold viewed our civilization Churchill's The Crisis. - Johnson's Arrows of the through his critical lenses, and, unlike Mr. Almigbty. – Payson's John Vital. — Stephenson's Arnold, he refrained from the rashness of dis- Patroon Van Volkenberg. - Garland's Her Mountain Lover. – Vachell's John Charity. - Bates's Martin coursing beforehand upon what he expected Brook. — Townsend's Days like These. — Miss An- to find in the New World. He was thus spared thony's A Victim of Circumstances. — Miss Overton's the awkwardness of correcting his a priori The Heritage of Unrest. — Miss Dix's The Making of Christopher Ferringham. - Miss Laut's Lords of judgments, and he did not come to us as a the North.– Miss Potter's The House of De Mailly.- critic who had already rubbed our fur the Miss Runkle's The Helmet of Navarre. - St. John's The Crimson Weed. - Oxenham's Our Lady of De- wrong way. There is no reason, then, why we liverance.-Barry's The Wizard's Knot. — Marriott's should not give an open-minded greeting to his The Column. comments upon our society, and thank him no NOTES ON NOVELS 30 less for wbat he finds to blame than what he finds to praise. LITERARY NOTES 35 Fortunately for our pride, Mr. Harrison, in ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FOR SUMMER his essay just publisbed in “ The Nineteenth READING . 35 (A select list of some recent publications.) Century,” finds comparatively little to blame in our national life as he viewed it, and when TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS. 36 he does chide, it is so gently that it would need LIST OF NEW BOOKS. 37 a very captious person to take offense. From . - - . . . 10 (July 1, THE DIAL the ordinary adverse prepossessions of our for- future of civilization. For the manifest destiny of eign visitors he is noticeably free. He knows Chicago is to be the heart of the American continent." how to reckon at its true value the European Of the future material supremacy of the legend of American life, knows how largely American people, Mr. Harrison is as fully that legend is based upon our newspapers that convinced as he is of the future predominance do their best to misrepresent us, upon the snap- of Chicago among American cities. This shot opinions of irritable tourists, and upon the supremacy is to result from our combination eccentric conduct of some of our citizens when of large population, our educational agencies, they find themselves in foreign parts. There our natural resources, and our social and politi- is no parti pris in Mr. Harrison's estimate; cal system, “more favorable to material devel- he came to us with candid mind, determined opment than any other society ever devised by to report upon what he actually saw or dis- man.” The writer goes on to say: cerned to be the truth concerning us. “ It is a curious instance of the power of national Let us glance for a moment at some of his egotism that Europe fails to grasp this truth - that main conclusions. He is not misled by the Germans, with their wretchedly poor country, narrow seaboard, and scanty rivers, ports, and minerals, still mingling of nationalities that has produced the aspire to the first place; that Frenchmen fail to see American people, but sees clearly that, with how their passion for art, rest, and home has handi- all the foreign strains in our population, we capped them in the race for supremacy in things ma- are essentially a people of English type, with terial; that Britons, in their narrow island and their comfortable traditions, will not recognize that the indus- English ideals of law, politics, and morals. trial prizes must ultimately go to numbers, national • The citizen of the United States is at heart much unity, physical resources, geographical opportunities, the same man as the subject of King Edward; the trained intelligence, and restless ambition.” intellectual, social, and religious tone is nearly identical; But the triumphs of civilization are not all the proverbial differences we hear of have been absurdly exaggerated. ... The American world is practically material, as our latest critic knows full well. "run' by genuine Americans. Foreigners are more en He admits that our libraries are magnificent, évidence in London or Manchester, it seemned to me, that our educational machinery is “at least than they are in New York, Philadelphia, or Boston. tenfold that of the United Kingdom," and that ... From Long Island to San Francisco, from Florida Bay to Vancouver's Island, there is one dominant race our reading public is enormous. With these and civilization, one language, one type of law, one patent facts, however, there goes the question sense of nationality.” whether " this vast prosperity, this boundless Of Chicago, the city in which Mr. Harrison future, rests upon an equal expansion in the first sojourned, and which he takes to be more social, intellectual, and moral sphere.” We typical of our civilization than almost any must agree with him when he answers this other, he has many interesting things to say. question by saying that “they would be bold He does not find pork, grain, and anarchists critics who should maintain it, and few think- to be its specialties, but rather education, and ing men in the United States do so without art, and social amelioration. qualifications and misgivings.” The question “Certainly, during my visit I heard of nothing but can never be answered for good until our so. the progress of education, university endowments , ciety is old enough to become organized in the people's institutes, libraries, museums, art schools, workmen's model dwellings and farms, literary culture, sense in which the European societies are or. and scientific foundations. I saw there one of the best ganized, or until such organization shall have equipped and most vigorous art schools in America, one been clearly shown to be incompatible with the of the best Toynbee Hall settlements in the world, and democratic ideal. At present, our society is perhaps the most rapidly developed university in exist- young, inorganic, and fluid,” our culture is ence. My friends of the Union League Club, them- selves men of business proud of the city, strongly urged widespread but superficial, polished conversa- me to dispense with the usual visit to the grain eleva- tion is not a daily practice in many of our tors and the stockyards, where hogs and oxen circles, and the sense of noblesse oblige, “ as a slaughtered by millions and consigned to Europe, but force constraining men in high office or in to spend my time in inspecting libraries, schools, and great social position, has hardly any equivalent No city in the world can show such enor- mous endowments for educational, scientific, and chari- in American life.” table purposes lavished within ten years, and still A few other points made by Mr. Harrison unlimited in supply. . . . The impression left on my are well worth mentioning. He believes, for mind was that the citizens of Chicago were bringing instance, that “the standard of material well- their extraordinary enterprise to bear quite as much on social, intellectual, and artistic interests as they con- being in the United States reaches for the fessedly do on grain, ham, steel, and lumber. They masses of the laboring people a far higher and will have to do so if they are to hold their own in the more permanent point than has ever yet been are museums. 1901.) 11 THE DIAL - a 3 hours. 3 hours. 3 hours. 3 hours. . attained by the laboring mass of civilized men." thought of long ago. It is nothing more nor less than Speaking of the great fortunes that grow up to recognize the fact that everything that equal men do in this country, he says that he “saw nothing is of equal value and should receive the same name. The honor of taking the lead in this movement must to suggest that wealth in America is worse be given to the University of Timbuktu. The process acquired or worse applied than it is in Europe." of reasoning by which the faculty of this institution Perhaps the most pleasing of all his comments were brought to rearrange their whole plan of collegiate is the following: work was very simple: Culture is acquired by a study of the achievements of mankind. Now all men are “I received a deep impression that in America the equal, consequently all their achievements are equal, relations of the sexes are in a state far more sound and and of equal cultural value. The college as an institu- pure than they are in the Old World; that the original tion of culture must recognize this fact and govern its feeling of the Pilgrim Fathers about woman and about courses accordingly. man has sufficed to color the mental and moral atmos- A necessary corollary is that free men must be allowed phere, and to give all sexual problems a new and clear field to develop in normal ways.” the utmost liberty in selecting and arranging their work. Of course only one degree, the A.B., which has always We call this a pleasing observation, not be- stood for the highest culture, will be given. Hereby cause it flatters us, but because we believe it the confusion arising from a multiplicity of degrees, to be — or, at least, to have been hitherto which some regard as meaningless, and which at most merely indicate the lines along which a student has one of the fundamental facts about American directed his work, will be avoided. Hereafter the A.B. society. It is, moreover, precisely the sort of will simply mean that he has acquired culture by some fact to which the vision of the foreign visitor one of the manifold combinations of studies possible, does not easily penetrate, although it is deeply through a system of choice and chance, with a thousand or more subjects to choose from. ingrained in the consciousness of every Ameri- It will be impossible in a brief paper to give even the can who has grown up in an American home, names of the many courses now offered at this institu- gone through the American public schools, and tion, covering, as they do, five hundred pages of its last familiarized himself with the characteristic Register; but the prospective student may be benefited productions of American literature and art. by a perusal of one of the possible combinations. First Year (Old Freshman). Second Year (Old Sophomore). If Mr. Harrison, in the course of his two Latin, or Greek, or } months' stay, could realize this truth, our con- Fiji Tagal Torts, or French, or fidence in his judgments upon other and more Toxicology Stereotomy] doubtful matters should be considerable ; in History, or Chinese, or Obstetrics ) Chemistry word, he is clearly of the observers who look Algebra, or -} Forestry, or beneath the surface of things, and whose opin- Psychology Homiletics, or | Logic, or ions, even if formulated upon short notice, are Pomology Therapeutics ) bound to be treated with respect. Many of the courses offered require only two hours per week, and are pursued only three months, in order that the student may have a still wider range. A series of lectures by noted specialists is arranged for each COMMUNICATION year, attendance upon which may be counted for a de- THE SIMPLIFYING OF COLLEGE DEGREES. gree. The writer was particularly struck by two of the courses announced for next year, “ The Quintessence of (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) the Asymptote and « The Sweet Influence of the Hereafter the University of - will confer only one degree, the Pleiades." A.B., for all undergraduate work. – News Item. Something more than a hundred years ago a striking Some colleges looked upon this as a rather startling epigram, that all men are born free and equal, got into departure, and were a little slow to follow it at first. the head of a brilliant Virginian, and thence upon a bit In particular, objection was made to the introduction of paper that afterwards became celebrated as the into collegiate work of such subjects as Torts, Obstet- Declaration of Independence. It sounded so well that rics, and the like, on the ground that they were profes- men took it up as a slogan of war and went through the sional. Such absurd objections, however, arose from Revolution with it on their lips. But, for all its attrac- prejudice due to long established custom. Many insti- tive sound, our ancestors could not convince themselves tutions now recognize this fact, but are afraid to cut of its truth, and utterly disregarded it when they came loose from their old moorings too suddenly. They an- to the task of setting up a government. The epigram, nounce that only one degree, the A.B., will be given however, did not die, but lived on in the mind and on hereafter for collegiate work, and have gone so far as the tongue of many an orator who went about pleading to say that some work which is commonly regarded as for it in the name of the people. And thousands loved professional will be accepted for the last year's work it, despite its neglect by the majority. Its devotees in college. However, this timidity is fast disappearing, had almost begun to lose heart; but now they may take and it is only a question of time when the absurd and courage, for the academic world has at last hit upon a arbitrary distinctions between professional and non- plan whereby a beginning may be made toward putting professional studies in their relation to culture will be it into practice. The plan is so simple, — indeed, it is abolished. David Y. THOMAS (M.A.). based on an axiom, – that one wonders why it was not University of Timbuktu. 3 hours. 3 hours. . . . 3 hours. 3 hours. 3 hours. 3 hours. Total: 15 hours. Total 15 hours. 12 (July 1, THE DIAL some Mr. Henry James has given well the at- The New Books. mosphere of such a garden, in the “ Portrait of a Lady,” in the chapter which introduces 6 GARDENS OLD AND NEW."* the Touchetts: “ Under certain conditions, there are few hours in There is in England a sort of out-of-doors life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the cere- magazine known as “Country Life," which mony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances has been producing once a week forever a in which, whether you partake of the tea or not. pleasant article on country house gardens people of course never do — the situation is in itself illustrated, of course. Sixty of these, collected, delightful. Those I have in mind in beginning to un- fold this simple history offered an admirable setting to constitute the present volume bound with the an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast slightly obvious title “Gardens Old and New." had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English In a way, as a publication it may be consid- country house, in what I should call the perfect middle ered as the youngest and most charming de- of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left scendant of such books as Nash's “ Mansions was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would and Richardson's - Historic Houses," having not arrive for many hours, but the flood of summer sprung directly from that union of architecture light bad begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the and photography so evident of late in combi. shadows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. They nations of pictures and chatter of notable lengthened slowly, however, and the scene expressed that sense of leisure still to come which is perhaps the dwellings. Some of these have appeared for chief source of one's enjoyment of such a scene at such their own interest, and many as backgrounds an hour. From five to eight is on certain occasions a for the interest of some personality ; but such little eternity; but on such an occasion as this the true as they are, historic mansions have of late interval could only be an eternity of pleasure. . . . The house that rose above the lawn was a structure to repay teemed to such an extent that one now rec- such consideration, and was the most characteristic ob- ognizes them rather wearily. Since Nash has ject in the scene I have attempted to sketch. A long achieved a rare-book value in the market, and gabled front of red brick, with the complexion of which Richardson is used as an historical document, time and the weather had played all sorts of picturesque it may be seen that we have been taking our tricks, only, however, to improve and refine it, presented itself to the lawn, with its patches of ivy, its clustered houses seriously for a very long time, and it is chimneys, its windows smothered in creepers. The front consequently somewhat of a relief to take to of the house overlooking that portion of the lawn with the garden. This present collection, therefore, which we are concerned was not the entrance front; with its fresh-air quality — its parterres, and that was in quite another quarter. Privacy here reigned rosaries, and general garden panorama supreme, and the wide carpet of turf that covered the level hill-top seemed but the extension of a luxurious comes to a welcome long preparing for it. interior. The great still oaks and beeches flung down A republication in England and an importa- a shade as dense as that of velvet curtains; and the tion in America, the critic's relationship to the place was furnished like a room, with cushioned seats, book is not the nearest, but is one remove, so with rich colored rugs, with the books and papers that lay on the grass.” to speak : since it is also published as a popu- lar volume, and is not aimed especially at land- Then there is conversation, but one may not scape architects and such, we may even take quote a whole chapter. What has been given our gardens lightly, as gardens should be taken. is an accurate and sympathetic word-picture, The proper way to take a garden is, of course, to giving in color the leisurely and sequestered take it at five o'clock of a summer's afternoon, delights which the book we are talking about and to take it with tea. So, pushing open the shows in black and white. window of any of Mr. Nash's mansions, we But in spite of this eminent example, and will step out upon the terrace, and turning our heedless of the well-known peaceful character backs on the stuffy world of furniture and of gardens, the gentleman who begins the interior decoration, survey the English out- book under review (and may be ends it, for it of-doors of five o'clock and “brillig brillig ” when contains anywhere from one to sixty anony- shadows grow longer and cooler, the intervals mities) plunges immediately into all sorts of between distant noises lengthen, and the silver controversy. He chooses, curiously enough, . and the porcelain clink in polite sotto voce as a motto for this proceeding, - Horas non near by. numero nisi serenas," and then lines up land- scape gardeners and architects in opposition, * GARDENS OLD AND New: The Country House and its and makes the peaceful English close the Garden Environment. Illustrated. New York: Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons. battleground of opposing schools, who tear up - a а > 1901.) 13 THE DIAL - each other's shrubs by the roots, and call on middle classes, in whose direction might one be the reader to decide. This seems to be not the supposed to break the tenth commandment? nicest way to begin a book on gardens. Horas In favor of the dukes and marquises and earls ? non numero if you like, nisi serenas that Not at all; the haute noblesse do not seem to insist on, — and escaped to the pictures. These have much fun. It is not until one is well are charming and many, - lawn and court, lawn and court, past the lower baronage, and is burrowing hill-side and bowling.green, ringed with moun. among the commoners, that the gardens one tain, moor, and sea; gardens old and new, covets become frequent. These plain people with much that is a revelation, especially in have grounds that nestle snugly up to the the old. house with a charming immediateness into Taken for the pictures, the book may be which one can step from any door or window. recommended freely, especially to the following They are also full of the most interesting things people : First of all, to the minor architect, pergolas, for instance, pleached alleys, sun- that it may cultivate in him a sense of mise- dials, yew arbors ; while the landscape of the en-scene. Secondly, to people who have no upper peerage has much gravel, many mouldy gardens and probably never will have any, classic statues, black slaves (a favorite but especially school-teachers; its charming sug- unsightly form of fountain), bacchic vases, gestion of quiet and peaceful leisure being formal gardens, and geometrical flower- beds. offered to them in the nature of a consolation The spaces around the great houses all seem for their over-crowded days. Thirdly, to those (like Hampton Court, for instance, to dangle who have gardens. This recommendation is a well-known example) somewhat cold and made with the conviction that, as heretofore, bleak, with a remoteness altogether different those with gardens will get the book, and those from the coziness of the domestic boskage without will never see it. Last Summer, a of the smaller and less stately houses. Of small Italian child who lives on the West Side course, when a duke living in an artificial age of Chicago, near Hull House, invited someone pays no heed to the satires of Pope, but lays there to come and see her garden. She led the out his demesne in accordance with the arti. way to the court-yard of the house, a space ficiality of the time, he does it on a scale of paved with brick, and not describable even by acreage and expenditure which means that his the most slip-shod as being with verdure clad. family or successors have this large, ugly thing However - such is youthful resource in the “ for keeps.” It is too big and costly to wipe corner a brick was missing, and in its space out. With the smaller houses it is different. she had planted a grain seed obtained from the They can change in a generation, and from feed-store next door. Placing her in class two generation to generation preserve all that is of those I have named, she would undoubtedly worthy in tradition, and, like freedom, enjoy the book -- and with equal certainty, it “ broaden down from precedent to precedent." may be said, she will never get it. It is true, Then you have your present properly backed however, a logician might consider she had a up by your past, and can rest back comfortably garden. supported by all the ages, instead of having to A point of interest to democratic America, adjust yourself in a Procrustean manner to the for whose benefit the gardens are transplanted, measure of a period pilloried for your discom- may be derived from an analysis of the contents fort. Such ducal gardens may have an his- of the volume. Of the sixty-six private grounds torical value, as giving a sense of a certain described, three belong to dukes, one to a age ; but the value of gardens is, after all, their marquess, nine to earls, some half-dozen to value to life and to living, and however it has baronets, and the rest to commoners, lieutenant- happened, the smaller closes here illustrated colonels, honorables, and clergy of various are, on this count, the more valuable. They degree. This is quite a representative list, and are the ones to covet, to copy, to possess for as one turns the pages and passes from Chats- the sheer delight in them; and they are, hap- worth, the possession of a duke, to Beaulieu, pily, the ones that may be coveted and copied the residence of a marquess, from this to and possessed with impunity. There is so much Porches, the country-seat of a mere earl, con- of consolation in this triumph of the intensive descending even to the homes of baronets over the extensive, that I feel as though I had (baronets date only from the seventeenth cen- achieved almost the whole duty of a critic in tury), and finally sinking through the upper pointing it out. GEORGE M. R. TWOSE. 14 (July 1, THE DIAL A GROUP OF NATURE BOOKS. * 80 small and insignificant a subject ?” We open the volume, and are forthwith absorbed It is a part of the progress of the day that in the wonder and beauty of the facts and Nature study is coming into prominence in our schemes of education, and, beyond these, is thoughts he presents. Here is no technical treatise on the builder of the boney-cell. The entering into our plans for coveted diversion. book strikes out an entirely new line in the It necessarily follows that our press shall do narration of a story that has been ably rehearsed, its utmost to provide means, as far as it may, in parts and in the whole, times without num. for pursuing this study; and yet it is a real ber since Swammerdam began the tale in the surprise that so large and increasing a number of each season's publications are devoted to the profound speculations of the seer, the magical seventeenth century. It is a mingling of the purpose. Above all, it is a surprise to discover visions of the poet, and the cautious conclusions the amount of talent, of industry, of patience, of the man of science. As poet, Maeterlinck and of skill in all directions, that is lavished deals with bees as upon these works which are produced without “ The soul of the summer, the clock whose dial records stint of any sort, to allure and instruct the the moments of plenty; they are the untiring wing on public. In turning over a collection of the which delicate perfumes float; the guide of the quiver- more recent publications in this field, a keen ing light-ray, the song of the slumberous, languid air; enthusiasm is aroused over their high grade of and their flight is the token, the sure and melodious excellence. Author and bookmaker have united note, of all the fragile joys that are born in the beat and dwell in the sunshine. They teach us to tune our in the noble intent to captivate while they en- ear to the softest, most intimate whisper of these good, rich the mind of the reader. natural hours. To him who has known them and loved First among those which delight our notice them, a summer where there are no bees becomes as is “ The Life of the Bee," by Maurice Maeter- sad and as empty as one without flowers or birds." linck. “Pray what is there new to be said of As seer, he remarks that the bee ?” we ask ourselves with querying bees, we are studying in them that which is most pre- “ In our endeavor to understand the intellect of the doubt, “and what has this sage philosopher, cious in our own substance: an atom of the extraordinary whose business heretofore has been with ques- matter which possesses, wherever it attaches itself, the tions concerning human life, its intimate objects magnificent power of transfiguring blind necessity, of and its possible future, what has he to do with organizing, embellishing, and multiplying life; and, most striking of all, of holding in suspense the obstinate force THE LIFE OF THE BEE. By Maurice Maeterlinck. of death, and the mighty, irresponsible wave that wraps Translated by Alfred Sutro. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. almost all that exists in an eternal unconsciousness." MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. By Mary C. Dickerson, B.S. With two hundred Photographs from Life, by the Author. As man of science, Maeterlinck proves his Boston : Ginn & Co. right to recognition by his grasp of the knowl- THE SEA-BEACH AT EBB-TIDE. A Guide to the Study of edge gained by previous observers of the apian the Seaweeds and the Lower Animal Life found between Tide-Markg. By Augusta Foote Arnold. With more than tribes, by his own peculiar acquisitions, and by six hundred illustrations. New York: The Century Co. the concise, comprehensive, and uniquely charm- FLOWERS AND FERNS IN THEIR Haunts. By Mabel ing method by which he passes it all over to his Osgood Wright. With Illustrations from Photographs by the Author and J. Horace McFarland. New York: The unlearned reader. In the final chapter on “The Macmillan Co. Progress of the Race” he uses ingenious argu- WITH THE WILD FLOWERS, from Pussy Willow to Thistle- ment to show how transition, even in the bee, down. A Rural Chronicle of Our Flower Friends and Foes, describing them under their Familiar English Names. By " is called for from a precarious, egotistic, and Maud Going (E. M. Hardinge). New York: The Baker & incomplete life, to a life that shall be fraternal, Taylor Co. a little more certain, a little more happy," and THE LOVERS OF THE Woods. By William H. Boardman. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co. concludes with the reflection that NATURE STUDIES IN BERKSHIRE. By John Coleman “In a world where nothing save a few facts of this Adams. With Illustrations from Original Photographs by kind indicates a precise will, it is significant enough Arthur Scott. New Popular Edition. New York: G. P. that we should see certain creatures rising thus, slowly Putnam's Sons. and continuously; and should the bees have revealed to THE HOME LIFE OF WILD BIRDS. A New Method of the us only this mysterious spiral of light in the overpow- Study and Biography of Birds. By Francis Hobart Herrick. With one hundred Original Illustrations from Nature, by the ering darkness, that were enough to induce us not to Author. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. regret the time we have given to their little gestures MR. CHUPES AND Miss JENNY. The Life-Story of Two and bumble habits, which seem so far away and are yet so Robins. By Effie Bignell. New York: Baker & Taylor Co. nearly akin to our grand passions and arrogant des- EVERYDAY Birds. Elementary Studies. By Bradford tinies." Torrey. With Twelve Illustrations in Colors after Audubon, Again a trite theme is handled in the volume and Two from Photographs. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. BIRD PORTRAITS. By Ernest Seton-Thompson. With on "Moths and Butterflies," by Mrs. Mary C. Descriptive Text by Ralph Hoffman. Boston: Ginn & Co. Dickerson, and again we are gratified by the : : 1901.) 15 THE DIAL a а fresh and engaging form it is made to assume. book. Praise may be reserved, for the versatile The intent of the author is to win the interest charm of this writer is thoroughly understood. of the elementary student in entomology, the Her love of nature in its varying aspects sets a boy and girl who in the schoolroom or in the gentle imagination aglow, and a trail of pleasant summer vacation would penetrate somewhat light is left on every page her pen passes over. into the secrets of insect life. The guide who Her latest work, picturing “ Flowers and Ferns here offers to open out the way reveals rare in Their Haunts,” has all the grace of the vol- qualities for the accomplishment of her task. umes that have gone before. It is set in the frame By close investigation in the field, the labora- of a slender story, the characters of which afford tory, and the library, she has become an adept occasion for diversity and individuality of ex- in the work. So at ease is she by reason of pression. We may believe it to be in the main the insight long training has yielded her, we a transcript of the writer's actual experiences follow on with undeviating trust and admira- in her search for the wild growths of the field tion. By a clear and connected exposition of and forest. Every accessory was present to the life-history of a few of the most notable of make these experiences a pure source of joy and our moths and butterflies, the structure and of health, and so vividly are they reported that habits and faculties of this group are made the reader shares in them to the fullest extent. visible almost as though we looked through the Full-page plates of surpassing beauty, veritable eye and the microscope at first-hand. Illus. leaves from the book of nature, are scattered trations of a value equalling the text, clear-cut with a profuse hand through the volume ; while and original, accompany it all along, throwing a multitude of delicate drawings inserted in light on the minutest details. The book closes the text are equally true to life, having been with a chapter explaining the relationship of traced directly over original photographs. moths and butterflies, their classification and An amiable companion to Mrs. Wright's ancestry, and adding complete directions to volume is one which travels “ With the Wild the novice for collecting and preserving them. Flowers from Pussy Willow to Thistle-down,” If they who seek recreation at the seaside by Maud Going (E. M. Hardinge). This would but vary the day's conventional round work first made its appearance seven years ago, with a little consideration of the marvels of but its contents are still fresh in interest. animal and vegetable life that abound on the They have a vital quality, and by careful re- shores of the unfathomable ocean, life would vision are infused with the vigor and the aptness be a dearer thing then and thereafter for the a that befit the present hour. With much spirit wholesome and inspiring influences brought and no little tact, a succession of the best-loved into it. Pick up but one bit of weed washed flowers that adorn the months from March to up by the waves, examine it under the magni- October are marshalled into line, and their fying glass, look searchingly but a moment into distinctive features pointed out for our easier one of the pools held in the lap of the rocks, recognition, our deeper-seated admiration. Mrs. and if there lurk an atom of a naturalist's Hardinge’s discourse is based upon a genuine enthusiasm in your temperament you will feel knowledge of botany, and is ornamented with that for an instant the glories of another and the refinements of a picturesque and fluent upper world have flashed down on you. Then diction. you will possibly cast about for some under- The “ Lovers of the Woods” who slip the standing of the curious things that have been handy volume bearing that title into their suddenly revealed, the strange, weird, beautiful pocket for reading in a quiet hour will serve shapes and movements existing in this unknown themselves acceptably. The author, Mr. Will- realm. For such inquirers, there is enlighten- iam H. Boardman, has pressed into it much ment in a study of “The Sea-Beach at Ebb- of the true essence of woodcraft, the fragrance Tide,” by Mrs. Augusta Foote Arnold. A of which is so grateful to the appreciative. wide gleaner will he be who descries any of the The woods of which he writes are not located. lower forms of marine life that are not named Woods are woods, as be rightly indicates, any. and classified in this capacious volume. Its where from Canada to either coast; and “all descriptions are definite and simple, and the co- the exquisite refinements and amusements of pious and exquisite illustrations lend a valuable the most highly civilized spot on earth can do aid to the identification of puzzling specimens. no more" to secure him comfort who enters their The name alone of Mrs. Mabel Osgood precincts with a reasonably expectant spirit. Wright is needed to draw attention to a new “ Absolute comfort for body and mind,” he 16 (July 1, THE DIAL a a adds, “is perbaps not the keenest enjoyment, esting feats by means of it is Mr. Francis. but it is worth working for, and it can be had Hobart Herrick, who has just given to the in the woods." It was to restore impaired world his experience in photographing the health, we infer, that Mr. Boardman took up “ Home Life of Wild Birds." It is safe to for a time the pursuits of a woodsman, cheerily say his account furnishes a greater body of dispensing with the helps and diversions of fresh and trustworthy facts regarding the be- society and relying upon himself for the pro- havior of birds in the nesting season than has vision of the chief necessaries for the support been offered in any single publication for a of life. He learned the art from a past-master considerable time. Mr. Herrick's brilliant of woodcraft, and with good sense and high performance consists in bringing“ the mountain courage was at once an apt scholar. He has to Mahomet,” or, in plain words, in bringing little direct communication with his reader, a nest that is hidden by impenetrable foliage but through speech with his guide and an oc- in a tree or on the ground, out into the open casional chance comrade he betrays the fact where the eye of the camera can peer into it that he is a man of culture, and addicted to without obstruction. In the last two summers pitby reflections. “I'd been careless,” he “I'd been careless," he he has thus placed under easy view twenty-six makes a forest comrade say, “and carelessness nests belonging to fifteen different species of is the worst fault a man can have, except lyin' birds. For example, a cedar-bird has built its a . about what he's done." home in a pine tree forty feet or more above All that can be done by artist and artisan the ground. The branch on which it rests is to perfect the externals of a volume has been severed from the tree and fastened upon two done for the collection of Nature Studies in stakes in an open field, four feet above the Berkshire,” by Mr. John Coleman Adams. ground, and perhaps fifty feet away from its The present is a new edition of the work which original site. Care is taken to effect this change. was fresh from the press two years ago. The of location when the parental instinct is strong. price has been reduced one half, and still the est — that is, when the young are from four to- book may be pronounced a volume de luxe, nine days old. The parents are at first be- with its wealth of photogravures that deserve wildered and alarmed; but the cries of their the rank of works of art from their skilful offspring lure them to the new situation, and choice of subject and their delicacy and finish soon they are feeding the chicks with their of execution; and, with these, the harmon- usual frequency and freedom of manner. A ious details of print, paper, and binding. The small green tent is now set up close to the nest, text is the effusion of a poetic soul stirred and in this concealment the observer watches by the romantic scenery of the Berkshire bills. the birds and photographs their every move- One who has not fallen under the spell of the ment. It was Mr. Herrick's custom to spend landscape in Northwestern Massachusetts might the hours from nine o'clock in the morning to deem it a rhapsody; yet no one can doubt it three in the afternoon, daily, within the tent. is the honest, as it is the impassioned, record (usually within a foot and a half of the nest), of moods excited by rare passages of beauty in using pencil and notebook and camera in swift earth and sky. The trees, the brooks, the and exact report of every attitude and event meadow lands, and the hillsides, with the drift affecting the parents and young. This patient. ing clouds and the floods of summer sunshine, and industrious study was pursued until the are alike beloved by the writer, who paints fledglings were able to take wing and depart their changing pageantry with sincere fervor. finally from the scene. The data gathered in The camera has introduced a new and fruit- such favorable circumstances could not fail to ful factor into the study of natural history. be rich in novelty and value. Mr. Herrick's We are only beginning to test its usefulness, relation of the incidents observed is supple- and yet the results already attained show the mented by a series of reprints of his photo- boundless possibilities of the instrument in the graphs, which furnish much fresh evidence extension of accurate knowledge of the habits pertaining to the history of birds in the most and the haunts of animals and plants with important period of their lives. which there has been hitherto an obscure or A life of five years of unalloyed happiness misleading acquaintance. The ornithologist was the lot of " Mr. Chupes and Miss Jenny” has been active in improving the opportunities in the loving care of their gentle mistress the camera suggests ; but the one who at the (Miss Effie Bignell) living in a college town present hour bas accomplished the most inter- in New Jersey. Mr. Chupes had fallen out of 1901.) 17 THE DIAL con- the nest in the early pinfeather stage, and, SOME RECENT BOOKS OF SPORT.* despite the cries of mother robin and his own vigorous protest, was made captive and trans- Mr. Henry P. Wells may not be as ferred to a human habitation. It was a short templative" a man or as bewitching a writer time before he was quite at home in the new as was Izaak Walton, but he is certainly a surroundings, and though allowed later the fisherman of far more skill and experience — liberty of sallies out of doors, bis affection for for, as is now admitted, honest Izaak was but his mistress had quenched the natural thirst an incomplete angler after all, and not to be for freedom. In the autumn a companion of mentioned, in point of piscatorial learning, his own kind was found in the person of Miss with his “most honored friend, Charles Cotton, Jenny, a neglected, caged prisoner, discovered Esq.” But Mr. Wells certainly knows all in a baker's den. How the two throve, how that the most ambitious mortal need know intelligent they proved, what individuality each about fishing, and his book on “Fly-Rods and possessed, and what endearing traits they dis- Fly-Tackle” is an encyclopædia in its kind. closed, is told in a way that could scarcely be Fishermen need scarcely be told that the book bettered. It is likely to make the warm-hearted has for nine years or so been perhaps the au- sigh for a pair of pet robins, yet there are pen- thority on its subject. They will at all events alties to be paid for such particular privileges, be glad to know that a new edition of it, re- and it is quite as well, as a rule, to enjoy them vised, supplemented, and partly re-written, is in another's experience, as Miss Bignell has now ready. How exact a man the author is, permitted her readers to do. how honorably ambitious to add something to One comes into quick communion with Brad. the sum of human knowledge, may be gathered ford Torrey in any piece of writing, however from his account of a projected experiment sketchy, he affixes his name to. The element , The element (which we trust will one day be carried out) of personality is so strong in his utterances through which it was proposed to learn precisely that he appears to be actually present in the “how lines, leaders, and flies appeared to trout fashioning of his sentences. It is difficult to under the varying conditions of light and water understand why this is 80 - perhaps because which confront the angler when rod in hand.” what he says comes so directly and frankly from Mr. Wells goes on to say: the heart, making itself felt as an exact repre- My plan was to procure a diver's outfit, together sentation of a true and simple selfhood. Add with the necessary skilled assistance, and at various to this an indefinable literary charm, and his depths beneath the surface of the water, and over light and dark colored bottoms, and in sunshine and shadow, popularity as a writer is accounted for. His myself impersonate a fish while a friend angled for me, as latest book contains a score of short talks about it were. Tbus, and with the aid of telephonic communi- our “ Everyday Birds,” which one is likely to cation and a stenographer, I hoped in two or three weeks' meet in any ramble along country roads. The time to make quite an impression on the problem.” work is announced as of an elementary nature, The above "experiment " - Mr. Wells imper. prepared especially for children ; but one need sonating a fish and angled for by his friend, with full telephonic apparatus and a shorthand enjoy it from cover to cover. A notable feature reporter on the bank — would certainly be of the book is the reproduction of twelve col- worth going miles to see, and public notice of ored plates from Audubon. its occurrence ought to be given. Twenty “Bird Portraits" by Ernest Seton- * Fly-RoDS AND FLY-TACKLE: Suggestions as to their Thompson are sufficient of themselves to give Manufacture and Use. By Henry P. Wells. Revised and distinction to a volume. These portraits have enlarged edition ; illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers. a vigor, a boldness, a certainty in the handling New York: Harper & Brothers. PRACTICAL GOLF By Walter J. Travis. Illustrated. and a lifelike character which command instant THE SWORD AND THE CENTURIES; or, Old Sword Days consideration. They are allowed ample space and Old Sword Ways: Being a Description of the Various Swords Used in Civilized Europe during the Last Five Cen- in the volume, and are set in landscapes which turies, and of Single Combats Fought with Them. By Alfred give them an imposing effect. The descriptive Hutton. F.S.A., with Introductory Remarks by Captain , text, by Ralph Hoffman, is of secondary import-Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons. Cyril G. R. Matthey. With Illustrations. New York : ance. So eloquently do the pictures delineate THE ART OF REVOLVER SHOOTING. By Walter Winans. the separate features of the bird, the dominant Illustrated in photogravure, etc. New York: G. P. Putnam's traits in its character and environment, they Sons. THE WOMAN'S BOOK OF SPORTS: A Practical Guide to can afford to dispense altogether with explana. Physical Development and Outdoor Recreation. By J. Parmly tory comment. SARA A. HUBBARD. Paret. Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton & Co. à not be dwelling in the period of adolescence to wit - 18 [July 1, THE DIAL ) a bite." Mr. Wells's book, as its title imports, is largely appends also those decent conventions known devoted to the description and discussion of as the " Etiquette of Golf,” which, he adds, the angler's tools and tackle. He tells us how “shall be as binding upon players as the other hooks, rods, reels, lines, flies, and so forth, are Rules of the game.” The text is supplemented made, and lays down the principles that ought by many instantaneous photographs showing to govern us in our choice of them. There is Mr. Travis in a variety of contingencies doing a chapter on “ Repairs," and one of “Miscel- the thing as it ought to be done. The book laneous Suggestions.” “Casting the Fly” and is actually instructive, and no golfer who means “ Flies and Fly-fishing” are separately and to master the game should overlook it. instructively treated. The text is pretty plenti- In "an age of ell-wands and unjust bal- fully sprinkled with cuts of the right sort - ances," as Carlyle genially called our trading that is to say, of the purely illustrative and and money-getting times, the art of swords- useful sort, and the frontispiece shows Mr.manship is fallen in abeyance. The trick of Wells himself, rod in hand, “ attending of his fence is forgotten. The good knights are dust, trembling quill,” and pleasantly conscious of their swords are rust; and if your neighbor No angler, however experienced, offend you, you have him up in court, instead need fancy that he can find nothing new in this of pinking him, in a manful and chivalrous. suggestive (and not too big) book. But it is way, through the midriff. Some high-spirited addressed chiefly to beginners, and contains Tybalts there are whose tastes revert fondly to mainly, the author says, such information as the days of the duello, who make a cult of the he would himself have most thankfully received sword, and would gladly refer their disputes to during his novitiate. the issue of the wager of battle, were is not for The advent of the golfing season brings with the unpleasant consequences attached by a it a boon to the novice and to the player of huckstering and prosaic age to even such gen- average accomplishment, in the shape of a tlemanlike breaches of the peace. Such a fine, manual on “Practical Golf" by Mr. Walter mediæval soul, we take it, is Captain Alfred J. Travis. Mr. Travis's name is, of course, a Hutton, late of the King's Dragoon Guards, power on American links. He is not only a and author of the handsome volume now before past-master of the manual dexterities of the us, entitled “The Sword and the Centuries." great game, but a student of its theoretical The portrait of the author prefixed to the vol- principles as well. Your average Your average “profes-ume, showing a keen, D'Artagnan-like visage, sional” is usually a man of fine physical equip- with hawk's eye, and waxed, up-turned mous- ment, who plays largely by rule-of-thumb, tachios, bears out our impression of his char- trusting for results to the skill of practice; acter. Captain Hutton has already published one who can show you promptly in any given several other books on the weapon he so affects, case how the thing ought to be done, but if notably “ Cold Steel” and “Old Sword-Play," pushed by the inquisitive tyro as to why it both of them works of authority in their field. should be done in precisely that way and no One might think that he had by now pretty other is often brought to a standstill. Not so well exhausted his subject, if not his enthusi- Mr. Travis. He has thought the game out. asm ; but in the present volume we see how He can tell you why, if a stroke be played so much freshness may be imported into a well- or so, under a given set of conditions, it must threshed theme, if only the writer changes his. theoretically be followed by such or such results. point of view of it. Captain Hutton is still, Mr. Travis, in short, is a rational or reasoning as before, the historian and eulogist of the golfer, who plays an intelligent and intelligible sword ; but his method now is, while recounting game. He is therefore well qualified to teach, the story of the development and manipulation and his book shows the due blending of matters of the weapon, to instruct his reader and en- of theory and practice. Ample and convincing liven his narrative by casting the latter mainly directions are given as to stance and grip, the in the form of a chronological account of notable swing, putting, approaching, the choice of encounters exemplifying the practice of swords- clubs, the construction of courses, handicap- manship, from the Age of Chivalry when great ping, etc. In an appendix one finds the Rules lords jousted at the barriers beneath the ap- of Golf, Special Rules for Stroke Competitions, proving eyes of beauty and royalty, down to a Glossary of Technical Terms, and so on. the days of Figg and Sutton (arcades ambo) Mr. Travis being, like Sarah Battle of immortal when prize-fighters slashed and maimed each memory, a stickler for the “ rigor of the game,” | other for the amusement of the assembled > 1901.] 19 THE DIAL up and > " a brutes, titled and other, at Hockley-in-the- from a bicycle, and what not. In short, about Hole (frequented by Pepys) and Mary-le-bone. every question likely to be asked touching the Captain Hutton's book, in fine, may be fairly uses of the revolver is replied to clearly and characterized as a description, from a most authoritatively in this exhaustive book. We competent and sympathetic pen, of the various are glad to note that the folly of that large and swords used in civilized Europe during the jocular class of persons who can never see a past five centuries, and of notable and typical pistol lying about without picking it single combats which have been fought with pointing it at you, and who appear later at the them. The volume is suitably and attractively coroner's inquest with the old "didn 't-know- illustrated. it-was-loaded ” plea, is attended to by Mr. While Captain Hutton's hobby is the sword, Winans, who of course (his home being a sort that of Mr. Walter Winans is the revolver. of arsenal) has had some parrow escapes Captain Hutton wants us all, for our health's from it. Mr. Winans thus relates how he sake, to learn to fence; Mr. Winans, on much once left a revolver lying on the table in his the same grounds, wants us all to learn to Bisley tent: shoot. The Captain, on the whole, seems to “Some visitors dropped in, one by one, to lunch. have the better of the case, since public lon- First came an elderly lady. She sat down near the gevity would hardly be promoted were every- table; her eye fell upon the revolver. She instantly body to take to peppering at a mark with a snatched it up with a laugh, and pointed it at me with, •I'll shoot you!' I made her put it down, and was revolver. But be that as it may, there is no explaining to her how injudicious it was to point a re- question that Mr. Winans's sumptuous book volver at anyone, how it might have been loaded, etc., on "The Art of Revolver Shooting” is a com- when in came a parson. He sat down and began talking plete and authoritative manual which amply pleasantly: Presently his eye caught sight of the revol- ver. Grabbing it, he shouted: Now I 'll shoot you!' supplies the want of a work of the sort. Mr. and pointed it at me, roaring with laughter. I locked Winans's book is virtually first in its field, and up that revolver," it is not likely soon to have a rival. The author is, as every sportsman knows, the champion tively. illustrated, and is an alluring one out- Mr. Winans's book is profusely and attrac- revolver-shot of Great Britain an artist," in fact, second only to the incomparable Cheva. wardly even for those who care little for its theme. lier Ira Paine, whose recent death deprived the “The Woman's Book of Sports” is a pretty world of a man who could do things with a revolver which must have given him an ill and practical little publication, which the ama- repute in the days when the black art flour- teur sportswoman will do well to slip in her ished. In Mr. Winans he has found a worthy The elementary features and principles of the satchel when she goes for her summer's outing. successor. As a pistol-shot Mr. Winans began early — as a small child in frocks, in fact, outdoor games most affected by the gentler sex when, in lieu of a rattle, he had a pistol of the are clearly and attractively set forth, but the French Flobert variety, with which he used to distinctive feature of the book is its treatment, from the woman's poiut of view, of sports gen. shoot at paper targets, "snuff” candles, knock over tin soldiers, and so on. The child was erally supposed to be reserved for, or mainly father of the man, and Mr. Winans (now well enjoyed by, men --- namely, football , basebali , along in years) has been popping away strenu- yacht-racing, rowing, athletics, and so on. ) , ously at a target ever since, bent on scoring as Technical terms are explained, and the main many bull's-eyes as possible, and wasting no points of each sport made clear. The chapter care on the minor concerns of life. Happy he on yachting has been especially prepared with who has a hobby, be it ever so small a one, and an eye to the coming contest for the America's the time and means to ride it. Cup, so that the reader may fully understand Mr. Winans's book is meant primarily to and enjoy the accounts of the race, or the race instruct, and he begins at the elements of his itself if she be fortunate enough to witness it. “art.” The evolution of the revolver is sketched, The chapters on Golf and Tennis are rudi- ” . after which the learner is told how to select, mentary, and the novice will find them useful. handle, and take care of the weapon. Special The book is well described as a practical guide chapters are devoted to the Bisley rules and by a practical writer for the amateur sports- It is illustrated with full-page pic- competitions, to practice and training, to gal. lery shooting, stage shooting, trick shooting, tures appropriate to the text. game shooting, pigeon shooting, to shooting EDWARD GILPIN JOHNSON. . woman. 20 (July 1, THE DIAL the opportunity is given for the real illumination of RECENT BOOKS OF TRAVEL.* the darkest spots on the earth's surface. The extent to which modern methods of illustra- The recent sending forth of emissaries from tion has developed finds no better proof than in French, Canadian, and American newspapers to recent books of travel. A few years ago the trav- prove just how quick a girdle may be put around eller was obliged to supply his own sketches, or let the earth, gives more than ordinary value to the his book go forth with nothing more intimately Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark's “A New Way Around descriptive than its text. Today there is no jour- an Old World.” One of the first of civilians, if neying without a camera, and the aspects of the not the very first, to avail himself of the possibili- remotest regions are made familiar even to the child ties of Russia's new Trans-Siberian railway, the who cannot read. But it is this growing familiarity outbreak of hostilities in China made the road un- with the world as a whole which is, after all, the available except for military purposes immediately most wonderful thing. If the armies and navies after he had crossed into Europe. Dr. Clark is the of Christendom stand ready to seek out a new spot President of the United Society of Christian En. on the globe that they may devour it, the traveller traveller deavor, and his official presence was required in blazės the way for the more peaceful ministrations China and Japan and, later, in England. He arrived of commerce. Through him the consciousness of in Vladivostock on May 1, 1900, just as the ad- universal humanity which must spring into universal vancing season released the Amur River from ice charity with increased knowledge becomes ours, and and made the journey across Siberia by steamboat and rail then possible for the first time. He notes *A New WAY AROUND AN OLD WORLD. By the Rev. Francis E. Clark, D.D. Illustrated. New York: Harper & that the forging of this link makes a circuit about Brothers. 22 000 miles long around the earth, all within the THROUGH SIBERIA. By J. Stadling. Edited by F. H. H. north temperate zone, 9,000 miles of this journey Guillemard, M.A. Illustrated. New York: E. P. Dutton being by sea and 13,000 by land and river. The & Co. book is unpretentiously written, intensely sympa- Mount OMI AND BEYOND: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border. By Archibald John Little. Illustrated. thetic with Russia, and rather remarkable for a calm New York: F. A. Stokes Co. incidental denial of all rights and virtues to the A YEAR IN CHINA, 1899–1900. By Clive Bigham, C.M.G. Chinese. Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Co. In abrupt contrast with Dr. Clark's superficial JAPANESE PLAYS AND PLAYFELLOWS. By Osman Ed- wards. Illustrated. New York: John Lane. praise of Russia, based upon what could be seen from a car window or the deck of a river boat, are SANDS OF SAHARA. By Maxwell Sommerville. Illustrated. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. the observations of Mr. J. Stadling in his “ Through THE LAND OF THE MOOR: A Comprehensive Description. Siberia.” Well known as a traveller and sociologist By Budgett Meakin. Illustrated. New York: The Mac- in his own country (Sweden), and long a student millan Co. of Russia and its affairs, he undertook the explora- ABYSSINIA : Through the Lion-Land to the Court of the tion of the Siberian coast line on behalf of the Lion of Judah. By Herbert Vivian, M.A. Illustrated. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co. Swedish Anthropological and Geographical Society, The SIEGE OF KUMassi. By Lady Hodgson. Illustrated. of which Baron Nordenskjold was then the chair- New York: Longmans, Green, & Co. man, having for his chief incentive to this task the SIDE LIGHTS ON THE MARCH: The Experiences of an hope of finding some trace of the unfortunate An- American Journalist in South Africa. By H. F. Mackern. Illustrated. London: John Murray. drée, bis former associate. Mr. Stadling left St. IN TUSCANY: Tuscan Towns, Tuscan Types, and the Petersburg on May 1, 1898, reaching Schigalova Tuscan Tongue. By Montgomery Carmichael. Illustrated. on the upper Lena four weeks later. Thence he New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. took boat for the mouth of the Lena, 3,000 miles HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN East ANGLIA. By William distant, intending to go overland by sledges to the A. Dutt. With illustrations by Joseph Pennell. New York: Lower Yenesei. The Macmillan Co. At Kangelak, an island in the WHERE BLACK RULES WAITE: A Journey across and Lena delta, the explorer was frozen in, within a about Hayti. By Hesketh Prichard. Illustrated. New short distance of the spot where the lamented crew York: Inported by Charles Scribner's Sons. of the “Jeannette met their fate. Eventually he THE CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS: A Study of Coloniza- was able to make good his original plan, sledging tion and its Problems. By Poultney Bigelow, M.A. New across the tundra to the Anabar, to the Katanga, York: McClure, Phillips & Co. and over the Tamyr peninsula to the Yenesei, which THE BOLIVIAN ANDES : A Record of Climbing and Explo- ration in the Cordillera Real in the Years 1898 and 1900. By was ascended in sledges over the ice, eventually Sir Martin Conway. Illustrated. New York: Harper & reaching civilization, after a journey of 15,500 Brothers. miles, at the close of the year 1898. The realities Mexico City: An Idler's Note-Book. By Olive Percival, of Russian maladministration, especially in refer- Illustrated. Chicago : Herbert S. Stone & Co. ence to the convict system, are prominent upon Mr. TO THE PACIFIC AND Mexico. By A. K. McClure, LL.D. Illustrated. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Co. Stadling's pages. Everywhere there is officialism The NIAGARA Book. By W. D. Howells, Mark Twain, and failure, with an appalling preponderance of Nathaniel S. Shaler, and others. Illustrated. New York: crimes of violence. Among the natives of Asiatic Doubleday, Page & Co. Siberia the Russian influence has been even more : 99 1901.] 21 THE DIAL < a demoralizing, the exactions of the authorities having flank. Not more than a couple of hundred, armed with forced the unbappy people, in more instances than swords, spears, gingalls, and rifles, many of them being one, into cannibalism. The story is vividly told, quite boys. To anyone who had been some little time and in convincing detail. in China it was an almost incredible sigbt, for there was no sign of fear or besitation, and these were not fanatical Chungking, commercial metropolis of the Chinese braves,' or the trained soldiers of the Empress, but the province of Szechuan, lies 1,500 miles from the quiet, peace-loving peasantry — the countryside in arms mouth of the Yangtzekiang, thus affording Mr. against the foreigner. As they approached they dropped Archibald Little a favorable starting point for the on their knees, lifting up their hands to heaven to in- walking-tour he describes in his “Mount Omi and voke the God of War, the chief of their Boxer free- Beyond." He began his journey on July 7, 1892, masonry. Then they charged until they dropped again as and covered 1,300 miles in eighty days at a total our volleys began to tell. In twenty minutes they were cost of about two hundred and fifty dollars, a con- in full retreat, leaving some sixty dead on the field.” siderable portion of the expense being incurred for Mr. Bigham announces his intention to avoid politi- the carriage of the cumbrous copper or silver cur- cal questions, and bis book is a cheerfully written rency which he was compelled to use. Three weeks description of his journey from Canton to Hankow, brought the pedestrian to the sacred mountain of to Peking, through Manchuria and eastern Siberia, the Buddhists, and bis adventures there, while the through the Korean littoral to Seoul, up the Yang- priests were soliciting contributions in quite the tzekiang to western Szechuan and down the river manner known at home, are told with great good again to Tientsin and Port Arthur, the book con- nature and vivacity. He entered Thibet near Ta cluding with a brief survey of the fighting around Chien La, on the last day of August, after skirting the Russians, and the journey back to Europe over conducted the Snowy Mountains; he remarks on the limpid beauty of the stream that runs through the town, the Trans-Siberian railway. One of the general and adds, “Curious that the pollution of water, conclusions of the volume deserves citation : which is a sin against religion nearly throughout “The European in considering the Chinese character Asia, should be a matter of sublime indifference in should recollect that the Aryan and the Yellow races are pbysically and mentally distinct. What would appear * enlightened 'Europe and especially in England.” truth and reason to one often seems folly and lies to In this region he found both Chinese and Tbibetan the other. Our ideas of history, of ethics, of domestic Baddhist temples, the contrast being unfortunate life, and even our logic and system of reasoning, fre- for the Lamas, whose gloomy creed seemed to have quently run quite counter to what the Chinaman respects made little impression on their merry followers, and believes. And our victories do not by any means intercourse with whom Mr. Little enjoyed greatly. convince him that he is wrong and that we are right. Taking another tour over the same ground some One should therefore guard against getting a wrong years after, be observes : perspective of China and of its people by endeavoring “ It is sad to one who, like myself, travelled in the to apply to them European standards of comparison." province ten years ago, before this influx [of missionary “Japanese Plays and Play fellows" is written by bodies], to note the difference. Then I never heard an Mr. Osman Edwards after six months' sojourn in uncivil word; now one is constantly jeered at by the Japan, and is most entertaining, though necessarily rabble, and a favorite amusement of the small boys in superficial in its account of the native theatre, with the villages around Chungking is to draw crosses in the which most of the book is concerned. However, path, hoping that the advancing pedestrian may not superficial as it is, it has the merit of being told at dare to tread on them. The erection by the missions in Chungking, in conspicuous sites, of strange-looking first-hand, from personal observation and intimate , conversations with native actors. The author dis- buildings, which interfere with the so strongly implanted fungshui superstitions of the natives, was one of the cusses the religious drama, still in the condition of main causes of the Chungking riots of 1886. What- the mediæval miracle-play of Europe, and shows ever be the cause, the temper of the people is entirely the difference between that and the delicate art of changed for the worse.” Mr. Obojiro Kawakami and Mme. Sada Yacco, Mr. Clive Bigham's former books of travel, and this latter the first of her countryfolk to lay off the Elizabethan convention which denies women appear- his known experience as an attaché of the British embassies at St. Petersburg, Constantinople, and, ance on the stage. There is an entertaining little until recently, at Peking, give his “ Year in China, conversation reported with the celebrated Ichikawa 1899-1900 more than ordinary title to considera- Danjuro, who represents the classic tradition of the tion. Throughout this work may be read the broad Japanese stage, one question and answer reading thus : sympathies of a man of the world, bis earlier train- ing as a soldier leaving him not without consideration 6. How is it you have avoided the master-passion of our London actors to become an actor-manager?' for an enemy in the field. He was present at the ". I think a manager must be sorely tempted to put advance upon Peking known as “the Admiral's “ money first and art second. I often advise authors to Expedition," describing one of the Boxer attacks make certain alterations in the play for which I am apon the allies as follows: engaged, but the responsibility of entire management “They came on us in a ragged line, advancing at the would distract me from the purely artistic aspect of double from a village some quarter of a mile to the left representation.'" 9 : 22 (July 1, THE DIAL 66 » from A much-needed explanation is made of the position The humor which is incidental in Mr. Meakin's of the geisha, and a chapter is devoted to the most work is dominant throughout Mr. Herbert Vivian's striking phase of Japanese social morality, in which Abyssinia.” This is the third book of travel from Mr. Edwards displays a sympathy as illuminating this entertaining hand, and it is to be hoped that as it is rare. The book is one of real importance, anyone who can extract so much amusement from being illustrated by twelve pictures in color by sojourning in strange parts and share it so delight- Japanese artists, delicious in design and execution. fully with his readers may long be spared to wander “Sands of Sahara" is the appropriate title given over the least-known parts of the earth. Mr. Vivian by Mr. Maxwell Sommerville, Professor of Glyptol- was long enough in the land of Prester John to ogy in the University of Pennsylvania, to a some- reach the capital from Aden by way of British what formal account of a journey from Syracuse to Somaliland, to interview King Menelik, and return Algiers, and thence through Algeria, Tunis, and by the way he came. He prefaces his narrative of Tripoli, by way of Lambessa, Touggourt, and travel with a brief historical account of the Lion- Temacin. The book, while addressed to the sim. Land, which unwittingly suggests a paraphrase of plest comprehension and rather didactic in tone, the freshman's answer, “As I understand the sub- contains excellent descriptions of the Roman city ject of Abyssinia, it is a subject which is not well of Thimgad and of the various tribes of Kabyles understood.” He has a number of political con- and Bedouins met on the expedition, with many clusions to draw, most of which are to the effect curious instances of superstitions brought forward that England was wrong in surrendering any ter- by the traveller's quest for amulets among the na- ritory to the Abyssinians. His portrait of the King tives. It is beautified by reproductions of photo- is well done : graphs, which have all the charm of finished pictures “ He wore clean bright blue woolen socks and new tennis shoes of a common kind, with the tongues bang- from an artist's hand. ing out and no laces. Over close-fitting white linen A number of books concerning Morocco have knickerbockers came a loose garment of handsome been written by Mr. Budgett Meakin, and these are green and gold striped silk. It had long, tight sleeves now followed by “ The Land of the Moors buttoned at the wrists, and when he moved his legs I the same hand. Like ancient Gaul, the book is saw that the garment was lined with common calico. divided into three parts, the first devoted to the Under it he wore a white shamma with a red embroid- ered line near the edge, and over everything a black natural and physical characteristics of northwestern silk cloak with gold embroidery and small gilt buttons. Africa, the second to the political aspects of its On his head was a big grey felt hat with a high crown various divisions, while the last, under the head of and broad brim. In his left ear was a diamond solitaire “Experimental,"contains accounts of journeys made earring, about the size of a threepenny-bit and set in through the territory discussed in the earlier part gold. This is worn in evidence of bis having killed of the volume. The eighty-three illustrations from elephants, and only the royal family are permitted to photographs are augmented by a map, the details wear gold in any form. ... of which are fully authenticated, leaving great areas “ His face is not so much marked with smallpox as I as little known as any portion of the earth's surface. had been led to expect. He is darker than the average One of the curiosities of geography is embodied in Abyssinian, but bis features are not those of a negro. the author's search for Miltsin, a mountain described His mouth, however, is quite negroid, and his thick early in the last century by an explorer, but now lips wear an incessant grin, displaying large, very white teeth set loosely together. His small brown eyes wore seemingly lost beyond the power of recovery. Mr. an expression of fatigue, and what should be the wbites. Meakin's bicycle tour is described with much humor, of them were yellow. His forehead is narrow, but the one of the dialogues between the rider and an on- upper part of his face appears to have much character looker reading thus : and kindliness. His beard and whiskers are very close “« But what sort of beast are you riding? We and curly, and inclined to be grey. His voice is soft thought it must be “a drinker of wind,”' – whereby is and rather oily, without any vestige of the usual denoted a certain fleet camel used on the desert, seldom Abyssinian squeak. He speaks very deliberately, show- seen now in Morocco. ing his teeth and tongue and wagging his bead a good “Why, dear no; it's only a mule, a Nazarene mule, deal. He makes no gesticulations with his hands, ex- you know,' — for everything outside Morocco is either cept that he sometimes puts his finger-tips together. called Roman or Nazarene. On the whole I should describe his as rather an eccle- ". You don't mean to say so! How do you breed siastical manner. them?' While Great Britain was occupied with the "Well, you can see for yourself from its speed that burghers in South Africa, in the spring of 1900, its mother must bave been a gazelle, and from these the Asbantis took occasion to make a bold strike round parts and iron that its father must have been a for independence, bursting into hostilities while the reaping-hook.' British executive, Sir Frederic Hodgson, K.C.M.G., “A moment's stare while trying to realize whether this could be the truth or not, and out they burst in a Governor of the Gold Coast, was holding a palaver" hearty laugh, for the Moors do enjoy a joke, and this with the native kings at Kumassi - formerly spelled was one which specially appealed to them, so to every Coomassie. The attack was wholly unexpected and new.comer it was repeated as fact in most solemn tones.” hardly prepared for, the Governor having taken his 6 6 a 1901.] 23 THE DIAL a wife with him on the journey. It is Lady Hodgson “ But the public will not be fooled by these states- who now writes an account of the beginning of the men who are ever on the look out to work on the sus- war, calling it “ The Siege of Kumassi,” from the ceptibilities of the ignorant. The men found pleading principal episode in it. The story is told with great for the Boers are those who wanted to recognize the spirit and simplicity. Lady Hodgson describes 80-called Cuban Republic, even when the combined United States Army and Navy were not able to locate what she saw, her husband having made it bis rule it; the same patriots who, by their absurd notion of never to discuss political aspects of his duties with justice (to call it nothing worse) encouraged the Phili- her, and her book is lacking in any account of the pinos to shoot down our boys, and for the sake of such manner in which the revolt was finally crushed. cheap notoriety as they can get, are willing at any time Throughout the book there is calm and tacit denial to embarrass the government.” of any right on the part of the Ashantis to govern Though this would seem to indicate that Mr. Mac- and rule themselves, and instances of barbaric kern needs the experience of travel in America and savagery to justify the British conquest are cited acquaintance with the history of this country more though it seems to be true that the presence of the than anything else, his book will not be found lack- English bas led to greater bloodshed than was ever ing in a certain charm. He celebrates the war- known in the land before their coming. The siege correspondents in South Africa, more than a third of Kumassi began on April 25, 1900; Governor of whom, he notes, were killed or incapacitated in Hodgson and his wife left it in possession of a small the discharge of their duties. He was with General English force on June 23; and the siege was finally French at Rensburg, and saw the British flag raised raised a few days later. Thirty-three Europeans, over Bloemfontein and Pretoria. He has nothing 720 Hausa (native) soldiers, and several thousand but praise for the British, even to the point of refugees were beleagured by many thousands of stating that “Any remarks that may seem to be Ashantis, many of them well armed. The journey criticisms are not intended as such.” Altogether back to the coast was a most arduous one, and the narrative is an excellent specimen of the work many deaths resulted from the progress through a of a person unknown in our history for more than hostile land. After concluding her story of her a century the American Tory. own adventures, Lady Hodgson adds a chapter or Worlds away from this Anglicized American in two on the condition of the capital of the colony. sympathy for the inhabitants of a foreign land, So much has been written recently about the lack Mr. Montgomery Carmichael has successfully in- of capacity for improvement in the negro that a word from her may be quoted : terpreted for his readers the realities and idealities of no small portion of Italy in his charming book, “I have met some charming [black] African ladies, “ In Tuscany.” He feels at liberty to set forth and am glad to say that in my ten years' experience of differences not less than resemblances in national the Gold Coast each year improves the position of characteristics ; but he nowhere insists that failure women, and to-day they — I am speaking of educated women – are not the slaves to their husbands that they to comply with British requirements constitutes in- were a few years ago. It has been most interesting to feriority, and in more cases than one he actually watch the growth and civilization of the community, and conveys the impression that English-speaking people it really seems marvellous bow Accra bas advanced in can learn much to their advantage from the Italian- the last few years, even in the matter of entertainments." speaking peoples. What he calls “the conclusion Though “Side Lights on the March,” Mr. H. F. of matterin Mackern's contribution to the history of the war in South Africa, is not strictly a book of travel, it may in comprehending his character, in spite of contradic- be classed with the book preceding and with the tions, complexities, and crudities, the Tuscan is perhaps later chapters of Mr. Clive Bigham's work, being the most charming of all the children of Adam, just as rather impressions received by a stranger and on- his country, in spite of all its drawbacks, in spite of fierce heat, damp, scirocco, tramontana, mosquitoes, and looker than a detailed narrative of hostilities. Mr. all the plagues of a vexatious bureaucracy, is more Mackern is an American from New York, whose nearly like the Promised Land than any other. But to point of view is best told by himself in discussing live in that enchanted land and dwell among its siren the ardent admiration conceived for the United people needs an apprenticeship not easy to serve, and States by the British when they found the world many a Philistine from beyond Jordan cancels his arti- against them in their conquest of the two Republics. cles early in the apprenticeship and flees the country Noting the enthusiastic twining together of the in affright or disgust. It is often only after years of Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes, he adds : hard service, constant uneasiness, and continual per- “Such proofs should be most gratifying to those of plexity, that the stranger sojourning in the land awakens one day to find that he is dwelling in Eden, and sees us who are broad-minded enough to grasp their true on all sides of him, living in the flesh and working in meaning, to those who think for themselves, and are the spirit, characters and ideals which had dimly figured not influenced by sensation-seeking editors or gallery- talking politicians; even though some of the latter have amoug the dreams he dreamt in the far-off days of his poured out their eloquence in Congress, while lacking generous, romantic boy hood.” absolutely a clear understanding of the actual state of It may readily be conjectured that the charm and affairs in South Africa, which forced Britain into a war glory of Tuscany is transferred to Mr. Carmichael's whicb she would ratber have averted. pages. He has been content to let others tell of in «With all bis faules, in spite of all the difficulty we have 24 (July 1, THE DIAL > “ If ) the obvious things, while he dwells on matters which Nations.” This, though it is all that its sub-title until now have bardly been disclosed to us. The announces in being “A Study of Colonization and result is a book to keep, for its freshness of spirit its Problems," is based 80 largely upon the author's and interest make it worth reading more than once. extended travels and observations at first-hand that Without defining with scientific exactness the it may be included here as well as elsewhere. boundaries of the delightful country of which he many of my conclusions vary from those current,' speaks, Mr. William A. Datt makes the “ Highways says Mr. Bigelow, “it will be found that I have and Byways of East Anglia” very real to a dweller drawn less from official reports than from personal in a distant land, his pleasant text being interpreted inquiry and observation.” The result is one that and supplemented by Mr. Joseph Pennell's delight-possesses to an unusual degree the quality we all ful drawings. “Some parts of Norfolk, Suffolk, know and admire under the name of “common and Cambridgeshire" is the phrase which defines sense.” Eminently sane in most of his conclusions, the limits of this journey of love, and though the there is an enormous extent of territory, almost author complains that his itinerary will be “as re- the whole world outside of Europe, covered by Mr. markable for what it misses” as for what it brings Bigelow's studies. Not only is the history of colo- to his readers, these latter will find but little fault nization set forth, in so far as it is pertinent at the after enjoying the feast he spreads for them. Lit- | present day, but the conditions of nearly all the erature and history have been drawn upon about colonies or self-governing nations which have sprung equally to enrich and beautify the narrative, and it from them are exhibited as they are at the present will be found a treasure-house of the things which moment. There is a personal tribute to the Filipino are best worth knowing. The author says: character in the too brief chapter on the Philippines, “I could never find it in me to decry East Anglian and the usual calm statement of American short- scenery because of its tameness; rather, I could pity comings by which more than one member of the the man who is unable to discover in its quaint old. Bigelow family has earned the gratitude of those world hamlets, thatched farmsteads, and ancient shrines among his countrymen whose esteem is best worth many elements of the picturesque. As for the historical having. It is only in the chapter on “The Negro interest of the district, it both gains and loses some- as an Element in Expansion” that Mr. Bigelow thing in that many of the events in which it originated occurred so long ago that they have become inseparably seems lacking in human sympathy, for in it he ad- associated with romantic legends and untrustworthy vocates strongly what can be regarded as nothing traditions." less than qualified slavery for the American man The book has the rare merit of serenity, and is to of color. This, it would appear, is not to be done be valued highly. as a method of education, but because the negro race is inferior: “Our first duty is to recognize the This is to be an article of contrasts, for a more truth that the negro is not the equal of the white disheartening book than Mr. Hesketh Prichard's man.” The question is too broad to be entered into " Where Black Rules White," an account of a here, but the statements of the book in this respect, journey made by the author in the republic of Hayti, like all its contents, deserve study. is hardly to be found among recent publications. Sir Martin Conway enjoys a reputation deservedly It is a book of comparisons, and these not of what Hayti was aforetime and has now become, but what great as a climber of mountains, and the fame gained from his previous exploits will suffer no diminution Hayti is and what the best civilization of the world has become. It is truly a tale, as the English author through the deeds set forth in his last book, on “ The Bolivian Andes.” On September 10, 1898, avers, of a people who “are neither very brave nor he reached the summit of Illimani in the Cordillera very fierce; not even barbaric; merely barbarians.” There is a detailed account of Vaudoux practices, Real, about 22,000 feet above the level of the sea. Sorata baffled him on the first attempt, a heavy and of official inefficiency, of militarism and the rule of might. The whites are feared, because the storm driving him from a point not far from its blacks believe them anxious to return them to summit; but be surmounted the peak known as slavery, 80 Mr. Prichard informs us, Anohuma on October 10, the height attained being and this is about the same as that of Illimani. These were the the only reason he can give for the curious blindness to a natural love for self-government that seems to real deeds of the journey to Bolivia, the other peaks be growing into an " Anglo-Saxon ” idiosyncrasy, ascended being much lower, and the service per- formed in relation to them being that of an explorer which he exhibits in the following words : rather than a mountain climber. The book is ad- “ The surprising part of it is that these negroes, who bear with incredible wrongs and tyrannies from their mirably written, and is filled with information con- illiterate masters, would resent the mildest sway at- cerning the native Indians and their somewhat tempted by those not of their own race and color. The desultory government. An account of a revolution lowest of the people are as frantically opposed to an- that did not revolve very far adds to the interest nexation by a white Power as are the ruling classes." of the book. It is admirably illustrated. Mr. Prichard's book bears out to the full some A kind-hearted American girl, Miss Olive Perci. of the conclusions respecting the negro embodied val, taught herself the art of enjoyment abroad, and in Mr. Poultney Bigelow's "The Children of the “ Mexico City: An Idler's Notebook” is her nar. - 66 1901.] 25 THE DIAL ration of the real pleasure she was able to extract from a somewhat commonplace trip through no magic more wonderful than the determination to War has been adequately dealt with in imaginative prose. Taking his own city of St. Louis for the principal scene of his story, Mr. Churchill has made try to understand the strange people she had to a masterly reconstruction of its life during the years a meet. Though the book is needlessly slight, it is just preceding the outbreak of hostilities, as well as really entertaining, human sympathy making ade during the trying years of the war itself. The quate compensation for occasional Aippancy. value of the book lies chiefly in its blending of a Another unpretending narrative of a trip to minute and intimate study of the conditions in the Mexico, preceded by one to the Pacific Coast and single State of Missouri with a vivid and passionate thence southward, comes from the practised pen of realization of the national aspects of the crisis in Col. A. K. McClure, the veteran editor and public question. The spectacle of the house of the nation official of Philadelphia. The book has for its title divided against itself is reproduced in miniature in “To the Pacific and Mexico," and though the the division of the individual families of a State country traversed is fairly familiar, Colonel Mc- whose sympathies were so nearly balanced that for Clure's descriptions and impressions of it are pleas- a long time it was uncertain which side it would ant and informing. An error (twice occurring), in take in the impending conflict. That Missouri was making the Santa Fe railway run through the Grand saved to the Union Mr. Churchill attributes mainly Cañon of the Arkansas is to be noted. to the energetic action of General Lyon and to the In “The Niagara Book” a number of distin- German element in the population of St. Louis, an guished Americans have joined forces to describe element inspired by the Continental ideals of 1848, the greatest of American spectaclee. Mr. Howells and ready to fight once more in the defense of those has one of those pleasantly intimate descriptions of ideals. As a story of private interest, “ The Crisis” his journeys to the Falls which remind us of a no proceeds upon familiar lines. There are the two the less genial if not so witty Dr. Holmes ; Mr. Clemens contrasting types of Puritan and Cavalier gives “ Some Extracts from Adam's Diary” to ac- one a young man who embodies the New England count for several things about Niagara ; Professor tradition; the other a high-bred young woman of N. S. Shaler popularizes the scientific aspects of the Southern extraction, the descendant, in fact, of the author's own Richard Carvel and Dorothy Manners. cataract so far as its geology is concerned ; and there are numerous other articles of interest mingled Except for the special delineative skill exhibited with instruction. The book is issued in full recog- in the present case, this story has been told a hun- nition of the Buffalo Exposition, and a chapter is dred times before. Likewise, the incidents of battle devoted to it as a worthy adjunct to the more per- have a familiar guise. The generous rivalry between manent splendor of Niagara. the Northerner and the hot-blooded Southerner, WALLACE RICE. enabling the one to save the other's life more than once, is an old enough story, as is also the story of the heroine, who struggles for years against an in- stinctive love which is at variance with all the RECENT FICTION.* traditions of her race. But the writer never allows Mr. Winston Churchill is a novelist whose art us to forget the momentous issues that lie back of progresses by leaps and bounds. His first book, this network of individual relations, and, being "The Celebrity," was merely a clever skit; his himself of the younger generation that knows of the second book, “ Richard Carvel,” was a richly- war only as recorded history, he can approach his informed historical romance ; his third and latest subject with a due sense of its perspective, and re- book, “ The Crisis,” is one of the strongest of main sufficiently objective to preserve his artistic American works of fiction. For the first time, we poise. Besides the hero and the heroine, there are are almost inclined to say, the drama of our Civil two other private characters that enlist our sympa- The CRISIS. By Winston Churchill. New York: The The HERITAGE OF UNREST. By Gwendolen Overton. Macmillan Co. New York: The Macmillan Co. ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY. By Owen Johnson. New THE MAKING OF CHRISTOPHER FERRINGHAM. By Beulah York: The Macmillan Co. Marie Dix. New York: The Macmillan Co. JOHN VYTAL. A Tale of the Lost Colony. By William LORDS OF THE NORTH. By A. C. Laut. New York: Farquhar Payson. New York: Harper & Brothers. J. F. Taylor & Co. PATROON VAN VOLKENBERG. By Henry Thew Stephen- THE HOUSE OF DE MAILLY. By Margaret Horton Potter. son. Indianapolis : The Bowen-Merrill Co. New York: Harper & Brothers. HER MOUNTAIN LOVER. By Hamlin Garland. New THE HELMET OF NAVARRE. By Bertha Runkle. New York: The Century Co. York: The Century Co. John CHARITY. A Novel. By Horace Annesley Vachell. THE CRIMsoN WEED. By Christopher St. John. New New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. York: Henry Holt & Co. MARTIN BROOK. By Morgan Bates. New York: Harper Our LADY OF DELIVERANCE. By John Oxenbam. New & Brothers. York: Henry Holt & Co. DAYS LIKE THESE. By E. W. Townsend. New York: THE WIZARD's Knot. By William Barry. New York: Harper & Brothers. The Century Co. A VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES. By Geraldine Anthony. T&E Column. By Charles Marriott, New York: Johp New York: Harper & Brothers. Lane. " 26 (July 1, THE DIAL FO 66 T a A > T! 9 1 thies in a marked degree. One is Colonel Carvel, in 1587. In the matter of invention he has been Virginia's father, the embodiment of those admir. greatly daring in one respect, for he has made no able traits which have always characterized the less a person than Christopher Marlowe a member Southern gentleman at his best; the other is the of the expedition. His story deals with exciting stern, almost fanatical, Northern sympathizer, adventures on the voyage to Virginia, with Spanish Judge Whipple, who faces the world with a front intrigue to defeat the purpose of the colony, and of granite, and whose heart is as tender as that of with the long years of struggle, and hope deferred, the great President to whom its full allegiance is and eventual failure on the Island of Roanoke. given. We have reserved for the last what we bave We owe him a debt of thanks for having "rigidly to say about Abraham Lincoln as he appears in this suppressed” the padding of “manners and cus- book. We meet him face to face upon two occasions toms” that most writers make it a point of misguided once during the progress of the great debate conscience to put into such a work. John Vytal, with Douglas, once at the close of the war, and on the hero of this romance, is a finely conceived figure, the eve of the tragic consummation of his career. the very incarnation of Elizabethan strength and But his presence is felt as a pervading influence endurance, and the woman whom he serves and throughout the book, and the author's greatest unsinfully loves proves a most acceptable heroine. triumph is found in the effective way in which be This woman is the mother of Virginia Dare, the bas dealt with the sacred memory of Lincolo. For first English child born in America. As for the it surely is a triumph to portray that personality in poet of “ Tamburlaine,” we are glad to have him such terms of terderness and reverence that the of the company, albeit at some strain upon the tears start unbidden with almost every mention of probabilities, and his speech and conduct are such the name. We believe that this book will do more as befit the man who, had he lived, might have dis- than all the histories to make the new generation puted with Shakespeare the primacy of English understand the passion that inspired those days of song. the fifties and sixties, with their high purpose, their Old Manhattan at the close of the seventeenth heroic resolve, and their moral fervor. Of late, the century is the scene of “ Patroon Van Volkenberg," Republic seems to be forgetting the ideals that made a historical romance by Mr. Henry Thew Stephen- of the Civil War so much more than a political son. A Huguenot exile from France is the hero, struggle, and such a book as “ The Crisis” cannot and he comes to America in search of a sister who fail to be productive of much good in reviving, not had been sold into service as a redemptioner in merely the memories, but the fine idealisms of the New York. He finds that she has met a mysteri- period in which it moves. ous and tragic death at the hands of her master, Another young writer, Mr. Owen Johnson, has the powerful and unscrupulous patroon who gives taken the Civil War period for the subject of a the book its title, and he seeks to avenge her. In novel, and has achieved a certain measure of suc- the end, vengeance is left to Providence, for the cess, although there is nothing about the book that patroon has a daughter, and — well, we can imagine is likely to make a lasting impression upon its the rest. The story has a pronounced melodramatic readers. What is most noticeable is a sort of easy flavor, and is replete with stirring incident. As a fluency, almost volubility, which permits a rather portrayal of the semi-feudal patroon system, it is simple narrative to be expanded into a novel of interesting and instructive, and it shows us much some four hundred pages. The hero is a young of the difficulties of the English rule in these early man of Southern antecedents, who goes to Cleve days when the civilization of the New Netherlands land to carve out his fortunes. When the war was rather Dutch than English. The redoubtable begins, is a successful man of affairs, and finds Captain Kidd plays a minor part in this history, an opportunity for service to his country by accept- although he can hardly be said to appear as one of ing a post in the commissariat department. His the characters. honesty and personal courage enable him to thwart Mr. Hamlin Garland, during the past few years, many a rascally contractor, and helps us to realize seems to have taken the far West for his province that laurels may be won upon other fields than those rather than the middle West, which was the scene of battle. ,, The title of the book, “ Arrows of the of his earlier novels. The change is for the better Almighty,” seems to suggest a study in heredity, in itself, and has been accompanied by an increased and this is doubtless intended by the writer, but we strength both in grasp and in vitality. The finer cannot say that the problem is worked out with graces of diction are probably beyond his reach, much distinctness. The opening chapters, des- wbatever the themes he may attempt, but he is criptive of the hero's parents, and of his child life acquiring a certain rough force and breadth of styl in Maryland, are much better than those that follow. that make his work impressive. He is fortunate, They arouse, indeed, anticipations for the subse- moreover, in the mountain setting of these later quent development of the story that are doomed to books “ The Eagle's Heart,” which we reviewed disappointment. not long ago, and “Her Mountain Lover,” the Mr. William Farquhar Payson has found an in- occasion of the present remarks. He is imbued teresting theme for a historical romance in the for. with a genuine passion for the hills, and the rough tunes of that famous Lost Colony sent out by Raleigh | sincere types of character which that environment a i the 1901.] 27 THE DIAL 66 very well a a seems to foster find in him a sympathetic inter- some success as a playright, but this is the first novel preter. He gets at times very close to the poetical from his pen that has come to our notice. Com- mood, and his revolt from the artificial surroundings bining, as it does, the skill of the practiced writer of civilization becomes more and more pronounced. with the refined experience of life that comes from In " Her Mountain Lover” the scene, for the most many years of observation, it is a book that com- part, is not the West at all, but the England of mands consideration, and deserves high praise. It town and country. This appears to contradict is essentially a story of middle New York in the what has just been said, but a word of explanation middle period of the century, with the Abolitionist clears away the difficulty. His hero in the present agitation and Methodist revivalism for its distin- case is a rough Westerner, prospector and cowboy guishing features. We might have spared the latter at once, who goes to London for the purpose of of the two, which rather weakens tbe story, for its selling a mine. The impact of this strange figure strength is found in its reproduction of the moral upon English society provides the book with its fervor of the movement in behalf of the slave - its substance, and Jim Matteson so dominates every reanimation of the spirit of a time that to readers situation in which he is placed that all the English of the younger generation must seem to have been accessories of the story are just so much stage- a part of the dark ages. It is well in these days of setting for this one uncompromisingly far Western slackened national will and degraded political ideals character. The difficult situation is that those years of storm and stress should be managed, and Jim more than holds his own upon vitalized for us as has been done by Mr. Bates ; we all occasions. There are suggestions of Mr. Bret need the contagion of the earnest and uncompro- Harte in the story, and there is even a certain sort mising spirit with which slavery was fought in the of grim humor, which shows that Mr. Garland has forties and fifties to arouse us to a sense of duties indeed developed. of our own time. The madness of imperialism that “John Charity," by Mr. Horace Annesley Vachell, has taken possession of our people during these is a story that seems to have been written with an later years calls for a moral crusade as determined eye to the English public, and comes to our table and as self-sacrificing as that in which our fathers heralded by a chorus of English critical trumpet- were enlisted half a century ago. Mr. Bates has ings. And the opening chapters, placed in England, written a novel of one figure, and almost of one idea. are so cleverly written in the familiar style of the We bave spoken of the idea ; let us say of the figure English novel of adventure that it is not easy to that it depicts a hero worthy of the championship realize that we are plunging into a story of Amer- for which he stands, a strong, simple, manly char- ican life by a typically American novelist. Mr. acter, whose development we follow from childhood Vachell needs no introduction to our readers. We up, and whose devotion to a sacred cause enlists bave had the pleasure of praising his earlier work; our warmest sympathies all through the period of we now bave the pleasure of praising the present strife, and up to the final triumph of the idea to strong and well-constructed romance. It deals with which all his energies have been devoted. Inci- California — the California of the years just before dentally, we would like to say that the book reminds the American occupation, the California of Alva- us in many ways of the best work of tbe late Harold rado and Vallejo, of aristocratic Spaniards and Frederic. It is not merely that it introduces us Mexican intriguers, of señoritas and vaqueros and once more to the environment of central New priests. It is a highly colored romance, and its York during the war period ; the resemblance goes outcome is essentially tragic. The figure of Alva- The figure of Alva- | beyond that, and includes the exhibition of many rado himself is studied with much skill and sym- intellectual and moral traits that the author has in pathy, while the appearance of Thomas Larkin as common with his late fellow.journalist and fellow- one of the minor characters provides a suggestion worker in the field of fictitious narrative. of what is soon in store for the unhappy province, New York is the scene of still another of the and casts a sort of prophetic tinge over the narra- novels of the series now under review, but in the tive. case of Mr. E. W. Townsend's “ Days Like These," The “ American Novel Series,” started by one of it is the city, not the State, which circumscribes the our most respected publishing houses at the begin- field of interest. This is the first appearance of the ning of the current year, and planned to include a creator of Chimmie Fadden in the character of a new volume for every month of the twelve, is at- full-fledged novelist, and even those who have ad- tracting much attention by the excellence of the mired him the most for his studies of metropolitan books presented. The first two volumes of the low life are likely to be surprised by the versatility series were reviewed by us some time ago, of the present work, and by the resources at its productions distinctly above the average of current writer's command. The habit of journalism is in- fiction ; the volumes that have followed have proved imical to the cultivation of literary grace, and the to be better yet, and the promises made for the finer qualities of style are still beyond Mr. Town- undertaking have been more than justified. “Mar- send's reach. But journalism has also its virtues, tin Brook,” by Mr. Morgan Bates, is the first of and “Days Like These ” makes the most of them. the new issues to demand our attention. Mr. Bates It is a vivid and animated story, full of keen obser. is a veteran journalist of the West, and has achieved vation and shrewd comment, and with no rhetorical and were a 28 [July 1, THE DIAL a surplusage. It is a story of marked realism, which going discipline in the ways of civilization, is ex- is, however, of the good compressed sort, not the ceedingly well done, and makes us look forward sort that runs to cataloguing and the multiplication with some eagerness to further work by this new of irrelevant and uninteresting detail. The story writer. This is the personal sense in which the is compounded in about equal measures of the two title of the book is justified ; but in a wider sense, sharply contrasting elements of New York society the “ heritage of unrest” may be taken as meaning - the life of the elums and the life of the regions the national heritage that comes to us from our in which wealth and refinement hold sway. Mr. blundering and dishonorable treatment of our Townsend is intimately acquainted with both fields, Indian wards. The writer is unsparing in her de- and considers them equally interesting as subjects nunciation of our course toward these unfortunate for the exercise of literary art. On the whole, his creatures, and a fine contrast is afforded between millionaires are somewhat less convincing than his the steadfast devotion of our soldiers to their task ruffians and other figures of the slums, but all are of stern repression, and the folly, or worse, that has studied carefully enough to excite and hold our really been responsible for the chief difficulties. attention, besides being brought into interesting re- The scene of this story is not strictly that which lations by means of an exceptionally well-contrived Mr. Bret Harte has made his own, but it is nearly plot. As a study of the various elements that enter enough that scene to invite a comparison, and this into the social structure of the great city the book comparison may be best made by simply stating has more than superficial truth; it seems to us to that Mr. Harte's work might be something like this exbibit an unusual degree of social penetration. It if it were stripped of humor and romantic glamour. is satirical, after the manner of Thackeray or, The evident note of Miss Overton's work is a rather to take a closer parallel, after the manner of Mr. bare realism, but we must respect it, for it is based Warner's trilogy of New York novels, — but its upon a close acquaintance with the scene and the shafts are not poisoned, and the author is prompt period. to give credit to the generous qualities that are The American Colonial period has proved unex- somewhere stirring in the most selfish or depraved pectedly rich in the material for romantic fiction. of his creations. He considers environment and Its annals are dull and uninteresting only to the education, rather than inherited viciousness, to be undiscerning eye, and we have had of late numerous responsible for most forms of wrong living, and illustrations of the fact that it needs but a touch of takes pleasure in discovering a soul of good in the imagination to light up the history of our na- things and lives of the most evil seeming. He has tional beginnings, and to awaken our deepest inter- written a strong human novel, faithful to the life est in the life of those early days. The latest novel with which it deals, enlivened by dry humor and to deal with this period is one of the best that have dramatic incident, optimistic in temper, and free yet been produced; it is entitled “The Making of from explicit moralizing.“ Days Like These” is Christopher Ferringham," and is the work of Miss one of the very best novels of the year. Beulah Marie Dix. The Colony of Massachusetts The third book in this series still remaining for Bay is the scene of this story, and the time is that notice is the work of a woman, Miss Geraldine just preceding the Restoration. Christopher is a Anthony, and is entitled “A Victim of Circum- young Cavalier, possessed alike of the vices and the stances.” It is, like the one last mentioned, a story generous qualities of his class, sent to Massachusetts of New York society, although the action takes after the defeat of his cause, and placed under the place largely at a country house on the Hudson. tutelage of his uncle, a Puritan magistrate. His We regret that so poor a book should have found conduct is a stumbling-block and an offence to the admission to the series. It is not only amateurish godly townsfolk of Meadowcreek, and be seems, in construction, with characters so much alike that indeed, to be about as graceless a scamp as is often it is almost impossible to disentangle them, but its found anywhere. There is a young woman, how- substance is the merest frothiness, being dialogue ever, in his uncle's family whose sympathies turn empty of thought and chronicled doings devoid of toward him in spite of herself, and it is his love for the least vital human interest. A sort of cheap her that gradually transforms his character, and and slangy brilliancy is the cachet of this produc- redeems him from his reckless mode of life. As tion, which represents about the lowest depth of the title informs us, the story is of Christopher's vapidity that the novel of fashionable society is making,” by dint of his love and of the discipli- capable of reaching. nary environment against which he vainly chafes. * The Heritage of Unrest," by Miss Gwendolen After a long series of escapades and exciting ad- Overton, is a vividly realized narrative of the ventures, he grows up to be a man in the best sense Southwest — the Apache country — in the days of of the word, and is happily united to the young Geronimo and Crook. The heroine is a waif of woman who has been his good angel. The author's mixed Indian and American blood, adopted as a study of the Puritan life and character is both sort of ward by an army officer, who eventually painstaking and just. She does not spare its un- makes her his wife. The study of her character, lovely aspects, but she recognizes at the same time in which the savage instincts now and then find its strength, and even the humanity that remains their way to the surface, despite the most thorough. I at its heart, in spite of its stern repression of most - W 1901.) 29 THE DIAL as well a of the natural instincts. Miss Dix has given us a tive skill that Miss Potter has yet to learn. This deeply interesting book, rich in incident, and full- is a book that one wants to read straight through ; blooded in sympathy. It has about equal value as the other is one of which the reading can be broken a work of fiction and as a historical study of what off almost anywhere, to be resumed at convenience, is perhaps the most fascinating phase of our colonial and without the sort of impatient expectation that experience. is so considerable an element in the novel-reader's Miss A. C. Laut's “Lords of the North " is a delight. One thinks more of the story itself than rather striking story of adventure in British America of the painful conscientiousness of the telling, and during the early years of the nineteenth century. we trust that with a little more practice in her art It has for its subject the rivalry between the two Miss Potter will learn this secret also. “ The Hel- great fur-trading companies of the North, and pre- met of Navarre” deals with the most fascinating sents a vivid picture of the daring enterprise and period of French history, with the League, and reckless deeds of the men who were engaged in the Béarnais, and Mayenne. Many as have been exploiting the commercial resources of the wilder- the previous uses of this romantic material, Miss ness that stretches westward from Hudson's Bay. Runkle's story manages to preserve the qualities of There is enough of private interest and delineation freshness and charm. It has amateurish qualities of individual figures to furnish forth an interesting among them a fondness for bits of French narrative, but the epic character of the struggle is which are usually more accurate than the souvent what chiefly impresses the reader that, and the homme trahie which makes its luckless appearance spacious atmosphere of the work, with the zest of in two or three cases, but it certainly is a remark- living that such surroundings inspire. able work for a beginner, and one who is a young Of Miss Margaret Potter's “ The House of girl at that. Mailly” we must say, in substance, what we said Mr. Christopher St. John's novel, “ The Crimson of her “Uncanonized” of last year. It is a work Weed,” takes its text from one of Bacon's essays. that exhibits a remarkable mastery of the required Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more historical material, as well as the most painstaking man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed construction. There is still much surplusage in the it out.” It is this crimson weed of vengeance, grow- form of dialogue and description, making the nar- ing up in the life of a man, the child of dishonor, rative too slow in its movement, and depriving the that we are called upon to consider in the present reader of the sort of breathless excitement which instance. The hero is a youth of mixed Italian and he has a right to expect from a historical romance. English parentage, who learns the secret of his The period is the France of Louis XV. and the origin when he has come to manhood, and whose reign in the royal favor of Madame de Chateau- mind is almost wrecked by the discovery. His The day of the Pompadour has not yet Italian mother is still living, an artist upon the dawned, although that remarkable woman appears lyrical stage, and his father is a prosperous English in the closing chapters. The hero is a nobleman Academician. The hero himself has the tempera- who aspires to the love of the King's favorite, and ment of genius, and has developed remarkable apti- thereby incurs the royal displeasure. Banished tudes for both musical and literary composition. from Versailles, with permission to return when he But he so broods over the thought of the wrong shall bring a wife with him, he goes to the Amer- that has been done him through his unhappy mother ican colonies, and for about a third of the book that he grows well-nigh distracted at the contrast the scene is laid in Maryland. This agreeable between her life of bitterness and the worldly prog- diversification is very well contrived, and the chap- perity of the man who deserted her so many years ters that keep us in Baltimore · are, on the whole, ago. He is on the point of taking vengeance into the pleasantest of all. A colonial maiden is intro- his own hands, when fate intervenes and puts an duced, and in her love the wounded heart of the end to the scoundrel who has caused all the misery. hero finds solace. The final section of the story The story is skilfully-constructed, and its pitch of takes us again to the French court, where the passion is almost unrelieved from first to last. In beauty of the American countess wins instant ap- the end, the blasted lives of mother and son are plause. This young woman has made a study of restored to something like sanity, and the stormy alkaloid poisons, and her special knowledge of the prelude finds a peaceful close. subject is turned to ingenious account. This sounds It was inevitable that the Dreyfus affair should more melodramatic than it really is, but the use suggest a theme to some enterprising novelist, and made of the episode, although skilfully contrived, we are glad that so clever a craftsman as Mr. John introduces a hopelessly incongruous element into Oxenbam should have been the one to find inspira- the romance. tion in that tragedy of real life. “Our Lady of If we ask just what is lacking to this book of Deliverance” is the title of his story, which tells Miss Potter's, with all its admirable qualities of how a French officer is degraded and exiled through description and characterization, the answer is easily the personal malice of a rejected suitor for his sister's provided by Miss Bertha Runkle’s “ The Helmet of hand (and fortune), how an adventurous English- Navarre.” In this book we find the true spirit of man falls in love with the sister and espouses the romantic adventure, and just the sort of construc- cause of her brother's rehabilitation, how the neces- roux. a a 30 (July 1, THE DIAL 6 6 - a . - - very decent - sary pooof of his innocence is brought to light, We must illustrate our meaning by an extract, the victim freed, and the villain circumvented. It premising that Cathcart is a sculptor who lives in is all made into a thrilling sort of narrative, with his own ideal world, making no concessions to the plenty of subsidiary incident, local character study, fashions of the hour, and that Jobnnie is a simple and general animation. It is not as good a story youth serving his apprenticeship in the art of the as Mr. Oxenham is capable of writing, but it serves master. the purposes of entertainment so well that we will «« Some of us,' continued Cathcart, have to stick up refrain from carping criticism. a motto to remind us of — things; but it's better to Dr. William Barry is proving himself a novelist have a live goddess. Have you ever read Dante?' of admirable parts and amazing versatility. The “ Johnnie made the unnecessary statement that he had not. religious and ethical prepossessions of his first "• Well, Dante wasn't a particularly happy sort of books, .“ The New Antigone” and “The Two chap - - a bit raw in places, and things hurt. When he Standards,” gave place in “Arden Massiter” to was quite a youngster, he happened to see a little girl the romantic spirit of modern life as illustrated by named Beatrice. Nothing came of it, you know; she the conditions of nineteenth-century Italian history, grew up and married another fellow, and that point has in turn given place to the Celtic sort, I believe. Now Dante didn't go bleating about glamour in “The Wizard's Knot,” the author's or take to drink, or anything. He happened to be a latest work of fiction. In this book we have the poet; and whatever he wrote be felt he had the eyes of Irishman more or less concealed from view in Beatrice on him. His biggest work is all about Heaven Dr. Barry's earlier books, — with his sense of the and Hell, and it all leads up to Beatrice. It's done in haunting mysteries of the elements, his passionate sibly object; in fact, he would feel proud, if he was such a way, you know, that the husband couldn't pos- , attachment to his legendary birthright, and his anything of a sort. She died, you know, before Dante primitive passions. The story itself is not without wrote it; but that did n't make any difference.' interest, but these extra-fictional qualities, which “Cathcart stared at the blank wall, and Johnnie had might be exhibited almost as well without attempt- a shrewd suspicion that there were others to whom ing to tell a story, are what give to “ The Wizard's death did n't make any difference.” Knot” its deepest charm. The author's crisp and The book has for its heroine a girl of Greek- brilliant style, scholarly but without affectation, is English parentage, an elemental creature of earth a source of unfailing satisfaction, and would lend and air, who embodies an ideal of simple and distinction to a much duller narrative. We do not wholesome living that is almost lost to our sophisti- place this book quite as high as “ Arden Massiter," cated civilization. Such a creature is not to be all things considered, but it remains nevertheless a mated by a man of modern mould, and the tragedy noteworthy production. of the book is found in her union with a man of Mr. Charles Marriott is a new writer, and his superficial culture, a prattler about books and music, first novel, “ The Column,” has been hailed in En- who can have no real sympathy with so sane and gland as a remarkable work. It is a novel of natural a character as bers. We think the author almost purely psychological interest, written in a rather evades the difficulty of his problem, when it style that arrests attention and occasionally puzzles is once fully presented, by disposing of his heroine it. There is a tendency toward something like in such summary fashion, but we can appreciate the preciosity in many of the sentences which consti- difficulty of his search for a logical outcome to so tutes Mr. Marriott's chief defect as a stylist. Such hopeless a situation. a sentence as the following, while not so bad as to WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. deserve the title of Meredithian, is not to be de- fended upon any theory of lucid construction. “In spite of the pilloried names of sentimental history, and the prosier, though in a sense not less stimu- NOTES ON NOVELS. lating, records of the daily press, there still survives a popular and pathetic fallacy that the amateur of In "King's End” (Houghton), Miss Alice Brown hearts abandons his desipience at the altar.” It is proves anew her power as a literary artist, taking her people from a little New England village, but selecting only fair, however, to say that this is an extreme men and women of real charm and wholesomeness illustration of the author's morbid shrinking from instead of the anæmic personages in which other painters the forms of common-place utterance. As a rule, of such village life have reveled. The spirituality of he succeeds in being perspicacious without reverting a charming young woman is set in conflict with her love. to hackneyed forms of expression. The work as a A wandering evangelist has taught her tbat she too has whole is amazingly clever, and its power of present- a call to go forth and preach; but his sister, suffering ing ideas and situations by means of suggestion her life through from a love unfulfilled, brings her back to earth and her true love again. The story is written rather than exposition is one of its most salient with befitting simplicity, with evidences of real Yankee characteristics. The opening pages afford an excel- humor on almost every page, and may be commended to all lovers of best literature. 3 others may be found in abundance. Sometimes tº By choosing the daughter of fate American army offi- the suggestiveness is of such a kind as to stir into vibration the deepest chords of our consciousness. cer for her heroine, and two foster brothers, both with commissions in the Royal Engineers, as suitors for her 1901.) 31 THE DIAL " romancer hand, Miss Maud Howard Peterson has given an inter- Lord, in the original. The translator from the original national interest to “The Potter and the Clay” (Lothrop), Hungarian, Mr. Percy Favor Bicknell, relates these which is described as “a romance of to-day." The ar- facts in his frank Preface, explaining also that he has gument turns on the honor in the soldier's sense greatly shortened and simplified his version as compared of one of the two British officers, the American girl's with Dr. Jokai's own. What remains is nevertheless interest in both of them being almost equally balanced a well constructed story of love and war, replete with until one of them is proved unworthy. The manner in incident belligerent and romantic, and given added value which he redeems himself in a cholera camp in India is by the knowledge that there were in Europe in 1848 well told, and the novel is much above the average in men and women who were willing to shed their blood conception and execution. Browning's poem of “The for that rational belief which is the finality of the Ref- Potter's Wheel” serves as a preface to the book, and ormation. America knows the Unitarian militant, but the feeling in it is carried through the story. rather as a moral than a physical force. Race distinct- In selecting the time of Shays's Rebellion in 1786 ions between many conflicting peoples are here well for the period of “The Duke of Stockbridge” (Silver, drawn, and the work deserves a careful reading. Burdett & Co.), the late Edward Bellamy gave himself Maryland is coming into its own with the colonial an opportunity to show with what difficulty the common - Mr. William Henry Babcock's “ The Tower people, who fought and won the Revolutionary War, of Wye" (H. T. Coates & Co.) being the fourth or fifth reconciled themselves to the government by the rich story this year dealing with that pleasant common- and self-seeking which they had been forced to over- wealth. We should like to see the one salient fact of throw in good part in order to secure national inde- the Maryland settlement, the proclamation of religious pendence. None of his former books show the author toleration for the first time in modern history, given to such good advantage in the literary sense, and the more attention; but Mr. Babcock has chosen, instead, work has merit as successfully interpreting the feeling to emphasize the quarrels between the followers of of the period it deals with. It is an interesting and Lord Baltimore and Secretary Claiborne. It cannot be valuable contribution to the growing list of worthy doubted that his selection enables him to keep more American novels. closely within the limits set by convention for the co- Mr. George Gibbs has written, and illustrated him- lonial romance; and he has done even better in making self, a novel dealing with the war between the French the wonderfulness of the New World, as it appeared and Spanish in Florida and the vicinity, entitling it, to these emigrant Englishmen, one of the notes of his “ In Search of Mademoiselle" (H. T. Coates & Co.). argument. It is a great advance on the sea stories for boys which Too much episode not strictly connected with the bave heretofore formed Mr. Gibbs's only contribution development of her plot keeps Mrs. Lucy Cleaver Mc- to literature, the selection of characters and time show- Elroy's “Juletty" (Crowell) from being the story it ing excellent judgment and the treatment being most might have been made. The young man she introduces interesting. The hero is an English youth who falls as her hero is a deputy United States marshal on the in love with a charming French girl of noble birth, lookout for manufacturers of illicit whiskey in Ken- whose family is devoted to the reformed religion. tucky, the “ Pennyrile " district being the scene of his When the girl goes to the New World with others of labors. He falls in love with a pretty girl of somewhat her fellow-believers, the English youth is not far be- lower social status than himself, and the discovery of hind. In the story history and romance are pleasantly the “moonshiner" and the final surrender of the maiden combined, and the pictures from the author's pencil are to his suit come together in the closing chapter. The really interpretive and attractive. interval is filled up with stories of the war between the Comparisons are odious, and that which the publishers States, with the lynching of a negro in which all the institute between Mr. F. Frankfort Moore's new book “ best” citizens of the countryside take part, and with “Nell Gwyn - Comedian” (Brentano's) and his earlier adventures of several sorts. “ The Jessamy Bride seems to confirm the adage. A Few minor characters in history lend themselves bet- pleasant and seemly work, the later novel yet lacks the ter to a certain sort of romance than that of John Gif- literary charm of the earlier one, and the sweet pathos ford, who turned from being a cavalier officer to a which attaches itself so dily to the memory of Gold- pastorship in one of the straightest sects of his day, smith is almost wholly wanting in the account of the numbering Charles Stuart and John Bunyan among bis rollicking Nell. The story ends cheerfully, and the friends at the two extremes of his life. Miss Dora M. flavor throughout is that of a corrupt court and none Jones has made a good selection in taking this remark- too strict a stage. able career for elucidation in “ A Soldier of the King' The tender romance so predominant in Mrs. Kath- (Cassell). John Milton figures in the story for a mo- arine Tynan Hinkson's former stories is not lacking in ment. "A Daughter of the Fields” (A. C. McClurg & Co.), The fighting in the Netherlands between the Duke which contains an excellent portrait of a young Irish of Alva and the Prince of Orange supplies the historical girl, poor and proud, who returns from an education in background for Miss H. C. Bailey's “My Lady of France to conditions at home which force her into the Orange" (Longmans), a stirring romance which pre- active management of a farm. Her landlord is young, a serves much of the horror of the times. There are and in a short time ardent. The struggle between love eight illustrations by Miss C. P. Jacomb-Hood, which and duty, and the continual interplay of sentiment, add to the value of the book. If one is looking for make the story sweet and true. It is a pleasant con- incessant fighting, it is to be found here. tribution to our knowledge of Irish country life. “ The Crow's Nest” (Dodd, Mead & Co.) is not a It is interesting to learn that there are more Uni- novel, but a rather slight descriptive narrative of a tarians in Transylvania than in the United States, and little garden perched high on the side of the Himalayas, that the title of Dr. Maurus Jokai's novel “Manasseh near the city of Simla, which Mr. Kipling discovered (L. C. Page & Co.) is “ Egy az Isten": One is the the literary possibilities of some time ago. Mrs. Everard 32 [July 1, THE DIAL 9 a Cotes, the author, is better known to both American A careful study of character, the hero being a Jesuit and English readers as Sarah Jeanette Duncan; and priest who becomes one of that gallant band of mission- the chief value of her latest book lies in the new-world aries which Parkman celebrates, supplies the framework eyes with which she regards the rulers of the Indian of Miss Anna Farquhar's “ The Devil's Plough” (L. C. Empire in the mountain resort wbich enables them to Page & Co.), additional material for a background escape the heat of the plains. Mrs. Cotes planted in being drawn from the French Court of Anne of Austria her * Crow's Nest” the seeds of a species of golden- and Mazarin. While there is enough of the sword-and- rod that she had brought with her from America, and cloak in the book to give it interest, the soul of it lies the account of the favorable reception accorded the deeper than mere striking incident, and the develop- new delicacy by the bees and butterflies makes inter- ment of Gaston L'Artanges the roysterer, into Father esting reading. Gaston the missionary priest, is worth following. It is somewhat anomalous to come upon a book which Though New France figures only in the concluding is almost wholly lacking in distinction so far as diction chapter, it affords a fitting close to a story of real merit. is concerned, yet shows from one cover to the other Real humor, of a Stocktonish sort, runs through the marked originality in the choice of its subject matter. pages of Mr. Sydney H. Preston's “The Abandoned Miss Edith Wyatt's “ Every One His Own Way” Farmer” (Scribner). It is an account of a newspaper (McClure, Phillips & Co.) is made up of a series of man, his delightfully feminine wife, and their quaint instantaneous photographs of Chicago life, the subjects little son, all of whom move into the rural districts for drawn largely from the points of contact between the the purpose of making money by not spending it. older American and the newer foreign society of the Everything happens at just the right time and in not city. Just as kodak may grasp and hold a scene in quite the right way, but still with an ordered intelli- which an artist finds delight, so Miss Wyatt sets down gence that sets the account of it in a world by itself. little episodes of more than ordinary value to literature; The contrast between the city man and the real farmer, though, as in the case of the artist and the kodak, the the curious twist to the episodes, and the generally means of conveying the episode hardly rises to the wholesomeness of Mr. Preston's work, make his book dignity of art. There is a tendency to mere clever- a welcome addition to our summer reading. ness, too, which needs to be subdued; yet the book is in Easily surpassing all her previous work in merit is many ways one to deserve attention. Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield's “Valencia's Garden There is always danger of preciousness in the writings (McClure). The story is that of a little American of Mr. Richard Le Gallienne, and “The Love Letters maid educated in France, out of all knowledge of her of the King; or, The Life Romantic” (Little, Brown, native land, and married in a purely conventional way & Co.) is not free from this fault. It is, indeed, the to a man old enough almost to be her grandfather, sort of book that only a poet - a minor poet — could himself in love with a woman of his own age. Valencia write, filled with little love lyrics in a species of vers has the most striking adventures, even though she is so libre, and flavored with a transcendental passion, a love far out of the work-a-day world in her husband's old of love for love's sake and not at all for the sake of the French chateau as to seem cloistered. The book is beloved. The moral, however, is wholesome, for the conspicuous in an almost insistent use of the French mild-mannered hero succeeds in divesting himself of language. the rather silly affair which fills up most of the pages A real South African novel, not connected with the and marrying a worthy woman. The style is rambling, war between Britain and the burghers, is welcome at but not incoherent. this time, especially when it has nothing to do with More than ordinary regret will be felt after reading racial prejudice. Such a book is to be found in “A “ The Grapes of Wrath ” (Small, Maynard & Co.) that Daughter of the Veldt” (Holt), by a new writer, Mr. the author of the book, the late Mary Harriott Norris, Basil Marnan. From it may be derived more of the should have been taken away in what is evidently her facts concerning the factors now at work in that distant intellectual and literary maturity. The story is an un- land than from many veracious histories, — Kaffirs, usually powerful one, concerning itself wholly with the Boers, and Britons appearing as they do in life, without period of the Civil War, and depicting life in a New exaggeration of either faults and virtues. The heroine Jersey village, at a Virginia country seat, among a secret is a girl reared in complete ignorance of her parents, settlement of contrabands, during the denudation of the though the striking prologue serves to indicate them to Shenandoah Valley, and in Richmond just before and the reader. The manner in which, through her own after its surrender. Apart from the broad opportunities sweetness and strength of character, she finally comes thus given to interpret history, there is admirable de- into the heritage she deserves, is excellently told, and velopment of character shown throughout the book, and the novel is a really striking one. the intricate romance element is well handled. The Modern realism and historical romance are the two book is impressive and artistic. extremes which Mr. Louis Evan Shipman has touched When Garcilaso de la Vega discovered that his name in his former writings, and his latest volume, “ The was not in “ Who's Who in 1491,” he set about remedy-Curious Courtship of Kate Poins ” (Appleton), arranges ing the defect as soon as possible. As a result, after itself in the latter category. It is “a romance of the many years of further adventure he accumulated the regency," dealing with English society in the days of material which Miss J. Breckenridge Ellis has now set Beau Brummell and his friend's “ fat friend." Duels forth in her “Garcilaso” (McClurg). The narrative there are in plenty, and the outcome of the somewhat is a trifle uncertain in its pronouns, running from the surprising wooing given the piquant heroine is made first to the third person and back with bewildering doubtful enough to satisfy the most ardent lover of speed, but it is sufficiently inclusive to take in a fight suspense. Vivacity, and an exaggerated courtesy already with a Moor, a voyage with Columbus, and several other old-fashioned, add to the attractiveness of the book. things of the sort. There is an admirably contrived Mrs. Reginald de Koven has aspired to high things love-story along with the adventure. in her story of Artaxerxes Longimanus, called "By the " 1901.) 33 THE DIAL 9 а Waters of Babylon " (H. S. Stone & Co.). It is a graphical names to obtain currency. This apart, “ Alien" tragical work with the final catastrophe omitted, a great has written a story of much force, involving great ques- deal of atmosphere whereby the luxury and ferocity of tions of honesty and intellectual integrity, dealing with the day find interpretation, and an admirable plot, the development of a strong man's character, and show- failing only in consistency through the failure to carry ing an insight into the feminine heart wbich stamps the the tragedy on to a logical close. It shows great im- author's sex. That there should be so little flavor of provement in method and manner over Mrs. de Koven's the antipodes in the book, after all, simply goes to show earlier book, though the style is not to be commended that the problems worked out in it are not those of any so highly as that of her translation of Pierre Loti's one place or time, but of universal application. "An Iceland Fisherman." “ The Career of a Beauty” (Lippincott) is a trifle Mr. Payne Erskine in “When the Gates Lift up disappointing, for all “ John Strange Winter's ” author- Their Heads” (Little, Brown, & Co.), has painted two ship of it. The book begins with one of those miscel- characters, one of them a bright, ambitious, educated laneous families for which the author is famous, and young gentleman, the heir to an aristocratic and wealthy this part is really the best of the story. When it gets grandmother, and the other a colored barber with a to be a question of the war in South Africa, so seriously certain amount of energy but much more vanity and overworked by British novelists of late, with a little desire for show, - leaving the reader to discover at the telepathy run in for variety, the story becomes less close that the two, as in Mark Twain's book, were de- fascinating liberately exchanged soon after birth by the mother of How closely the two branches of the English-speaking the colored one. The book brings up a series of re- race on the passing frontiers of America and on the flections concerning environment which make it worthy existing frontiers of Australia run together is made of consideration, though it is rather more ambitious apparent through “ The Wisdom of Esau ” (Cassell), than successful when viewed as a work of art. by Messrs. C. ¥. Chumley and R. H. Outhwaite. The The infamous treatment of American prisoners on book is most readable, portraying as it does a bush fire board the floating prisons wbich England used for their - the antipodean equivalent of our prairie fire, — and, retention during the Revolutionary War provides the on the spiritual side, the play of almost unrestrained leading episode in Mrs. Sara B. Kennedy's “ Joscelyn passion in a rude and pastoral civilization. It calls to Cheshire” (Doubleday, Page & Co.), her hero's escape mind the breadth of the literary field afforded by the from it being sufficiently exciting to make the reader continent of Australia, and how novel it all is so far as draw a deep sigh of relief when the pursued one is American readers are concerned. safe at last. The heroine, by way of variation from Though “A Colonial Cavalier" (Lothrop) is assuredly the prevailing type, is not a patriot, but a rabid little a romance of the American Revolution, its author, Mr. Tory. George Cary Eggleston, is a writer of too much skill The heroine who lends her name to Mr. Justin Mc- to turn his argument upon matters of mere history. He Carthy's “Monovia, A Love Story of 'Forty-Eight" provides an admirable background of fact, and his two (Small, Maynard & Co.) is herself named from the young gentlemen and their two young ladies disport province of Munster, as that word was anciently trans- themselves before it with great vivacity and good humor. lated into Latin. She is a finely drawn conception, and “ Jack," one of his heroines, is a really lovable concep- her father, brother, and lover, with whom the argument tion. It is a pleasant story of Southern life during is chiefly concerned, share that distinction with her. troublous times. Mr. McCarthy is able to view the events of which he Mr. Morgan Robertson has followed his successful was formerly a part with the dispassionate eye of age. volume of sea-tales by a more ambitious and extended “A Novel of Modern Diplomacy,” the sub-title of work, “ Masters of Men, A Story of the New Navy" Mr. David Dwight Wells's “ Parlous Times” (J. F. (Doubleday, Page & Co.). Those who recall his earlier Taylor & Co.), describes the volume with accuracy. A yarn of an officer and enlisted man in the service of the man has done a wicked thing, and its results follow him United States, who were “shanghaied” on one of those to the bitter end; while two women, with character- disgraces to the American flag which are known to istically uncertain motives and certain affections, serve sailors as “hell-sbips,” will find the same theme used to keep the catastrophe in doubt until the close. Mr. for the central episode of this novel. It is as engrossing Wells shows strength as well as skill in the handling as any book recently written for fully two-thirds of its of his unusual material. length, and it begins to lose there because of the A curious proof of the popular acceptance of Diedrich imagined need of bringing girls and love into the Knickerbocker's veracious « History of New York from argument. We think Mr. Robertson is a writer suffi- the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch ciently picturesque and graphic to tell a rattling good Dynasty " is to be found in the "publisher's note" pre- story without this element of romance. fixed to Mrs. Jessie Van Zile Belden's “ Antonia” A sensational story wbich serves as the frame for an (L. C. Page & Co.), wherein a careful explanation is intelligent and instructive dissertation on important made of the fact that early days in New Amsterdam questions of the day bas been written by Mr. Frederick were not lacking in the strenuous life. The novel is Upham Adams with the title, “ The Kidnapped Million- not, perhaps, the best proof of it, for, though there is aires" (Lothrop). A wealthy young New Yorker, who an abundance of exciting incident, the story is told with has taken up modern journalism for the fun in it, kid- a blandness which does not stir the blood. Possibly it naps the six richest men in the United States and con- is the better summer story on that account. veys them to a deserted spot which proves to be on the Through a misapprehension regarding the meaning of Gulf coast of Mexico. The party discuss financial and the word “ Maori," the fact that the scene of “ Another other topics with considerable acumen and entire free- Woman's Territory” (T. Y. Crowell & Co.) is laid in dom, the views advanced being occasionally wild, but Australia does not become apparent for some time, New always intelligent. The book succeeds in conveying Zealand being the most probable spot for Maori geo- the bustle and eagerness which characterize a modern a 84 (July 1, THE DIAL . were. > a newspaper office to a really remarkable extent, and is and those of ours; Mr. Scollard has preferred, rather, both interesting and amusing. to lay stress upon the likenesses. Apart from the inter- No one but a poet who has lived close to the heart of esting episodes which follow the history of that time Nature could have written such a book as “ The Heart with substantial accuracy, this choice of treatment gives of the Ancient Wood” (Silver, Burdett & Co.), and the book real distinction. Nothing has ever been gained Mr. Charles G. D. Roberts, its author, is to be con- by setting Revolutionary characters and Revolutionary gratulated for having so successfully translated the de- times off by themselves; much is to be gained by bring- light of life in the wilds into literature. He has succeed- ing them together. Our ancestors were men and women ed in doing a most difficult thing in this; and one even of like passions with ourselves; and we can be grateful more difficult in making sympathy for the brute cre- to the author for having shown them exactly as they ation a sufficient rival to a human suitor in a woman's love. Mr. Clive Holland's “Mousme" (Stokes) has the The name of Mr. Ellis Meredith is not known to the good fortune to appear as the sequel to an earlier suc- reader, but his tale of a modern Robinson Crusoe, “ The cess, “ My Japanese Wife." The history of the little Master-Knot of Human Fate" (Little, Brown, & Co.), | geisha girl is carried on from the time of her wedding, deserves attention none the less on that account. It is through a journey to England, and an enforced return the story of a man and a woman left on an island after to Japan due to the difficulties of the British climate. a cataclysm which has submerged nearly all the world Mr. Holland's book is an excellent antidote to M. Pierre except that part of the Rocky Mountains on which they Loti's “ Mme. Chrysanthéme," being filled with bright happen to be standing at the time. As Crusoe in his humor and real sentiment.. ship, so they, in a little house which survives to them, The loss of the “ Essex”in Valparaiso, on March 28, find the means for supporting life. The book has unusual 1814, is the crowning episode of Mr. T. J. Hains's sea- merit, and the faults in it, such as that of insistent story, The Cruise of the Petrel” (McClure, Phillips quotation, are abundantly criticized by the characters & Co.). The author has left the “love interest” where themselves. it belongs in a good sea-story entirely out of it. A Mr. Joseph Sharts shows a painstaking and a literary pair of villains of the good old sort, and a cheerful grasp that deserve encouragement, in his “ Ezra Caine" suggestion of piracy, make the book undeniably inter- (H. S. Stone & Co.), though the book contains the esting autobiography of a maniacal murderer - as displeasing Whatever the work of Mr. Guy Boothby may lack a subject as could well be chosen. Brief as the story in other respects, it is always ingenious. In “ The is, it still contrives to leave the impression that if such Mystery of the Clasped Hands” (Appleton) a wealthy a person were to write down his inmost thought this is English painter is sent a box containing the severed surely the manner in which he would do it. Credit for hands of a former model of his by way of wedding originality belongs to the author, although the hor- present, and it takes a modern M. Dupin to unravel the ror essential to the narration keeps it from attaining problem of the sender. He is discovered, of course, any great beight. after the usual process. The book is of the lightest War is always fascinating, even in its horrors; and sort. it may be surmised that the war of the American Revo- Mr. W. O. Stoddard is not as successful with “ Mon- lution, being fought for as nearly just a cause as war may tayne, or, The Slavers of Old New York” (Altemus) have on this earth, is popular on both accounts. Clay- as with his stories for boys, chiefly because he uses ton Halowell” (R. F. Fenno & Co.), by Mr. Francis much the same plan of construction and gives incident W. Van Praag, obtains more attention than war in its too high a place. The book, indeed, has enough action usual forms may command, because the plot turns so in it for three stories, and sometbing like bewilder- largely on the attempt of the hero to ferret out the ment follows the reader in trying to keep pace with it treason which made Benedict Arnold infamous. A all. compound love-story runs through the book, with much “ David Harum” is presumably responsible for plotting and counterplotting. “John Winslow” (Dillingham), a mild reflection of Hypnotism of the most pronounced variety is the the earlier dialect story of homely village worth. The mystery behind « The Mysterious Burglar” (F. M. author, Mr. Henry D. Northrop, has discovered a Buckles & Co.), and with that for the turning-point of worthy character in this later hero, and his story is well his artless narrative Mr. George E. Walsh contrives to told. keep his readers in doubt through the greater part of After wandering in the slough of Mexican politics the story. The account is put in the mouth of a pro- through a thick volume, Mr. Charles Fleming Embree fessional burglar who has been taken into the service returns to the better and more distinctive manner of of the mysterious one. Something seems incongruous his first book of stories in “ A Heart of Flame" (Bowen- in the latter's proceedings, so the real burglar turns Merrill). The story is a passionate one of the Mexican detective and eventually proves the truth of an adage frontier, - priests, people, a sheriff's posse, and an ex- too old to require repetition. The story holds the atten- ecution figuring in its pages, beside the strikingly con- tion and makes small demand on faculties likely to be ceived figure of the heroine, Ramoncita. The story has benumbed by hot weather. the merit of being inevitable, the scenes of blood and Mr. Clinton Scollard's story of the Mohawk Valley lawlessness being supported by the environment in the during the Revolutionary campaign that led to the sur- most essential manner. render at Saratoga is called “ The Son of a Tory Mr. Edwin Asa Dix has written of New England (R. G. Badger & Co.), and has rare merit among books village life most acceptably in “Old Bowen's Legacy" of its kind. Its characters are alive, and bear a close (The Century Co.). The action turns upon the bequest resemblance to the men and women we know to-day. of an eccentric person, and the types which the author Nearly every historical romance read in late years em- draws of the various people who are involved in the phasizes the differences between the people of its day final award are clear and distinct. .. 66 ) 2 1 6 ! 1 1 1901.] 35 THE DIAL ) ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING. A SELECT LIST OF SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS. [Fuller descriptions of most of the following books, of the sort popularly known as “Summer reading," may be found in the advertising pages of this number or of recent numbers of THE DIAL.] 66 LITERARY NOTES. “ First Year Latin,” by Messrs. William C. Collar and M. Grant Daniell, has just been published by Messrs. Ginn & Co. Herr Carl Niebubr's “ The Tell el Amarna Period” is the second number of Mr. David Nutt's pamphlet series entitled “The Ancient East." Mr. Henry W. Boynton has edited for the “ River- side" series of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., a selection from the poems of Alexander Pope. “ Foundation Lessons in English,” by Messrs. 0. I. Woodley and M. S. Woodley, is a text-book, in two volumes, for very young pupils, published by the Mac- millan Co. Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co. bave just published a new edition, with many improvements, of that excellent text-book, " A History of the United States," by Mr. Allen C. Thomas. Messrs. Charles H. Kerr & Co. publish, in pamphlet form, a new English translation of Plato's “ Republic,” Book I., by Professor Alexander Kerr, of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin. « The Latin Pronouns Is, Hic, Iste, Ipse,” by Dr. Clarence L. Meader, is described as "a semasiological study," and appears among the recent publications of the Macmillan Co. Volume VIII. of Dr. Camden M. Cobern's “Com- mentary on the Old Testament,” comprising the Books of Ezekiel and Daniel, has just been published by Messrs. Eaton & Mains. Wilhelm Hauff's “ Lichtenstein," adapted — suspic- ious word -- for English readers by Mr. L. L. Weeden, and published by Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co., makes a showy but not unattractive volume. A new edition, "re-written and re-arranged," of Prof. W. W. Skeat's “ Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,” has jost been published by the Oxford Clarendon Press for Mr. Henry Frowde. Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. are the publishers of a “School and College Speaker," edited by Mr. Wilmot Brookings Mitchell. A judicious mixture of old and new matter characterizes the selections which make up the bulk of the work. The American Book Co. has just sent us an “ Aca- demic Algebra,” the work of Dr. William J. Milne. The same publishers also send us an “Oral Lesson Book in Hygiene," designed for primary teachers, by Miss Henrietta Amelia Mirick. Miss Isabel Maddison, the compiler of the useful “ Handbook of British, Continental, and Canadian Uni- versities,” with special reference to the courses open to women, has prepared a “Supplement for 1901," which may be obtained from her at Bryn Mawr College. Emerson's "Representative Men” and a two-volume edition of “ Adam Bede" are the latest additions to the Dent-Macmillan series of “ Temple Classics.” The frontispiece to the former work is an unfamiliar por- trait of Emerson in early manhood, reproduced from a woodcut. The best of De Quincey, including the “Opium Eater," « English Mail Coach,” etc., is contained in the latest volume of Messrs. Macmillan's “ Library of English Classics.” The twenty-five volumes previously an- nounced in this series are now published, but we note with pleasure that others are to follow. 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All communications should be addressed to of his sudden taking-off came to us with a THE DIAL, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. shock, although an observer skilled in the lore of physiology might possibly have seen in the No. 362. very massiveness of that frame, with its extra- JULY 16, 1901. Vol. XXXI. ordinary capacities for the consumption of meat and drink, as well as for the exercise of CONTENTS. both physical and intellectual activities, the sign of a development so abnormal that its powers of resistance must be weakened some- JOHN FISKE. . 47 where, and would be in danger of giving way LIBRARY COÖPERATION. Lodilla Ambrose to some unusual strain. The strain came with 49 the torrid heat that spread like a blanket over COMMUNICATION . 50 this country early in the present summer, and Democratic Forms of Philanthropy. marked among its thousands of victims the Duane Mowry. distinguished historian and philosopher whose task is now completed. THE INNER LIFE OF THE AMERICAN COLO- The leading facts in the life of John Fiske NIES. F. H. Hodder . 51 may be stated in a few words. He was born in Connecticut in 1842. His true name was ROMANCE OF AN UNHAPPY QUEEN. Percy Edmund Fiską Green, which he changed in Favor Bicknell 52 boyhood to that of a grandfather with whom he THE EVOLUTION OF NEGRO LEADERSHIP. went to live, thus acquiring the name by which W. E. Burghardt Du Bois 53 he is known to the world. He was a child of extraordinary precocity, at the age of ten or NEW TESTAMENT CRITICISM AND HISTORY. twelve mastering subjects that are usually re- Edgar J. Goodspeed . 55 served for the later stages of the education of Nash's The History of the Higher Criticism of the young men. In this respect, his life suggests New Testament. — Gould's The Biblical Theology that of Cotton Mather or of John Stuart Mill, of the New Testament, – Bacon's An Introduction and the stories told of the tender years of those to the New Testament. Purves's Christianity in the Apostolic Age. worthies may all be matched in the records of John Fiske's childhood. He went through BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS 55 Harvard College mainly as a matter of form, History of the Devil. – Remembrances of a notable and remained in that institution after gradu- woman. - The 19th century in Utopian retrospect. ation as instructor and as an assistant in the - Some notable verse translation. -"Content in a library. When about thirty years of age he Garden.” – A good short life of Whittier. - The dignity and happiness of home-life. — Maurice became a professional scholar and man of let- Thompson in his winter garden. - A new volume of ters almost to the exclusion of any the Cyclopædia of Horticulture. cupation, although he continued to lecture, at intervals, for the rest of his life. During these BRIEFER MENTION . 58 years, he made his home in Cambridge, al- NOTES 59 though he travelled considerably, both in this country and in Europe. Such are the modest LIST OF NEW BOOKS. 60 annals of this life of devotion to the things of . - other oc- 48 [July 16, THE DIAL a the mind; what remains to be said of the man oppose. Even Mr. Spencer felt called upon who lived it must relate chiefly to his ideas to protest against some of the religious impli- and the books in which they were expressed. cations that his follower sought to fasten upon Philosophy and history were the major pre- the synthetic philosophy. occupations of Mr. Fiske during his working Nearly twenty years ago, Mr. Fiske turned years, and nearly all of his writings belong to his attention from philosophy to American the one or the other of these subjects, although history, and nearly all of his subsequent work now and then a book may be said to do hardly was done in the latter field. Political philos- more than touch the fringes of either history ophy served him as a bridge for this transition, or philosophy. This is true, for example, of and his book on “ American Political Ideas" the little book called “ Tobacco and Alcohol," marked the turning point in his career. He a spirited polemic directed against James remained to the end essentially a philosophical Parton's "Smoking and Drinking,” which historian rather than a historian of manners, latter work was a most intemperate exposition or even of wars, and the drum and trumpet of the ideas commonly misassociated with the ideal was kept as far as possible out of his name of temperance. It is also true of the work. A masterly treatment of The Critical volumes that are made up of miscellaneous Period of American History” was the first of matter, for many of the essays here included the series of works which, although they seemed represent the author's diversions rather than detached studies for a time, were gradually his serious pursuits. We are glad that he had seen to take their places in what was to prove diversions, for we owe to them much stimu- a systematic survey of our national records. lating entertainment, such, for instance, as is “ The Beginnings of New England” and “The provided by that brilliant study, published American Revolution ” soon followed, and the within the last few years, of the Shaconian author's design assumed solidity and continuity. delusion and its victims. Then came “ The Discovery of America,' Of Mr. Fiske's two subjects, philosophy dealing with the whole period of exploration came first. He was a very young man when and determination of the coast-line of the New he made a visit to England, became acquainted World. After this, the order of production with Darwin, Huxley, and Mr. Herbert became more logical, for the next works were Spencer, and returned home, his brain seething Virginia and Her Neighbors ” and “The with the new evolutionary thought. Of this Dutch and Quaker Colonies.” Here the record thought he became the leading American ex- ends, except for a detached study of a part of ponent, and his “Outlines of Cosmic Philos- the Civil War period, and a number of ad- opby," published in 1874, was a restatement mirable books for schools and young people. of the Spencerian system that seemed to many Taken as a whole, Mr. Fiske's work in Ameri- readers an improvement upon the original, so can history gives us a fairly complete treatment greatly did Mr. Spencer's ideas benefit by the of the subject from the time of the discoverers lucidity and literary art of his American dis- down to the adoption of the Constitution. It ciple. This work was supplemented in a way, vay, is brilliant work, fine in its literary quality, some years later, by two small volumes en- and remarkable for its judicial tone and its titled “The Destiny of Man ” and “The Idea power to deal with conflicting opinions, deter- of God.” These proved to be the most widely mining upon which side lies the weight of the popular of Mr. Fiske's writings, but his best evidence. It is work that fairly places the friends, and those having the most intimate author among our great historians, in the group acquaintance with his thought, looked upon that includes Prescott and Motley, Bancroft them as not altogether worthy of their author. and Parkman, Mr. Henry Adams and Mr. In their attempt to reconcile the teachings of James Ford Rhodes. science with religious dogma these books, when The chief impression that is left upon the carefully examined, seem flavored with soph- mind of one acquainted with Mr. Fiske's work istry, and lend a sort of countenance to beliefs in its entirety is that of a thoroughly sane that are fundamentally inconsistent with the and well-balanced intellect. There are so many evolutionary doctrine. In a word, they pro- instances of men who are clear-headed in the duce the impression of a writer who is not work that engages their best activities, yet quite honest with himself, and is willing to who betray weakness in some other direction, make an intellectual compromise with a system that it is refreshing to come in contact with a of ideas that he is, as it were, under bonds to mind which seems to have had no serious in- a 1901.] 49 THE DIAL > tellectual infirmity. The best of men are sub-printing and distributing catalogue cards to libraries ject to occasional vagaries, and one could make through some central bureau was recognized as a sw up a long list of able thinkers who have “ desideratum at the outset. But obstacles were met a screw loose” somewhere, in whose mental in the varying sizes of cards used by libraries, and in difficulties of selection and distribution. Valu- armor there is some weak point. The vulner- able annotated bibliographies of selected titles on able spot may be reached by spiritualism, or various subjects have been possible only through the single tax, or palmistry, or telepathy, or cooperation and the generous financial support of the delusions of Christian science" and the “ such friends of libraries as Mr. George Iles of New Baconian authorship of Shakespeare's plays. York City. The bibliography of American history . From such vagaries of the intellect John Fiske is now half through the press. seems to have been absolutely free. His scien- A factor destined to be powerful in many future tific and philosophical training was so compre- cooperative undertakings for libraries came to the hensive, his sense of the value of evidence was front at this conference - the Library of Congress. - so sure, his insight into all the methods of Its coming was greeted with the enthusiasm its fraud and pretense was so unerring, that no importance demands. At the public meeting of form of pseudo-science could get a lodgment rian of Congress, Mr. Herbert Patnam, on “What the association the chief address was by the Libra- in his brain. He seems to have taken the may be done for Libraries by the Nation." He right view of every subject to which he gave defined his subject as what the nation as a unit his attention, the view, that is, which is sup-acting through its central authority may do. He ported by the consensus of intelligent opinion said, in brief : among those who speak with authority. We “Only as assumed by a central authority are some under- cannot call him an original thinker — which takings possible. The federal government is already aiding libraries in varied ways. It encourages the manufacture of might be doubtful praise, if we could, - but good books, it exempts from duty foreign books for libraries, we can say of him that he has had few equals it establishes þureaus of scientific research, it is the largest publisher in the world, it uses a million pounds of paper stock in penetrative grasp and understanding of the a year and distributes over three hundred thousand of its own more serious problems of modern science, his- issues, it has a clearing-house for duplicate United States tory, and philosophy. documents, it is indexing its own publications, it maintains a bureau in the interest of educational institutions, and this bureau has brought out several valuable library publications. The government maintains its own great libraries; for exam- ple, that of the Surgeon-General's Office, whose elaborate catalogue has already cost more than $250,000. LIBRARY COÖPERATION. “But government activities in behalf of libraries naturally centre in the Library of Congress. This was created as a The American Library Association has just held legislative library, but it is now referred to as something more. its twenty-third general meeting, at Waukesha, Its building was paid for by the country at large, it is often Wisconsin. At the first meeting of the association, alluded to as the national library of the United States, and in 1876, attention was directed to the possibilities such it may become. Its conditions differ from those of the British Museum. There a student need not go over five hun- of coöperation among librarians for the attainment dred miles to reach his national library, here he may have to of worthy ends not to be secured by individuals go three thousand miles. It should serve students in Wash- working singly. The early volumes of the Library ington, it ought also to provide for scholars in the country at Journal” contain frequent contributions on this large by loaning books to them and by employing specialists to answer questions sent to Washington. To meet their needs, topic. In fact, the question has been always with it should accumulate original sources, works of importance for the association. occasional reference, the useless books that libraries in gen- This principle of cooperation was applied to in- eral cannot afford space for, and the general mass of books. dexing, and Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, All this involves the costly processes of cataloguing and classi- fication. Coöperative undertakings should have beadquarters with its multiple supplements, and the A. L. A. in Washington. The Library of Congress may provide a na- Index to General Literature, resulted. Its appli- tional clearing-house for miscellaneous duplicates. Toward cation to reciprocal relations between libraries led these things we are drifting. We have the building, the to inter-library loans. Now the professor in an equipment, the books. The library contains seven hundred isolated Kangas college may pursue his own ad- thousand volumes, and five hundred thousand other items. Its resources are not omnipotent but they are comprehensive. vanced studies, because through his library he may It is strong in Americana, political and social science, juris- borrow books from Harvard University Library. prudence, learned societies and serials in general. As far as Another phase of the larger library's work for the deliberate purchase is concerned two extremes are to be ab- smaller is seen in the many-sided developments of stained from, books merely popular and those merely curious. Books are to be bought that will aid in the establishment of the travelling library idea as carried out by state fact. The library has the organization, having now a staff of libraries and library commissions. Prior to 1901, 261 persons, not including caretakers, printers, or binders. seventeen states had made provision for the aiding It has a division of bibliography, a bindery, and a printing of very small libraries and of communities with no office. But it has also a large arrear of work, including the classification and shelf-list, and the author and subject cata- libraries by the formation of state library commis- logues. A library of reference books for Congress should be sions. The lessening of administrative expenses by arranged, and the other libraries of the District of Columbia 66 50 (July 16, THE DIAL а race. - should be coördinated with the Library of Congress, and it for libraries in the United States. The chief donor should have a catalogue of all these libraries. In some re- to libraries is Mr. Andrew Carnegie, bis benefac- spects the equipment is inadequate for these larger under- tions am takings. Its authorities should consider what may be done mounting in this year to more than eleven in the distribution of printed cards to general libraries. It millions. With princely gifts to libraries, with may become the bibliographic bureau of the United States Dr. John S. Billings as the new president of the and issue publications. If it is to be the national library, it American Library Association, with cooperative should loan books to other libraries, serving the scholar cataloguing established on a basis never before through the local library." possible, with scholarship receiving increasing rec- No greater boon could come to American libraries than the realization of the plans projected by Me: ognition in library affairs, the outlook for American Mr. libraries is heartening in the highest degree. Putnam for the development of the national library, LODILLA AMBROSE. and outlined in the foregoing brief synopsis. This library is the natural centre for all great biblio- graphical undertakings in this country, and the natural point of contact with international enter- prises. During the conference, an agreement was COMMUNICATION. reached between Mr. Putnam and the publishing DEMOCRATIC FORMS OF PHILANTHROPY. board of the American Library Association, and as ( To the Editor of THE DIAL.) a result the Library of Congress is to furnish its printed cards for distribution to other libraries. I agree fully with what The DIAL has to say about The details of the plan are still to be worked out, "Prescient Philanthropy,” in a recent issue. The fact that so many men of great wealth are directing a but it will certainly be of the greatest benefit to the large portion of their fortunes into educational channels libraries of this country. It means reduced expense is indeed a cause for great satisfaction. Donations of and drudgery, and increased inspiration as a con- this character form the nucleus of enduring monuments, sequence. One of the older librarians even said and surpass, as it seems to me, gifts extending into any that he could now depart in peace for he had seen other field of human endeavor, however worthy in the cooperative printed cards established at the national abstract, in the intrinsic good that follows to the human library. Undoubtedly the general public cares very little I wish it were possible, however, - and this is my excuse for this communication, to induce some of about the details of library cataloguing and classi- these liberal givers to make a more democratic distri- fication. If it gets prompt service, it asks no bution of their gifts; to give, for instance, to such edu- questions. But it must be a matter of deep interest cational objects and movements as will directly and to scholars to see the librarians giving an increasing immediately enhance the knowledge and the desire for amount of attention to the expert bibliographical knowledge of the common people. Here is, if you please, side of library matters. This tendency was very a comparatively unworked field ab initio. Here the marked at this meeting. Two long sessions of one opportunities for wise and judicious giving are simply inexhaustible. section were devoted to details of certain modifica- tions in cataloguing rules, the standpoint of the Let me particularize. What school district would decline a gift of a few hundred dollars, and meet the libraries for scholars being chiefly considered. Still gift with a similar amount, for the purpose of establish- another session was occupied with bibliography in ing and maintaining a school district library? How its strict sense. Another indication of the same many of country schools, where the rudiments only are trend is the organization within two years of the taught, have such libraries ? What municipality would Bibliographical Society of Chicago. This society decline a gift of a few thousand dollars for the purpose a held an informal meeting at Waukesha, many of of establishing a public library and free reading-room, the non-resident members being present. The spirit and would refuse to meet the gift with a similar ap- there manifested will probably develop this into a propriation from its own funds ? How many of the national society in a few years. The full and fre- municipalities containing a population of, say, under five thousand persons, have such institutions ? The quent consideration of the problems of the small establishing of industrial schools in central locations, public library, with its abbreviated catalogue of geographically and with reference to transportation books chiefly American, has been a necessity. The facilities, and providing this education free to the stress laid upon the books for children, and on worthy poor children of the locality, — including free children's rooms, is as it should be. But the lack text-books, free apparatus, free clothing if necessary, of the scholarly element in American library affairs and free tuition, - offers a large field for public-spirited has been unfavorably commented on abroad, even and liberal-minded citizens. while the American success in practical library These are but a few of the « opportunities” which technique was freely admitted. This new emphasis the educational field presents. The number could be on the scholarly side of librarianship is a welcome increased a hundred-fold. In a true democracy, like development. our own, is not large giving, in the manner indicated herein, more in keeping with the spirit of our institu- A period of library expansion is evidently at tions ? Does it not tend to advance the general welfare ? hand. The gifts to libraries from June 1, 1900, Is not the effect to promote the common weal ? to July 1, 1901, include 405 separate gifts, amount- DUANE MOWRY. ing to $16,130,220.12; and of these gifts, 394 are Milwaukee, Wis., July 10, 1901. a 1901.) 51 THE DIAL : The New Books. chapter treats of the medical notions of the period of settlement. Galen's theory of humors and the doctrine of signaturism remained the THE INNER LIFE OF THE AMERICAN basis of medical practice, and Harvey's discov- COLONIES.* ery scarcely found acceptance in the colonies The most difficult thing in writing and during the whole of the seventeenth century. teaching history is to reproduce in imagination The medical remedies are described in detail: the "mental furniture ” of a past age. It is black powder of calcined toads, theriac of easy to describe its houses and ships, its chairs, snake's flesh, and other nauseous drinks and tables, and candlesticks, and the written de compounds derived from unspeakable sources. scription may be supplemented by pictorial Of them all, the curious weapon-ointment, ap- illustration. We can easily understand that plied to a weapon producing a wound instead railroads, telegraphs, and newspapers were of to the wound itself, and the sympathetic wanting, and that their absence altered the powder with which blood from the wound was external conditions of life. But we naturally treated, must have been the best because least think of the intellectual outfit of the people as harmful. Some competent physicians came differing but slightly from that of our own over with the first settlers, but subsequently time. It is difficult to divest ourselves of the medical practice degenerated and medical abstract ideas which we have imbibed from knowledge declined. The third chapter treats infancy, and to realize that they formed no of the adjustment of the English speech of the part of the common stock of knowledge of the seventeenth century to colonial surroundings, past. Still more difficult is it to substitute for of the application of old names to new things, these ideas the superstitions and delusions the adoption of Indian terms, the development which men held in their stead. Our projection of local dialects and the beginnings of colonial backward into the inner life of the period of literature. Of English writers of the Eliza- American colonization is the task which Dr. bethan period, the colonists knew little or Eggleston has set for himself in his “ Transit nothing. Shakespeare, Dr. Eggleston says, . of Civilization from England to America in the was never mentioned by any American writer Seventeenth Century." Eclipses, parhelia, of the seventeenth century.' ' Under the title comets were danger signals hung out in the “ Weights and Measures of Conduct," the heavens as warnings. Logic was the only im- fourth chapter deals with social and religious plement for the discovery of truth. Observa- id ideas the reverence for rank, the supremacy tion was in its birth-throes. Medicines were of the church, the severity of the New England recognized by signaturism. Right and Sabbath, the monstrous ideas of God, the wrong were thought of only as the result of heartless damnation of infants, and the literal direct revelation. ... Unless we understand Unless we understand application of scriptural texts to the affairs of these things,” he says, “we write the history every-day life. The fifth chapter, called “The of the seventeenth century in vain." The book Tradition of Education,” begins with a digres- continues “ The Beginners of a Nation,” pub- sion on the origin of English schools, and then lished several years ago, and forms the second gives an account of their transfer to America, volume in the author's projected “ History of the beginnings of common schools, the outward Life in the United States." traits of school life, and the founding of the Dr. Eggleston divides his descriptive cata- colleges. The last chapter describes communal logue of early colonial ideas into six chapters. holdings and other forms of land tenure, the The first sets forth seventeenth-century ideas character and status of indentured servants, of common things: the belief in astrology and and the beginnings of African slavery. The the Ptolemaic system, the dread of comets and life portrayed is that of Virginia, Maryland, other portents, the notions of animal life and and the New England colonies, the other col- its generation by putrefaction, the marvellous onies being reserved for a later volume. The tales that were believed about unicorns and work throughout is based upon original sources, basilisks, and the supposed control of human and a great deal of interesting and valuable affairs by angels and witches. The second material is presented. A few points suggest comment. Dr. Eggle- *THE TRANSIT OF CIVILIZATION from England to America in the Seventeenth Century. By Edward Eggleston. New ston bases the common dislike of a census upon York: D. Appleton & Co. the disasters that followed David's experiment. - 9 52 (July 16, THE DIAL We are rather disposed to think that David's example was used to bolster up an inherited ROMANCE OF AN UNHAPPY QUEEN.* aversion which antedated popular knowledge Unless we would dispute Lord Chesterfield's of the Scriptures, and in its origin was based time-honored dictum that whatever is worth upon the fear that an enumeration of the popu- doing at all is worth doing well, we cannot lation was the prelude of further taxation. He withhold our praise from Mr. Wilkins's life derives the famous Massachusetts school law of Sophia Dorothea, to whom he has deemed of 1647 from the rule laid down in 1560 in it worth while to devote a volume of nearly six Knox’s “ Book of Discipline” and its adoption hundred octavo pages. This painstaking record in 1618 by the Synod of Dort, although he of court gossip and petty intrigue, unedifying admits in a note that “the general responsi- though it is in many respects, yet serves to bility of a corporate town as such for its school, teach anew the lesson of Broome's familiar where there was one, was a trait of English lines : life.” It was but a step further to require that “None are completely wretched but the great. the town should have a school. The connection Superior woes, superior stations bring; A peasant sleeps, while cares awake a king." with Knox's precept may have existed ; but in the absence of proof that it did, it seems more The story of this unfortunate princess has natural to suppose that the Massachusetts act been so many times told, and is so well known was a development, growing out of local needs, to every reader of Thackeray, of Doran, and of the English precedent. Dr. Eggleston gives of Macaulay, that it is unnecessary here to without comment the usual account of the in- retrace it even in outline. She has been judged troduction of slavery into Virginia by the with every degree of harshness and of lenity, Dutch. Inasmuch as the reliability of the although the weight of opinion is decidedly account has been questioned and an earlier im against her. The common verdict is probably portation claimed, we would have expected a that pronounced by Thackeray, that she was fuller discussion of the point. “the bad wife of a bad husband," and that Taking the book as a whole, Dr. Eggleston she carried on a criminal intrigue with a man does not seem to us to have succeeded in his “than whom a greater scamp does not walk purpose of presenting a clear-cut picture of the the history of the seventeenth century.” But mental outfit of the early American colonists. when we remember who her husband was, This is due in part to the inherent difficulty the first of the Georges, a man who, to quote of the task, but also in part to certain faults Macaulay's characterization, “ could not read of arrangement and exposition. The machinery a line of Pope, and who loved nothing but of text, marginal references, and supplementary | half inclined to take Doran's more favorable punch and fat women," we are more than notes or "elucidations," is too complicated for a popular history and unduly divides the at- view of her conduct. In the matter of censure tention. A clearer impression would have he contents himself with saying: “Sophia resulted if part of the “ elucidations " had been atoned for some possible indiscretion by a long incorporated in the text and the remainder captivity, the severity of which tended only to compressed into ordinary foot-notes. The text the purifying of her character." reads more like a transcript from an historical Between these extremes Mr. Wilkins, with note-book than like a digested whole. It often much new material at his command, steers a middle course. jumps abruptly from one subject to another. Hidden away in the library At points it runs into digressions interesting of the University of Lund, as we are told in in themselves but not very closely connected his preface, he discovered the long-lost corre- with the principal subject. At other points spondence between Sophia Dorothea and Count it omits important explanations which are es Königsmarck — or, at least, so much of it as sential to a clear understanding of the matter has escaped destruction. Other original docu- presented. In fact, Dr. Eggleston has so fully ments, in the Hanoverian archives and in the entered into the point of view of the earlier State Paper Office in London, have been used generation that he has to some extent lost sight by him for the first time. He has followed up of the mental outfit of the present one. Al. these researches by visits to Celle, to Hanover, though compelled to make this qualification, * THE LOVE OF AN UNCROWNED QUEEN. Sophia Doro- we would not, however, have it obscure the thea, Consort of George I., and her Correspondence with - ng > a Philip Christopher Count Königsmarck (now first published many merits of the work. from the originals). By W. H. Wilkins. Chicago: Herbert F. H. HODDER. S. Stone & Co. 1901.] THE DIAL and to Ahlden, the scenes respectively of the she pours forth her soul in absolute abandon- princess' youth, married life, and imprisonment. She gives herself to him so completely, ment; and now he would seem to have said so unreservedly, and withal so intimately, that the last word on the unhappy career of the one almost shrinks from laying bare this con- “ uncrowned queen.' fession of woman's love for man.' Although as a rule he is very conscientious Many readers will wish that he had quite in citing his authorities, he occasionally has shrunk from laying bare so much as is disclosed the air of embellishing bis very readable nar- in the two hundred or more pages of amatory rative for the sake of effect. The reader would outpourings. The dose is too strong and too . like to know, for example, whence he derives copious to suit some tastes. not to his minute account of Königsmarck's murder, end this review with carping criticism on a an account differing in several details from the work that has afforded the reviewer several commonly accepted one, – or, at least, ampli- hours of pleasant reading - the book gives a fying it in a number of particulars. The vivid picture of the period and the country sixteenth chapter opens with a statement at with which it deals, and is written with the pen variance not only with previous histories of of a conscientious historian. The new matter Sophia Dorothea's life, but also with the discovered and so ably used by the author writer's own subsequent narrative. He tells helps to a better understanding of a too little us that for more than a year after her divorce understood character, and most readers will the princess was detained in Hanoverian terri- close the volume with gentler feelings for the tory, before being removed to Ahlden, in the unhappy woman whose pathetic story it tells. domains of her father, the Duke of Celle. PERCY FAVOR BICKNELL. But, according to the author's own account, the decree of divorce was issued December 28, 1694, and the divorced wife left Lauenau for THE EVOLUTION OF NEGRO LEADERSHIP.* Ablden on the 28th of the following February. Such occasional slips, however, are pardon- In every generation of our national life, from able ; less so, perhaps, are certain other errors, Phillis Wheatley to Booker Washington, the Negro attributable either to the printer or to the race in America has succeeded in bringing forth proof-reader, or, in too many instances, to the men whom the country, at times spontaneously, at author himself. Drinking is spoken of as “ a times in spite of itself, has been impelled to honor and respect. Mr. Washington is one of the most very venal offence in those days.” “The effort striking of these cases, and his autobiography is a , a it cost her to have made the visit” and “it would partial history of the steps which made him a group have been worse for her to have dissembled ” leader, and the one man who in the eyes of the offend the lover of careful English. The song nation typifies at present more nearly than all of Duke Ernest Augustus are described as others the work and worth of his nine million quarrelling and fighting until “ Hanover be fellows. came a beer-garden.” Count Carl Königs- The in which . way groups of human beings are led to choose certain of their number as their marck begins his travels when " quite a boy.” “ Mutual” is made to do duty for “common,' spokesmen and leaders is at once the most ele- mentary and the nicest problem of social growth. and “anticipate ” for “expect”; the split in- History is but the record of this group leadership; finitive (a minor offender) is used; the retained and yet how infinitely changeful is its type and object with a passive verb (another lesser delin history! And of all types and kinds, what can be quent) obtrudes itself unnecessarily ;“ whether more instructive than the leadership of a group we will or no” stares us in the face; and, within a group - that curious double movement worst of all, we read of a certain attorney that where real progress may be negative and actual , he " was by way of being a conscientious man." advance be relative retrogression? All this is the In a word, admirably though Mr. Wilkins tells social student's inspiration and despair. When sticks and stones and beasts form the sole his story, he seems occasionally to go out of his way to show how the King's English should environment of a people, their attitude is ever one of determined opposition to, and conquest of, nat- not be written. ural forces. But when to earth and brute is added The tone of the secret correspondence be- an environment of men and ideas, then the attitude tween Sophia Dorothea and her lover Königs- of the imprisoned group may take three main marck may be inferred from what the author forms: a feeling of revolt and revenge ; an attempt says in regard to the letters of the princess : * UP FROM SLAVERY. An Autobiography. By Booker “ Believing that she was writing to him alone, I T. Washington. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. ra THE DIAL [July 16, sources. to adjust all thought and action to the will of the separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all greater group; or, finally, a determined attempt at things essential to mutual progress” (p. 221). self-development, self-realization, in spite of environ- This conquest of the South is by all odds the most ing discouragements and prejudice. The influence notable thing in Mr. Washington's career. Next of all three of these attitudes is plainly to be traced to this comes his achievement in gaining place and in the evolution of race leaders among American consideration in the North. Many others less negroes. Before 1750 there was but the one motive shrewd and tactful would have fallen between these of revolt and revenge which animated the terrible two stools; but as Mr. Washington knew the heart Maroons and veiled all the Americas in fear of of the South from birth and training, so by singular insurrection. But the liberalizing tendencies of the insight he intuitively grasped the spirit of the age latter half of the eighteenth century brought the that was dominating the North. He learned so first thought of adjastment and assimilation in the thoroughly the speech and thought of triumphant crude and earnest songs of Phillis and the martyr- commercialism and the ideals of material prosperity dom of Attucks and Salem. that he pictures as the height of absurdity a black The cotton-gin changed all this, and men then, boy studying a French grammar in the midst of as the Lyman Abbotts of to-day, found a new mean- weeds and dirt. One wonders how Socrates or ing in human blackness. A season of hesitation St. Francis of Assissi would receive this! and stress settled on the black world as the hope of And yet this very singleness of vision and emancipation receded. Forten and the free Ne- thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the groes of the North still hoped for eventual assimi- successful man. It is as though Nature must needs lation with the nation; Allen, the founder of the make men a little narrow to give them force. At great African Methodist Church, strove for unbend- the same time, Mr. Washington's success, North ing self-development, and the Southern freedmen and South, with his gospel of Work and Money, followed him ; while among the black slaves at the raised opposition to him from widely divergent South arose the avenging Nat Turner, fired by the The spiritual song of the Abolitionists memory of Toussaint the Savior. So far, Negro were not prepared to acknowledge that the schools leadership had been local and spasmodic; but now, founded before Tuskegee, by men of broad ideals about 1840, arose a national leadership — a dynasty and self-sacrificing souls, were wholly failures, or not to be broken. Frederick Douglass and the worthy of ridicule. On the other hand, among his moral revolt against slavery dominated Negro own people Mr. Washington found deep suspicion thought and effort until after the war. Then, with and dislike for a man on such good terms with the sole weapon of self-defense in perilous times, Southern whites. the ballot, which the nation gave the freedmen, men Such opposition has only been silenced by Mr. like Langston and Bruce sought to guide the polit- Washington's very evident sincerity of purpose. ical fortunes of the blacks, while Payne and Price We forgive much to honest purpose which is ac- still clung to the old ideal of self-development. complishing something. We may not agree with Then came the reaction. War memories and the man at all points, but we admire him and ideals rapidly passed, and a period of astonishing cooperate with him so far as we conscientiously can. commercial development and expansion ensued. A It is no ordinary tribute to this man's tact and time of doubt and hesitation, of storm and stress, power, that, steering as he must amid so many overtook the freedmen's sons; and then it was that diverse interests and opinions, he to-day commands Booker Washington's leadership began. Mr. Wash- not simply the applause of those who believe in ington came with a clear simple programme, at the his theories, but also the respect of those who do psychological moment; at a time when the nation not. was a little ashamed of having bestowed so much Among the Negroes, Mr. Washington is still far sentiment on Negroes and was concentrating its from a popular leader. Educated and thoughtful . energies on Dollars. The industrial training of Negroes everywhere are glad to honor him and aid Negro youth was not an idea originating with Mr. him, but all cannot agree with him. He represents Washington, nor was the policy of conciliating the in Negro thought the old attitude of adjustment to white South wholly his. But he first put life, un- . environment, emphasizing the economic phase; but limited energy, and perfect faith into this pro- the two other strong currents of feeling, descended gramme; he changed it from an article of belief from the past, still oppose him. One is the thought into a whole creed; he broadened it from a by-path of a small but not unimportant group, unfortunate into a veritable Way of Life. And the method by in their choice of spokesman, but nevertheless of which he accomplished this is an interesting study much weight, who represent the old ideas of revolt of human life. and revenge, and see in migration alone an outlet Mr. Washington's narrative gives but glimpses for the Negro people. The second attitude is that of the real struggle which he has had for leader- of the large and important group represented by ship. First of all, he strove to gain the sympathy Dunbar, Tanner, Chesnut, Miller, and the Grimkes, and cooperation of the white South, and gained it who, without any single definite programme, and after that epoch-making sentence spoken at Atlanta: with complex aims, seek nevertheless that self- “In all things that are purely social we can be as development and self-realization in all lines of a 1901.] THE DIAL human endeavor which they believe will eventually bined with the well-known scholarship of Professor place the Negro beside the other races. While Gould, assures the new handbook wide usefulness. these men respect the Hampton-Tuskegee idea to a Professor Bacon's Introduction, the fifth of his degree, they believe it falls far short of a complete | New Testament handbooks, yields to no one of its programme. They believe, therefore, also in the predecessors in resources of scholarship or skill of higher education of Fisk and Atlanta Universities ; presentation. Professor Bacon's thorough conver- they believe in self-assertion and ambition; and sance with the processes and results of criticism, they believe in the right of suffrage for blacks on and his own great and even brilliant qualities as a the same terms with whites. critic, unite to make his contribution to the series a Sach is the complicated world of thought and very notable one. Indeed, it is doubtful whether action in which Mr. Booker Washington has been 80 much of real value as to New Testament intro- called of God and man to lead, and in wbich he duction was ever before brought within the limits has gained so rare a meed of success. of a volume of this size. We echo the hope, already W. E. BURGHARDT Du Bois. expressed by others, that the author may undertake Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. a larger work on the same subject, in which there shall be room for a fuller treatment of many mat- ters which considerations of space and proportion have reduced in this handbook to tantalizing brevity. NEW TESTAMENT CRITICISM AND Dr. Purves's account of “Christianity in the HISTORY.* Apostolic Age," with President Rhees's “Life of Three new volumes are added to Professor Jesus,” constitutes the distinctly New Testament Mathews's admirable series of New Testament division of the “ Historical Series for Bible Stu- hand-books, of which five have now appeared in all. dents,” edited by Professors Charles F. Kent and Professor Nash, of Cambridge, contributes a timely Frank K. Sanders, six volumes of which have now little volume on the “ History of the Higher Criti- appeared. While Dr. Purves sometimes discusses cism.” The author rightly claims high ground for the suggestions of critics, he uniformly decides criticism, finding in it almost the greatest religious against them, and his book is thus written from the expression of our time. While his style is some- traditional point of view. For those who desire a times full of unrest, and he seems in general to new, even if not a particularly fresh, statement of view criticism from without, not from within, bis the old positions on the apostolic age, this book will large-minded and sympathetic treatment promises be acceptable; but those who are looking for a to do an important work in removing misconcep-sympathetic presentation of the critical position tions, disarming prejudice, and winning for the will be disappointed in it. Mechanically, the vol- Higher Criticism the generous welcome it deserves ume leaves something to be desired, as the paper is at tbe hands of all lovers of the Bible. poor and the proof-reading not always good (e. g., The volume on “ Biblical Theology of the New Lasca for Lasea, p. 255). Testament,” by the late Professor Gould, possesses EDGAR J. GOODSPEED. a sad interest as the last work of that distinguished scholar. Its method is to take up successively the teaching of Jesus as gathered from the Synoptists, the early teaching of the apostles as reflected in the BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. first part of Acts, the teaching of Paul, the later Apos- tolic teaching —James, I. Peter, the Apocalypse, Dualism in religious belief is the idea History of and, finally, the writings of the Alexandrian period. first presented by Dr. Paul Carus in These last are divided into the Johannean, the his interesting “ History of the Devil Gospel and first epistle of John, and the non- and the Idea of Evil” (Open Court Co., Chicago). Johannean, in which latter class, along with He- The conflict between light and darkness, life and brews, II. Peter, and Jude, one observes with some death, good and evil, early gained man's attention surprise not only the pastoral epistles but Ephesians and has left a deep impression on most of the great and Colossians. However scholars may differ as religious systems of the world. In Dr. Carus’s to particular points of introduction or interpretation, work there is presented a mass of ideas and beliefs the natural and logical method of this work, com- gathered from all peoples and all times. Starting with Devil worship — rather, the worship of bad or *THE HISTORY OF THE HIGHER CRITICISM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. Being the History of the Process whereby the cruel gods from impulses of fear — the author Word of God has won the Right to be Understood. By Henry shows its prevalence among many less-cultured peo- S. Nash. New York: The Macmillan Co. ples. He next examines the religions of the Acca- THE BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By dians and early Semites for similar evidences. Ezra P. Gould, D.D. New York: The Macmillan Co. Persian Dualism, Israel, Brahmanism and Buddh- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. By Ben- jamin Wisner Bacon, D.D. New York: The Macmillan Co. ism are successively studied, and the elements of CHRISTIANITY IN THE APOSTOLIC AGE. , By George T. demon-worship, cruelty and evil are traced in all. Purves, D.D., LL.D. With maps. New York: Charles With the “ Dawn of a New Era” ushering in Early Scribner's Song. Christianity, higher ideals of good and God prevail, the Devil a THE DIAL [July 16, 66 a but the old dualistic conception still lingers. In who brought together the great collection of Revo- Christianity a personal devil, prince of darkness, lutionary relics which was exhibited in the Gov- emerges better defined than ever before. The real ernient Building during the World's Columbian interest of the book and its more legitimate matter Exposition in Chicago. At the present time Mrs. are found in the chapters from this point onward. Gillespie does not find herself too old to take a The Devil of Christianity is sometimes a veritable prominent part in the several societies for women Lucifer, almost an angel of light, a being so noble based upon descent from Colonial and Revolution. and passionate as to cause respect in spite of his ary notabilities. Her book is pleasantly written, wickedness ; commonly, however, as through the and the attractive list of illustrations includes some Middle Ages, he dwindles into a poor, harmless interesting portraits of the Franklins and their being, of little wit, the constant dupe and victim of descendants. The volume is handsomely made, in the godly. The notion that persons sold themselves a style appropriate to its souvenir character. to the Devil is fairly discussed, with all the related matter of witchcraft. From the detection and pun. The 19th century Mr. Havelock Ellis is usually enter- ishment of witchcraft, the author passes to the In- in Utopian taining because he usually has some- relrospect. quisition, upon the horrors of which he dilates with thing to say. Still, by casting - The evident gusto. After tracing modern conceptions Nineteenth Century, an Utopian Retrospect of the Devil, especially as shown in literature and (Small, Maynard & Co.) in the form of a dialogue art, he closes with a discussion of the philosophical between the thirster after knowledge and the willing problem of Good and Evil. It is evident from this imparter of it, he has contrived to make his work a cursory statement of the author's treatment that the little less entertaining than usual. The late Edward book abounds in interesting matter culled from Bellamy made the same error of presentation in many sources and representing much labor. The · Equality,” a book with which Dr. Ellis's invites author has shown great diligence in gathering illus- certain comparisons. The scene of this later work trative material, and it is doubtful if any such col. is laid in that distant future of the idealist when lection of ancient and modern, quaint and curious, man is living in full accord with the Golden Rule picturesque and frightful pictures relative to the and civilization has become real rather than pre- tentious. The actualities of the century just gone subject has been before offered to English readers. The mechanical execution of the work is noticeably are disclosed with a touch which is rather wonder- good, and the cover — in black and red, with a rep- ing than appreciative, affording a sufficient antidote resentation of the Devil and the Serpent stamped to the duller forms of optimism. The treatment is upon it -- is striking and original. rather logical than satirical, though this last touch is not lacking in such episodes as that which repre- To be a direct descendant of Ben- sents the Utopians of the future as preserving a Remembrances of jamin Franklin, a woman of the best factory town, with all its nineteenth century soot society -- using the phrase in its and grime, starvation and wealth, piety and misery, highest sense, - and a philanthropist and publicist as a horrible example for a civilization further ad- of no mean order, is surely sufficient distinction to vanced to study and profit by. In a similar man- warrant commemoration in book form. Nor did ner, New York is said to have an annual “mystery Mrs. E. D. Gillespie need the high encouragement in which nineteenthcentury conditions are repro- which came from the late George Wil Curtis duced for the Utopians to amaze themselves with, to induce her to set forth these things, and many though the very nature of the presentation requires more, in the pleasant volume she has written under no little idealization. One sly dig. is given at the the name of “ A Book of Remembrance (Lippin. love of dirt which possessed the average nineteenth- cott). Born in Philadelphia, the daughter of a man century Englishman, and the book alternately of much distinction in his day, she was married amuses and exasperates the idealist. It can be when little more than a girl to an officer in the commended freely to those who need to be disillu- Marine Corps of the United States, but not until she sioned. had travelled extensively through the far western The Rev. Frank Sewall has made country at a time when Pittsburgh and Cincinnati a translation, which Messrs. Small, were on the frontier, and had lived for a time in Maynard & Co. have published, of Washington, then the unformed capital of an un- “ The Trophies ” of M. José Maria de Hérédia. formed nation. With the Civil War came her first The book is one of highly artistic manufacture, opportunity for public service, and Mrs. Gillespie beautifully printed, and embellished with orna- was one of the first of those nobly patriotic women mental borders and initials by Mr. Bertram Good- to whom the almost infinite mercies of the Sanitary hue. Of the translation we may say that it almost Commission were due. When the Centennial Ex- succeeds in an impossible achievement. The perfect position was determined upon, Mrs. Gillespie was art of these sonnets could not possibly be repro- made the head of the Woman's Auxiliary to the duced in another form of speech, but Mr. Sewall, Commission, and she rendered services of the by freeing himself from the restraint of rhyme, has greatest value to her own city and to the country been able to preserve much of the distinction of at large. Never wearied in well doing, it was she the original, and his versions are usually acceptable . a notable woman. Some notable verse translation. 1901.] THE DIAL a and in good taste. We will illustrate by one of With this understanding of his subject the book has the finest as well as one of the most familiar of the been written; and the wholesomeness of Whittier's poems. family affections, his fine devotion to principle, his “Like flight of falcons from their native crags, love of justice and of his fellow men, his delight in Content no more in their high solitude, the music of words, are all shown as parts of a fine From Palos or Moguer the Captains sailed Half drunk with dreams of deeds heroio and wild. and true manhood. Critical conclusions in regard They went to seize the fabled metal veins to his poetry are merely touched upon, but, notwith- Cipango ripens in her distant mines; standing the author's sympathy with his subject, he The trade winds bent their lateen yards toward is not blind to Whittier's limitations. " In his cor- The shores mysterious of the Western World. Each evening hoping for an epic morn, respondence occur remarks to indicate that he looked The phosphorescent azure of the sea at his literary work as an aside, the central thing Would charm their sleep with its mirage of gold ; being his work as a reformer"; and in some such Or, leaning o'er the caravel's white bow, fact as this we may find a great deal of the pathos They saw ascending in an unknown sky New stars from out the depths of Ocean." of literary effort in the New World. The frontis- Those who know the glorious alexandrines of the piece portrait, — not the one with which we are all original , with their sonorous march and their magical spiritual; but the shaping of a new civilization de- familiar, — shows a poetic face, fine, sensitive, charm, will not be greatly moved by such a trans- lation as this, but they will recognize that it does manded hard work of a more practical sort than faithfully, within its limitations, about all that an the writing of poetry filled with beauty, and Whit- English version could be expected to accomplish. tier responded nobly to the more urgent need. There is a very engaging literary quality in Mr. Mrs. Candace Wheeler's volume Burton's writing, and the details of a life in some “ Content in a Garden." “Content in a Garden” (Houghton) aspects hard and barren here gain a new and gra- is an exquisite creation. It is rare that cious meaning. a book is endowed with such complete and satisfying The dignity “ Home Thoughts” by some unpre- charm. An artist by nature and culture has set and happiness tending person writing under the hand and thought to its production, and the result of home-life. initial *C.” (A. S. Barnes & Co.) is an original and finished bit of work. We might is not a startling book, or a deep book, or a re- call it a symphony in green, were the term not too markably original book, but it is a book of whole- pretentious for an effect so simple and unaffected. some advice for those who care for the happiness The entire book, except the paper and the print, is of family life. The thirty-one essays making up dressed in shades of chlorophyll, the substance which the volume were printed first in the New York gives color to the stem and the leaf of the plant. “ Evening Post,” and are therefore brief and to the The cover, the leaf edges, the drawings, the mar- point. Among them, “ The Homelessness of Certain ginal lines, are all in these soft, harmonious tints. Married People," " The Lamentable Publicity of Another pleasing feature is the novel arrangement Modern Life," " Responsibility for Influence," and “ of the text, which, confined to the inner portion of “ Era of too Plain Speech” are especially full of the page, leaves broad free spaces at the sides and thoughtful comment and wise counsel. A paragraph bottom. These give room for Dora Wheeler Keith's from the last of these may well be quoted : “ Nor decorations, consisting of graceful sprays of flowers does the plain speech of our day stop short with taken from specimens in the author's garden. The the discussion of disease : offences against morality text itself is the overflow of a woman's delight in are now considered entirely open topics of conver- the manifold beauty pervading the floral kingdom.sation. The 'touching of pitch' has not ceased to It is interesting and stimulating, impressing on the be a clinging defilement, and no student of psychical reader the happiness to be had in the possession of conditions can possibly doubt that young minds a garden, in the thought and the labor devoted to sbrink with less horror from those forms of evil it, and in the possibilities of æsthetic development which they are allowed to speak of freely to their that arise from an intelligent study of the subject. companions, or in the family circle.” This and To Mrs. Wheeler a garden is a genuine art-work, much more in the book is well worth writing for after the manner of a painting, and in the massing those who are willing to pause for a moment in the and grading of colors should be as carefully and hurry of life and give thought to some little things correctly studied. There is much valuable sugges- that are not unimportant. tion in her statements, and this, with their attractive One of the last arrows from the setting, renders her book a veritable treasure. Maurice Thompson in his winter garden. quiver of an archer whose bow is A good As was to be expected of a life of now unstrung, flies far afield to the short lije Whittier in the "Beacon Biogra- glades and fens of the Gulf Coast. In "My Winter of Whittier. phies" (Small, Maynard & Co.), Pro- Garden” (Century Co.) the chivalric art of the fessor Burton's volume is a model of what such a long-bow is championed by Mr. Maurice Thompson, brief biography should be. “ His career was broader archer and scribe. But the romantic charm of than that of the recluse man of letters; one in Creole lands is his main theme. Its breezy bluffs, which life was reckoned as more than literature." its marshy meadows where birds are wary and wild, : THE DIAL (July 16, a > A new volume prose drama. and its blossoming thickets where the mocking-bird year in politics, both national and international. It is sings his wondrous dropping song, are described in à very useful publication, now made increasingly so the prose poems of the nature-lover of Paradise by the addition of an index, cumulative of the con- Circle. It seems quite fitting to find among these tents of the three annual volumes thus far published. pages a chapter on Theocritus, the poet of the poor, Peculiarly valuable features are the fifty-page appendix and to turn from his Doric flute-scores to an appre- on the “Progress of the Century,” and the twenty pages of tables from the Census of 1900. The editor- ciation of Montaigne that sends us all to dusty ship is in the hands of Mr. Frank Moore Colby, with library shelves for the essays of that old writer. the assistance of the versatile Prof. H. T. Peck — and It was Mr. Thompson's foible to assume a gentle what he knows not, as the public is well aware, is not contempt for the writers of modern science, leading knowledge. us to think they are afraid of style and tremble at Mr. William Archer has undertaken a “new and the sight of a well-turned phrase. Yet he confesses revised edition” of his translations of “The Prose to the keeping of many bird notes, to appear some Dramas of Henrik Ibsen," and the first volume, con- day in a scientific report. May we all see the book! taining “The League of Youth,” has just been imported We need not fear Professor Dry-as-Dust, or Old- by the Messrs. Scribner. This volume contains also a Man-Afraid-of-his-Imagination, when it appears. “ general preface" to the series, in which the translator sets forth his ideas concerning the exact degree of The third volume of Professor colloquialism that is desirable in an English version of Dr. Ibsen's dramas of modern society. On the whole, of the Cyclopædia Bailey's “Cyclopædia of American in this revised edition, Mr. Archer has reverted to a of Horticulture. Horticulture” (Macmillan) bringe somewhat more conventional manner than he saw fit to the titles through the letter Q. These volumes adopt ten years ago. The problem is no doubt a difficult have appeared with remarkable promptness, when one, and, as Mr. Archer justly says, there are few one considers the enormous amount of detail they models offered the English translator of the modern involve. To the systematist, the synopses of certain important genera are of most interest; but to those Along with a very sensible essay on the Historical inclined to horticultural operations, some of the Novel, Prof. Brander Matthews has put eleven others, later titles will be found more important. The also sensible, on such subjects as Romance against Romanticism, the Study of Fiction, the Conventions of culture of Orchids is well presented by Robert N. the Drama, and the Art and Mystery of Collaboration. Grey; the Peach is treated by several experts, the These essays are the work of a man who has given him- general article being written by Professor Bailey self to the service of literature, and his knowledge of himself, and peach culture in the various notable life and of craftsmanship has a mature soundness that regions being treated by different writers. The makes his papers represent very much more than the Pear and Plum are treated in the same way. Just immediate labor of their composition. The essays are at this time, titles that should attract considerable easy reading, not because they lack acuteness, but be- attention are those relating to the horticultural cause they are so unaffected and sensible. (Scribner's Sons). capabilities of the Philippines and of Porto Rico. General articles of special importance are found Mr. Artbur B. Maurice has gathered together bis articles that appeared in “ The Bookman" in 1899 and under the titles “ Physiology of Plants,” by Dr. 1900, and published them in a volume entitled “New B. M. Duggar of Cornell University, and Plant York in Fiction" (Dodd, Mead & Co.). It is freely Breeding,” by Mr. H. J. Webber of the Depart- illustrated with views of places, chiefly houses, which ment of Agriculture. The States whose horticultural have served as scenes for the fiction of more than a possibilities are presented happen to be numerous score of writers from Irving and Cooper down. The in this volume. book is interesting, partly because it identifies so many places that gain in significance from their use in fiction, and partly because it once more forcibly illustrates the old truth that writers of description do best, not when BRIEFER MENTION. they invent, but when they write with their “eye on the object." It is now more than thirty years since Dr. Alexander The latest French and German texts are the follow- Campbell Fraser, then upwards of fifty years of age, ing: “Voyages en Zigzag.” (Holt), by Rudolphe prepared for the Clarendon Press his monumental Töpffer, edited by Mr. A. R. Hope; “ La Fille du edition of the works of Bishop Berkeley. The same Chanoine” and “ L'Album du Régiment” (Jenkins), scholar, now an octogenarian, has recently prepared recently prepared by Edmond About, edited by Mr. G. Castegnier; “Ex- for the same publishing agency a new and thoroughly traits de l'Histoire de France de Jules Michelet” revised edition of the writings of the great philosopher, (Heath), edited by Mr. C. H. C. Wright; “ Trois believing, as do all students of the subject, that they Comédies par Alfred de Musset ” (Heath), edited by still “contain a word in season, even for the twentieth Dr. Kenneth McKenzie; “Marie-Louise et le Duc de century.” The new edition fills four volumes, and in- Reichstadt” (Heath), by Miss H. A. Guerber; “Se- cludes much new matter that the past thirty years have lections from Charlotte Niese's · Aus Dänischer Zeit'» brought to light. (Ginn), edited by Mr. Laurence Fossler; Herr Heinrich “ The International Year Book” for 1900, just pub- Seidel's « Leberecht Hühnchen" (Heath), edited by lished by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., is a volume that Mr. A. Werner-Spanhoofd; and Herr Hermann Suder- extends to considerably upwards of a thousand pages, mann's “Johannes” (Heath), edited by Dr. F. G. G. the enlargement being due to the importance of the Schmidt. > > 1901.] 59 THE DIAL 9 well known for his efficient service in founding our Na- NOTES. tional Irrigation Congress, and through his notable and “ The First Steps in Geometry,” by Messrs. G. A. convincing book on “ The Conquest of Arid America." Wentworth and G. A. Hill, is a recent publication of There is great work to be done in these fields in the Messrs. Ginn & Co. immediate future, and it is fitting that Mr. Lummis's Dr. Frank J. Miller has just published, through the magazine, as the representative one of the Western American Book Co., a school text of the “ Selected country, should take a foremost part in doing it. Works” of Ovid, with notes and vocabulary. When we reviewed, not long ago, the autobiography Messrs. Ginn & Co. publish a new edition of Mr. of William James Stillman, we did not expect soon D. H. Montgomery's “The Leading Facts of English thereafter to be called upon to record the news of his death. History," a text-book so familiar and so well-approved We trusted, rather, that many more years by experience that no comment is necessary. might remain to him, and the material for several more The Evanston Press Co. publish Volume II. of chapters of the autobiography. Mr. Stillman died on the sixth of this month, at his home in Surrey, at the age of “Sketches in Purple,” being selected rhetorical exer- cises written by undergraduate students of the North- seventy-three, and the record of his busy and varied career thus stands practically complete in the two vol- western University, edited by Mr. J. Scott Clark. umes that were so recently upon our table. “ The Close of the Middle Ages, 1273–1494,” by Mr. R. Lodge, is the title of the third volume in the The Globe School Book Co. are the publishers of an saries of “ Periods of European History," published “ Introduction to the Study of English Literature," by Miss Vida D. Scudder. It is a text-book for high school by the Macmillan Co. We believe that with the ap- pearance of this work, the entire series of eight volumes or college use, modern in its methods, fair in its judg- ments, and made exceedingly helpful to the teacher by is now on the market. « The Bilioustine,” Mr. Bert Leston Taylor's amusing its tables, references, and suggestions for class-room work. The text is readable almost too much so for satire on the Roycrofters of East Aurora and their work, as originally printed in a Chicago morning paper, the purposes of a school manual,- and the ethical and social prepossessions of the writer enter into the discus- has been published in pamphlet form, in close imitation sion rather more fully than is usual in a work of this of an issue of “The Philistine," by Mr. William S. sort. Lord of Evanston, Ill. The issue of “Municipal Affairs," dated March, 1901, “ The Discovery of the Old Northwest,” by Mr. is a special number in the form of “ A Bibliography of James Baldwin, and “Stories of Ancient Peoples," by Municipal Problems and City Conditions,” prepared by Miss Emma J. Arnold, are two new volumes in the Mr. Robert C. Brooks. It is a work of over three * Eclectic School Readings" of the American Book Co. hundred large pages and more than twelve thousand The same publishers send us a “Primary History of the entries, a fact which testifies most eloquently to the United States,” by Professor John B. McMaster. interest which the world is taking in the problems of We are glad to have a reprint (Oxford: B. H. Black- municipal government. The work represents a great well) of the “ Practical Discourse on Some Principles of enlargement of the bibliography published four years Hymn-Singing" which Mr. Robert Bridges contributed ago, and is an indispensable help to every student of the to the “ Journal of Theological Studies ” for October, subject. 1899. What Mr. Bridges has to say upon the subject of An interesting little compilation of “ Book Titles rhythm and metric is always weighty, and our literature from Shakspere ” has been prepared and issued in a is notably deficient in competent discussion of these privately printed edition by Mr. Volney Streamer. subjects. From this dainty booklet we learn that “Hamlet” has Mr. Henry Holt's “Talks on Civics," published by been drawn upon more frequently than any other of the the Macmillan Co., is a volume of discussions in dialogue dramas, about one-third of Mr. Streamer's list being intended for young readers and students. A good many taken from that source. “ As You Like It" is next in matters of both government and law are presented in favor, followed closely by “ Macbeth” and “Othello." an exceptionally lucid manner, and the young man or Mr. Howells stands first in the list of authors who have woman who is repelled by text-books of the formal sort laid Shakespeare under contribution for title purposes, may be successfully reached by the ingenious conver- thirteen of his novels having been named from the sational devices of the present work. plays. “ Corneille” and “ The French Academy," by Mr. The American Revision Committee have completed Leon H. Vincent, are two small books recently pub- their work of revision of the Holy Bible, and it will be lished by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Mr. Vincent published by Messrs. Thomas Nelson & Sons, New seems to have in contemplation a series of essays upon York, in August. 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Nielsen; The Unpardonable Sin," by “ Dr. V. Tille begins his report from Bohemia Herr E. Egeberg ; “ Lille Rödbætte" (Little with the following paragraph: Red Riding hood), by Herr Henrik Pontoppi. “ Bohemian literature has been undergoing a crisis dan; “Seksten Aar,” by Herr Karl Larsen ; of transition for several years; this appears just now and “Deeds of the Heart," by Herr Sven very palpably in belles-lettres, and this year's rather Lange. disappointing output does not point to any thorough change. The older generation has already passed its “ Herr Mylius Erichsen has undertaken the task of prime, and sums up its production by publishing various describing in a large work the heath districts of Jut- i collected works' or 'final editions '; in the youngest land, which are now disappearing fast under the plough- share and the tooth of the harrow." there is a ferment of new tendencies and fresh ideas, which, however, appear more in plans and attempts at Poetry has done better than fiction in Den- finding out new ways than in the production of mature mark during the past year. Herr Valdemar literary work. Foreign influences, Western as well as Russian, both in fiction and criticism, operating exten- Rördam's “ Den Danske Tunge" is a volume sively by means of an unusually large number of trans- of noteworthy verse, “ pervaded by a remark- lations, are clearly visible in all our contemporary able sensitiveness, yet fortified by a manly writing." spirit.” Herr Drachmann has produced an All this leads to criticism, and in this field Icelandic drama called “Halfred Vanroia- the influence of the University is making itself deskjald.” “Violin,” a narrative in verse by felt. Mrs. Blicher-Clausen, is the work of “ the first “Mr. Jaroslav Vrchlicky, the foremost amongst our female poet of any importance we have had.” poets, expounds in his university lectures the prominent Two new translations of Shakespeare are now epochs of Western literatures, adding at the same time in course of publication. In literary history, copious specimens in his many translations, to which he has lately added a new volume of • Artistic and Popular three important works are noticed : Dr. V. Poetry.' Other professors and lecturers sedulously Andersen's great biography of Oehlenschläger, cultivate literary history, and our recent University Dr. Schwanenflügel's life of Bishop Mynster, Extension prospers well, especially in spreading the and Professor Bögh's biography of Christian knowledge of Bohemian literature.' Winther. The death of the poet Julius Zeyer has been M. Jules Pravieux's account of the year a “great loss to Bohemian letters,” and bas. French literature is long and interesting. He occasioned numerous critical estimates of his begins with the theatre, and the recent revival work. The novel of the day “has been influ- of M. Sardou's “ Patrie,” following by an ac- enced by foreign psychological and social count of a play based upon Daudet's “ La romances. Among its representatives are Petite Paroisse.” M. F. Vanderem's “La Lights of the Past,” by Mr. Simacék; “Re- Pente Douce” is “ charming in its unerring bellion," by Miss Bozena Kuneticka; and the analysis, the veracity of the characters, the “ Angelic Sonata" of Mr. Merhaut. Mr. sincerity of their actions, the grace of their Vrchlicky is to the front in both lyrical and talk.” Of “Les Remplaçantes,” by M. Brieux, dramatic composition. “The Water Fairy, ” a new opera by Mr. A. Dvorak, is mentioned “ The energy and occasional success with which M. here, partly for the sake of Mr. J. Kvapil's Brieux attacks the most burning questions of the hour libretto, which is distinctly a literary work. are familiar. In this play he studies one of the evils Dr. Ipsen, speaking of Danish literature, of our society: he brings forward wives who leave their husbands, their children, and their village to go to reports a tendency of fiction to become his- Paris to take the place of mothers, to enter as 'nour- torical, or otherwise objective. The veteran rices' into rich families." novelist, Professor H. F. Ewald, has added “ La Course du Flambeau," by M. Paul Her- “ Lisbeth Torbensdatter” to the list of his vieu, gets the most attention from the present “ big historical novels.” Works by younger writer. writers include “ Ale Langskjægs Saga,” by “ His mysterious and bizarre title is a reminiscence Herr P. V. Hammer; “ Adelbrand and Mal. of a Platonic idea and of a well-known verse of Lucre- fred,” by Herr Jacob Knudsen ; “ Crumlin tius. Generations pass on the earth and transmit to (a Cromwell story), by Herr Carl Ewald ; each other the torch of life, like the runners in the and “ Enevold Brandt," by Herr Svend Leo- ancient ceremonies: pold. These are works of historical fiction. * Et quasi cursores vitaï lampada tradunt.' The novelists who have chosen to write of M. Hervieu, in a very close but simple action, of which the general effect is a little sad, has developed the idea modern life have given us “ Daily Bread,” by that affection does not hark back; that mothers love Herr E. Söderberg; “The Springs,” by Herr their daughters more than they are loved; that the 66 > > we read > a 1901.) 71 THE DIAL > heart, like the mind, always looks towards the future; le Soir” of M. Albert Mérat, the “ Fleurs that we are attached by a stronger bond to our children d'Aube" of Mme. Madeleine Paul, and the than to our parents; and that, if a crisis in family life “Stances” of M. Jean Moréas. Literary obliges us to choose between the two, we prefer to side with our children, as the law of nature has decided.” history and criticism have rarely been better Other conspicuous plays are “La Veine,” by represented in France than during the past M. Alfred Capus; “Les Medicis,” by M. year. Henri Lavedan; and “ Pour l'Amour," by M. · M. Emile Boutroux has given us the best and most profound study on Pascal yet written. He has taken Auguste Dorchain. In fiction, we have works up his work in a spirit of respectful admiration, but he by MM. Bourget, Zola, Theuriet, Rosny, possesses the critic's weapons, and it is as a learned France, Pouvillon, and others. No work by scholar relying on documents that he has analyzed the M. Bourget shows more clearly the influence • Provincial Letters' and the • Thoughts.' He has been of Taine than his novel “Un Homme d'Af- careful not to yield to a common temptation and make Pascal into a philosopher.” faires." “ Le Fantôme " is a second novel by the same author. Of M. Zola's “ Travail M. Gaston Paris has dealt we read that it “ With old poems and ancient legends in his · Poèmes “Is a vast poem celebrating human labour. Work is et Légendes du Moyen Age,' works which derive an for the individual what fertility is for the species agreeable flavour from their antiquity alone; tales al- the means of existence. The thesis is developed on a most infantine, but revealing ingenious meanings and large scale; the volume is stuffed full of life, as usual far-off thoughts to those who can decipher and under- stand them. with M. Zola; it exhibits his great talents for descrip- These bygone tales M. Paris tells with a tion, his art of evolving and moving masses of men; delightful charm, a delicate sense of their intimate but it is composed on too ample a scale, it shows sym- poetry, a reverential feeling which is contagious.” bolism grown gross, and carelessness in style.” Other important works in this department are M. Theuriet's novels are " Illusions Fauchées “Le Théâtre Français avant la Période Clas- and “La Petite Dernière.” The MM. Rosny sique,” by M. Rigal; “Le Théâtre Français et have published" Le Chemin d'Amour," a story Anglais,” by M. Charles Hastings ; a volume of modern observation which has not, however, of essays by M. René Doumic; “Les Ecri. essentially “ altered their romanticism and vains et les Meurs," by M. Henry Bordeaux; pantheism." “Les Romanciers Anglais Contemporains, " The book of M. France, Monsieur Bergeret à by M. Blaze de Bury; and two books on Rus- , à Paris,' is simply a masterpiece, like its predecessors. kin, by MM. Jacques Bardoux and H. J. Our language has never been so perfectly written, with such artistic avoidance of exaggeration, such sure ex- Brunhes. Among books of historical scholar- pression of thought in every detail. M. Bergeret judges ship, the following are important: “Fouché,” with clear-sightedness and moderation the troubles by M. Louis Madelin; “La Noblesse Fran- which Paris exposes to his view, and finds in the his- çaise sous Richelieu," by M. le Vicomte G. tory of olden time the explanation of almost every d'Avenel; and “Les Tronçons du Glaive," human circumstance. In Veu d'être Chaste,'M. Pou- villon attacks a decidedly delicate and difficult question. by the MM. Paul et Victor Margueritte. The His work is beautiful, penetrating, sad, and movingly last-named book has almost the interest of a truthful, and his characters are vigorously conceived. novel. It is concerned with the war of 1870, Problems of conscience, painful and serious, are here and “ revives with an intimate sense of tragedy well put before one, not as abstract theories, bu events which did not seem capable of being perious realities." Other novels are “La Carriêre d'André Tour- represented except by large exterior masses. A few other works of scholarship may be men- ette,” by M. Lucien Muhlfeld; “Une Flambée tioned. They are M. Emile Faguet's " Prob d'Amour," by M. Masson-Forestier; and “La lèmes Politiques du Temps Présent,” M. Emile Fleur de Joie,” by Mme. Daniel Lesueur. The Boutmy's “Essai d'une Psychologie Politique greatest of living French poets, M. Sully- du Peuple Anglais au XIXème Siècle," M. Prudhomme, Théodore Ruyssen's “ Kant,” M. Jean Finot's “ In his • Testament Poétique' of this year shows strong irritation against the innovators who are attempting to “ Le Philosophie de la Longévité,” M. G. transform traditional metres; and, although he is at Dumas's “ La Tristesse et la Joie," and Mlle. pains not to be too rough with them, they have made Lucie Faure's “Newman and the Oxford him feel rather more than out of temper. He endeav- Movement." M. Pravieux concludes his paper ours to set up against their pretensions a scientific with the following remarks : theory demonstrating the excellence of the Parnassian metre." “I can, at all events, attempt without undue temerity to discover the common tendency of writers of to-day. Other poetical productions are the “ Voix You meet, I think, almost everywhere an aversion to Humaines ” of M. Louis Sauty, the “ Vers the conventional, the artificial, and a patient and per- a as im- 72 [Aug. 1, THE DIAL a sistent search for nature, reality, and truth. Three born human perception. Death joins her on her journey writers, whose works in different degrees express this towards the valley. She bas to fight with him for the tendency, have left their mark on the living generation possession of her child when, solitary and forsaken, she - Flaubert, Taine, Renan. Perhaps these three men sinks down by the wayside in the hour of giving birth; will continue to influence the opening century. Perhaps she overcomes him. The consecration of motherhood their glory will be eclipsed by the arrival of some great comes upon her, but at the same time there awakes in genius who will open unexplored ways to the French her bosom the old, defiant, pagan sentiment of revolt spirit and will produce masterpieces. We must wait; against God; the power of Nature, which, according to it is for the future to speak.” all the tradition of fable, knows naught of God, is The report of German literature made by strong within her.” Dr. Heilborn is concerned almost wholly with This is only a part of the story, the description the drama, the novel, and the poem. The is too long for full quotation. Of Herr Suder- mann's “ Johannisfeuer" we read : various departments of scholarship are not “A young fellow who is betrothed to the squire's represented at all, and the only books dis- cussed outside of belles-lettres are the "Jugen- daughter feels himself passionately drawn towards a young girl whom this squire has out of pity taken into derinnerungen” of Herr Heyse and Bismarck's his own house and brought up as his own child. On “ Briefe au Seine Braut und Gattin." Dr. the Eve of St. John the two, regardless of the vow they Heilborn opens with such general reflections have taken, overstep the bounds of propriety, yield to their passion, and then - separate once more in a feeble as these : resignation, she to fare abroad, he to return to his “ The literary revolution which Germany experienced bride." in the nineties directed the author only too vehemently to a diligent study of the external world. The contrary In spite, however, of the power of these sub- opinion is now gaining ground; it is only in self. jective and symbolic productions, the writer is communion that the artist can unlock his world. The constrained to admit that an objective piece, power of moving the souls of others is granted only to Herr Erich Hartleben's “ Rosenmontag,” has that which the soul has itself experienced. A dim con- scored the greatest stage success of the year. ception of this new yet immemorial truth is now assert- ing itself high and low in our literature, and points the Other plays of note are “ Der Sieger,” by Herr way to new aims. Already we speak of a New Ro- Max Dreyer ; “De Junge Goldner,” by Herr ; manticism; but for the present that is merely a mean- Georg Hirschfeld; “ Der Tag,” by Herr ingless title for a newly awakened longing to which an Stephan Vacano; “Die Zwillingsschwester,” adequate fulfilment has not yet been vouchsafed." by Herr Ludwig Fulda ; “Hockenjos," by Herr Hauptmann's “ Michael Kramer,” which Herr Jacob Wasserman; and “Der Retter," has proved a failure on the stage, is thus by Herr Carlot Gottfried Reuling. It appears characterized : certain from the summary here presented that “ Father and son, both artists, stand opposed to each dramatic writing is now more than ever the other in this drama; they divide the interest. The vital form of German literary art, and that scanty action of the piece turns wholly on the son; he is ruined by his want of energy and by his paltry ex- even France may soon have to look to her cesses. The physical deformity which has accompanied laurels in this field. In fiction, Frau von bis entrance into the world has made him malicious and Ebner-Eschenbach's “ Aus Spätherbsttagen, cowardly, reticent and mendacious. As far as the dra- a volume of short stories, is called “perhaps' matic action is concerned, the father is a mere specta- tor, but psychologically he stands in the centre of the the most important appearance of the year.” playThe Next in importance is Herr Spielhagen's novel 66 66 esperience; the majesty of death confronts him, and “ Freigeboren,” which is perhaps his best - awakes his work which he has given us — his most inti- for many a day; with this grief bis being ripens towards mate book, at all events." Other works of its consummation. One feels that the play was written for the sake of this inner revelation; personal experi- fiction are “ Die Geschichte der Jungen Renate ence is reflected in it and has taken shape perforce.” Fuchs,” by Herr Wassermann, (which makes Herr Rosmer's “ Mutter Maria” is another Georg's,” by Herr Beer - Hoffman; Frau one think of “ Evelyn Innes"); “ Der Tod subjective play, a “ fairy poem” of striking Bertha" Garlan,” by Herr Arthur Schnitzler ; “ ; originality. Herr von Ompteda's “ Monte Carlo," Herr ” “ It is a Song of Songs on motherhood; in its pages the mother's joy exults, the mother's anguish mourns. von Polenz’s “ Liebe ist Ewig,” and Frau Vie- An ice-maiden who dances with her sisters on the snow- big's “Das Tägliche Brot.” big's "Das Tägliche Brot." Poetic energy in peaks of a glacier, has been discovered by a huntsman, modern Germany is so absorbed by the stage who has held her in his embrace and thereby kissed her that little is left for lyricism. The only volumes heart to life; he has fallen a prey to death as the result. Now she feels drawn towards the earth, and of verse that seem worth mentioning are the the sight of the Mother of God, hewn out of the rocks “Reigen " of Herr Hugo Salus, and the Neues by a hermit, gives her the first presentiment of a new- Leben" of Herr Karl Henckell. 1901.) 73 THE DIAL his grasp seed he believes them to have sowed. In any The New Books. event, travellers of authority, from the earliest days to so recent a book as Mr. Archibald Little's “ Mount Omi and Beyond ” (reviewed UNCIVILIZED “CIVILIZATION.”* in THE DIAL of July 16 last), have borne Rarely or never does so much actuality creep abundant testimony to the radical differences into a history of any kind as Mr. A. Henry between the Buddhism of China and the Lama- Savage Landor has incorporated in his account ism of Thibet and Mongolia, attributing to the of the proceedings of European nations, aided Chinese priests professing belief in the doc- by the United States and Japan, in China dur- trines of Buddha a temperance in all things ing the recent Boxer outbreak. With the best which contradicts Mr. Landor's sensational will in the world, few historians deal with such statements and more sensational drawings. It facts at first-hand and while they are still vivid would almost seem that here he is wreaking in the memory. Writing in a closet, affairs vengeance for the miseries he was forced to take on another aspect, time is given for the undergo in Thibet. working out of historical theories, and actuali- The blame attached to the “ Lamas' for ties are made to conform to them as to the the uprising is borne in part, however, by Sir conventions and view.points of the age. Writ- Claude Macdonald, British plenipotentiary at ing as Mr. Landor writes, - himself an eye- Peking, for not attaching sufficient importance , witness, and in most cases, like Æneas, a part to what Mr. Landor perceives to be significant of what he describes, the reader needs to do premonitions of approaching trouble. The little besides make due allowance for the per- attack upon this diplomatist is so bitter that it sonal equation, and the thing itself is within leaves an impression of personal animus. It would be unfair to the author to aver that Those who will read “ China and the Allies' such is the case, but it is certainly true of other in the light furnished by the author's former men in the book who receive excoriation at bis book, "In a Forbidden Land,” will find a large hands, the proof being from his own pen. The part of this personal equation already formu- sufferings of the missionaries, which are set lized. The rest of it may be pieced together forth in considerable detail, go to show that from the pages of the latter book. A frank- no European nor American in China foresaw ness of statement and an almost childlike reve- the extent of the revolt against foreigners and lation of likes and dislikes bear witness to Mr. their ideas, plain as the indications of them Landor's education away from Saxon reticence now appear to be. The charity extended to and self-containment. He attributes the Boxer the missionaries might have been granted to uprising wholly to what he calls the Lamas” Sir Claude, with advantage to the book. of China, the Buddhist priests of the nation. The first of the two large volumes which By attributing to these individuals all the evil comprise the present work is taken up with qualities which human nature at its worst can the story of the march of the Allies to Peking. take on, he contrives to throw the responsibility From its beginnings until Mr. Landor rode for Christian massacres and miseries wholly by the side of the Russian General Lipievitch upon their shoulders. To make his point into the Forbidden City, the indefatigable his- clearer, he refrains from dwelling on the provo- torian was in the thick of everything, cations, in the way of land-grabbing and dis- the firing line, with the looters, in the camps, regard of ancient superstitions, which, in the at the head of the advancing column, always opinion of most thoughtful people, make the manifesting a ubiquity which must bave been Boxer movement a national one, animated by more than annoying to the commanders of the the same sort of chauvinistic patriotism which expedition. But it enabled the busy young is being cultivated so sedulously by the govern- man to secure photographs of actual scenes of ments of Europe and America. It seems cer- plunder and carnage, which he reproduces here; cain that, even were there such beings as and war never saw its most hideous naked- Chinese “Lamas,” no preachings and pleas nesses more boldly exposed, for civilization could have obtained so great a following for and Christianity to shudder over. The moral their anti-foreign ideas if there had not been is as plain as that of the pictures of Mr. fertile soil ready for the germination of the Verestchagin painted in the Philippines within the twelvemonth. *CHINA AND THE ALLIES. By A. Henry Savage Landor. Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Song. The same characteristic which leads men, ) on 74 (Aug. 1, THE DIAL under the plea of patriotism, to conceal from abroad the death of the German Minister, the public eye things that need correction, has Baron von Keteler, on June 16, 1900, when led to reports of looting on the march to Peking, his actual assassination did not take place until in which each correspondent depicts his coun- June 20, four long days afterward. The orig- trymen as blameless while all the other nations inal news, Mr. Landor says, was sent out from among the Allies were robbing the Chinese Shanghai or Chefoo, and evidences a con- with both hands. This pot-and-kettle pro- spiracy which was not put into execution until cedure does not avail with Mr. Landor, whose later. It seems more likely that the story words become the more authoritative because emanated from the city of Chicago, and was he enters upon a general justification of all born, like the account of the Russian de Giers's looting in the campaign, wherever prevailing death by boiling in oil, in the brain of an and under whose hands soever. With satire imaginative newspaper writer named Charles wholly unintended, he even goes so far as to Douglas Almy, formerly in the American Navy, differentiate the various tastes in loot shown and stationed in Chinese waters. by the assembled Christians and Japanese. Mr. Landor's book, large as it would have The French, it appears, desired food more been if no extraneous matter had been included, than anything; the Japanese, bric-a-brac ; the contains a long account of his travels in China Germans, substantial articles of many sorts ; ten years ago, in the first volume, and an the Russians, anything they could get their equally long history of the Ming dynasty, in hands on; the British Indians, fine textiles the second. These portions, like the others, and embroideries; and the Americans, gold are wholly lacking in what is usually called and silver in lumps. The Americans, he avers, style, but possess rugged force and unques- were the untidiest robbers of the crowd, picking tionable interest nevertheless. The best chap- up perhaps a priceless bit of porcelain and ter of all in point of picturesqueness and vigor, dropping it to the floor rather than make the is given up to an account of the American exertion of replacing it on its shelf. Russians, assault on the gates of the Forbidden City. the soldiers we place lowest in the scale of To the American soldiery is given credit for general intelligence, and Americans, the sol. personal intelligence and valor, but for nothing diers we place highest, were the most complete else; and in spite of the strong Russian pre- devastators of goods and property of all sorts possession noted, the Japanese bear away the at Tientsin, where most of the plunder was palm for soldierly bearing, general efficiency, secured. , But here, as elsewhere, Mr. Landor and discipline, - everything in short which , - clears the skirts of the Russians from the goes to make up goes to make up “civilization” in its belliger- charges of indiscriminate cruelty to natives ent and least lovely aspect. made by correspondents of other nations. His WALLACE RICE. words would bear more weight if he had not received the notable favor from the Russian commander which made him the first English- THE FAMILY OF SHAKESPEARE.* speaking person to set foot in the Forbidden City of Peking, just as his charges against With all the pains in the world, doubtless the American General Chaffee would bear we never shall be able to “account” for genius more weight if that officer had not refused in any shallow sense. Yet the modern scien- him the same privilege. tific spirit, with “heredity” and “environ. The second volume is occupied with a day. ment" for its chief conjure-words, demands of by-day account of those beleaguered men and biography that it shall give us every minutest women in Peking whose sufferings were so detail, not only of the life of the genius him. acute and were borne with such sturdiness self, but of his ancestors, collaterals, and sur- through the dismal weeks while the Allies roundings of whatever nature. Formerly, a were fighting their way onward. This, of few lines and mere dates sufficed as history of course, is compiled from the accounts of others parentage. Now, we are not surprised when rather than given at first-hand ; but it bears we are offered large volumes tracing a man's evidences of thoroughness, and is not less in. pedigree in all possible ramifications, and his teresting than the story of the march, though environment in environment in every smallest particular. equally unpolished. Mr. Landor pauses to Moreover, the kind of evidence admitted has wonder how it could be possible for the news- * SHAKESPEARE'S FAMILY, By Mrs. Charlotte Carmichael papers of Europe and America to blazon Stopes. London: Elliot Stock, New York: James Pott & Co. 1 1901.] 75 THE DIAL » for a changed entirely. Formerly, gossip and tra- “Whose Muse, full of high thought's invention, dition, with liberal use of the imagination in Doth like himself heroically sound,"- making deductions, if they succeeded in work. refers to Shakespeare. ing up a life-like and “readable” tale, were As to the much-disputed spelling of the not too closely scanned or investigated. Now, name, the author adopts “Shakespere nothing is taken on trust, but all must be based the early families of the period when spear was on documentary evidence, with copious foot-spelt “spere"; and “Shakespeare " when spear ; “ notes for verification. was spelt "speare," as it was in the sixteenth Perhaps the most striking illustration of this century. Moreover, this latter form was the change is furnished by the history of Shakes- Court spelling of the period, as shown by the peare biography. For two hundred and twenty first official record of the name; and it was also five years after the poet's death, his dozens of the spelling suffered to pass by the author him. biographers, from Nicholas Rowe to Charles self in correcting the proofs of the “ first heirs Knight, accepted the Stratford gossip collected of his invention," in 1593 and 1594. The fact by Betterton three-quarters of a century after that Shakespeare himself sometimes varied, Shakespeare had been laid in his grave, and counted for little then. He might have held derived from it more or less conceivable ac- romantically to the quainter spelling of the counts of what might have happened, what he olden time, as did many others, such as probably did, the people he was likely to have Duddeley,” “ Crumwell,” « Elmer.” known, etc. This went on until about fifty Conclusive evidence is brought to show that years ago, when Halliwell-Phillips, ignoring by the Spear-side the poet's family was at the previous accumulation of hearsay and im- least respectable, and that by the Spindle-side agination, issued a “Life” based on document- his pedigree can be traced straight back to ary evidence of various kinds, chiefly registers Guy of Warwick and the good King Alfred. of births, deaths, baptisms, wills, mortgages, For the chief original discovery claimed by and the like. Since that new departure, the our author is that she has found at last a defi. trend has all been along the same line, until nite link of association between the Park Hall now we have an octavo volume of 250 pages Ardens and the Wilmcote Ardens, and hence devoted to "Shakespeare's Family,” of which that the descent of Shakespeare on his mother's only about twenty-five pages have to do with side is from one of the most nationally interest- the man William Shakespeare. Only a con- ing of all English families. Great Norman firmed Dryasdust would apply the word “read- families who came in with the Conqueror " able” to this work, yet every Shakespeare are numerous enough, but there are few that student will wish to have it in his library as a claim to be “merely English ” who have such reference volume. There is almost no allusion record to show as the Ardens. to the plays and poems which Shakespeare The first noble victim of the tyrannical wrote; it is in no sense a literary biography. Royal Commission of 1583 was Edward Arden, Any expectations of this kind are banished by Sheriff of his county in 1575. Whether or the Preface, wherein the author states: “It is not, as the author suggests, “it is more than only the genealogical details of certain War. probable that the active part that Sir Thomas wickshire families of which I now treat, and Lucy took in the arrest of Arden told more it is only as an interesting Warwickshire gen- on the fortunes and feelings of young Shake- tleman that the poet is here included.” speare than the fabulous deer-stealing story," Chief among these families, naturally, are certainly the circumstances were sufficiently the Shakespeares and the Ardens ; but there touching and tragic to have made a powerful is also much interesting matter relating to the impression on a sensitive youth of nineteen. Hathaways, the Quinceys, the Halls, and vari- ri Although the victim is praised by contemporary ous cousins and connections. The origin of the writers and was pitied by all Europe, Froude name Shakespeare itself, though hidden in the and other historians have given small space mists of antiquity, is held to have been con- to the cruel story. Our author condenses the ferred in the first place for valor in feats of account from the State Papers thus : arms, and Spenser is quoted in proof that it « Edward Arden seems to have been highly respected, was so understood by his contemporaries. See- but he had offended Leicester by refusing to wear his ing that no other poet of his time had an livery (as many of the gentlemen of the county were proud to do) and by disapproving openly of his rela- “heroic name," doubtless the allusion in tions with the Countess of Essex before her husband's “Colin Clout's Come Home Again”. death. Leicester waited his time. . . . Edward Arden 66 76 (Aug. 1, THE DIAL > was a temperate follower of the old faith; but his son- which, probably, in some degree, he must share in-law, John Somerville, an excitable youth, seemed the glory of English achievement. And for to chafe under the increasing oppression of the Catholic Church and its adherents. The evil reports concerning this knowledge he must resort to the anthro- the Queen and Leicester increased the friction. Shut pologist and the folklorist, who, fortunately, | , out from travel or active exercise, as all Catholics then have not been idle. were by law, his mind seems to have given way in his In Professor Rhys's handsome volumes we sleepless attempts to reconcile faith and practice. He have an invaluable collection of materials for started off suddenly one morning before anyone was awake, and at the inns on the road spoke frantically the study of Celtic folklore, together with a to all who chose to hear, saying he was going to London discussion of some of the important questions to kill the Queen. Arrest, examination, imprisonment connected with the subject, from one whose in the Tower followed. Thereafter went forth the knowledge gives his words great weight, the mandate to arrest Edward Arden, his wife, and his brother, Somerville's wife and sister, and his wife's professor of Celtic at Oxford. No consider- grand-uncle. Examinations, probably under torture, able publication on the subject of Welsh folk- followed fast on each other, and John Somerville and lore has appeared since the modest volume of the Ardens were found guilty and condemned to the the late Rev. Elias Owen (" Welsh Folk-lore, traitor's death. On December 19, 1583, Somerville a Collection of the Folk-tales and Legends of Newgate, in preparation for their execution on the North Wales "), published in 1896. In this morrow; Somerville was found two hours afterwards volume Mr. Owen confined himself to the strangled in his cell; Edward Arden suffered the full fairies, stories of Satan, ghosts, witches, con- penalty of the law December 20, 1583. Robert of jurors, charms, omens, “spiritualism,” death Leicester had his revenge. Mrs. Arden and Francis, the brother, seem to have suffered a term of imprison portents, and birds and beasts ; reserving the ment, and then to bave been released. . . The traitor's holy wells for a later volume which he was lands, of course, fell to the Queen.” destined never to publish. Professor Rhys has The book makes some attempt to solve the restricted himself still more narrowly. He deals mystery of Shakespeare's occupations during in the main only with the fairies and their those years of his early manhood when he kindred, witches and magic, the calendar, holy went up to London seeking to make a place wells, the belief in submerged cities, cave- for himself. But nothing new seems to have legends, and place-name stories. His material been discovered, and all is still surmise, with he has drawn from all over Wales, but princi- a probability that his first firm step on the pally from the western counties of Carnarvon, staircase of fame was taken in the publication Merioneth, and Cardigan. Flint and Radnor of Shakespeare's “ Venus and Adonis,” by his contribute nothing, and to Montgomery he old Stratford friend, Richard Field, in 1593, owes only a reference to Owen's book concern- and his first grip of success in his dedication ing the corpse candle. Mr. Rhys believes, thereof to the young Earl of Southampton. however, that if the other counties were to be The volume has fifteen illustrations, most of worked as thoroughly as Carnarvon has been, them familiar, but forever charming, since the results would be almost as rich; the angli- they are reproductions of such picturesqueness cising counties have hitherto been disregarded as the old Arden house at Wilmcote, Anne from both Welsh and English points of view. Hathaway's cottage at Shottery, the Snitter- Let us hope this theory will prove correct. field Church, and Warwick Castle. Although Mr. Rhys began collecting folk- ANNA BENNESON MCMAHAN. lore more than twenty years ago, he has had cause to regret that he did not begin sooner. In many instances he could get only scraps of stories which it took him years to learn how ON CELTIC FOLKLORE. to piece together. The causes of the disap- The position of the Celtic-speaking peoples pearance of folklore from the principality bave and their influence on the life and letters of been interestingly discussed by Mr. Hartland England and Scotland are beginning to be duly in his introduction to “ in his introduction to “ English Fairy and appreciated. The student of English literature, Other Folk Tales." In view of all the causes for example, now understands that he cannot that have operated in Wales to root out the comprehend the informing spirit of that liter-old beliefs, we are inclined to consider the ature without knowing something of the races present collection reasonably large. which the Teuton found in Britain, and with The chief obvious fault of this work is its inconsistent arrangement, partly by correspond- * CELTIC FOLKLORE, Welsh and Manx. By John Rhys. In two volumes. New York: Oxford University Press. ents rather than by topics : a defect due to the 1901.] 77 THE DIAL > a manner in which the book grew. Portions of esting points. The book furnishes another the material appeared several years ago in the good example of the light which folk-tales and publications of the Cymmrodorion and Folk. beliefs under the analysis of a trained mind lore Societies; and when the author came to can be made to throw on the early ages of the re-arrange these papers for the present work, world. CLARK SUTHERLAND NORTHUP. his materials had been greatly augmented, and he found that to re-cast the whole properly would require more time than he could then give. This drawback, however, we are glad to THE TRIBULATIONS OF A PRINCESS. * find has not kept him from issuing the complete It is now some two years since “ The Mar- work, which a full index renders usable. tyrdom of an Empress,” with its curiously A large part of the work is given up to the intimate reminiscences of the hapless Elizabeth fairies, “the richest lode to be explored in the of Austria, created so widespread an interest mine of Celtic folklore." The fairies largely both in America and England. Speculation originated, the author concludes, “in the regarding the authorship and consequent au- demons and divinities, not all of ancestral thenticity of this memoir, rife at the time of origin, with which the weird fancy of our re- its publication, will be revived by the anony- mote forefathers peopled lakes and streams, mous author's recent venture, “ The Tribula- bays and creeks and estuaries.” Mr. Rhys tions of a Princess.” The publishers announce certainly makes out a strong case for this that the new book is autobiography; but it is theory, in demonstrating the close connection doubtful whether or not its thrilling narrative of the fairies with rivers, green isles, the furnishes any solution, save that of a dilemma, marshes, and the mountain mist. He is not for the problem of “who's who.” For if we blind, however, to the fact that the water- assume that the author is the grande dame of divinities cannot be the fairies' only ancestors. her story, five of whose portraits embellish the The fair water-goddesses can have little in book, then half Europe should recognize her, common with the short, swarthy, “stumpy and the secret of her identity, which she has men, occupying the most inaccessible dis naturally been so careful to guard, is, or will tricts ”; and any theory which postulates a soon be, an open one. So this theory seems common ancestor for the Lady of the Van Pool untenable, though the strongly.drawn person- and the thieving red fairies of Merionethshire ality of the princess, and the easy and familiar is to be regarded with suspicion. Mr. Rhys style in which her life-story is recounted, lend might perhaps have brought out more sharply considerable color to its hypothesis. If, again, than he has done the distinction between the we regard the autobiography as wholly or in fairies proper and the elves. It is really the large part a fabrication, then of course all elves whose ancestors are searched for in the comment upon the relation between this and discussion of race questions arising in connec- the earlier work is superfluous. tion with fairy lore. In the swarthy fairies And it is surely not as a mere side-light Mr. Rhys sees the lowest stratum of the primi- upon the other volume that “The Tribulations tive population to which we can reach — a of a Princess" should be considered. To begin dwarf race, possibly kindred to that found in with, this book is far better written than the Sicily. They were superseded by the Picts, of other. The rather prolix newspapery style of Libyan or possibly Iberian affinities, to which the Empress's biography has been abandoned, probably belonged the great family groups of and the narrative moves on in a rapid, telling the Mabinogion and corresponding Irish tales. fashion, which becomes a bit too theatrical This race in turn yielded to and probably occasionally, and is badly marred through the amalgamated with the invading Goidelic and first half of the story by the introduction of later Brythonic Celts. These, however, are much gratuitous French. In “The Martyr- only conjectures which Mr. Rhys thinks may dom of an Empress dom of an Empress ” the interest centred » be established in tbe future. wholly in the unique if questionable value of In the chapter on cave-legends, also, Pro- the material. The same effect is repeated here, fessor Rhys returns to a favorite subject, the though it is only casually that the Czar or the Arthurian story, pointing out that Welsh folk. Empress enters — only occasionally that the lore represents Arthur as passing in Faery the * THE TRIBULATIONS OF A PRINCESS. By the author of time which must elapse before his return. Lack "The Martyrdom of an Empress.” With portraits. New of space forbids mention of many other inter- York: Harper & Brothers. a 78 (Aug. 1, THE DIAL 3 1 1 2 either way 6 reader with a taste for history sugar-coated them — their love of horses and of the hunt, with conversation can gratify his longing. The of the sea, the mountains, and the country, the present critic belongs, it may as well be con- bitter experience that came to each in youth, fessed, to the other party, to whom it is a relief and the indomitable courage with which each is that here for the most part the skeleton of un- bound to front the world and cheat it if may be. sigued history (“How much of this is only A characteristic little scene between the two gossip of the antechamber?”) may be locked takes place one morning when " Muzzi” has safely out of sight, and that we have merely a been disciplining an unruly steeple-chaser. rapid and well-sustained narrative of Austrian The Empress rides up just in time to applaud and Russian court-life, which, according to his her victory over the obstinate brute. taste and as he weighs the evidence, the reader 6. This is a very high-spirited horse,' I said, laugh. may regard seriously as strict fact or more ing a little, well pleased with such praise, but he is lightly as fiction, with little to gain or lose not really bad. . . . He understands every word one says.' “ It was her turn to laugh. "Get off, little one. I For in either case the Princess Marguerite am going to have a try myself,' she added, slipping known as " Muzzi” to her Austrian and from her saddle with that inimitable and exquisite Russian friends, including the Czar — is cer- grace of movement which was all her own. tainly a fascinating personage who can look « « Oh, don't, please,' I cried impulsively; he is back upon a very eventful career. Her early dangerous sometimes, and what a thousand shames it would be if he were to mangle you !' life is passed in a chateau in Basse-Bretagne, «• How about yourself, then, Muzzi? Would it not where, after nine years of joyous, outdoor life, be a shame, too ?' she remarked tentatively, laying her in close comradeship with her father whom she narrow, slightly tanned hand on · The Chief's' mane. adores, she is suddenly informed by her tyran- ««« I would be glad if he did,' I said, impulsively. “ The Empress looked at me wistfully, but she said nical Russian mother that she is a girl, and nothing, and with a shrug of my shoulders I jumped not, as she has always supposed, a boy. So down, and held out my hand for the reins of the superb . , Pierrot becomes Marguerite, to her own, and hunter from which she had just dismounted." somewhat also to the reader's, bewilderment. It is such perfect understanding and silent This change and her father's death are her sympathy as this that wins the heart of the first great sorrows, both terribly enhanced by unhappy young exile. her mother's cruelly abrupt fashion of an- Her love of lonely out-door life stands her nouncing them. in good stead when, soon after her marriage, This mother is the bad angel of the chron. she goes into camp with her husband on the icle, the dominating figure of its first part. desolate Austrian frontier. One day she “ Talented, witty, with that sharp, caustic, merciless absent-mindedly rides across the boundary, wit which often cuts like the lash of a whip, she was and is pursued by a fierce band of Cossacks, singularly entertaining and clever, and yet somehow I never felt easy when I was with her, and I avoided her whom she escapes by making a fearfnl jump as much as possible. Yet I admired her deeply à over a stream which forms the boundary-line. distance, and used to be very proud when I heard com- A day or so later, as she is dining out, a a plimentary remarks made about the perfection of her Cossack officer, “not dreaming of course that tea-rose skin, her flashing black eyes, and her long the heroine thereof was sitting across the table raven hair." This is the point of view of the child Pierrot, from him," tells the story. He concludes his recital laughingly by saying: which changes first to a more firmly grounded My men were quite staggered when they saw that distrust of the merciless and malicious beauty, pretty she-devil fly across the river as if both herself and finally to bitter hatred and absolute es- and her marvellous steed were endowed with wings. trangement, after the full perfidy of her moth- I myself would give much to know who this little er's conduct in forcing her to marry an Austrian imp of Satan was. prince, twenty-one years her senior, whom she “I was that imp, General!” mischievously justly hates, dawns upon the sixteen-year-old announces Muzzi; and the laugh is on the Marguerite. amazed officer. It is from this experience that the young prin- Another of Muzzi's thrilling escapades is cess gets her cynical abhorence of all women the mission she undertakes to St. Petersburg, save the Empress Elizabeth, whom she meets to secure the release of an innocent man from through her Austrian marriage, and who be- Siberia. In her excitement she informs the comes her only confidante. In spite of a dis- Czar of all the Russias that he “must do parity of years, there are many ties between something” for her protégé. . 1901.) 79 THE DIAL 6 66 "• Must!' said the autocrat, drawing bimself up and Some of the most notable articles in the gazing at me with rising anger.” present volume are “Egypt” by W. Max The princess is angry too, but a moment later Müller, Müller, “Eschatology” by R. H. Charles, she sees the ludicrousness of the situation and Gospels” by P. W. Schmiedel, “ Israel” succeeds in making the Czar see it too, so by H. Guthe, Jerusalem " by G. A. and W. effectively that she and her servant are soon R. Smith and C. R. Conder, and John Son driving through the unbearable cold of a of Zebedee" by P. W. Schmiedel. The two . Siberian winter, carrying the Czar's release articles, “ Egypt” and “ Jerusalem,” are espe- for the convict. cially valuable from the historical and geo- During all the years of her marriage with graphical point of view. They give us the Prince Karl, the princess is genuinely miser- latest researches, and each is accompanied with able, in spite of the gay round of pleasure and a fine colored map - a most welcome aid in a excitement in which she lives. At last Karl book like this. falls in a disgraceful duel, leaving her free to The longest article in the volume is 4 Gos: a young than 68 the book closes, with a bint of more to come pages, by Prof. Schmiedel of the University later. EDITH KELLOGG DUNTON. of Zurich, Switzerland. This article is very exhaustive. The author discusses the synoptic problem with great ability, but his premises and methods of reasoning will arouse sharp antag- CHEYNE's ENCYCLOPÆDIA BIBLICA.* onism. He proceeds on an assumption (col. The second volume of Professor Cheyne's 1872) that from the outset would practically great Bible dictionary has followed promptly rule out the credibility of the gospels. The at the end of one year. The general plan and chronological matter is worthless, and the testi- purpose of the Encyclopædia was fully stated mony of Christ's disciples on the basis of the in a review of Vol. I. in THE DIAL of March premise laid down above is always suspicious. 1, 1900. The editors have varied slightly But he does find nine passages which are from the original plan, namely, to give an ex- credible, " which might be called the founda- position of the “advanced criticism ” of the tion pillars for a truly scientific life of Jesus" day. The second volume's advance over its ($ 139). His scientific life, from the drift and predecessor is in the direction of a still more open statements of the article, would make him radical position on many critical and doctrinal an extraordinary man, whom tradition has dei- questions. fied and worshipped. The article on J