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SPECIAL RATES TO CLUBS and be educated meant more than anything else the for subscriptions with other publications will be sent on application; and SAMPLE COPY on receipt of 10 cents. ADVERTISING RATES furnished ability to read Latin, whatever writings were on application. All communications should be addressed to worth heeding promptly made their appeal to THE DIAL, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. the whole educated public. It was not a very large public in point of numbers, but it was a widely-scattered one, and it had a thirst for No. 368. OCTOBER 16, 1901. Vol. XXXI. ideas that puts us moderns to shame. When the confusion of tongues seized upon the Euro- pean peoples, as a regrettable but inevitable CONTENTS. incident in the development of their several nationalities, the world-writer in the old sense became extinct. Yet we cannot altogether re- WORLD LITERATURE. gret that Dante, for example, wrote bis great- est work in the vulgar tongue, or that Petrarch ON THE SHORT STORY. Henry Seidel Canby 271 sought diversion from the serious business of the epic in writing certain Italian sonnets to a OUR LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN. Charles young woman named Laura. Nevertheless, Atwoor: Kofoid . 273 4. The Divine Comedy " and the “Canzoniere could not hope to find readers outside of Italy, A DICTIONARY OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSY- whereas the “ De Monarchia ” and the “ Af- CHOLOGY. Joseph Jastrow 276 rica” could command the attention of all the world. We can easily understand why Petrarch NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE. William looked slightingly upon his sonnets, and why Morton Payne. 277 Dante hesitated a long while before turning from Latin to Italian. We can also picture UNDER BOTH FLAGS IN SOUTH AFRICA. to ourselves the astonishment of these men, John J. Holden 279 could they have foreseen that posterity would hold of slight account all that they wrote in THE OPINIONS OF A STATESMAN. Charles H. the language of scholars, and would treasure Cooper 280 among the most precious of its literary posses- sions their compositions couched in the despised BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS 282 language of the common people. A famous lover and theologian of the Middle When the languages of modern Europe Ages. — An authoritative account of Rossetti's art. came to be the recognized vehicles of literary - Some notable stories of animal life. – The career expression, there could be no more world- of St. Louis of France. - An attractive series of art writers in the medieval sense. The Latin monographs. — The insects of North America. - A classics, of course, retained their prestige, and souvenir of England's most popular composer. - The problems of applied Darwinism. – A critical study the Greek classics, so eagerly studied by the of American verse. — A study in Hungarian men of the Renaissance, quickly took their place beside the Latin, or rather took the superior place to which their extraordinary BRIEFER MENTION. . 285 spontaneity and perfection entitled them. But the new writers of the Renaissance centuries NOTES 286 were nearly restricted to the public of their respective peoples. We have seen how Dante LIST OF NEW BOOKS . . 287 and Petrarch, standing as it were upon the romance. 270 [Oct. 16, THE DIAL water-shed that divides ancient from modern shall realize the full meaning of the decentral- culture, contributed with doubt and hesitationizing process of modern literary evolution. We to the streams that were to flow down into now speak familiarly of Shakespeare and Dante modern life for its refreshment and quicken- as belonging to the literature of the world, but ing. Boccaccio was in similar case, although for hundreds of years they belonged only to perceiving rather more clearly that the vitality the literatures of their respective peoples. of Latin literature was well-nigh spent. When Although world literature as a fact has a we come to Ariosto and Tasso, to Rabelais history of many centuries — a history which a and Montaigne, to Cervantes and Lope de covers the whole classical and mediæval period, Vega, to Shakespeare and his starry train, we down to the development of the modern tongues come to an age in which the most remarkable as suitable organs of expression - world lit- - manifestations of literary activity are evidently erature as a name is of rather recent birth. indigenous to their own soil. There are no In other words, the point of critical self- longer any world-writers, unless we apply the consciousness at which the idea assumed defin- term to such belated classicists as Poliziano ite shape was not reached until very modern and Erasmus. If we contrast Erasmus, par- times. Goethe was the first, we believe, to ticularly, with any of the great writers just speak of the world literature which to the pro- named, Shakespeare and the others not only phetic view was even then shaping itself anew, write in the languages of their own people, but and rising upon a broader foundation than its each of them embodies in his thought the dis- classical prototype. Goethe also expressed the tinctive characteristics and ideals of his own belief that Germany would contribute some race. Erasmus, on the other hand, is no more share of this new literature to come, a belief Dutch than Italian, no more Italian than Ger- to which he of all men was best justified in man, and he is almost as much English as he giving utterance, for his is the one name since is anything else. While it is true that the Shakespeare's that has by the common agree- Elizabethan English displayed a remarkable ment of posterity been added to the list of the zeal in the work of translation, their activities world's literary immortals. Since Goethe's in this direction could not disguise the fact time, the idea has taken shape in many minds, that the time for the development of European and every decade of the past century has seen literature upon a common basis of interests the conditions grow more favorable under and aspirations had forever gone by. which a world literature in his sense is possible. If we take a broad view of the three cen- Let us inquire a little into these conditions. turies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth Some of them have to us the familiarity of the inclusive, we shall see that for the history of commonplace, although they were startling literature they were centuries of nearly inde- novelties not so very long ago. The linking pendent development in the five countries that together of the continents by electric wires and really count. National interactions there were, steel rails, the new means of transportation no doubt, such as the influence of Italian upon which have made of travel at once English literature, or of French upon German light and an easily attainable method of self- literature, but these were on the whole super- cultivation, the multiplication and cheapening ficial, and did not in any case seriously modify of printed matter whereby the news of the the bent of the national genius. Even the whole world is brought to us with little delay unifying influence of the classical heritage - these are the conditions that obviously sug- could not avail to accomplish such a result. gest themselves, and it is plain to see that they This statement needs no further proof than is have accomplished great things for the soli- offered by a comparison between the treatment darity of mankind. But this solidarity of of classical subjects by Shakespeare and his sympathetic interest has for its necessary con- fellows, on the one hand, and by the French comitant the solidarity of intellectual effort dramatists, from Corneille to Voltaire, on the that is attested in so many ways, in coöperative other. And when we remember that it is not movements and congresses, in broad educa- much more than a hundred years since Shake- tional programmes, in the increase of friendly speare received adequate recognition in Ger- intercourse among the peoples, and in the gen- many, or any sort of recognition in France, eral growth of the cosmopolitan spirit. Under that it is even less than a hundred years since these modern conditions, the sort of world lit- Dante came to his own in the hearts of En-erature that Goethe had in mind has been glishmen and Frenchmen and Germans, we shaping itself in spite of the barriers of lan- a de- 1901.] 271 THE DIAL guage that tend to restrict the free communi- cation of ideas. This difficulty is overcome ON THE SHORT STORY. partly by translations, and partly by a frank The London “ Academy” has seen fit recently recognition of the fact that an educated man to scoff at the critics who have been exercising in our time must be able to read freely at least themselves over the so-called art of the Short two modern languages besides his own. Neither Story. The Short Story, the “Academy” thinks, of these agencies alone would suffice, but taken is a short novel, and its art is distinguished by just together they work wonders. Given a trained one thing, and that is inferiority. minority of students, all the time exploring Perhaps there has seemed to be a greater out- and reporting upon contemporary foreign lit pouring of criticism and discussion than this literary erature, and given also a public of readers who fashion of the Short Story warrants, since in some have acquired the habit of looking abroad for respects it is a very old fashion indeed, and the story of Ruth, for instance, or the Paolo and Fran- ideas and inspirations, and no significant mes- cesca incident in the “Inferno,” differ from their sage uttered anywhere in Christendom can long modern prototypes only in certain characteristics escape the attention of cultivated mankind. In of internal structure and external relation. But Goethe's own later years, his dictum was strik- the new Short Story has gained more individuality. ingly illustrated by the European vogue of It supports the magazines and has invaded the Byron, and all through the century, now by newspapers. It gets itself bound into books and Heine, now by Hugo, now by many another has made many authors famous. Is it a separate writer, the free currency of thought that has genus of literary expression, belonging to the nar- made for a world literature in Goethe's sense rative family, but distinct from the novel, or is it has appeared among the most insistent phe- Professor Brander Matthews holds to the former merely a variety of that well-recognized form ? nomena of the age. view, and bases his opinion largely upon a certain Finally, glancing at the intellectual life of “unity of impression,” which he says is character- the present time, we find corroborations of our istic of the Short Story. Mr. Wedmore, the English thesis upon every hand. To say nothing of critic, strenuously affirms the distinction between the work done in science and general scholar- the two; and it may be assumed that Edgar Allan ship, which becomes the common property of Poe held some such belief, for he says that “Terror, scholars everywhere almost from the moment passion, horror, most fields but that of pure beauty, of its first publication, we may find in the field can be best treated in a tale." of literature proper all the evidence we need. Considerable evidence will be necessary before One has only to mention the names of Björn-rate classification, and unity of impression” needs the Short Story can be proved deserving of a sepa- son, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Sienkiewicz, Hauptmann, some defining before it is ranked under this evi- Sudermann, Maeterlinck, and Zola, to make it dence. Poe used the phrase in argument, and clear that contemporary literature, in its higher thought mainly of the time element. A tale could ranges and when occupied with large ideas, be read at a sitting; a novel must be read in gulps, knows no barriers of race or speech, and has as it were, of a handful of chapters each, and the the whole world for its readers. It is a particu-impression, which the unity of the tale should con- larly impressive fact that of the men just men- vey, naturally suffered. But Professor Matthews, tioned, the two who would by almost unanimous wielding the same phrase, seems to refer to the consent be singled out as world-writers par effect of the design of the narrative upon the excellence, write their books in languages that reader, whether read at one sitting or a dozen. A single vivid impression is to be the result of the lie outside the province of the most liberal Short Story; while many, diverse yet harmonious, education, and are known only in translations impressions are to follow upon the reading of a to the world at large. There is no writer living novel. novel. Yet surely many novels, such as George to-day who is making world literature of the Eliot's “ Romola” or Meredith's “The Egoist,” permanent sort for which the names of Dante leave a unity of impression not essentially differing and Shakespeare stand, but there are numerous from that of which Professor Matthews speaks. In writers whose envisagement of the chief aspects the first, the degeneration of the beautiful Greek of modern civilization is so sincere and profound is not only the central thread, but the digest of the that they can command almost equally the at- whole story; as in the other book is the egoism of tention of readers in all countries, and fairly gained by condensation is a completely sufficing Willoughby. Neither this quality nor the unity deserve to be called world-writers. That their number will increase rather than diminish Story. reason for the separate classification of the Short during the present century is a prediction that There is another way of getting at this matter. it seems reasonably safe to make. The great difference between a poem, an historical 66 272 (Oct. 16, THE DIAL We are or in essay, and a novel upon the same subject, lies in the because we are looking only for the chain of related point of view. The poem works through imagi- incidents that go to make up one event. nation and suggestion. The history deals with the picking out the steps that make the tragedy, as in facts that the poem almost neglects, and has to do Maupassant's famous tale “La Parure,' with selection among these facts. The novel, sup- Bret Harte's “ The Outcasts of Poker Flat”; we posing it to be historical, uses first the methods of are looking only for what bears upon our narrow the history, leavens the result with fancy, sets it purpose, that the interest may be concentrated and forth suggestively, and, keeping in view the end of the conception vivified beyond the power of a novel. art instead of the necessity for truth, produces The process is very artificial but very powerful: it still other results. Compare, for instance, Carlyle's is like turning a telescope upon one nebula in the life of Cromwell, Milton's sonnet on Cromwell, and heavens. Thus it is the standpoint of the author Scott's novel based upon the life of the same hero. that makes the distinction between a short novel It is such a distinction in the point of view which and a long Short Story. In the one the writer di- differentiates a novel from a Short Story. gests life histories, or portions of them ; in the other From the eighteenth century downward, novel- be looks only for the episode, which, like the bubble ists have tried from their little Olympus to get the on the stream, is part of and yet distinguished from all-embracing view, to record the good and the bad, the main current. Recognizing the futility in cer- the thought and the action, the youthful deed and tain cases, and the needlessness in others, of ex- the aged penalty. Either by details, or, when that pressing the whole truth, he succeeds much better was not practicable, by suggestion, their transcrip with the half. He foregoes completeness and gains tion of life has been as full as they could make it. in force, and this by a change in the standpoint Their art is always to imitate the breadth and the from which he views his world of fact and fancy. fulness of living. At one extreme of this imitation There is a great deal of truth in the charge that is realism, and there the picture is somewhat photo this point of view means superficiality, provided the graphic; at the other extreme is romance, where word be taken in its root sense. Of course the the reader's imagination is tickled into supplying Short Story is superficial in this way; it is that much not plainly told by the author. In either which chiefly distinguishes the form. It is intended case the life depicted in the books, like the life in for surface work; it is meant to catch and record the world, has many facets ; though the multiplicity the striking things and make them more striking. of actual experience may not be present, the sug- It is a precipitate of the important things from the gestion of it will not be lacking, if the book is good. general solution, and these must be the most easily Thus the novel is natural, in so far as any artistic precipitated. There is no room for intricate sub- transfer of the real world into the world of imagi- jectivity and plot in a dozen pages. The function nation can be natural. of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey In the Short Story, as in the poem or the his-vivid impressions; and therefore it must, to a de- tory, there is a different point of view, and there- gree, work with the evident and superficial things. fore a different treatment. Just the reverse of Such an endeavor has produced its characteristic this might be true if the story that Mr. Kipling form, potential for the powerful expression of the writes is merely a variety of the longer form that daily facts about us. Thus, though the novel with Mr. Hardy uses. But the primal difference lies in a purpose is bad enough, the Short Story with a the way the authors view their crude materials, purpose beneath its expression of interesting fact which is to say the life about them. While the or fancy, or which forsakes its natural field to delve novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method deep into the mystery of things or the confusion of of transcription, the author of the Short Story psychological character-subtleties, is usually a flat adopts a very artificial one. His endeavor is to failure. Such are some of Hawthorne's tales, give a striking narrative picture of one phase of the good allegories but poor Short Stories. situation or the character, as the case may be. His New developments in literature do not arise nor aim is toward a strip lengthwise, disregarding much become popular without reason. There are causes, that a cross-section might show. He deals with a artistic and otherwise, for the present blossoming series of incidents, closely related to one another of the Short Story, causes which in themselves differ but not at all related to the by-play of life which, from those which have made the novel flourish. In in reality, must accompany them. He treats of a a time of much writing, tastes are quickly jaded, mood always existing, but in the story supremely and the Short Story, because it is terse, striking, indicated; perhaps of an adventure or a catastrophe, highly-colored, and somewhat new,meets with quick which differs from the dénouement of a novel in applause. Its length is of advantage, for many tbat the interest is concentrated, the cause in the people can be made to swallow good literature in a hero's character, ready-made for the occasion, the pill who reject it in larger doses. But the class of results in the circumstances of the tale. If all nar- readers thus gained accounts less for the literary ration amounts, as critics say, merely to a simpli- development of the tale than for the vast number fication of experience, imaginative or real, then a of poor Short Stories now breeding manifold. Such Short Story is simplification to the highest degree. a clientele can increase the production, and will We are selecting, far more than in a novel, and this usually debase the quality, of any form of literary > - a 1901.) 273 THE DIAL a Indian story , a " production, as the attitude of the prurient-minded The New Books. populace of the Restoration increased and debased the output of the contemporary dramatists. Unin. telligent appreciation is not likely to be responsible for a high development in art. That there has OUR LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN.* been an artistic advance, and a great one, in Short A summer in artic seas is the ambition of Story telling, needs for illustration only a compari- many a traveller, and the land of the midnight son of a Blackwood's tale of the 30's and a Kipling sun has become the Mecca of an ever-increasing number of seekers after the novel and beautiful The old desire for something new and more pungent would account for the encouragement in nature. It is perhaps to be expected that which this new development has received. And we Americans should seek the picturesque there is an undoubted need, in a generation whose fiords of Norway and neglect the arctic shores life is greatly varied by widely-diffused knowledge of our own Alaska, whose principal products and extensive intercommunication, for the vivid ex. are pay dirt and salmon and whose leading pression of little things. This would add another ports are Skagway and Nome. The commer- impulse. But a literary structure which displayscial and industrial exploitation of our north- domain of poetry indicates some more esthetic somewhat accessible, and must in time make cause than those so far mentioned. In simple truth the Short Story has attained a wonderful perfection possible a much wider enjoyment of its æsthetic treasures. because wonderful men have worked with and through it. It has just come into its own. In “ Fiords of the far west shore, where peaks sublime England of the 30's, publishers would not look upon Are cloudward thrust 'neath folds of glistening snow, With hoar and frigid streams that tideward flow, anything less than a volume in fiction as a serious literary effort, and they preferred three volumes. Mid 'Mid islets forested, past shores that stand, It was only in the 40's that Poe and Hawthorne in Dark portals opening to enchantment's land.” America began the cult of the tale. Coppées But, alas, if we go to Alaska we must see the search for the inevitable word and Maupassant's refinement of the conte came later still, The Short rest of the world first or surfeited stay at home Story was adapted to the needs of the time and the thereafter. For as Mr. Henry Gannett says: tastes of the people. Men of genius found through “ There is one word of advice and caution to be given it a new voice, and the attempt to perfect, to give those intending to visit Alaska for pleasure, for sigbt- laws and a form to the instrument, progressed be- seeing. If you are old, go by all means; but if you are cause of the men who tried. In In pre Hawthornian young, wait. The scenery of Alaska is much grander times these authors employed the tale for the by- than anything else of the kind in the world, and it is not well to dull one's capacity for enjoyment by seeing products of their minds; afterwards it has served the finest first." to express some of the great conceptions of their Few travellers may hope to make the journey genius. It is this which best accounts for the ebastening of its form. to Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and Siberia, Except in one instance, which is the vivid ex. under circumstances so auspicious, or in com- pression of single incidents or detached movements pany so well chosen to utilize the possibilities, in life, the Short Story is not to be chosen before social, literary, scientific, and artistic, as did the novel; but in its capabilities for perfection of the members of the Harriman Alaska Expe- structure, for nice discrimination in means, and for dition. But he who reads may now in the two a satisfying exposition of the full power of words, handsome volumes of the narrative of the ex- it is much superior to the novel, and can rank only pedition share in its enjoyment, catch some below the poem. But the novel and the Short Story glimpses of the bonhomie which prevailed in are distinct instruments, differently designed, for diverse needs. Perhaps if the “ Academy" should the party, learn much of the scenery, peoples, itself take a different point of view, it might not be and resources of Alaskan shores, and thanks 80 unwilling to grant to the latter a separate use to the exquisite illustrations — feast his eyes - and classification. HENRY SEIDEL CANBY. on many bits of Nature's great panorama. His sportsman's instincts will be roused by the sight of great Kadiak bear, the lone ursine trophy How COMPLETELY Mr. Arlo Bates has been broken in * HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION : ALASKA, Volume I. to the pedagogical barness is illustrated by his " Talks Narrative, Glaciers, Natives. By John Burroughs, John on Writing English,” of which a second series has been Muir, and George Bird Grinnell. – Volume II. History, published by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. This Geography, Resources. By William H. Dall, Charles Keeler, work might almost be used as a text-book for higher Henry Gannett, William H. Brewer, C. Hart Merriam, George classes in rhetoric, and yet it has a readable quality that Bird Grinnell, and M. L. Washburn. With many plates and differentiates it from most school books. illustrations. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. " 274 (Oct. 16, THE DIAL > 9) and sea. of the trip. This paucity of the spoils of the “We were really in one of the workshops and lab- chase may perhaps be explained by this state- oratories of the elder gods, but only in the glacier's ment in the Preface: “Although big game : 66 front was there present evidence that they were still at work. I wanted to see them opening crevasses in the played an important part in the original plan, ice, dropping the soil and rocks they had transported, no extended or organized effort for hunting polishing the mountains or blocking the streams, but I was made, the sportsmen unselfishly foregoing could not. They seemed to knock off work when we their own pleasure and allowing the scientific were watching them." workers to use their camp equipment.” In Leaving the forests and glaciers of the main ” this combination of big game hunting and coast they turned along the treeless Alaskan scientific exploration the Harriman Expedition peninsula to the peaceful isle of Kadiak, which has a parallel, on a much smaller scale, in the won a place in the hearts of all the company. voyage to Spitzbergen in 1898 of the German “If we had other days that were epic, these days steamer “ Helgoland,” which in like manner were lyric. I feel as if I wanted to go back to Kadiak, carried a small party of scientists, the results almost as if I could return there to live — so secluded, of whose work are now appearing in “ Fauna so remote, so peaceful; such a mingling of the domestic, the pastoral, the sylvan, with the wild and the rugged; Arctica.” such emerald heights, such flowery vales, such blue The two volumes in hand deal with the nar- arms and recesses of the sea, and such a vast green rative of the expedition, and contain a number solitude stretching away to the west, to the north, and of additional papers, all of general interest, a to the south — bewitching Kadiak! the spell of thy combination presenting the various phases of summer freshness and placidity is still upon me." the subject in topical rather than chronological Past the green hills and meadows of the Shu- sequence. The technical reports, principally magin Islands, they steamed northward to the in the fields of the natural sciences, will be home of the fur seal, turning aside only to the gathered in subsequent volumes. Already new volcano Bogoslof, a smoldering witness twenty-two papers of this series have been of the recent Titanic struggle of fire, earth, issued through the liberality of Mr. Harriman Brief calls were made at the Eskimo and with the coöperation of the Washington settlements on the Siberian and American Academy of Sciences. Over fifty specialists shores of Bering Sea, and the prow of the have been at work upon the collections, and “ Elder" was turned homeward, passing in re- our meagre knowledge of the natural history view once more the majestic panorama of the of the Alaskan region will ultimately be greatly Pacific's shores. The ship reached port two extended as a result of the expedition. months after departure, having gone far- The party consisted of Mr. E. H. Harriman nine thousand miles nine thousand miles — and fared well. and his family, twenty-five scientists, three The narrative of the cruise is from the pen artists, and two photographers, all his guests. of Mr. John Burroughs, the well-known inter- The guests were invited from leading univerpreter of nature. His vivid pen pictures vie sities in the East and on the Pacific Coast, with the exquisite illustrations in their æsthetic together with representatives from the scien-charm. A chapter upon the glaciers of Alaska tific departments at Washington, comprising is written by Mr. John Muir, the veteran of altogether, as Mr. Burroughs facetiously re- the Sierras. He discusses among many other marks, " zoologists, botanists, geologists, and things the changes which have taken place other specialists, besides artists, photographers, about Glacier Bay since his visit a score of two physicians, one trained nurse, one doctor years ago. years ago. One of the chief novelties of the of divinity, and at least one dreamer.” Alaskan trip is the insight it gives into the The steamer “Geo. W. Elder,” specially aboriginal life and culture of the Indian, Aleut, chartered for the trip, carried the party from and Eskimo. Dr. George Bird Grinnell, the Seattle by way of the Inside Passage northward editor of Forest and Stream," writes enter- for a thousand miles through probably the tainingly of these peoples, and the chapter is finest scenery of the kind in the world which very fully illustrated. Here lies the sad side can be viewed from the deck of a ship. The of the Alaskan story. The canneries are rap- glaciers of the Glacier Bay region, including idly exhausting the salmon streams, the fur the famous one named after Mr. John Muir, companies have already reduced and in many were visited, and in Prince William Sound a cases almost exterminated the fur-bearing ani. new fiord fifteen miles in length, abounding in mals, and with them have gone the resources glaciers, was discovered and mapped. Here for the life of these primitive peoples. Liquor, the world-shaping forces are at work : firearms, and the diseases and vices of the in 1901.] 275 THE DIAL - > - white man are rapidly completing the ruin. the earth, and pilgrims, not only from the United States, Indeed, the contamination of the civilized is but from far beyond the seas, will throng in endless heavy upon them, and the outlook is gloomy. procession to see it. Its grandeur is more valuable than the gold, the fish, or the timber, for it will never The half-hearted attempts made by some of be exhausted. This value, measured by direct returns the corporations to re-stock the salmon streams, in money received from tourists, will be enormous; and the more successful fox farms, make some measured by health and pleasure it will be incalculable.” reparation for the havoc wrought in nature; The history of the Bogoslof volcano is given while the peaceful, prim, but dependent colony in detail by Dr. C. Hart Merriam, an account of Metlakahtla - thanks to the altruism of one of the salmon canneries by Mr. Grinnell, and generous soul — has brought the blessings of of the fox farms by Mr. M. L. Washburn. civilization to one isle at least and barred out The cheery “Song of the Innuit People,” by its curse. But even here the shadows are now Dr. Dall, completes the second volume. looming The division of subjects among many writers The history of the country is written by Dr. in a work of this kind of necessity detracts William Healy Dall, an authority on all things somewhat from the unity of the whole, and Alaskan, and familiar with the country and eliminates largely any dominating personal its people through many years of exploration element, — both qualities of literary strength, as along its coast and inland waters in connection evidenced in the narrative of Nansen. On with the coast survey. Though brief, this is the other hand, as we see in this work, a com- one of the most illuminating chapters in the bination in authorship can afford a scope and book, especially in its analysis of the forces a variety both in matter and form which is operative in Alaskan history. Matters were rarely if ever secured from a single pen. in a bad way during the last years of Russian The editing and the illustration of these control, and the transfer to the Republic did volumes has been superintended by Dr. C. Hart not work an immediate cure. Merriam, and the result merits the highest "A history of conditions in Alaska from 1867 to praise. The illustrations are bountifully sup- 1897 is yet to be written, and when written few Ameri- plied and exquisitely executed. They include cans will be able to read it without indignation. A one hundred and twenty-five full page plates, country of which it could be said with little exaggeration of which thirty-nine are in colors. The photo- that Never a law of God nor man gravure plates, made by various firms, are prin- Runs north of fifty-five'; cipally of Alaskan scenery, having been selected a country where no man could make a legal will, own from the five thousand negatives, official and a homestead or transfer it, or so much as cut wood for his fire without defying a Congressional probibition; / plates of scenery are from paintings by Mr. private, taken on the expedition. The colored where polygamy and slavery and the lynching of witches prevailed, with no legal authority to stay or punish R. Swain Gifford and Mr. Fred S. Dellen baugh. criminals; such in great part has Alaska been for thirty About two hundred and fifty line drawings by years." Messrs. W. E. Spader, Charles B. Hudson, Mr. Charles Keeler, the well-known au- and Louise M. Keeler further illustrate the thority on Californian birds, writes of them text, and five specially-prepared maps serve to in their northern homes, and of the sea-fowl mark the route and to set forth some of the that congregate in Alaskan waters. Colored geographical discoveries. In this wealth of plates after drawings by the bird artist, Mr. illustration these volumes surpass all previously Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and many interesting published works of American travel. The photographs of water-fowl in their rookeries, typography, binding, and paper exhibit excel- em bellish this chapter. The forests, interest- lent taste, and the volumes are fine examples ing from a phytographic point of view, but of of the book-maker's art. slight economic value, are described by Mr. The skill which the host of the Harriman B. E. Fernow; while atmospheric conditions are Expedition has manifested in the world of dealt with by Professor Brewer. The geogra. finance in marshalling and directing men and phy, climate, and resources are treated fully means for definite ends has been shown in his by Mr. Henry Gannett of the U. S. Geolog. conduct of this Alaskan expedition, the out- ical Survey. In his opinion one of the chief come of which is given to the public in these assets of Alaska, if not the greatest, is the two sumptuous volumes. It is certainly not scenery. Man can never exhaust it, and he too much to claim for them a place in the front can mar it but little. rank of books of American travel. Chaste and « The Alaska coast is to become the show-place of | elegant in design and execution, artistic from 276 (Oct. 16, THE DIAL 9 every point of view, lavishly and exquisitely readers, though it prevents the English usage illustrated, comprehensive in scope and au- from assuming any undue importance by giving thoritative in statement, they constitute at to philosophical terms their proper historical once a most charming tale of travel and a setting. It is the purpose of the Dictionary superb gallery of Alaskan scenery. “ to understand the meanings which our terms CHARLES ATWOOD KOFOID. have, and to render them by clear definitions ; and to interpret the movements of thought through which the meanings thus determined have arisen, with a view of discovering what A DICTIONARY OF PHILOSOPHY AND is really vital in the development of thought PSYCHOLOGY.* and term in one." While terms that require Dictionaries are rarely inspiring subjects only a definition to indicate their local habitat for review, any more than they are profitable and their relations to larger conceptions are material for continuous reading. Yet they thus merely defined, the terms with larger possess an interest peculiarly their own, and intention or with eventful life-histories are their profitable use forms one of the important sketched in outline yet with some suggestion aids to scholarship. The bringing together in of detail. For such a discipline as Philosophy convenient form of the equipment - the rolling and Psychology a mere skeletonizing of terms — stock as it were of a given trunk-line of in. would be of but very limited and doubtful tellectual commerce is naturally a task of con- value. The vital qualities of flesh and blood siderable magnitude and difficulty, to be entered must be indicated, even if only by a line or upon with deliberate appreciation of its inherent two; it must be clear with regard to all but limitations, to be pursued with perseverance and merely historical usages that not museum. tact, with fortitude and patience unassailable by specimens but natural life-forms with an actual trials of the spirit or drudgery of the flesh, to environment are being described. This means be completed with undisguised expressions of that the work in regard to the more important gratitude and appeals to charity. And surely and more modern terms must be encyclopædic must this be the case in a work dealing with in character; this it is, and is the more success- the intricate and vast and imperfectly-coördi- ful in those parts in which this policy has been nated discipline described as Philosophy and carried through. The land of Philosophy and Psychology Psychology does not need mere indexing: it In speaking of Professor Baldwin's under requires a descriptive guide-book that has a taking the reviewer's first duty is to record his definite and consistent perspective, that ob- appreciation of the task thus accomplished ; serves the stars ” and “ double stars” of im. and with it, in the present instance, may be portance and handles the reader authoritatively coupled an equally appreciative word of con- yet intelligently. In these aspects the work gratulation to the editor and his able and rep- is in the main successful, though by no means resentative staff of contributors and sub-editors. equally so in the several departments. This dictionary is not only the first adequate With regard to the fact-material of the work, work of its kind in English, but may be said the separate and coördinate specification of to be the first adequate philosophic dictionary Psychology is the most significant point. This in any language. It is accordingly with much reflects the importance of the psychological proper pride that attention is called to the very factor in all modern treatment of philosophical large proportion of contributions emanating problems, and it reflects the many and diverse from American scholars. The work is, however, enlargements of the psychological outlook international in character; and the inclusion of which recent investigation has brought about. foreign equivalents, and still better the inclus. Psychology as a specialty is a far more com- ion of foreign sanction and revision by special prehensive and consistent discipline than it ists of all nationalities, is one of the important was a half-century ago ; and the psychological and commendable features of the undertaking. aspects of other sciences - notably biology, And yet in plan, and considerably in execution, sociology, medicine, ethics, anthropology — , , , it remains an American product. It is directed have been more distinctively and appreciatively primarily toward meeting the needs of English recognized. In the distribution of space, Phil. , osophy and Psychology find a coördinate first DICTIONARY OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY, Writ- ten by many hands, and edited by James Mark Baldwin, place; Ethics together with Anthropology, and Ph.D. Volume I., A-Law. New York: The Macmillan Co. Mental Pathology together with Neurology, are 1901.] 277 THE DIAL second in space representation; the third places The plan and scope of the dictionary are are filled by Æsthetics and by Logic; the fourth conceived in an admirable spirit; and the work by Philosophy of Religion and by Biology; will doubtless promptly find its way to the the fifth by Sociology together with Political shelves of our libraries and studies as the Philosophy, and by Economics together with standard work of its kind. It remains to add Physiology; the sixth by Philology and by Law; that the work will appear in three volumes, of ; the seventh by Education, and by Physics in which the first — including from A to Law - cluding Mathematics. This distribution is covers 644 pages ; that the third volume will interesting in itself, and may serve to indicate supplement the introductory bibliographies the scope of the several departments of learn. given under the several terms by more com- ing for which the dictionary is to serve more prehensive and classified bibliographical lists; or less fully as a guide. and that in mechanism and convenience the A mildly critical scrutiny is sufficient to dis- volume leaves nothing to be desired. cover inequalities and deficiencies of execution ; JOSEPH JASTROW. this is the natural result of the many minds of many men, and editors, however encyclopædic and diplomatic, can hardly equalize or adjudi. cate individual differences. The inclusion of NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE.* disciplines — such as law or biology — that It is now just thirty years since Dr. Georg offer a direct contribution to the general con- Brandes began, in Copenhagen, to deliver a tent and conceptions of philosophy, is eminently series of lectures upon European literature. proper ; but the inclusion in a philosophical These lectures were continued for about ten dictionary of terms under these heads without years, and constituted a survey of the whole such philosophical bearing seems very ques- modern intellectual movement, as it found ex. tionable. A work that passes from “ Admiralty pression in the literature of France, Germany, Jurisdiction” to “ Antenna seems almost too and England, from the time of the French comprehensive; and surely neither psycholo- Revolution down to about the middle of the gist nor biologist nor student of law seems century just ended. As one phase after another likely to look for such terms in a dictionary of of this survey was completed by the lecturer, philosophy. That there are occasional lapses the results were published in a series of vol- from the spirit of the editor's Introduction umes bearing the general title of “ Main Cur- will not surprise the editor. The skeleton form rents in Nineteenth Century Literature" of exposition is now and then to be met with, (Hovedströmninger i det Nittende Aarhund- and sometimes in important articles. The redes Literatur). Six volumes were produced article on “Binocular Vision " tells almost altogether, the whole constituting a truly monu- nothing, and may be contrasted with the article mental work of combined literary history and on the “Blind-spot” — a far less extensive criticism - certainly one of the half-dozen term but one occupying more space and satis- most important critical works of the century. factorily outlined. Two other faults of defini- Few readers outside of the Scandinavian coun- tion are also to be met with : the one the tries could benefit by a work written in the securing of a brief definition at the cost of Danish language, but German translations extreme technicality; the other the lack of were promptly made, and in this form the vol- brevity by reason of trying to describe too umes of “Hauptströmungen ” have for the much in the definition. The first is unfair to past quarter-century been an indispensable part the student who goes to the work for enlight of the apparatus of every worker in the field enment; the other is unfair to the scholar who of modern European literature. For many goes to the dictionary for a terse formulation years it has been to us a source of wonderment of conceptions already familiar. Of the latter that so important a work should have remained the only available definition given under “ An- untranslated into our own language; now, a alogy” is an example: it is introduced by the full score of years from the date of its com- word “ briefly,” and then goes on to the extent pletion, the work is to appear in English, and of seventy-two words, arranged intelligently the first volume has recently been issued. enough, but by no means cogently. But when In an introductory chapter, the author sets all is said and done, these faults are distinctly * MAIN CURRENTS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERA- of a minor order, and are not frequent enough TURE. By George Brandes. In six volumes. Volume I., to mar the general excellence of the whole. The Emigrant Literature. New York: The Macmillan Co. - : 278 (Oct. 16, THE DIAL forth his conception of nineteenth century lit- literature spring up in the human heart. Now the erature as “a historical movement partaking human heart is no stagnant pool or idyllic woodland lake. It is an ocean with submarine vegetation and of the form and character of a drama." He frightful inhabitants. The literary history and the goes on to say: poetry of the drawing-room see in the life of man a The six different literary groups it is my intention salon, a decorated ball-room, the men and the furnish- to represent may be looked on as six acts of a great | ings polished alike, in which no dark corners escape play. In the first group, the French Emigrant Liter- illumination. Let him who will look at matters from ature inspired by Rousseau, the reaction begins, but this point of view, but it is no affair of mine." here the reactionary are still everywhere mingled with The preparation of a work undertaken in this the revolutionary currents. In the second group, the semi-Catholic Romantic school of Germany, the reaction spirit evidently called for an unusual equip- is on the increase; it is more vigorous and holds itself ment on the part of its author. He must have more aloof from the contemporary struggle for progress philosophical breadth of view, an unerring in- and liberty. The third group, consisting of such men stinct for the typical as distinguished from the as Joseph de Maistre, Lamenpais in his strictly ortho- accidental, and a frank acceptance of the con- dox period, Lamartine and Victor Hugo wben they (after the restoration of the monarchy) were still clusions of modern thought. It is not too much mainstays of the Legitimist and Clerical party, repre- to say that the completed work justifies its sents the militant, triumphant reaction. Byron and his ambitious programme, and that Dr. Brandes English contemporaries form the fourth group. It is bas proved himself one of the soundest of criti- this one man, Byron, who produces the revulsion in the cal historians. The very matters which aroused great drama. The Greek war of liberation breaks out, a revivifying breeze blows over Europe, Byron falls violent controversies at the time when bis lec- like a hero in the cause of Greece, and his death makes tures were delivered are those which to-day, a tremendous impression on all the productive minds after the lapse of a quarter-century, appear of of the Continent. Shortly before the Revolution of the most vital importance. Most literary criti- July a change of front occurs among the great authors of France; they form the French Romantic school, cism is apt to seem a little old-fashioned a gen- which is our fifth group, a new Liberal movement on eration after it is produced, and it is a striking the rolls of whose adherents we find such names as tribute to the author's large conception of lit- Lamennais, Hugo, Lamartine, Musset, George Sand, erature and life that, except for a few details, etc. The movement passes from France into Germany, his work remains essentially true in perspective and in that country also Liberal ideas are victorious. The writers forming the sixth and last group which I and convincing in exposition. shall depict, Young Germany, are inspired by the ideas In some respects it seems truer and more of the Greek war of liberation and the Revolution of convincing than it could have seemed in the July, and, like the French authors, see in Byron's great seventies, when critical tradition weighed shade the leader of the Liberal movement. The authors of Young Germany, Heine, Börne, Gutzkow, Ruge, heavily upon men's judgments, and the author's Feuerbach, etc., prepare, together with the contempor- voice was as of one crying in the wilderness. ary French authors, the great upheaval of 1848.” Let us take one of his boldest pronouncements Such was the ambitious programme of the as an illustration. It took more courage than young Danish doctor of philosophy when he it would take to-day for a young man thirty began to lecture in his capital city thirty years years ago to write the following lines : ago. Here was a conception of literature cal- “I believe that the time will come when Goethe's culated fairly to take the breath away from Iphigenia will not be considered appreciably more Greek than Racine's, when it will be discovered that the mere aesthetician. Here was a critic who the German Iphigenia’s dignified morality is as German believed literature to be intimately and vitally as the French Iphigenia's graceful refinement is French. connected with human life and with the his- The spirit of the French people resembles the torical development of the social organism. Greek spirit in its absolute freedom from awkwardness, That there should be no mistake concerning its love of lightness, elegance, form and colour, passion and dramatic life. No reasonable person would dream the author's enlarged conception of literary of ranking the French with the Greeks. The distance history, he more than once, in the course of his between them is so great as to be practically unmeasur- lectures, emphasized bis purpose of bringing able. Still one must maintain their right to the place literature into its proper relations with life. of honour against those who assert that the Germans stand nearer to the Greeks. ... If France is far from A fine passage in the second series gives us a being a Greece in art, Germany is still farther. Of all typical expression of the attitude which he the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece, the Germans throughout maintains. have only succeeded in acclimatising one Pallas " It follows from my conception of the relation of Athene, and in Germany she wears spectacles. Mme. literature to life that the history of literature I teach de Staël might have observed to Schlegel that an is not a history of literature for the drawing-room. I Athene with spectacles is not much more beautiful than seize hold of actual life with all the strength I may, a Jupiter with a wig." and show how the feelings that find their expression in The best criticism, we believe, has in our 1901.] 279 THE DIAL > time come around to substantially this view, him at a moment of depressed fortune in the but how strangely the words must have sounded North, and he made up his mind forthwith to to their first Teutonic hearers. seek employment in this new field. Nothing The volume now published, as has already but discouragement followed his efforts to ob- been stated, deals with what Dr. Brandes calls tain work from the New York and Philadelphia the “ emigrant literature.” He means by this papers, so he set out for Cape Town with a the literature of opposition to the Napoleonic little borrowed money, hoping to find some order, whether legitimist or liberal, and he local journal which needed his services. calls it “ emigrant literature" because in those After a series of experiences which would days “it was only far from Paris, in lonely have discouraged an older man, or anyone less country places, where he lived a life of death. self-reliant, Mr. Unger found himself at the like stillness, or beyond the frontier, in Swit- front as the authorized correspondent of the zerland, Germany, England, or North America, Grahamstown “ Daily Mail,” with a certain that the French man of letters pursued bis minor connection with the London - Times," calling.” After noting the profound influence gained through the good offices of Mr. Rudyard of "La Nouvelle Heloïse” and “Werther” Kipling; but these commissions were not ob- upon the literature of the period, the author tained until after desperation had forced him takes up the special group of writers which to offer his services to the British Crown as a includes Chateaubriand, Sénancour, Nodier, member of a command which required the Constant, and Mme. de Staël. An account of ability to ride well and shoot straight. Mr. Barante's retrospective view of eighteenth cen- Unger could do neither, and is doubtless glad tury literature completes the survey. The that he was so promptly found out and rejected. group at first sight seems to have little unity, He was at the battle of Paardeburg, the occu- but Dr. Brandes provides the philosophical pation of Bloemfontein, attached himself to nexus, and we close the volume with the feeling General French's column in pursuit of General that he has justified his design. He shows De Wet after witnessing the capture of Cronje also how these writers were the logical pre- and the battle of Poplar Grove; and, while cursors of those who came after them. taking part in the general advance upon Pre- “ Looked at from one point of view, this group pre- toria, received a commission from the London pares the way for the later religious and political “ Express” and New York “ Journal” to pro- reaction in French literature; looked at from another, it prepares the way for the Romantic School in France. ceed to the capital of the Transvaal. It is the best of introductions to the study and under- By a bit of bravado Mr. Unger succeeded standing of the Romantic School in Germany, it has in passing through the Portuguese territory, even points of contact with such remote phenomena as and was soon busily engaged in ingratiating Byron and Balzac. In a word, the Emigrant Literature himself with the Boer authorities, just as he constitutes the prologue to the great literary drama of the century." had done a few months before with the British. WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. He was for many days after the occupancy of Pretoria and the transfer of the seat of gov- ernment to Machadodorp the only source of news received in England and America from UNDER BOTH FLAGS IN SOUTH AFRICA.* the burgher government, and it was he who The feeling of weariness with which the announced to the world President Krueger's usual narrative of a South African war corre- determination to go on fighting without refer- spondent is taken up dissipates itself quickly ence to the loss of Pretoria and Bloemfontein a determination which seems to bave found in the case of Mr. Unger's entertaining and instructive book. The author's candor has some of its inspiration in our own War of In- much to do with this engagement of the atten. dependence, so far does a good deed shine in tion at the threshold of his story. The spirit versation which he had with Secretary Reitz, a naughty world. Mr. Unger relates a con- of adventure had taken him to the Klondyke whom he found studying a child's history of and he had undergone much suffering there. the United States. The news of the outbreak of hostilities between “• I've been reading here,' went on Mr. Reitz, be- the two Republics and Great Britain reached tween successive puffs of smoke, all about your Revo- *WITH "BOBS” AND KROGER: Experiences of an Amer- lutionary War, and I find it is extremely interesting; ican War Correspondent in the Field with Both Armies. By and what's more, so very encouraging to us at this Frederic William Unger. Illustrated from Photographs time. Look here,' and he began to turn the pages; •I taken by the Author. Philadelphia : Henry T. Coates & Co. read here that in the winter of 1777, when your General a - 280 [Oct. 16, THE DIAL Washington was at Valley Forge, near Philadelphia, their governments, will insist on their claims, and all his army was reduced to only fifteen hundred in num- sorts of unpleasant complications for England will be ber, and he knew the name of every man under bim, the result. Nothing will be done in this matter until and that at the same time the English beld your prin- the war is entirely at an end, for the Powers desire cipal cities of New York and Philadelphia. The com- that England shall have expended as much of her re- parison between that time and our present situation is sources as possible in her contest with the Republics. so very striking and so much in our favor that I feel England will certainly object to surrendering the greatly encouraged. You see, this is our winter, and mines, and then the trouble will begin.” our burghers are suffering severely; the British have possession of all our principal cities - Bloemfontein, As Mr. Unger adds, it will be interesting to Johannesburg, and Pretoria,— yet we have a fairly com- remember this phase of the complication. fortable capital here at Machadodorp; our armies have The post at Machadodorp was abandoned a plenty of supplies, and, though scattered, they number short time before President Krueger took ship at least fifteen thousand men, and their hearts are full for Holland, Mr. Unger finding it a difficult of hope and determination. Don't you see how much better off, in comparison, than you were, we are in this one. His sympathies seem to have been divided our darkest hour. And yet you won your liberty and between the two contestants in such a manner independence; and I think we will also, for I know we that he was able to avoid much of the prejudice are in the right, and I believe God will help us!' And in favor of either. This is not shown in his the old man looked intently at me, his eyes glistening, his entire being radiating belief and complete confidence final chapter, however, where he gives credence in what he was saying. to the British tale of a general conspiracy on “What an appeal to my school-boy enthusiasm and the part of the Afrikander Bund to drive the patriotism! I felt tears coming to my eyes; I sought English out of South Africa, in the face of in vain for something to say to encourage and comfort the authorities to the contrary; and his state- the old statesman and patriot sitting beside me, his eyes sparkling with hope and enthusiasm as he talked ment that the aims of the United States and and turned over the pages of that familiar school-book. Great Britain in the world are identical, in the Then, as I thought how my country, where almost every face of Washington's warning and all our man and woman and school-child within its boundaries earlier history. Still, this attitude makes the were watching this unequal struggle, half a world away, book one from which both sides can obtain en. with sympathy for one contestant and anger for the other, our own hereditary enemy - as I thought how lightenment; and his parting advice to the - my country had stood aloof, her administration crying victors, to use their victory honestly and avoid Neutrality! neutrality! while with her left hand she pressing toward the total extinction of the Re- allowed and encouraged the selling of millions worth publics, is undeniably sound. of horses and forage to England to use in the war, and with her right hand refused to insist on the enforcement In addition to its presentation of the serious of neutrality on the part of Portugal where American side of the war and its diplomacy, there are supplies for the burghers were being wrongly detained scores of entertaining anecdotes in the book in the customs-bouse, that the armies of the Republics concerning the men with whom Mr. Unger was might be starved into submission as these things brought in contact during his sojourn in Africa, passed through my mind I grew sad and sick at heart.” Mr. Reitz assured Mr. Unger that the burghers to have been something more than a leader and could hold out six months longer, and the benefactor to the British soldier. sequel proves that they have been able to ex- JOHN J. HOLDEN. tend that time already more than eleven months, with prospects of an almost indefinite extension, completely justifying President Krueger's statement to Mr. Unger on June 5, 1900, "We THE OPINIONS OF A STATESMAN.* will never surrender as long as five hundred armed men remain together. When one considers the methods by which Nor will the difficulties be ended when the political parties choose the men who fill our last of the burghers lay down their arms, if offices and manage our public affairs, and the ever they do. One of the government officials kind of men who pull the wires that bring told Mr. Unger at Machadodorp this story: about nominations, it is a cause of profound satisfaction as well as of wonder that our highest “The [Transvaal] government originally leased the mines [about Johannesburg] with the provision that if office has been filled by a succession of men of at any time they should remain unworked for a period ability and honor, of whom we have good reason of six months the leases would revert to the government. to be proud. It is really a most striking tribute Of course, the beginning of the war put a stop to all to the insight and discrimination of the mass mining operatione, and when the war was six months old the government privately sold the reverted leases * VIEWS OF AN EX-PRESIDENT. By Benjamin Harrison. to French and German capitalists. Now when the war Compiled by Mary Lord Harrison. With portrait. Indian- is officially declared over, these capitalists, through apolis : The Bowen-Merrill Co. a 1901.] 281 THE DIAL to a of our voters, with perhaps a wholesome ad- trine of the equality of man in the sight of mixture of fear of the independent minority God; of the individual's right to decide what whom the party managers cannot count on to things were Cæsar's and what things were vote as they dictate, that the men nominated God's; and of the doctrine that king and sub- for the office of president are worthy in char. ject were brothers equally insignificant in the acter and ability to stand at the head of sight of God. He shows also the influence of great nation. And it is interesting to see how unstinted land upon the character of the people, men who have been rated as second class by of the nearness of hostile savages, and of the their opponents, if not by their friends, bave simplicity and absence of distinctions of the risen to meet their responsibilities, and have life of the colonists. The lecture closes with given the nation no cause for shame; and a discussion of local government both as a tra- see what unsuspected gifts lay concealed in ditional principle among Englishmen, and as a some politicians who had been long in promi- necessity under the conditions prevailing in nent positions before the people. the New World. While these remarks are not intended to The nature of the other five lectures is in. apply especially to Mr. Harrison, they are dicated sufficiently by their titles : The Co- illustrated in a way by the volume under con- lonial Charters, Legal Aspects of the Contro- sideration. It is made up of his papers and versy between the American Colonies and addresses on subjects of public interest written Great Britain, Early Attempts at Union and after the close of his administration in 1893. the Union De Facto, The Confederation, and The collection shows an earnest devotion to the The Institution of State Governments. public good, a sound wisdom on public ques- Next follow three papers into which the vet- tions, and a felicity of presentation, that make eran statesman evidently put his whole heart, the volume an admirable memorial of a distin- which, though they have been violently criti- guished public servant. cized for their political bearings, yet show a First in the book come six lectures on statesman's grasp of fundamental principles as the origins of the Constitution, delivered applied to great political questions at home at Stanford University in 1894. They go and abroad. These papers were published in over ground that is familiar to every student the “ North American Review” early in the of our history, but they have a distinct value present year, and are yet so fresh in the public in their clear statement of the principles of mind that there is now no need of a synopsis development of our institutions, a power which of them. The author may have belonged to a the distinguished author developed through a generation that is too old to reverse its long- long course of speaking to popular audiences cherished ideas as to the nature of our govern- in political campaigns. His treatment of the ment and its relation to the territory that lies well-worn subject is also enriched by his famil. beyond immediate reach, a generation that is iarity with the practical affairs of government beyond the point where it can change its con- gained through senatorial discussions and law- ception of the Constitution even at the bidding making, and through the intense labors of ad- of the Supreme Court, - especially when the ministration incident to his position at the reasoning of that court does not command con- head of the nation. The lectures bear on their fidence. But we cannot but honor him for his face the evidence that they are not the work courage in opposing the policy of the party of a professional scholar, but rather of a prac- that had highly honored him, and in striking tical man of scholarly tastes ; the general sturdy blows for those principles that he be- reader will find no disadvantage in this. lieved vital to the welfare of the nation that he The first lecture discusses the vital principles loved; and we must recognize the strength of of the Constitution, partly as inherited through argument and ardent patriotism that we see in ages of national growth in England, and partly the Michigan University address on 6. The as the result of a combination of these inherited Status of Annexed Territory” and in the principles with the religious, social, and physical “Musings on Current Topics. conditions of the new world. The author rightly The second part of the book contains, besides makes much of the influence of Puritanism in a legal argument on “ The Inheritance Tax the development of our national character Cases" and several brief occasional addresses, through New England; of the fidelity to con- the strong address on “Some Hindrances to viction that it bred; of the ideas of freedom Law Reforms” given to the students of the and equality as a result of the levelling doc- | University of Michigan, and the similar one 282 [Oct. 16, THE DIAL on “The Obligations of Wealth” spoken be- conclusions which, rejected by the church of his fore the Union League Club of Chicago on day, have become the fundamentals of modern Washington's Birthday. Both are striking theology. That up to the present time we have appeals to the conscience of the people to ex- had, in English, no satisfactory life of so remark- tirpate from the body politic an evil that threat- able a man is more than strange, but now Mr. Joseph McCabe's volume (Putnam) atones ex- ens to corrupt our public life at its source, ceptionally well for the deficiency. The story of and one that offers most encouragement to pub- the brilliant controversialist's career is one of ab- lic lawlessness. This evil is the corrupt use of sorbing interest, dramatic, full of striking incidents, wealth to prevent reforms aimed at the unright- glowing with the warmth of an ardent and high- eous advantages that such wealth holds and hearted personality, and Mr. McCabe has made the uses to take more than its share of the products most of its possibilities. Thoroughly familiar with of industry or the gifts of nature; and the twin the philosophical and ecclesiastical discussions of evil of robbing the people by avoiding just the time, and with the characters of those who taxes, and thus compelling others to bear more were shaping men's lives then, as he shows himself to be, he makes the men and the movements, the than their share of public burdens for the ben- efit of those most able to pay. If the earnest passions and purposes that stirred them, clear and convincingly real at once. From the beginning the and weighty words of this tried public servant interest centres in the man rather than in his ideas; could only reach and touch this class of public and for this reason, perhaps, the reader not famil- robbers, respectable men though many of them iar with the wranglings of the schoolmen may are, he would be a public benefactor indeed. sometimes, like little Peterkin, wish to know what The inspiring addresses delivered by Mr. it was all about. This, however, will be true of Harrison as president of the Ecumenical details only; the general course of Abelard's rea- Missionary Conference last year are worthy of soning, the basic principles of his thought, are made special note. Nowhere has he shown greater have interrupted the rapid movement of the story: sufficiently clear, and more than this might easily felicity of expression or greater nobility of As it is, the misfortunes of a life devoted to truth ideas and spirit than in these brief utterances. in an age of ecclesiastical tyranny are full of a It is necessary to speak, unpleasant though it pathos which is heightened by the strangely sweet may be, of the great change of tone that becomes and enduring love of Heloise, whom Mr. McCabe evident in turning from the sincere and earnest portrays with singularly clear and true penetration. speeches that show a wise statesman and good So manifestly unjust and cruel were the persecu- . man at his best, to the few partisan addresses tions that chastened Abelard's eager spirit towards and articles contained in the book. Instead of the last sad days among the monks at St. Marcellus deep indignation at corruption and at what he that the indignant reader will be tempted to repeat deemed destructive public policy, we have the his heart-wrung question, “Good Jesus, where wert Thou?” For readers of all classes, the writer's politician's professional and perfunctory indig. nation at the policy and alleged corruption of sympathy with his subject will be found infectious, and both for its scholarly and for its human inter- the other party. Instead of the statesman's and est the book should be widely read by those who the lawyer's sound reasoning, we have the poli- care to trace the development of the human spirit. tician's fallacies of balf-truths and the poli- tician's misrepresentation of the men and The price placed upon the sumptuous exposition of first edition of Mr. H. C. Marillier's measures on the other side. As stump speeches Rossetti's art. “ Illustrated Memorial of the Art these papers serve the purpose, but they make and Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti” was prohibitive a sorry showing beside the dignified and sound to the impecunious, and Rossettians of slender purse contents of the volume. could but await in patience the appearance of a CHARLES H. COOPER. cheaper edition, which usually follows in due course the first publication of such a book. After nearly two years the work is now issued (Macmillan) in a form which, though by no means inexpensive, may BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. be bad for considerably less than half the price of No theologian of the middle ages A famous lover the original edition. Of books dealing with Ros- and theologian of offers a more attractive individuality setti the man there are enough,-more than enough, the Middle Ages. than Peter Abelard, and the interest perhaps, and Mr. Marillier has not sought to add which we have in him is many-sided. As the lover another to the list. His volume is essentially an of Heloise his name is immortal in romance; as account of Rossetti's art, and concerned with the keenest dialectician of his age he is of import- biographical details only so far as necessary to con- ance in the history of philosophy; and as an ad- nect and illustrate the artistic record. In critical vanced thinker on matters of religion he reached soundness, thoroughness, and manner of presenta- An authoritative 1901.] 283 THE DIAL The career 6 9 tion, the work leaves little to be desired. It was a consideration and forbearance which make them readily accepted on its first appearance as the au- the best of reading. In almost every case the old, thoritative account of Rossetti's art, and we are not old lesson is repeated which proves that kindness is likely ever to have a better. In addition to the the best policy, and that all greed and selfishness correction of some minor errors of statement, the works to its own undoing. All of the stories, in- present edition has been considerably abridged in terpreting the characters of the lower animals in both text and illustrations. The excisions are such, terms of our own character as they do, have just however, as only the closest student of Rossetti's claim to be considered literature in the fine sense work need miss. They consist mainly, in the text, of the word, the simplicity and sincerity of the of some of the detailed descriptions of particular author's style leaving the matter beyond doubt. A works; and the chronological list of pictures, one of word should be said for the excellent illustrations the most valuable features of the book, now appears which have been provided for the book by Messrs. without the historical notes. As regards the illus- Max F. Klepper, J. Carter Beard, Jay Hambidge, trations, the absence of some important pictures, and Will H. Drake, rounding it out into a thor- , notably several from Mr. Rae's fine collection, is oughly worthy whole. explained by the fact that arrangements with the owners of originals made it impossible to include Mr. Perry's “St. Louis,” in Putnam's reproductions in any other than the first edition. of St. Louis “ Heroes of the Nations” series, of France. But even with these omissions, the pictorial equip- is a straightforward account of the ment is lavish indeed. There are twelve finely King who consecrated monarchy in France, making . executed photogravures, no less than eighty full- it in fact, as it was by tradition, the fountain of page plates in half-tone, and a number of line justice. To write a successful biography of one, illustrations in the text. The frontispiece is a the outlines of whose personality seem so familiar beautiful photogravure from Rossetti's masterpiece, even if they are often actually vague, is not an easy “The Beloved,” — a painting which, to quote Mr. task. The chief difficulty is one of proportion. F. G. Stephens, “ is in English art what Spenser's During the minority of the King there were several gorgeous and passionate. Epithalamium is in feudal uprisings which at times seriously threatened English verse.” A very full index makes Mr. the monarchy, and would have crippled it but for Marillier's splendid volume readily accessible for the energy and tact of his mother, Blanche of Cas- tile. purposes of reference. If these are related with much detail, the reader is fatigued by the necessity of understanding Some notable Recognition of the rights of dumb the feudal geography of France. Moreover, he stories of animals is one of the gifts for which quite loses from sight the subject of the tale. At animal life. mankind may thank the vanishing times it seems as if Mr. Perry had committed this pineteenth century, and one of the advances of fault. At least a more general treatment of the civilization of which we have great cause to be incidents of the Regency would have brought his proud. Not the least of the bequests of that time readers more quickly to the subject they expect to to this is to be found in the beautiful book by the study, - that is to say, Louis IX. himself, and the late Hermon Lee Ensign, just published under the meaning of his career in the history of France. A title of “ Lady Lee, and Other Animal Stories' similar difficulty arises in the treatment of the (McClurg). The author was born in Carbondale, Crusades in which the King took part, although Pennsylvania, June 30, 1849. but his boy hood and here it is not so great because these were manifes- early youth were passed in Bureau county, Illinois. tations of his own character. Mr. Perry's account At the age of twenty-one he removed to Chicago, of them is clear and interesting. It would have in which city several years later he aided in the been fortunate had he given a proportionately establishment of "The Alliance," a weekly journal greater attention to the development of institutions of great promise and short life. With the experi- during the King's career, because this was even ence gained here, the young man took up the busi- more characteristic of St. Louis as a monarch. The ness of advertising, and soon amassed a competency, successes which he won against the barons were a successful invention or two adding to his wealth. merely symptoms of the general change which in From infancy a lover of animals, he gave freely his day became evident and by which the monarchy during his lifetime to the various societies for the began to 'dwarf even the greatest of the feudatories. prevention of cruelty to beasts and the humbler Consequently the change itself, and not its symp- creatures, and The National Humane Alliance, to toms, should be the theme of such a work. which he bequeathed the bulk of his fortune, was of his own institution. Always a lover of his pen, The first four volumes of “ The he left behind a mass of literary material at his Artists' Library” (Longmans), pub- untimely death in February, 1899, from which has art monographs. lished under the general editorship been selected the stories contained in this pleasant of Mr. Laurence Binyon, have been put forth, and volume. As might be expected, the ten little tales may be said to supply a want which has long been which make up the book are informed with a genial felt by an art-loving public. Each of the volumes and tender love for animated things, and bespeak is the work of an accepted authority, and consists An altractive series of 284 (Oct. 16, THE DIAL a 7 of a biographical and critical discussion upon some notice. The book will thus bring a legitimate . painter of repute, followed by numerous reproduc- stimulus to the nature-study movement, and in its tions in half-tone and photogravure, or half-tone perspective of relative values and its maintenance and color, of typical works from the artist's hand. of interest it may well serve as a model for writers The first volume of the series is by Mr. Charles who seek to popularize other fields of science. Holme, and deals with the great Japanese popularly Simple directions for collecting and preserving in- . known as Hokusai. A general consideration of the sects, and keys for the determination of the larger pictorial art of Japan precedes this account of one groups, together with suggestive bibliographies and of its most influential practitioners. Hokusai was abundant illustrations, will assist those who wish to born at Yedo in 1760, and after a life of vicissi- begin the study of insects with the aid of this book. tude, marked throughout by a noble devotion to The sixteen colored plates by the colorotype pro- the true spirit of art, he died in his ninetieth year cess, taken from the actual insects themselves, with the prayer, “ If Heaven had only granted me demonstrate the availability of this valuable pro- five more years I could have become a real painter.” cess of illustration for other forms than butterflies. The second volume, by Mr. Roger E. Fry, deals It is to be hoped that the Moth and the Beetle with Giovanni Bellini, and discusses the conditions books will soon follow. existent in Venice previous to the artist's birth in 1432. Bellini lived until 1516, dividing his years Mr. Walter J. Wells's “ Souvenir of A souvenir of between the city of his birth and its appurtenant England's most Sir Arthur Sullivan" (Mansfield) Padua Mr. T. Sturge Moore has prepared the popular composer. is a timely contribution to the rapidly volume on Albrecht Altdorfer, born in Amberg increasing library of musical literature. It is å about 1480, like Bellini the son of a painter of re- good biography of the Boswellian sort, and though pute. He removed to Ratisbon, where he lived in the author leaves to others the more attractive ease and dignity until his death in 1538. The last field of generalization, and contents himself with of the four volumes now published deals with Fran- the grouping of facts, we are given a comprehen- cisco José de Goya, whose work is sympathetically sive view of the life of the most popular composer treated by Mr. W. Rothenstein. This distinguished England has ever known. Sir Arthur was born of painter was born in Fuendetodos, near Saragossa, in musical parents in London on May 13, 1842, and 1746, of humble parentage. He was a born rebel, first came into public notice when fourteen years driven in early life from Madrid by his independ- of age as the successful candidate for the Men- ence of political and religious expression. He delssohn Scholarship at the Royal Academy. His studied in Rome and returned to the Spanish capi. career up to the time of the famous collaboration tal to be accepted as a leader by the younger men. with W. S. Gilbert was that of many another strug- Attaining all the honor possible in his native land, gling and ambitious composer. Then came the he went to Paris in 1822, aided in the great Pinafore,” — after which the career of Gilbert romantic movement then on foot in France, and and Sullivan is too well known to bear repetition ; died in Bordeaux in 1828. All the four painters yet in writing of the collaborators it seems difficult treated of expressed themselves also as draughts- to avoid the temptation to digress into the endless men or etchers, and examples of their work in all successes with which they were associated. Not- the media adopted add greatly to the value of the withstanding the success of his vocal works, in. illustrations. These, it should be added, are numer- cluding his well-known hymns, it is as a composer ous, not less than twenty in any instance. of orchestral music that Sir Arthur Sullivan will be remembered longest. The last work he ever The great success which attended the composed, and which he finished almost on his The insects of issue of “ The Butterfly Book” pre- death-bed, was a “Te Deum,” intended to be sung sages a warm welcome to another at St. Paul's on the termination of the war in South volume of the series, “ The Insect Book” (Double- Africa. The volume is handsomely printed and day, Page & Co.), by Dr. L. 0. Howard, Chief of adequately illustrated. & the Division of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture. It is a popular yet The first half of Mr. F. W. Headley's The problems authoritative and quite comprehensive account of of applied “Problems of Evolution" (Crowell) the ants, bees, wasps, grasshoppers, bugs, flies, and deals with the well-known arguments many other North American insects. This volume for the truth of organic evolution as propounded is especially rich in the natural history of these by Darwin and elaborated by Weismann, the Neo- animals, and offers a mine of information concern- Darwinian leader of to-day. The author enforces ing the wonderful facts of the insect world not pre- his straightforward argument by many apt illus- viously accessible to the general reader. Life- trations and some new points of view, seeking histories, habits, and the relations which insects throughout to maintain the supremacy of natural bear to agriculture and other forms of industry, are selection as the dominant force in the diversification copiously treated; while the large field still await- of life, and discrediting the Lamarckian factors of ing investigation and unknown as yet even to exercise, environment, and effort. He also shows scientists is constantly brought to the reader's very lucidly the part that variation plays in the 65 - North America. Darwinism. 1901.] 285 THE DIAL drama of development, a part limited the more first half of the present century. Inevitably the story narrowly by heredity as evolution advances. In loses in vividness and dramatic power, and this his later chapters the application is made to the study of a novel of purpose becomes valuable mainly a problems of human progress, the argument being for the light it throws on social and religious con- carried to its logical conclusion as regards conscious- ditions in a part of the world with which we have ness, the moral sense, and religion. The physical been but little acquainted. A style with more of degeneration of man which has resulted from the color would have helped in the telling ; but the suspension in civilized life of the rigorous weeding mixture of politics, love, religion, and intrigue is process of natural selection, is counterbalanced by interesting in spite of the baldness of the author's the higher morality attained ; and the author sug- literary art. gests that this physical degeneration may find its ultimate correction in the moral and religious mo- tives which will make the propagation of misery and BRIEFER MENTION. weakness a sin. The great unprogressive people The standard sets of popular authors published by - the Chinese — will eventually, according to our the Messrs. Crowell are now sixteen in number, and author, take their place among civilized nations in constitute a library of no less than one hundred and accordance with this inevitable law of evolution. seventy-four volumes. These sets are noteworthy for The tenor of the work is thus optimistic and whole- their simple tastefulness of manufacture, their excellent some, though vigorously partisan for one of the con- editing, and their moderate price. They are all attrac- tending schools of evolutionary thought. It deals tively illustrated. The latest of these sets to be com- with some of the most pressing problems of the pleted by the publishers gives us a selection from the hour in terms of the prevailing mode of thought, romances of Alexandre Dumas. There are ten volumes and is a work of unusual power and attractiveness in all, including “ Monte Cristo," the “Musketeer” tales, and the “ Valois” tales. Professor Adolphe Cohn for the thinking reader. contributes a general critical and biographical intro- duction to the series, and each separate romance has A textbook on American Literature A critical study its own preface as well. Each volume has one photo- must, in the nature of the case, con- of American verse. dense and omit, for its purpose is gravure and eight balf-tone illustrations. The important and useful series of books, eight in not to present the field in detail, but to give a care- number, entitled “Periods of European History,” fully-proportioned general survey. A history, how- (Macmillan) and edited by Mr. Arthur Hassall, is now ever, not intended primarily as a textbook, and completed by the publication of the volume, “ Modern covering only part of the subject, should give a Europe, 1815-1899,” by Mr. W. Allison Phillips. We fairly-detailed outline, with quotations enough (at now have in this series a complete, compact, and read- least from the less accessible material ) to justify exciuded), from the fall of the Western Empire to the ) able survey the author's estimate of its historical and intrinsic close of the nineteenth century. importance. Mr. James L. Onderdonk's "History of American Verse” (McClurg) too often assumes A “Handy Dictionary of Prose Quotations,” and a “ Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations,” both edited the reader's acquaintance with the originals, especi- by Mr. George W. Powers, are two volumes of pocket- ally in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. able size published by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. The author has gone over the field with great care There is a key word for each quotation, and these words and thoroughness; and his estimates, though they supply the basis of an alphabetical arrangement. Each often fail to carry conviction because phrased in volume has an index to authors and an index to the the humorously-meant circumlocutions of journal- quotations given. “ Who's the Author," edited by Mr. istic English, are always careful, sensible, and in- Louis Harman Peet, is a companion to the two above- dependent. If it is true, as another historian of mentioned volumes, and gives, in alphabetical arrange- ment, the titles of thousands of American writings American literature has lately said, that "current (including single poems), with the names of authors, criticism tends perceptibly to depreciate our native the dates of publication, and frequently a line or two of literature," Mr. Onderdonk's interesting volume characterization. It strikes us as a very useful little should help to counteract the tendency and to lead book. us to a juster view. In producing a neat and inexpensive set of “The Complete Works of John Keats," as edited by Mr. A study in In “ The Christian in Hungarian | Harry Buxton Forman, the Messrs. Crowell bave done Hungarian Romance” (Jas. H. West Co., Bos- a great service to all lovers of English literature. The ton) Mr. John Fretwell gives us, in edition is in five volumes, and is even more complete the space of a little over a hundred pages, a sort than the monumental four-volume library edition first of abstract of Maurus Jokai's novel, “ There Is a published by Mr. Forman eighteen years ago. Since God,” together with such comment on the religious that time many important Keats papers have come to light, and these have been drawn upon for the present and social aspects of the life treated as seems to be edition. In form, this set of books is a little like the called for. The novel is a setting of Unitarian “ Temple Classics.” The volumes have frontispieces purity and idealism in Transylvania against the and rubricated title-pages. The text is fairly legible, background of Catholic corruption, worldliness, and although we must say that the typography of the pre- insincerity as found in Rome and Vienna in the faces and notes is a little trying for the eyes. 9 > romance. 32 а 286 (Oct. 16, THE DIAL > a ited for this publication by Mr. Francis Whiting Halsey, NOTES. who was responsible for their original preparation. The An important collection of the unpublished letters of volume has many illustrations, of both persons and Daniel Webster, numbering over one thousand in all, is places, and the subjects of the sketches are all living, announced by Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Co. with the single exception of John Fiske. “Shakespeare's Songs,” in a pretty volume illustrated The Oxford University Press is about to add to its - Oxford Poets" series Professor Skeat's complete by Mr. Henry Ospovat, is a recent publication of Mr. John Lane. edition of Chaucer, and a miniature volume of Brown- “Sartor” and “Heroes" are given us as ing's “Dramatic Lyrics and Romances and Other Carlyle's Poems." The first two volumes of the Oxford India the contents of a new volume in the Messrs. Macmillan's handsome “Library of English Classics." paper edition of Dickens will be issued at once. Miss Caroline B. Le Row's “ English As She Is “ The Cathedral Church of Ripon,” by Mr. Cecil Hallett, is a new volume in “Bell's Cathedral Series,” Taught," with its introduction by “ Mark Twain,” is an amusing little book that enjoyed a considerable vogue published in this country by the Macmillan Co. some fifteen years ago, and it was no doubt worth re- “Selections from Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales," producing, as has recently been done by the Century edited by Mr. Charles Robert Gaston, is a new “ Pocket Co. It may be recommended as a source of unfailing Classic” published by the Macmillan Co. for the use of delight to its readers. schools. The American agency for the sale of the publications 6 White's Selborne" is a recent addition to the « Li- issued by the Plantin-Moretus Museum of Antwerp has brary of Standard Literature " published by the Messrs. been secured by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Putnam. The Introdnction is the joint work of Messrs. These publications consist, for the most part, of limited L. C. Miall and W. Warde Fowler. proofs in portfolio form of the copper and wood cuts A complete and unabridged translation of Count originally used by the famous Plantin-Moretus family Tolstoi's “ Anna Karenina,” made from the original of printers, and now in the possession of the Museum. Russian by Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole, will be issued at To the “ Day's Work Series,” published by Messrs. once by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. L. C. Page & Co., five volumes have just been added. In the familiar form and typography of the Bohn They are: “ The Lonely God” and “ A Strange Sin," libraries, we have from the press of the Macmillan Co. both by Mr. Coulson Kernahan; “ Consolation” and a new issue, in three volumes, of Prescott's “ Conquest “ Faith as Related to Health,” both by Mr. William E. of Mexico,” as edited by Mr. John Foster Kirk. Barton; and “ The Unknown Singers," which is a vol- A second series of “Famous Actors of the Day in ume of selections from the Psalms, made by the Rev. America,” by Mr. Lewis C. Strang, is a companion to the C. F. Dole. similar volume on actresses recently mentioned in these Dr. Windelband's “ History of Philosophy,” in the columns, and is published by Messrs. L. C. Page & Co. authorized translation of Professor James H. Tufts, has Dr. David Masson's “Chatterton,” an essay now reached a second edition, which comes to us from the nearly fifty years old, has just been made into a book, Macmlllan Co. There are numerous revisions in the with considerable revisions and extensions by its vener- text, and the translator bas added “a brief notice of able author, and is published by Messrs. Dodd, Mead certain aspects of recent English thought, which natur. & Co. ally have more interest for the readers of this transla- « The Personality of Thoreau," by Mr. F. B. Sanborn, tion than for those of the original." is announced for publication in a finely-printed limited “ The Meditations, and Selections from the Principles edition by Mr. Charles E. Goodspeed, Buston. The of René Descartes " is a new volume in the “ Religion volume will include several verses by Thoreau hitherto of Science Library,” sent us by the Open Court Pub- unpublished. lishing Co. The translation is by Dr. John Veitch. « England's Story," by Miss Eva March Tappan, is These publishers are doing a highly valuable educa- a school history for the intermediate grades — the kind tional work in thus making easily accessible the philo- of book with which to end the grammar school or begin sophical classics of the world, and their enterprise the course in the bigh school. It is published by Messrs. deserves generous recognition and support. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. There appears to be a distinct place for the new The “ Pocket Edition of Balzac,” now being issued monthly periodical that Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. by Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co., is to fill thirty vol. are just issuing. It is called “Country Life in America,” umes, which may be purchased separately. The trans- is largely modelled upon the lines of a similar English lation is Miss Wormeley's, and the volumes have publication, and is edited by Mr. Liberty H. Bailey. It photogravure frontispieces. appeals to everybody who lives in the country, even for Mr. David Nutt of London has in preparation for a part of the year, and to everybody who wants to live early issue an edition of Sheridan's Plays, privted for in the country. The page is large, strikingly handsome the first time from the author's MSS., and edited by in typography, and adorned with many illustrations, Mr. W. Fraser Rae. Sheridan's graudson, the Mar- “A Bibliographical Contribution to the Study of quess of Dufferin and Ava, will contribute an Introduc- John Ruskin ” is a privately printed issue of the Cam- tion to the edition. bridge Riverside Press. The work is by Miss M. Ethel 66 American Authors and Their Homes" is the title Jameson, and represents a thesis presented to the school of an attractive volume just published by Messrs. James of Library Science in the University of Chicago. An Pott & Co. The sketches, twenty-two in number, which outline sketch of Ruskin's life, and a few critical quo- make up the contents of this volume have been written tations, precede the bibliography proper, which fills by various hands, and originally appeared in the New nearly a hundred pages. The list of review articles is York “ Times.” They have now been revised and ed- somewhat lengthy, and should prove particularly useful. 1901.) 287 THE DIAL LIST OF NEW BOOKS. 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APPLETON & COMPANY, Publishers NEW YORK THE DIAL A Semis Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information. PAGE . 321 322 324 No. 369. NOVEMBER 1, 1901. Vol. XXXI. Mr. Lang, Mr. Gosse, Mr. Howells, and Mr. Matthews, or for those on life and society cor- CONTENTS. responding to the essays of Stevenson, or to the short papers of George William Curtis, WOMAN AND THE ESSAY. Edith Dickson . 309 Charles Dudley Warner, and Mr. Higginson, SOME EARLY ANTI-SLAVERY PUBLICATIONS. we shall look in vain among women writers. F. H. Hodder . 310 We have, in truth, no women essayists. Miss Repplier might perhaps be cited as an COMMUNICATION . . 311 Mr. Frederic Harrison as a Critic of Tennyson. exception ; but though undeniably clever, she Alexander Jessup. is overweighted by her voluminous reading, and lacks both of the indispensable qualities of JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. William Morton Payne 312 the essayist. For whether the essay be as keen CHINA'S INTELLECTUAL LIFE. Wallace Rice 316 in insight and as subtle in interpretation as Pater's on Leonardo da Vinci, or as simple as MCCLELLAN AS A GREAT COMMANDER. Isaac R. Pennypacker Warner's in the “ Editor's Drawer,” its essen- 318 tial charms are to be looked for in the indi. A COMPOSITE AMERICAN HISTORY. Francis W. viduality and style of the writer. In other Shepardson forms of literature the author may project his MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN ACTRESS. Ingram work from himself, and literary finish is not so A. Pyle indispensable; but the essay must have the BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS flavor of personality and the distinction of South Africa's material resources. An attempted style. In both of these requisites the work of revival of phrenology.-An echo from Arden Forest. women is lacking. There are no papers writ- - A famous periodical in facsimile. – A study of English words. - Religious progress in the last cen- ten by women in which we feel the attraction tury. - The life and letters of two English musicians. of individuality, and no woman has yet written - Welsh history and a great Welsh hero. – Village in the English language who can be said to life and antiquities in England. - A black portrait of Turkey's ruler. -Some intimate sketches of have literary style in the sense in which it can famous New Englanders. fairly be claimed for fifty or more men among BRIEFER MENTION. living or recent writers. 327 Do we find such slight indications of per- NOTES sonality in the writings of women because they have less individuality than men? A writer TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS 329 ? in one of the leading periodicals a few years LIST OF NEW BOOKS 329 ago was at some pains to prove this to be the case. But granting a measure of truth in the hypothesis, there are other possible explana- WOMAN AND THE ESSAY. tions for the fact that women show little per- At first thought, it might seem that if there sonality in their writings. is one field of literature more than another in Women are at once more self-conscious and which women are likely to excel, that field more conventional than men. They may be would be the light essay. But the facts show spontaneous and individual in an intimate cor- precisely the contrary. There is no lack of respondence, but in anything more public they articles, profound, clever, and able, written by rarely show their real selves freely and natur- women on all manner of subjects. Miss Scud-ally. Probably the desire for self-revelation der, Mrs. Deland, Mrs. Van Rensselaer, and is stronger in women than in men, but there is Mrs. Sangster, are but a few out of the many always a pose in conscious efforts to communi- American women whose names come readily cate one's self, whether the striver be a Marie to mind as writers of philosophical, historical, Bashkirtseff or a Rousseau. It is only when, biographical, or practical papers. But for in self-forgetfulness, one says straight out what critical essays in light vein, such as those of he genuinely thinks and feels, that he becomes . . 328 . . . . . . . . . 310 [Nov. 1, THE DIAL > ) the sex. a 66 personally interesting. This, women never do, SOME EARLY ANTI-SLAVERY and apparently cannot do. They do not seem PUBLICATIONS. to know how to let go of themselves, and either practice severe self-repression, or else they at- A few months ago a writer in THE DIAL took titudinize, or become unduly confidential and Professor Barrett Wendell to task for omitting to familiar with their public. mention in his “Literary History of America Probably another reason why the short, Mrs. Lydia Maria Child's book, issued in 1833, entitled “ An Appeal for that Class of Americans bright essay, dealing cleverly with men and called Africans,” which he claimed was incontestably things, is not written by women, lies in the “the first Anti-Slavery book published in America."* incompatibility between the feminine tempera- Knowing that there were a number of earlier anti- ment and the tone of the essay. Women are slavery books, I have made a point of picking them by nature partisans. They take themselves up as rapidly as I have run across their titles in the and their views too seriously to handle a sub catalogues of second-hand booksellers. A rough ject with humor and impartiality. The attitude list of “Anti-Slavery Publications from 1750 to of the disinterested spectator is impossible to 1863,” compiled by the Rev. Samuel May, Jr., was Rarely do we find a woman who is added to the “Report of the Third Decade Meet- both a keen and a tolerant observer of life. In ing of the American Anti-Slavery Society,” and a list of publications before 1835 is given by General fact, the knowledge of life which constitutes William Birney as an appendix to his “Life of the recognized background of the essayist is James G. Birney.” Notices of the earlier anti- wanting in women. They may, through social slavery publications may be found in the “Life of settlements and charity organizations, come to Garrison” by his sons, and in other similar works. know how the other half lives"; but that is The test of what constitutes a book is somewhat quite a different thing from knowledge of life. arbitrary; but, in the popular sense, any publica- The lack of literary style among women tion bound in board covers is a book. writers, which would hinder a compiler of a Passing over a number of sermons and tracts book of model prose extracts for analysis from belonging to the Colonial period, the earliest original making a selection from the work of any anti-slavery book published in the United States ap- pears to have been a little 16mo, issued in Philadel- woman, is largely due to causes already men- phia in 1816, entitled “ The Book and Slavery Irre- tioned. If the style is the man, individuality concilable,” by the Rev. George Bourne. It might in style cannot be separated from individuality be questioned whether this may properly be called an in thought. Women frequently are fluent, American book, as the author was born in England; easy, and graceful in expression, but they sel- but it was certainly "an anti-slavery book published dom attain a distinguishing any more than a in America.” This book was the source of many of distinguished style. When they attempt to be the most telling phrases afterward used by Garrison. serious or profound, they are usually labored; Little biographical information respecting Bourne when, on the other hand, they essay the light is now accessible. There is a short notice of him in touch, they become flippant and diffuse. The Appletons' “ Cyclopædia of American Biography," but most of the statements contained in it appear to easy conversational tone degenerates with them be erroneous, He came to America early in the into triviality, through lack of being subjected century, and encountered the institution of Slavery to the rigid control of good taste. during a residence in Maryland and Virginia. Per- Undoubtedly a choice diction and fine liter- secution finally drove him to Canada, whence he ary finish do not come to anyone by nature. returned and in 1832 settled in New York, where They are achieved only with infinite pains. he engaged in editorial work until his death in 1845. Women, as a rule, are not willing to exercise He continued writing against slavery to the end of the tireless patience necessary to acquire the his life. A book by him entitled “ Pictures of little touches that distinguish the artistic from Slavery in the United States," published in 1834, the commonplace use of language. Conse- was illustrated by curious wood-euts of “ Selling Females by the Pound," "Ladies Whipping Girls," quently they are never artists in the use of and the like. words. These are at least among the reasons In 1817, two more anti-slavery publications were why women, though they may excel as writers issued. The first was not a book but a little tract of fiction, history, biography, travel, of prac- of 59 pages, issued in blue paper wrappers at tical and theoretical articles of all sorts, and of Cambridge, Mass. It was entitled “Horrors of clever sketches, are not as yet contributing Slavery: In Two Parts,” by John Kenrick of anything worthy of mention to the most finished Newton, Mass. It contained no original matter. of all forms of Part I. consisted of extracts from parliamentary literature. prose EDITH DICKSON. * THE DIAL, Feb. 1, 1901, p. 68. A 1901.] 311 THE DIAL > ) a speeches taken from Clarkson's "History of the in the United States was due not to any one person Abolition of the Slave Trade," and Part II. was or coterie of persons, but to a very large number made up of opinions of various American and of people working independently in different parts foreign writers respecting slavery. Among the of the country, most of them not writing for extracts is one from a pamphlet to which I find publication but using their influence in public and no other reference. It was written by Jarvis Brew- private station in furtherance of the cause. Inci- ster, entitled "An Exposition of the Treatment of dentally it may be remarked that a great deal of Slaves in the Southern States,” and printed at New work still remains to be done upon the history of Brunswick, N. Y., in 1815. Kenrick caused a the beginnings of the anti-slavery movement in copy of his tract to be laid upon the desk of every America. F. H. HODDER. U. S. Senator and Member of Congress. The second anti-slavery publication of this year was entitled “Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States," by Jesse Torrey, Jr., an octavo of 94 pages, bound in boards and issued in Phila- COMMUNICATION. delphia. The book describes a trip from Pittsburg MR. FREDERIC HARRISON AS A CRITIC OF to Washington, and the abuse of slaves that was TENNYSON. witnessed en route. The author was a physician, (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) who wrote a number of books upon other subjects, Mr. Frederic Harrison, in his essay on Tennyson in the titles of which are given by Allibone. Kenrick's his recent volume of “Literary Estimates," says of “In tract and Torrey's book were both denounced in a Memoriam ”; “Indeed, with all its art, melody, and speech delivered in the Senate March 6, 1818, by charm, we see from time to time in In Memoriam'a Wm. Smith of South Carolina. little too visibly the sad mechanic exercise' which is. The next anti-slavery book was entitled “A the inevitable result of too rigid and prolonged devotion Treatise on Slavery,” by the Rev. James Duncan, the uses of measured language.” printed at Vevay, Indiana, in 1824. I have not That would do very well, alone; but a little farther seen a copy of the original edition, but a reprint on in the same essay Mr. Harrison seems so to alter bis issued in 1840, by the American Anti-Slavery opinion as to speak of “ Tennyson's religious and philo- Society, makes a closely-printed little book of 136 sophical pieces (especially • In Memoriam,' the most perfect of his poems), because his claim to rank as the pages. It is written in the dry and formal style of the old-time sermon. supreme poet of the nineteenth century must rest on this is Very little can be learned on anything." And a little farther on still, he says: of the author. The editor of the reprint says that “It is a far happier task to turn to the more distinctly he had intended to give a biographical sketch of lyrical work of Tennyson - that whereon his permanent him, bat bad mislaid the notes for it. fame must abide.” The italics, in both cases, are mine. In 1826 a little book entitled “Letters on Ameri. Now, it seems to me that most admire of Tennyson can Slavery” was published by the Rev. John will agree with Mr. Harrison in his latter statement; Rankin at Ripley, Ohio. The letters were very vio- but it is hard for them to understand his singular dis- lent in tone, and became extremely popular with the agreement with himself. In two different books, or even in two different essays in the same book, such con- radical abolitionists. Garrison reprinted them in tradictions of view might be excused on the ground of the second volume of “The Liberator,” and they changed views ("I do not let wbat I think to-day keep afterwards ran through half a dozen editions. Its me from thinking what I ought to-morrow"). But in author continued & vigorous war against slavery the same essay they cannot be allowed to pass unchal- until the victory was achieved. lenged, - especially as Mr. Harrison's Tennyson "esti- One other book that should be mentioned here mate" is full of “this sort of thing.” is “Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in Another example may perhaps suffice. Mr. Harrison, the Several States of the United States,” by Mr. having spoken of Tennyson as “the supreme poet of George M. Stroud, the first edition of which, pub- the nineteenth century,” surprises us by remarking, a. little later on: lished in Philadelphia in 1827, made an octavo of “ It may be doubted if his ultimate place in our literature will at all overtop that of Burns, 180 pages. This book is still extremely interesting Wordsworth, Byron, or Shelley.” In the name of and instructive reading. Though not professedly “ serious, patient, and absolutely impartial criticism," an anti-slavery book, it is strongly imbued with it may be asked what Burns is doing in such high com- anti-slavery principles, and in its plain statement pany. Burns is a minor poet of very genuine if very of legal conditions constitutes to the mind of the limited merit, but he has no claim to a place among the present-day reader a much stronger indictment of “ far-darters ” of “the peaks of song.” Concerning the slavery than the more direct attacks upon the in- ratings of the other three, competent critics would have stitution. The author was Judge of the Circuit us believe that it will be “merely a matter of opinion Court of the City and County of Philadelphia. for a score of years at least. The next anti-slavery book issued in the United If the fame of Tennyson's lyrics is “ that whereon his permanent fame must abide,” it may be well to dis- States was Mrs. Child's work, an able book and cover which of those lyrics are of greatest worth. Mr. longer than its predecessors, but certainly not “the Harrison says: “ Above all others are the songs in The first anti-slavery book published in America.” The Brook,' The Princess,' and in Maud.'” I cannot main point is that the rise of anti-slavery sentiment think that “the concensus of critical opinion ” agrees a a >> 6 6 6 312 (Nov. 1, THE DIAL of a > 9 with these dicta of Mr. Harrison. He speaks of "the songs in The Brook,'” but after an exhaustive search The New Books. through the ten volumes of the definitive edition of Tennyson, I can find but one song in “The Brook.” This, it is true, is broken into several parts. Mr. Har- rison, as a critic, should be more careful in his state- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.* ments. The song in “The Brook” is charming; but is “ I am richer than he thinks for,” Lowell it very much more? Or rather, is it as much more once wrote to his friend Briggs, apropos than charming as are many others of Tennyson's lyrics? In fact, I think it the very slightest in merit of Tenny- recent notice which had intimated that the son's twenty or twenty-five best lyrics. The songs in young poet was in easy circumstances. “I am « The Princess," “ The Splendor Falls on Castle the first poet who has endeavored to express Walls,” “ Tears, Idle Tears," “O Swallow, Swallow," the American Idea, and I shall be popular by “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal,” and “Come Down, O Maid," I are of course delightful lyrics; that almost and by. Only I suppose I must be dead first. goes without saying, since they are Tennyson's lyrics. But I do not want anything more than I have.” But, even admitting that they are in the first rank of These words were written in the annus mira. Tennyson's lyrics, are they, in the language of the bilis of Lowell's youth, the year which pro- Oxford schools, such “good firsts as the lyrics “A duced “The Fable for Critics,” “ The Biglow Farewell,” “Choric Song,” “Far - Far Away,” “In the Valley of Cauteretz," "Requiescat,” « Sir Galahad,” Papers,” and “The Vision of Sir Launfal.” “ ” « “ Crossing the Bar," “ The Deserted House," and " The It is as the poet of the American Idea, so nobly Silent Voices"? The songs in “ The Princess," Mr. expressed in these early writings, and even Harrison says, are most bewitching." That is true, more nobly in some of the later ones, that we but Tennyson at his lyric best is more than that. Mr. Harrison speaks of “Ulysses cherish the memory of Lowell, and turn to him, as one of the “ Idylls." It, and “Vastness," are the two poems of rather than to any other, for cheer and conso- Tennyson which most evade classification. It is of lation in such a time as our own, when the course easy to classify and measure after this fashion. Idea upon which he had fixed his faith seems It is more difficult to classify and measure correctly. to have become submerged beneath a flood of If Mr. Harrison gave more attention to helping “the reader who wants criticism,” both writer and reader corruption, self-seeking ambition, and the cyn- would be better off. ical disregard of our pational obligations. It Mr. Harrison quotes the first line of “ Despair". may be urged that the American Idea, as Lowell “Is it you that preach'd in the chapel there looking over the voiced it, was nothing more than the New sand?" England Idea, or the Puritan Idea, but we are And says: “This is not poetry, with 16 syllables and of those who believe that the best expression 52 letters in the line." It is true that this line is not utter poetry, but not especially because it contains 16 thus far given to Americanism in its finer syllables and 52 letters. It would probably be neither sense is the expression given it by the group better nor worse poetry if it contained 49 letters, or 63 of New England writers who for many years letters. Perhaps, if the line were printed, held the national conscience so largely in their “Is it you that preach'd in the chapel, keeping, and of whom Lowell was at once the There, looking over the sand ?" raciest and the most deeply imbued with those Mr. Harrison would have less trouble in deciphering what poetic quality it possesses. Yet where is the essen- moral principles which are the only real basis tial difference? I think the difficulty Mr. Harrison of our national greatness. And it is because says one ought to find in reading this line of “16 syl- in these dark recent days those principles seem lables" is chiefly non-existent. Mr. Harrison also finds to have lost their old-time hold upon our na- fault because Tennyson has so many monosyllables in tional life that we listen more yearningly than his poetry, and so few polysyllables. But so long as ever for some echo of the voice that thrilled are long-syllabled or short-syllabled. If the result is with indignation in “ The Biglow Papers ” and not poetry, one ought not to care much about it, either. with the pride of American manhood in the With such futilities as these does Mr. Harrison great ode consecrated to the sacred memory of regale us in his essay on Tennyson. Such captious Abraham Lincoln. dissections, and philological peckings, are but the tin- soldiery of literary criticism. Some there are who give It is now ten years since the death of Lowell us “this sort of thing” because they cannot give us bereft us, not merely of our foremost man of real literary criticism. Less often we are confronted letters, but of our foremost man. While he by cases in which a critic persists in this minute method was yet with us, the story of his life had been because be is of the opinion that it is “scientific.” Mr. Frederic Harrison can write good criticism, and he does in many ways an open book, and since his write it elsewhere in this volume; but the essay on death, our knowledge of that life has received Tennyson is “ of little worth.” * JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A Biography. By Horace ALEXANDER JESSUP. Elisha Scudder. In two volumes. Boston: Houghton, Westfield, Mass., October 22, 1901, Mifflin & Co. , ev 1901.] 313 THE DIAL large accessions. First in importance among ell's being as literary passion, and his inde- these accessions stands, of course, the collection pendent attitude toward political questions of Lowell's letters, as edited by Professor Nor receives constant expression in his writing ton. These volumes gave us so intimate a view when still a young man. Given the approval of the man himself, as apart from his books, of his own conscience, and he cared not how that they in a measure made a formal biog- many were leagued against him, or how for- raphy seem unnecessary. At least, they en- midable were the forces which he had to com. abled us to wait patiently the appearance of bat. bat. How characteristic of the whole man is such a biography, knowing that when it did this satirical comment upon the time-serving appear it could hardly alter the main outlines politicians of the forties : of the portrait that had already been drawn “ The word no," he wrote, “is the shibboleth of poli- for us. Nevertheless, the biography, as we now ticians. There is some malformation or deficiency in have it, is a welcome contribution to the his- their vocal organs which either prevents their uttering tory of American literature and of American unintelligible. A mouth filled with the national pud- it at all, or gives it so thick a pronunciation as to be manhood, and the discreet sympathy which Mr. ding, or watering in the expectation of it, is wholly in- Scudder has brought to its preparation deserves competent to this perplexing monosyllable. One might our warmest gratitude. The previous publica- imagine that America had been colonized by a tribe of tion of the "Letters" has mainly determined those nondescript African animals, the Aye Ayes. As Pius Ninth has not yet lost his popularity in this coun- the lines of the present biography. Concern- try by issuing a bull against slavery, our youth, who are ing this matter, Mr. Scudder says: always ready to hurrah for anything, might be practised “ If they had not been published, I might have made in the formation of the refractory negative by being a • Life and Letters' which would have been in the encouraged to shout Viva Pio Nono." main Lowell's own account of himself, in his voluminous The culmination of Lowell's application of lit- correspondence, annotated only by such further account erature to politics was reached, of course, with of him as his letters failed to supply. As it is, though I have had access to a great many letters not contained the publication of that memorable masterpiece in Mr. Norton's work, I have thought it desirable not of satirical humor, the first series of “ The so much to supplement the Letters' with other letters, Biglow Papers. Biglow Papers.” What Mr. Scudder says of as to complement those volumes with a more formal the work is so just and discriminating that it biography, using such letters or portions of letters as I deserves quotation. print for illustration of my subject, rather than as the basis of the narrative." “The force which Lowell displayed in this satire made his book at once a powerful ally of a sentiment Having thus introduced what is probably the which heretofore had been crassly ridiculed; it turned most important publication of the present year, the tables and put Anti-slavery, which had been fight- it remains for us to illustrate its quality by a ing sturdily on foot with pikes, into the saddle, and few extracts, and to call attention to a few of gave it a flashing sabre. For Lowell himself it won an its more noticeable features. accolade from King Demos. He rose np a knight, and thenceforth possessed a freedom which was a freedom When Lowell had got through with college, of nature, not a simple badge of service in a single and, among other experimental ventures, started cause. The book in its fullest meaning is an expression “ The Pioneer,” he wrote a prospectus which of Lowell's personality, and has in it the essence of shows how serious were his aims thus early in New England. The character of the race from which his career. The object of the new periodical, its author sprang is preserved in its vernacular and in the characters of the dramatis persone. Not unwit- we read, was to furnish the public tingly, but in the full consciousness of his own inherit- “ With a rational substitute for the enormous quantity ance, Lowell became the spokesman of a racy people, of thrice-diluted trash, in the shape of namby-pamby whose moral force had a certain acrid quality, and, when love tales and sketches, which is monthly poured out to tbrown to the winds, as in the person of Birdofredom them by many of our popular magazines, — and to offer Sawin, was replaced by an insolent shrewdness. Nor instead thereof, a healthy and manly Periodical Litera- is the exemplification of New England less complete for ture, whose perusal will not necessarily involve a loss that infusion of homely sentiment and genuine poetic of time and a deterioration of every moral and intel- sensibility which underlie and penetrate the sturdy lectual faculty.” moral force.” If such things might fairly be said sixty years Lowell's course of lectures given at the ago, what language would be adequate to de- Lowell Institute during the winter of 1854–55 scribe the state of things existing to-day, both marked a sort of turning-point in his career. in America and England, as respects the peri- | They not only led to more lectures elsewhere, odical literature which really enjoys a popular but they also led to the recognition of Lowell's vogue ! peculiar fitness to succeed Longfellow at Har. As we all know, political passion became at vard. College lecturing, as he shaped it, was an early age as important an element in Low much to his taste, which cannot be said of the a 314 (Nov. 1, THE DIAL 6 a a public and itinerant lecturing of his apprentice- an index, so in his sober criticisms he would sometimes ship to the art. “I hate this business of lec- hide a jest for the delectation of especially discerning turing," he wrote from Wisconsin. readers, as when in his article on White's Shakespeare, he remarks incidentally: “To every commentator who “ To be received at a bad ion by a solemn commit- has wantonly tampered with the text, or obscured it tee, in a room with a stove that smokes but not exbil- with bis inky cloud of paraphrase, we feel inclined to arates, to bave three cold fish-tails laid in your hand apply the quadrisyllabic name of the brother of Agis, to shake, to be carried to a cold lecture-room, to read king of Sparta.' Felton, Longfellow tells us in a letter a cold lecture to a cold audience, to be carried back to to Sumner, was the first to unearth the joke and to your smoke-side, paid, and the three fish-tails again remember or discover that this name was Eudamidas." well, it is not delightful exactly." Lowell was in charge of the “ Atlantic for But lecturing at Harvard, in his own way and about four years. The most distinguished of on a subject that he liked, was a different a distinguished line of editors, he was by tem- matter, and he cannot have failed to receive perament far from fitted for the work, and he some reflex influence from the inspiration that chafed under its routine, its practical details, he gave year after year, to his classes of eager and its petty exactions. The constant flood of students. Here is a description of his way of manuscripts appalled him; on one occasion he dealing with Dante, upon whom he lectured wrote jubilantly that he had cleared them all for many years : away, but the respite could not in the nature “ The classes were not large, and the relation of the of things be lasting, and it was with a distinct teacher to his students was that of an older friend who knew in a large way the author they were studying, sense of relief that he resigned the editorial and drew upon his own knowledge and familiarity with desk to Mr. Fields. Under great difficulties the text for comment and suggestion, rather than he had accomplished much for the magazine, troubled himself much to find out how much his pupils and given it that foremost place among our knew. A student would trudge blunderingly along monthlies that it has ever since retained. some passage, and Lowell would break in, taking up the translation himself very likely, and quickly find The chapter which deals with “ Lowell and some suggestion for criticism, for elaboration, or inci- the War for the Union” is one of the strongest dental and remote comment. Toward the close of the and most interesting in the biography, but it hour, question and answer, or free discussion yielded to the stream of personal reminiscence or abundant covers familiar ground, being mainly concerned reflection upon which Lowell would by this time be with Lowell's political essays, and the second launched. Especially would he recall scenes in Flor- series of “The Biglow Papers.” During this ence, sketch in words the effects of the Arno, Giotto's period, the “ North American Review," of Tower, the church in which Dante was baptized, where which he had assumed the editorship, became he himself had seen children held at the same font; and so Lowell gave out of his treasures, using that form the medium through which he chiefly addressed of literature which was perhaps the most perfectly the public. It is interesting to note the develop- fitted to his mind, free, unconstrained talk.” ment of his appreciation of the great President For the formalities of academic work, however, who bore the burden of the Civil War. Lowell he had little concern. Mr. Barrett Wendell had favored the nomination of Seward, and tells the following anecdote of an academic was much disappointed when Lincoln proved exercise : to be the successful candidate in the Conven- “Weeks passed, and do news came of our marks. tion. He did not know the man, and he At last one of the class, who was not quite at ease con- doubted. As the war went on, he expressed cerning his academic standing, ventured at the close of his impatience more than once at what seemed a recitation to ask if Mr. Lowell had assigned him a mark. Mr. Lowell looked at the youth very gravely, the temporizing policy and excess of caution and inquired what he really thought his work deserved displayed by Lincoln. But as the drama drew . The student rather diffidently said that he hoped it near its close, and the President was seen to be was worth sixty per cent. You may take it,' said Mr. so magnificently justified by the event, Lowell's. Lowell, • I don't want the bother of reading your book.'" admiration for the man grew deeper and deeper, This reminds us of a story of Walter Pater in the heroic figure was at last seen in its true his character as a college teacher. He also, He also, proportions, and Lowell more than made up when questioned concerning his neglected for his early questionings in the apotheosis of marking of a set of themes, found a sufficient his « Commemoration Ode.” But it is curious. answer in the observation, “They did not to note that the sixth stanza, in wbich the won- greatly impress me.” derful characterization of Lincoln appears, was. It is from Lowell's “ Atlantic” period that not recited at Harvard, and not even written the following example of his humor is taken: at the time of the delivery of the “Ode," “Just as Lowell's fun could find its way even into | although added almost immediately afterwards. 6 1901.) 315 THE DIAL 6 6 “It is so completely imbedded in the structure of dices. When he said, We are worth nothing the ode that it is difficult to think of it as an after- except so far as we have disinfected ourselves thought. It is easy to perceive that while the glow of composition and of recitation was still upon bim Lowell of Anglicism,' he fully meant what he said. suddenly conceived this splendid illustration and indeed Englishmen who met him then were apt to find climax of the utterance of the Ideal which is so im- this disinfecting process rather a nuisance, but pressive in the fifth stanza. So free, so spontaneous is with the American new-comer, if he is of the this characterization of Lincoln, and so concrete in right strain, you have only to grip and bear. thought, that it has been most frequently read, we sus- pect, of any single portion of the ode, and it is so elo- In the atmosphere of his fathers he will soon quent that one likes to fancy the whole force of the ode begin to grow. The truth is that Lowell, behind it, as if Lowell needed the fire he had fanned to having been thrown into the best circles — white heat, for the very purpose of forging this last, best, I mean, as regards their wide knowledge firm, tempered bit of steel. Into these threescore lines Lowell has poured a conception of Lincoln which may of man and of men discovered (as Emerson justly be said to be to-day the accepted idea which had done before him) that the voice of the Americans hold of their great President. It was the mob of New York is, in its Anglophobic tem- final expression of the judgment which had slowly been per at least, as far off from being the voice of forming in Lowell's own mind, and when he summed him up in bis last line, God as that of any people under the sun. He New birth of our new soil, the first American,' found that between an American of the true He was honestly throwing away all the doubts which strain and an Englishman of the true strain had from time to time beset him, and letting his ardent there is a stronger attraction than exists be- pursuit of the ideal, his profound faith in democracy as tween men of any other strain, however good. incarnate in his country, centre in this one man." He found that John Bull is not quite so offen- We must pass over the period of combined sively taurine as the American pressmen paint literary and educational activity that followed him — that he is not in the habit of greeting upon the close of the war, and turn at once to Jonathan with a certain condescension,' but Lowell's career in the diplomatic service of his on the contrary is in the habit of treating him country. He was offered the Austrian mission as an absolute equal in most things, and as a soon after Hayes took the presidential chair. superior in some.” These remarks were made He told Mr. Howells, who approached him on by Mr. Theodore Watts in a reminiscent article behalf of the President, that he must decline published in “ The Athenæum” just after the offer, but remarked, at the close of the con- Lowell's death. The simple truth is that Lowell versation, “I should like to see a play of had misunderstood English life and thought Calderon." The hint was sufficient, and soon before he came to live among Englishmen, and thereafter he was officially invited to represent when he did come to understand them, he was his country at Madrid. The social and diplo honest enough to say what he thought. Yet, matic success of his Spanish Mission were so as his biographer says, marked that the appointment to the Court of “ Throughout his stay in England he showed a certain St. James followed some three years later as a vigilance as the champion of American institutions, logical consequence. speech, and manners which gave him the air of combat- Lowell's life in England as American min- iveness. An Englishman who was often his host said: • I like Mr. Lowell. I like to have him here. I keep ister was useful to both his country and himself. him as long as I can, and I am always in terror lest The country benefitted by a strengthening of somebody shall say something about America that the bonds of friendship between the United would provoke an explosion.” States and England; the man benefitted by a One incident connected with Lowell's En. broadening of his outlook and a refinement of glish experiences may be mentioned. His his ideals. As early as 1848, he bad written popularity was so great that it brought him, in . that “nationality is only a less narrow form of 1883, the election as Lord Rector of the Uni- provincialism, a sublimer sort of clownishness versity of St. Andrews. Some indiscreet per- and ill manners." But it is difficult to deny son having objected to the nomination because that Lowell, when he went to England, took Lowell was an alien, the matter came up for with him something of that provincialism of lively discussion both in and out of print. which he himself, in his dispassionate moments, “Punch," as usual, said the final word upon recognized the narrowness. An English critic the subject of controversy, when it published who became one of his warmest admirers, and the following verses : of whose sympathy there can be no doubt, “ An alien? Go to! If fresh, genial wit wrote of his appearance in England as follows ; In sound Saxon speech be not genuine grit, “He came over here full of anti-English preju- If the wisdom and mirth he has put into verse for us 9 316 (Nov. 1, THE DIAL a a Don't make him a native,' why so much the worse for us. cago. •I stood outside of party,' he then said, for Whig, Tory, and Rad should club votes, did he need 'em, nearly twenty-five years, and I was perfectly happy, I To honor the writer who gave Bird o' Freedom assure you. . . . Party organization, no doubt, is a very To all English readers. A few miles of sea convenient thing, but a great many people, and I feel Make Lowell an alien? Fiddle-de-dee! very strongly with them, feel that when loyalty to party 'T is crass party spirit, Bæotian, dense, means worse disloyalty to conscience, it is then asking That is alien indeed — to good taste and good sense.” more than any good man or any good citizen ought to It turned out, however, that Lowell was ineli- concede.'" gible for the appointment, not because he was The treatment accorded to Lowell upon this an alien, but by reason of his “extra-territori. occasion by the press and a large section of the ality" as the American minister. public was of such a nature that most Chicago- We will close this review of a deeply-inter- ans of intelligence and refinement blush for esting work with some extracts which illustrate their city whenever they recall the thing to Lowell's attitude towards the larger questions mind. Both in public print and private conver- of politics. In the strict sense, his political sation Lowell was roundly abused by those who activity was confined to his services as a mem- should have been warmest in his defense. For ber of the Republican Convention of 1876, and an act prompted only by a fine sense of honor as a Presidential Elector the following year. and exceptional delicacy of feeling he was dealt He went to the Convention as an adherent of with as if he had been guilty of an insult to the Bristow and an opponent of Blaine. Writing public and a gross betrayal of faith. The whole of his participation in the gathering, he said : affair was extremely discreditable to the city “I believed that a Kentucky candidate might at least whose guest was thus treated, and we are glad give the starting-point for a party at the South whose that Mr. Scudder has at least outlined the situ- line of division should be other than sectional, and by ation with exact truthfulness. He might pro- which the natural sympathy between reasonable and perly have gone still further, and made some honest men at the North and the South should have a fair chance to reassert itself. We failed, but at least caustic allusion to the public exhibition of bad succeeded in preventing the nomination of a man whose manners which this episode occasioned, for in success in the Convention (he would have been beaten this, as in all other matters, it may safely be said disastrously at the polls) would have been a lesson to of Lowell, as Tennyson said of Wellington, American youth that selfish partisanship is a set-off for " Whatever record leaps to light vulgarity of character and obtuseness of moral sense. He never shall be shamed." I am proud to say that it was New England that de- feated the New England candidate.” WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. Eleven years later, he visited Chicago, for the purpose of addressing the Union League Club on Washington's birthday, and intending to CHINA'S INTELLECTUAL LIFE.* speak upon “ American Politics." The result- ing episode is thus described by Mr. Scudder: After the doleful pages of Dr. W. A. P. “ The house was completely filled and Lowell was Martin's “The Siege in Peking,” in which the given a hearty welcome. The audience, however, was author appeared as a member of the church greatly taken aback at the first words of the speaker, militant, it is a pleasure to turn to the scholarly for he said when he came forward that he had changed his subject and would speak, not on · American Politics,' and dignified volume on “The Lore of Cathay." but the principles of literary critism as illustrated upon No one has more qualifications than the Presi. by Shakespeare's · Richard III.' . . . He went on to say dent of the Chinese Imperial University for that in announcing politics as the subject of his address the writing of a book which shall, within rea; he had not fully realized the conditions under which it sonable compass, give the western world a sym- was to be delivered; that he was accustomed to speak frankly, but that he found himself the guest and, in a pathetic account of “ The Intellect of China, manner, the representative of the Club. What he bad as the sub-title of the book runs; and no one to say would plainly give offence to his hosts, and he could make better use of the knowledge labori- was thus compelled on the score of courtesy to change ously acquired of Chinese classics and customs his subject. The situation was one which might have than is here disclosed. The book summarizes led those present to detect some irony in Lowell's po- liteness. The Union League Club was a Republican the scholarship, philosophy, and religious organization order the control of the Blaine wing of the thought of an Empire which has shown itself party. It had succeeded in getting rid of those Repub- more capable of perpetuation than any institu- licans who had been hostile to Blaine, amongst whom tion ever contrived by man; and it finds here was the gentleman who was Lowell's host. But Lowell had made no concealment of the position he occupied. *THE LORE OF CATHAY; or, The Intellect of China. By He made it clear enough at this time, a couple of days W. A. P. Martin, D.D., LL.D., President of the Chinese later when he was a guest of the Harvard Club of Chi- Imperial University. Chicago : Fleming H. Revell Company. a 基 ​ 1901.] 817 THE DIAL to a student who has so far divested himself of idolatrous homage.” Yet it becomes readily western prejudices as to see beneath the sur- apparent that there are grave defects in the face to the very heart of a majestic and endur- existing system, in which the teacher holds his ing civilization. pupil's esteem by the exercise of what Dr. The sequel and complement of a former book Martin calls “ the argument a posteriori,” and from the same hand, " A Cycle of Cathay,” keeps his little students at work for five full it differentiates itself from that standard work, years memorizing the Chinese classics, which which was concerned with the active life of the are to day couched in a language the meaning Chinese, by dealing almost exclusively with of which is absolutely unknown to them. At their intellectual life. It is divided into five the end of that time the period of exegesis sets parts, dealing respectively with the various in, and the minds so carefully exercised by intellectual departments of the Empire, its lit- long and meaningless learning by heart are erature, its religion and philosophy, its educa- slowly brought to fructification by the transla- tional methods, and a few studies in Chinese tion into the vernacular of all the innumerable history, - the latter including a consideration syllables with which they are stored. That the of “sources,” of the Tartars in ancient China, Chinese generally are not as well educated as of international law as the Chinese know it, Europeans suppose, is one of many astonishing and of their diplomacy, past and present. statements in the book which are made to bear Dr. Martin has no doubt that the invention their own conviction with them. If the ability of gunpowder and the discovery of the magnet to read and write means what it does with us, as a guide to orientation rest with the ancient hardly one Chinaman in a thousand, and not Chinese, and cites certain classical works in one Chinawoman in ten thousand, possesses proof of the antiquity of the knowledge. He these accomplishments. All can read the syl- . believes, too, that the European invention of lables as they find them in a book, but few movable types for printing may be traced, in have any knowledge of what they mean; all modified form, to this ancient race. The manu- can write with the copy before them, but very facture of porcelain and silk is undoubtedly few can indite an original composition ; all can Chinese, and they not only invented paper cipher sufficiently for their business needs, about the beginning of the Christian era, but but there their mathematical knowledge stops made wood pulp into paper centuries ago. On abruptly. the side of science, it is to be said that alchemy, Yet China is, emphatically, the land of the the parent of modern chemistry, is certainly scholar. The civil service is in the possession Chinese in its origin; while astronomy has a of members of the Republic of Letters to an history going back forty-one centuries in the extent unknown elsewhere, and for that system Middle Kingdom. Decimal arithmetic is also Dr. Martin professes the utmost respect. In- theirs, with a possible beginning as early as deed, he would have Christendom take it over 2600 B. C., and a text-book setting forth its in all its essentials. principles which is authentically dated 1125 “ The bare suggestion may perhaps provoke a smile; B.C. Dr. Martin shows, moreover, that the but are not the long duration of the Chinese govern- modern concept of ether was already a sub- ment, and the vast population to which it has served to secure a fair measure of prosperity, phenomena that ject of Chinese speculation in the eleventh challenge admiration? Why should it be considered century before Christ, just as suggestions of derogatory to our civilization to copy an institution both the Baconian and Cartesian philosophy which is confessedly the masterpiece in that skillful mechanism may be found in age-old discourses accepted the balance-wheel that regulates the among Chinese scholars. With interesting genial to the spirit of our free government, it might be working of that wonderful machinery? ... More con- details of this sort the book abounds. expected to yield better fruits in this country than in Passing over the suggestions of the influence China. In British India it works admirably (and in of the Christian religion upon the Chinese Egypt and the Malayan States even more admirably). mind, in which the author holds a brief for In Great Britain, too, the diplomatic and consular ser- vices have been placed on a competitive basis; and Protestant orthodoxy, the fascinating chapter something of the same kind must be done for our for- on Chinese education will be found worthy of eign service if we wish our influence abroad to be at all careful study. “In no country," we are told, , commensurate with our greatness and prosperity at home. “ is the office of teacher more revered. Not When will our government learn that a good consul is worth more than a man-of-war, and that an only is the living instructor saluted with forms able minister is of more value than a whole fleet of of profoundest respect, but the name of teacher, iron-clads?” taken in the abstract, is an object of almost Dr. Martin commends the Chinese for many in 318 (Nov. 1, THE DIAL y the things, but always with discrimination and task in a way thoroughly to satisfy logical intelligence. Their ideals of patriotism seem readers of the correctness of the explanatory admirable, as they are disclosed to us, and an theory at which he may arrive. From the ode of the late Emperor contains these lines : very number of the contentions in regard to « To maintain prosperity, we must cherish fear, and McClellan's plans and achievements, it is rejoice with trembling. necessary that his case should be considered In your new poems, therefore, be slow to extol the freshly, with all the industry required to weigh vastness of the Empire; Rather by faithful advice uphold the throne.” the evidence, and by a mind gifted and trained The volume abounds with photographs of in the analytical power of determining which the scenes mentioned, and the publishers have is the vital piece of evidence in the mass of given it a most attractive outward setting. testimony, and what is the weight of the evi- dence. Much of the confusion and many of the WALLACE RICE. conflicting claims in connection with the mili- tary careers of the Civil War are to be directly traced to a want of the analytical power often MCCLELLAN AS A GREAT COMMANDER.* combined with that defective reasoning which The difficulties under which a democracy Lord Kelvin has said has lost more vessels conducts war was epitomized in the career of than have been sunk by faulty seamanship. General George B. McClellan, whose Life by To the doubts and contentions hovering over General Peter S. Michie, the latest addition to all McClellan's career, the late General Michie Appletons' “Great Commanders” series, at- endeavored to apply a simple and readily tains its greatest value, perhaps, not from what understood theory. To McClellan, this biog- soldiers may learn from its pages as to the raphy attributes every personal virtue, high- proper conduct of campaigns and battles, but mindedness, a noble and generous character, from the warnings which McClellan's career lofty patriotism, industry, mastery over details, gives to presidents, cabinets, bureau officers, great capacity for organization, fondness for and congresses, concerning what civilians in th the study of strategy. The book is also fair positions of authority and influence should not to McClellan in its enumeration of the personal do. From the settlement of the colonies to the and political difficulties with which the army present time, we have never been long without commander had to contend. But it also taxes war; and we have so persistently repeated, him with persistent exaggeration of the enemy's throughout our colonial and national existence strength, with lack of aggressiveness, with in the war of the Revolution, in the war of timidity, and tactical incapacity. Let us con- 1812, in the Civil War, and in the recent war sider some of McClellan's difficulties. with Spain — the error of civilian interference Called to the command of McDowell's de- in the conduct of military affairs, that the rec- feated army and the troops at Washington ord as it stands must be attributed less to igno- immediately after the battle of Bull Run, and rance of our own history, faulty logic, and hasty assigned to the task of making an army out of • mistakes of judgment, than to the impatience of a mob, McClellan on the one hand was hindered our people, our national traits of character, and by the presence of General Scott, who was still our political and social institutions, which are at the head of the regular army, and on the little adapted to the making of war. other hand by the ignorance of his staff and McClellan's career is enshrouded in such line officers. The amount of personal work historical confusion that the sincere biographer, thrown upon him in the organization of the who seeks to account for it by a scientific con- Army of the Potomac, because of the absence sideration of all the elements of the case, of competent subordinate officers, was so pro- attempts a most formidable undertaking; and digious that, strong as he was, he broke down perhaps no man who lived during the Civil physically under the burden. November 1, War period, who has associated with the par. 1861, Scott was retired ; and McClellan, be- ticipants in the struggle, whose judgment has coming General-in-Chief, had to consider larger been influenced by the writings of the survivors plans than those which related merely to the of the conflict and disturbed by the conflicting Army of the Potomac. The whole theatre of reputations of the great captains with their the war was under his direction. Very notable guns," can be expected to grapple with the at this time was his desire to have General * GENERAL MCCLELLAN. By General Peter S. Michie. Buell march to the relief of the loyal people of Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Eastern Tennessee. . 1901.) 319 THE DIAL a was ag- Early in the winter, McClellan was stricken Rappahannock River, that the plan should be with typhoid fever. Stanton succeeded Cam- submitted to the approval of his subordinate eron as Secretary of War, and the attitude of generals. The nature of the proposition suffi. the department changed from one of cordial ciently indicates the conditions which made it support to one of hostility to the army com- necessary, conditions under which no general mander. The Congressional Committee on the could hope to conduct campaigns to a successful Conduct of the War, of which Wade and issue. On March 8, the President selected for Chandler were the leading spirits, -- a com. him four corps commanders,-McDowell, Sum. mittee of whose star-chamber proceedings, of ner, Heintzelman, and Keyes. Of the degree , whose indictments, one-sided trials and convic- of capacity indicated and reputation made by tions of prominent officers, it is difficult to these officers, it is sufficient to say that theirs condemn in terms of moderation, are not among the great names of the war. gressively hostile to McClellan. The pressure Sumner and Heintzelman were already well of the politicians was for an immediate advance advanced in years ; Keyes was soon retired ; of the army, fit or unfit; and during the period and McDowell, like McClellan, had already of McClellan's illness in the early winter, the suffered from being expected to do with raw President, by consulting with several of Mc. volunteers that which only an organized and Clellan's subordinates in the presence of Cab- disciplined army could accomplish. The Presi- inet officers, tried to formulate by committee a dent also ordered that McClellan's movement plan of campaign at a season of the year which should not be made without leaving in front of would have doomed any overland campaign to Washington a sufficient force for its protection, failure. On January 27, 1862, Mr. Lincoln and that, this being done and the Potomac ordered that a general movement of the Union cleared of the foe, the movement should begin forces be made on February 22; and for the on March 18; and on March 11, the President same day the President ordered a movement relieved McClellan of all military departments of the Army of the Potomac upon the Orange outside of the Department of the Potomac, an and Alexandria railroad. Finally, Mr. Lincoln act not calculated to increase the degree of was persuaded to abandon his plan of campaign confidence still felt in the General. for McClellan's Peninsula plan. It may be It seems now unfortunate that McClellan said at this time that, coming to Washington abandoned his Urbana plan for the movement in midsummer, McClellan had done everything up the Peninsula between the York and James that could be reasonably expected of him in Rivers, from Fort Monroe as a base. The the few months before the season of bad roads movement from Urbana would certainly have set in, and that thereafter nothing could be resulted in the capture or quick retirement of undertaken with any chance of success until Magruder's forces on the Peninsula below, and the roads had again become passable. Had would probably have compelled the retirement McClellan marched out to the Occoquan, in of Johnston from the immediate vicinity of the fall of 1861, we may safely infer from the Washington. But as Johnston retired at this career of the Confederate General Joseph E. time, of his own volition, to the line of the Johnston — which, from the beginning of his Rappahannock, we have to consider chiefly the service along the Potomac in Virginia, on the superiority of a movement threatening Ma- Peninsula, in the Vicksburg campaign, and gruder's rear, in contrast with the one actually before Sherman, was uniformly and throughout made upon his front. What McClellan's mo- one of retrogression that the Confederates that the Confederates tives were for the change, are not clear. He would simply have fallen back, and little would himself said that the Administration forced the have been gained except the marching experi- change upon him. The present biographer It is General Michie's view, however, does not accept this view, but he does not clear that McClellan should have made the movement. up the matter altogether. The confusion con- By the spring of 1862, – that is, before that is, before tinued, not through McClellan's fault, when there could be any reasonable hope of a suc- the General desired to make a flank movement cessful general movement of McClellan's army, up the York River for the purpose of turning the army commander's standing with the the Confederate position at Yorktown and ar- President had been so undermined that it was riving quickly at West Point on the Richmond deemed necessary by McClellan, in order to and York River Railroad, within thirty miles win the President's consent to a movement by of Richmond. No adequate coöperation of the way of the Chesapeake Bay to Urbana on the navy was arranged for or apparently contem- ence. 320 (Nov. 1, THE DIAL - plated by the authorities; and McClellan was soundness of McClellan's strategical plans. left to make the best of the direct movement At the same period, and in the same campaign, upon Magruder's front. tactical mistakes were made abundantly in Once under way, McClellan was furnished Lee's army by Stonewall Jackson and other with a map prepared by General Wool's topo- Confederate generals. In the Antietam cam- graphical engineer, which failed entirely to paign, Lee's strategical movements were of the show that the Warwick River ran across the most dangerous character. In the Gettysburg Peninsula. Behind this stream McClellan campaign, his tactics were faulty in the ex- found the Confederates entrenched. His own treme; and, indeed, it was not until the last generals and his staff proved unequal to their year of the war that Lee's tactics developed to positions. General Michie says that at York. the point where they would bear the severest town McClellan encountered the most critical scrutiny. McClellan had no such opportunity moment in his career, – implying that he to learn the art of war. should have attacked promptly, instead of set- With every disposition to be just toward the tling down to a siege. Undoubtedly he should subject of his biography, General Michie early have attacked. McClellan had much to learn in his book, in his account of the Rich Moun. about the practical handling of an army in tain affair in West Virginia, indicates the front of a foe. He had had so far little op- attitude of disapproval which he steadily main- portunity to learn. But there is little more tains toward all McClellan's movements in the reason for considering Yorktown a critical field. Now McClellan's movement upon Ricb moment in McClellan's career than for thinking Mountain was as well planned as Stonewall Shiloh a critical moment in the careers of Jackson's flank march upon Hooker at Chan- Grant and Sherman. cellorsville; although, of course, the battle at In spite of Yorktown, McClellan, with ex- Rich Mountain was on much the smaller scale. perience, with better corps commanders such But General Michie would take away much as Meade picked out later for the same army, credit from McClellan, because it was Rose- and with a staff such as Meade was enabled crans who, by McClellan's orders, making the later to develope, might have run the glorious flanking movement on the right, discovered the career of a successful general. That he could theretofore unknown woods-road which led him have rushed into Richmond with the army as to the Confederate flank unobserved. Inas- it was in the spring of 1862, is not by any much as in the older parts of our country, means made clear, even if we ignore the op- wherever extensive woods exist, woods-roads position of hurrying Confederate reinforce- are also to be found, McClellan in strict equity ments. That McClellan was steadily improv. cannot be deprived of the credit of his victory ing as a commanding general is shown by his because his subordinate, acting under McClel. subsequent Antietam campaign, which, in spite lan's orders and moving in the way that of the serious blunder of a weak corps com- McClellan had directed him to go, was so con- mander of whom McClellan said truly that he spicuous an element in the affair. was only fitted to command a regiment, was The presumption in favor of the idea that highly successful. McClellan's right was extended on the north The important question of McClellan's posi- bank of the Chickabominy for the purpose of tion astride the Chickahominy, and the other connecting with McDowell's force when the question whether the retirement to the James | latter should move down from the Rappahan- River was voluntary, or was forced upon him nock, is so strong that, even if we did not have by Lee in part and in part was the result of the emphatic statements of McClellan himself his own timidity, are discussed with every dis- and his confidants in support of it, the minor position on the part of the biographer to be evidence to the opposite effect does not appear fair to the army commander ; but it is difficult sufficient to overthrow it. The unfortunate to avoid the impression that General Michie's position of the army was due to two counter- appreciation of the tactical blunders of Mc-acting influences at work, - one being McClel- Clellan's army - blunders due largely to the lan's desire to move to the James, and the lack of practical experience on the part of other the desire of the civil authorities for a McClellan and his corps commanders, - and more or less direct covering of Washington. a certain impatience with the resulting faulty Lee's attack on McClellan's right set the Union maneuvring in the face of the foe, prevented commander free to go where he wanted to go. the biographer from giving due value to the Lee's attack on the Pennsylvania Reserves at 1901.] 321 THE DIAL > Mechanicsville was made on June 26. But on Grant's 1864 campaign was under way wrote the 18th McClellan had ordered supplies sent to President Davis of the possibility that the up the James. The movement to the James was Union forces might cut the Weldon Railroad already under way when Lee attacked at and compel the evacuation of Petersburg and Mechanicsville, a Union victory which certainly the downfall of Richmond. gave McClellan no cause to hurry. General Michie suggests that longer experi. Nor does General Michie appear to give full ence might have eliminated McClellan's faults value to the strategical importance of the battle as a tactician, - a suggestion which will also of South Mountain, the turning point in the be found in my earlier “Life of General Antietam campaign. The forcing of Turner's Meade” in the same series. McClellan's claim Pass was most skilfully and successfully done, to be remembered, according to his present and caused Lee to prepare for and consider an biographer, will rest upon his organization of immediate retirement to Virginia. Consider- the Army of the Potomac, — a stupendous - ing the circumstances, the forcing of the work, performed under many difficulties. Im- mountain pass was promptly done. Lee's portant as McClellan's work was, the organi. “ lost orders,” which came into McClellan's zation of the Army of the Potomac did not possession, placed at the pass a Confederate reach a state approaching perfection until the force sufficient to hold it against a host. As spring of 1864, by which time the inadequate a matter of fact, a large part of this force had staff and corps commanders had been gotten gone on toward Hagerstown; but of this, rid of, and Meade's orders were elaborated by McClellan could have no knowledge. Even so able a chief of staff as Humphreys, and as it was, the Confederate force left at the pass executed by such competent corps commanders was sufficient to prevent Cox from gaining the as Hancock, Sedgwick, and Warren. But to crest to the south of the pass, and Gibbon from the foundation of McClellan's claim to the grati- making any headway in front of the pass. tude of his country should be added his suc- Meade's successful gaining of the crest by cessful Antietam campaign, , — the five most assault on the right compelled Lee to abandon vital battles of the war (apart from sieges like the position. At Fairfield Pass, in July, 1863, the Siege of Vicksburg), being Gettysburg, a small Confederate rear-guard was sufficient South Mountain and Antietam (considered to make so capable a corps commander as Sedg. together), Nashville, Champion Hill (which wick, with so large a force as the Sixth Corps, decided that Pemberton should be shut up in think that the pass could only be forced after Vicksburg), and Chattanooga. This list throws long delay; and Sedgwick's decision has never ; the names of Meade, McClellan, Thomas, and been questioned. In the ensuing battle of Grant, among Civil War generals, into promi- Antietam - a wasteful engagement on Lee's nence for having rendered the most conspicuous part, and one fought after he had seen that his service to the Union in the hour of most vital campaign of invasion had come to grief need. Overshadowed by Gettysburg, McClellan only failed of a decisive tactical always will be, and justly, — still, the import- success because of the well-meaning Burnside's ance of the Antietam campaign will some day shortcomings as a corps commander. But even be better appreciated than it is now. then, all the substantial results were with Isaac R. PENNYPACKER. McClellan. Lee's scheme of invading Pennsyl. vania had been abandoned before. From being the aggressor, he had from South Mountain on. A COMPOSITE AMERICAN HISTORY.* ward been upon the defensive; and be now a ban. doned the battle-field and returned to Virginia. With the appearance of the fourth volume, The obvious tactical errors in McClellan's covering the years 1845 to 1900, Professor battles — some of these errors due to untrained Hart's story of American development as told subordinates and inexperience in actual war- by contemporary writers is completed. fare — should not prevent a due appreciation The design of the series was an excellent of his comprehension of larger strategical prob- one to begin with, and the manner of elabor. lems. It looks now as if the greatest error in * AMERICAN HISTORY TOLD BY CONTEMPORARIES. Ed- all his campaigns was committed by the civil ited by Albert Bushnell Hart. Volume I., Era of Coloniza- authorities in bringing his army away from the tion, 1492–1689; Volume II., Building of the Republic, 1689- James. 1783; Volume III., National Expansion, 1783–1845; Volume General Lee never forgot what Mc- IV., Welding of the Nation, 1845–1900. New York: The Clellan's threat pointed out to him, and before Macmillan Co. - as it - - 9 322 (Nov. 1, THE DIAL upon ating it has been such as to give these four history of the last twenty years must have been volumes a secure place among the books of a peculiarly trying task. Upon some questions permanent value to all who are interested in public opinion is not yet settled, and twenty American history. The objects sought by the years hence a selection made in 1901 may be editor were two: rejected as entirely unrepresentative, whereas “ First, to put within convenient reach of schools, the judgment of history probably has been libraries, and scholars authoritative texts of rare or finally passed upon the great topics of the quaint writings in American history contemporary with the events which they describe, and in the second place, periods illustrated by the first, second, and third volumes. to give, in a succession of scenes, a notion of the move- ment and connection of the history of America, so that An idea of the skill and resources of the from this work by itself may be had an impression of editor may be gained by a study of Part IX., the forces which have shaped our history and the prob- which is devoted to recent American problems. lems which they have worked.” The five chapters discuss the Spanish War, The success of such an undertaking de Questions of Colonization, Foreign Problems, manded that the reader should feel absolutely Problems of Government, and Social Problems; sure of the genuineness of the extracts given, and the names of writers include Admiral and, furthermore, that he should have the Dewey, Captain Maban, Ex-Secretary Day, utmost confidence in the discriminating judg- Governor Leonard Wood, President McKinley, ment of the editor. As to the latter point Ex-Secretary Richard Olney, President Roose- there is probably little doubt, considering Pro- velt, Ex-Secretary Carl Schurz, Mr. Jacob A. fessor Hart's place among students of American Riis, Mr. Henry W. Grady, President Eliot, history; and for the former strict rules were and Mr. Booker T. Washington. Not every- followed : one may agree with Professor Hart regarding « First of all, pains have been taken to use the first the final value of the selections printed, but authoritative edition of each work in English; and a faithful translation of pieces in foreign languages. the names just specified will convince any critie Next, the copy is meant to be exact. Words not that an honest effort has been made to choose easily recognized are, however, repeated in modern representative literature of the present day. dress in brackets. Next, the quotations are meant to The obligation due the editor for the series be exact, all omissions being indicated, and the place is great, and as the volumes become more and where the extract was found being noted at the end." more familiar in private study and public The result of the study is found in the library, the feeling of appreciation will steadily twenty-five hundred pages of gathered glean. increase. FRANCIS W. SHEPARDSON. ings from diaries, letters, reports, discussions, reminiscences, addresses, newspapers, maga- zines, and other sources of materials, some manuscripts being available for the more recent MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN ACTRESS.* period. Official documents find no place, these having been collated by Preston, Macdonald, A theatrical memoir of more than ordinary and others, but the expression of opinion interest, owing to the eventful and highly in- throughout the years is clearly shown by the teresting career of its author, is “Life on the wide range of selection, the philosophy of Stage,” which sets forth the personal experi- “ Mr. Dooley” and the words of popular songs ences and recollections of Miss Clara Morris. being presented along with the sounding sen- Her career was most eventful, in the ordinary tences of some great oration or the studied acceptation of the term ; it was full of many argument upon some great theme of present and diverse interests, and the real measure of moment. And so the volumes may be consid her ultimate success can only be estimated ered not alone a compendium of history, but when all these interests are taken into account. also a study in American literature, showing Miss Morris was born at Toronto on a cer. in a wonderfully interesting way the changes tain 17th of March in the early fifties; but and improvement in American writing, spell- six months completed her period of existence in ing, and thinking during nearly three hundred the Dominion. Her early life in the States was years. not altogether free from hardship and pov- The latest volume, finishing the series, was erty, and there is a pathetic strain in her no doubt the most difficult in preparation, being narrative as she tells of the early struggles — nearest to the life activity of many yet living, * LIFE ON THE STAGE. By Clara Morris. With portrait. and the selection of materials to illustrate the New York: McClure, Phillips & Co. > 1901.] 323 THE DIAL - or a . a - - the sad neglect of a faithless father and the expressions, emphasis, and action. One would remark, untiring toil of a loving mother. When thirteen say at a rebearsal of • Hamlet,' that Macready gave a certain line in this manner, and another would in- years of age she went on the stage as a ballet- stantly express a preference for a Forrest girl, taking part in the marches and dances Davenport - reading, and then the argument would be of a play called “The Seven Sisters," for which on, and only a call to the stage would end the weighing service she received the munificent sum of of words, the placing of commas, etc.” three dollars a week. Step by step she ad- It was in her third season that Miss Morris's vanced in her profession, and as the years position became an anomalous one; it showed crept by she became possessed of a broader that in the girl there dwelt a latent spark of and more comprehensive view of the drama; genius waiting to be fanned into a flame. She standing bumbly at the knee of Shakespeare, studied in one afternoon, letter perfect, the she began to learn something of another world part of King Charles in “Faint Heart Never — fairy-like in fascination, marvellous in re- Won Fair Lady,” and played it, in borrowed ality. It is to be remembered that at about clothes, without any rehearsal whatever. This this time Forrest, crowned and wrapped in was followed by a greater success when she ap- royal robes, was yet tottering on his throne ; peared in an adaptation of “La Maison Rouge" Charlotte Cushman was the Tragic Queen of in support of that sterling actress, Miss Sallie the stage ; James Murdoch, highly esteemed, St. Clair — wife of Charles Barras, the wealthy - was still acting ; Joseph Jefferson, E. L. Daven- and eccentric author of the “ Black Crook. port, Charles Culdock, J. K. Hackett, Maggie “ All girls have their gods. Some girls Mitchell, and Matilda Heron were numbered change theirs often. My gods were few. among the popular favorites; and Edwin Booth, Sometimes I cast one down, but I never the greatest light of all, was rising in golden changed them; and on the highest, whitest glory in the East. pedestal of all, grave and gentle, stood the In comparing the actor of forty years ago god of my professional idolatry – Edwin with the actor of to-day, Miss Morris makes a Booth.” And when the great actor played statement which will elicit protest from many Hamlet in Mr. John A. Ellsler's company, the quarters. author of these interesting memoirs received “Looking back to the actors of '65, I can't help the greatest surprise of her girlhood days, noticing the difference between their attitude of mind when, in looking over the proposed cast, she toward their profession and that of the actor of to-day. Salaries were much smaller then, work was harder, but saw the entry : “Queen Gertrude — Miss life was simpler. The actor had no social standing; he Morris." But, notwithstanding that he looked was no longer looked down upon, but he was an un- more like her father than she like Hamlet's known quantity; he was, in short, an actor pure and mother, she added another successful rôle to simple. He had enthusiasm for his profession - he lived to act, not merely living by acting. He had more her fast-increasing repertory. superstition than religion and no politics at all; but he " It would seem like a presumption for me to try to was patriotic and shouldered his gun and marched away add one little leaf to the tight-woven laurel crown he in the ranks as cheerfully as any other citizen soldier. Everyone knows the agony of his · Fool's Re- But above all and beyond all else, the men and women venge,' the damnable malice of his Iago, the beauty respected their chosen profession. Their constant as- and fire of Antonio, and the pure perfection of his sociation of mind with Sbakespeare seemed to have Hamlet, — but how many knew the slow, cruel martyr- given them a certain dignity of bearing as well as of dom of his private life! which he bore with such mute speech. To-day our actors have in many cases won patience that in my heart there is an altar raised to some social recognition, and they must therefore give the memory of that Saint Edwin of many sorrows, who a portion of their time to social duties. They are club- was known and envied by the world at large, as the men, and another portion of their time goes in club great actor, Edwin Booth." lounging. They draw large salaries and too frequently they have to act in long running plays, that are made After a short engagement in Cincinnati as up of smartish wit and cheapest cynicism -- mere froth leading lady, Miss Morris signed a contract - and frivolity, - while the effective smashing of the with Augustin Daly, and gained the proud dis- Seventh Commandment has been for so long a time the tinction of being the first Western actress principal motif of both drama and farce that one cannot wonder much at the general tone of tippancy prevail- accepted by a New York audience. She was ing among theatrical people of to-day. ... They are likewise the first actress who attempted with sober, they are honest, they are generous, but they any degree of success the modern French seem to have grown utterly flippant, and I can't help emotional drama: her success in the rôle of wondering if this alteration can have come about through Alize is one of the memorable incidents of the change in their mental pabulum. At all events, as I watched and listened in the old days, it seemed to New York theatrical history. She was, how- me that they were never weary of discussing readings, ever, to our mind, much better fitted for parts - wore. 324 (Nov. 1, THE DIAL 66 - requiring stormy and passionate acting than he estimates at less than £150,000,000; “ England for pathetic scenes. has entrenched her position among the nations by It is impossible to trace minutely Miss Mor- the War”; and “ If the whole cost of the War had ris's career under the managerial guidance of to be borne by the British people, they would have Daly and Palmer. Needless to add, her wide gained by having kept intact that force in the acquaintance with theatrical celebrities, her world which is theirs, and which it ought to be ability to depict their habits, talk, manners, their steadfast and proudest aim to maintain.” It is perhaps idle to censure historical faults in a book disposition, and appearance, with the exactness which is avowedly "an unofficial prospectus of the of reality, combine to render her book fasci- work which lies before the British administration nating and instructive. Her style is graphic, in the new Colonies,” for there can be no doubt of fluent, and luminous ; she has an exquisite the value which its contents afford to those who are appreciation of wit and wisdom ; and her ven. seeking wealth in South Africa, assuming that eration for contemporary actors and actresses, Great Britain finally developes a policy which will combined as it is with the most uncommon make such a quest possible. The gold deposits perspicacity, is an additional qualification. occupy six chapters ; the coal fields another dia- monds and other minerals, dynamite and land, each Her volume does not belong to that class of theatrical memoirs which know no distinction one more ; immigration, the Uitlanders, the Boers, and the black natives, each one; while separate - her life was not devoid of striking events sections of the narrative are given up to “Industry and her career was one of triumph; thus there and Commerce," "The Railways," "Summary of was full scope for narrative, criticism, and Resources and Crown Assets," “ The Present and personal reminiscence, which forms a book of Future Administration," "The Fiscal Policy - human, tender, and personal interest. Capacity to Pay Part of the War Debt,” and a INGRAM A. PYLE. separate consideration of the Orange Free State under its new title of the “Orange River Colony." The work concludes with an extended series of ap- pendices, made up for the most part of the statistics BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. necessary to support the contentions of the several Nearly all of the books written by chapters ; and there is an index. South Africa's Englishmen concerning the South material resources. An attempted In an illustrated volume of five hun- African war might be listed under dred pages, Dr. Bernard Hollander the general title of “The Price We Are Paying.” phrenology. expounds “ The Mental Functions “ What We Are Getting” will perhaps better serve of the Brain (Putnams), with the purpose of as a designation for Mr. W. Bleloch’s “ The New showing that the results of modern research all South Africa: Its Value and Development tend to reinstate the conclusions of the early phre- (Doubleday). It is a general survey of the natural nologists. This “first work of the subject since wealth of the Transvaal Republic and Orange Free the dawn of modern scientific research " is indeed State, as seen by a man of wide acquaintance with a curious conglomerate of latter-day knowledge, of those two countries, coupled with an inquiry into distorted interpretations of clinical evidence, of far- the social conditions of the Burghers, the Uitland- fetched and one-sided presentations of questionable ers, and the Kaffirs, as they are likely to exist at observations, and of a profound lack of appreciation the anticipated conclusion of hostilities. Mr. of modern logic as a scientific implement. It is Bleloch, it is not necessary to insist, is an enthusi- true enough, and is well pointed out by the author, astic British partisan, and a believer in the leader- that the merits of Gall as an anatomist and physi- ship of Messrs. Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamber- ologist of his day are considerable, that many of lain. He finds it necessary, therefore, to omit all the extreme forms of quackery practised under reference to the liberal movement among the the name of phrenology are not traceable to him Burghers of the Transvaal which came within a few or to the doctrines to which his teachings properly hundred votes of electing the late General Joubert led, that some of the results of the phrenologists over President Krueger in 1893, and was increasing find analogies in the results of the modern“ locali- in strength daily until the Jameson outrage put an zationists,” — and yet it is still truer that the spirit absolute end to internal reforms and left Mr. and results of phrenology at its best are totally out Krueger the practically unanimous choice of the of relation with the spirit and the results of that Republic in 1898. Mr. Bleloch is also a voluntary form of intellectual endeavor from which the ripe witness to the conspiracy against the British in and nutritious fruits of science have sprung. It is general, which is 80 positively denied by Messrs. 80 easy to produce a travesty of the facts and argu- Brice, Gooch, and others. It may be added that ments of science, — of which, indeed, this able and he is an optimist of no mean order, as may painstaking work is a remarkable example; the from such statements as “ The successful result of line that divides truth from error, the sublime from the War ... has fully justified the cost,” which the ridiculous, is often so tortuous and indistinct be seen revival of 1901.] 325 THE DIAL as > melancholic, to share the Duke's exile ; and in the in that it requires the most careful and trained scrutiny every detail, and it would be difficult to say wherein to distinguish the boundaries of the two. It is this it could now be improved. The frontispiece etch- power that forms one of the goals of a real educa- ings and outside wrappers are reproduced by photo- tion. It may be that somewhere in the arbitrary graphic process; the text is reprinted from type, and logic-less teachings of phrenology is to be found following the original line for line and letter for much of the cream of science; but if so, it is safe letter, typographical errors included. The four to say that the cream has turned sour. numbers of the magazine are loosely enclosed in a handsome case of paper-covered boards, bearing “ How Jacques Came into the For- the title in gilt on back and side. Mr. Rossetti's An echo from est of Arden” is the title of an Introduction, filling some twenty-five closely-printed Arden Forest. attractive little hand - made book pages, is contained in a separate pamphlet of uni- lately issued from the Blue Sky Press, Chicago. form size. Coming from the pen of one more This “impertinence,” as its author, Mrs. Elia w. intimately acquainted with the history of “The Peattie, modestly calls it, is an original bit of read- Germ" than any other man now living, it must be ing between Shakespeare's lines, or rather between at once accepted as the most authoritative, as it his acts. Jacques, for once garrulous and lucid at certainly is the fullest, account of this "amazing the same moment, stretches Arden-fashion in the shade and explains himself to Amiens, taking as I Stock has placed every student of Victorian litera- publication ” that has yet appeared. It is needless to say that through this successful undertaking, Mr. his text that oracular reply of his to Rosalind's scornful arraignment: “Yes, I have gained my ture in his debt. In the matter of price, there is a experience.” It is a strange tale he has to tell, difference of some hundreds of dollars between this of the Lady Lucinda, whose wondrous “moonlit reprint and a set of the original magazine ; as re- beauty" drove him mad first for love and then for gards actual desirability there is no other than a bate, of the revenge he took upon her, and the purely sentimental difference. The 250 copies farewell of her that brought him, curt-tongued and imported for sale in America bear the imprint of Mr. Thomas B. Mosher, who will be remembered main he tells it as Jacques should. One wishes, to as the publisher of the beautiful edition (in no sense be sure, that he had once again “met a fool i' the a facsimile) of “The Germ” issued in 1898, and forest,” and been made to unburden himself to long since out of print. Touchstone in riddles as of old. It is hard to fancy Jacques, the poseur, the lover of two-edged words, In Messrs. Greenough and Kitt- A study of suddenly grown quite so frank and simple or 80 redge's “ Words and their Ways in English words. tolerant of Amiens's humble understanding. But English Speech” (Macmillan) we out of this too-mellowed urbanity the old Jacques have a history of the development of the English breaks every now and then with a gibe or an epic language in which the authors strike out boldly into gram polished to his own delightful shine. And new and hitherto little-trodden paths. A large part the little idyl is touched throughout with the spirit of the histories of Lounsbury and Emerson, for of Arden Forest. One wishes there were more of example, is given up to the matter of inflections. this sort of Shakespearean comment. The book is In the work before us , however, inflections are dis- made to fit its contents, with antique board covers, posed of in a dozen pages; while the book includes hand-illuminated initials, and some dainty pen discussions of such topics as “Language as Poetry," drawings, which add much to its quaint charm. “ Fossils," “Generalization and Specialization of Meaning,” “Transference of Meaning,” “Degen- It has been known for several years A famous eration of Meaning," "Euphemism," words from periodical that Mr. Elliot Stock, the London animal, place, and personal names, and the like. in facsimile. publisher, was at work upon a reprint Such chapters, filled with such a wealth of illustra- in facsimile of “The Germ,” that most interesting tion, could not have been written a few years ago, and most inaccessible of all fugitive periodicals. and show what a debt we owe the workers on the Indeed the project was formed nearly twenty years great Historical English Dictionary and other phil- ago; but it was found that certain of the magazine's ologists whom that book has stimulated to under- contributors were averse to having their youthful take special investigations of our speech. The writings resurrected in this way, and became authors have not been slow to incorporate the re- necessary to postpone publication until expirations sults of the most recent studies, especially those of of copyright should make such minor objections the science of meanings. And they have not merely unavailing. The original editor of “The Germ,” copied etymologies; we find bere several independ- Mr. William M. Rossetti, was one of the first who ent studies of the changes words have undergone. consented to the enterprise (representing also his Throughout the book one sees traces of the profes- more famous brother and sister in the matter), and sor of Latin, and one cannot help feeling that the was engaged to contribute an Introduction to the book is decidedly the better from the fact that its edition. In the form in which it is finally issued, subject-matter has been scrutinized from two points Mr. Stock's reprint bears evidence that the years of view, that of the English and that of the Latin of delay have been utilized to perfect the work in specialist. In expounding the principles which ... 326 (Nov. 1, THE DIAL ism” 9) Welsh hero. have governed the development of our complex Rome, and other musical centres, make up a con- , language, and in revealing the wealth of its vocabu- siderable part of the volume. These letters give lary and explaining the sources of that wealth, the entertaining and often intimate glimpses of Wagner, writers have been eminently successful. Whether Liszt, and many lesser musicians, as well as a quite the book will prove a satisfactory college text-book unconscious revelation of the refined, enthusiastic can be better told a year hence; but as a popular natures of the brothers themselves, and the unsel- though accurate exposition of a subject which has fishness of their devotion to the cause of music. always been of the utmost importance, and which Edward Bache's letters on the advantages to a city no one can now pronounce uninteresting, we do not of placing the best orchestral music within the hesitate to call it the ablest work which has yet reach of the poor deserve a place in the literature appeared in its field. of philanthropy as well as of music. His compari- son of the Wagnerian and Italian schools is also “Great Religions of the World" valuable for its clearness, though perhaps too pre- Religious progress (Harper & Brothers) is the title of in the last century. mature to be sound in theory. A peculiar interest a collection of essays by eleven dif- is given to the book by the fact that, in spite of ferent writers. Some of the most prominent of the similarity of character and early training, the Bache papers are “Confucianism” by Dr. Giles of Cam- brothers took wholly different paths in music. Ed. bridge, “ Buddhism ” by Dr. Rhys Davids of Lon-ward was à composer and followed the old school, don, “ Brahminism ” by Sir A. C. Lyall, “ Positive believing that after Beethoven's death music in by Frederic Harrison, “Sikhism” by Sir Germany “ had taken a false direction.” His own Lepel Griffin, “Jews and Judaism" by Dr. M. early death at twenty-five rendered futile his ambi- Gaster, “The Outlook of Christianity" by Wash- tion to create an English opera founded on the ington Gladden, and “Catholic Christianity” by Italian. Walter was a pianist and teacher, and an Cardinal Gibbons. The treatment of the themes is ardent follower of the newer school. He is remem- very uneven and of unequal value. Some are dis- bered as the champion and interpreter of Liszt's cussed historically, such as Sikhism and Babism, music in England. The volume is published by while others are a recital of the doctrines and Messrs. James Pott & Co. power of the faith under survey. Of the eleven papers embodied in the volume, six — possibly Welsh history Mr. A. G. Bradley's recent work on seven — only can be counted as dealing with “ great and a great “ Highways and Byways in North religions of the world.” These are Confucianism, Wales” showed that author's apti- Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Brahminism, Zoro- tude and enthusiasm in the treatment of Welsh astrianism, Christianity, and Judaism. Of these history. The latest effort of his facile pen in the seven, the essay on Confucianism is a fair presen- same direction is a volume on Owen Glyndwr, in tation of the growth of that faith in the last century. Putnams' “ Heroes of the Nations " series. The Dr. Davids pictures the recent spread and power of first eighty pages are a condensed history of Wales Buddhism in the East. Mohammedanism is set from its first historic records down to 1400, or from before us in all its glory as seen in its conquests 400-1400. The brevity of the treatment makes during the last few decades. The essay on Zoro- this section quite unsatisfactory to the reader. Such astrianism is both historical and doctrinal in treat- condensation is always a hazardous undertaking. ment. Dr. Gladden's “Outlook of Christianity” But the body of the book, on the other hand, treat- is a presentation of figures, numerical and geo- ing of the last struggle for Welsh independence as a graphical, of Christendom, and the modifications of led by Owen Glyndwr, is rather diluted. On the doctrines and beliefs brought about by the investi- whole, however, the author has written an interest- gations of recent years. Dr. Gaster's essay pictures ing narrative, has deftly woven in the facts of his- in vivid terms the struggles for liberty through tory and many of the popular traditions of the hero, which the Jews have passed, especially on the con- 80 as to bring out with great prominence some of tinent of Europe within the last century. Such a the best elements of Welsh valor, persistency, and collection of essays has its value, but the disparity endurance. One cannot read this volume without in methods and purpose of presentation is too great gaining a new conception of the character of the to give it first place among books on the great re- Welsh people, particularly in their valiant and vain ligions of the world. struggle against the aggressions of the kings of “Brother Musicians," a brief biog- England. The book is well-illustrated by half-tone The life and cuts of some of the most famous castles of Wales, letters of two raphy of Edward and Walter Bache English musicians. written by their sister, is an unpre- that figured prominently in the wars of Owen Glyndwr. tentious record of the lives of two gifted English- men. It is somewhat belated in appearance, as the Students of arcbæology and anti- Village life elder brother died in 1858, and the younger in and antiquities quarian lore (may their tribe in- 1888, but it has the interest which always belongs in England. crease!) will find a book quite to to the story of genius triumphing over difficulties. their liking in “ English Villages” (James Pott & The brothers' letters to their family from Leipzig, Co.), by the Rev. Peter Hampson Ditchfield, F.S.A., ) 1 1 1 1 1 i 1901.] 327 THE DIAL dark green. F.R.H.S.; for the author thereof writes entertain. portraits that he presents. Although as a whole ingly upon a subject with which he is thoroughly the book is inorganic, there is in it a great deal of acquainted. He has written within the last decade, valuable matter, which it needed only a more pleas- besides “The Story of Our English Towns," several ing literary style to make extremely interesting. books upon rural life in England and upon old En- An account of “A Summer in Norway,” and the glish sports and customs. The avowed purpose of chapter entitled “Some Persons I Have Seen,” the present volume is to call attention to the rich. have rather less of the stilted literary quality of a ness of the English villages, not only in mediæval bygone day; but here as elsewhere the author's relics, but, in many cases, in Roman remains and sense of values does not seem to be very sure. Such in prehistoric monuments ; to exhibit the process information as the volume contains is of a sort not by which the part of the “scientific detective ” may easily accessible; much, perhaps, is not to be found be undertaken by the ordinary student, and what elsewhere; and it is to be regretted that there is facts concerning primitive man in England may be no index to make its real wealth of anecdote and developed from an investigation of the tumuli, story more available. barrows, pit and pile dwellings, cromlechs, camps, and earthworks, to be found scattered throughout the island. Nor does he slight the historic periods BRIEFER MENTION. and the features of village life in “Merrie En- gland” which are of never failing interest. Full- It would be unreasonable to ask for a handsomer page illustrations, and text cuts to the number of school edition of the “ Æneid” than is provided by Dr. one hundred, enhance both the appearance of the Charles Knapp in his recently published volume. The book and the author's treatment of his subject. first six books are given complete, and are followed by extracts from the six remaining ones. There is an intro- The startling and sometimes almost duction, historical, biographical, critical, and syntactical, A black portrait incredible revelations offered in “The of one hundred pages. There are copious notes (with the of Turkey's ruler. Private Life of the Sultan " (Apple text) and a vocabulary. Iuterspersed among the books of the epic are full-page plates of famous works of ancient ton) are, naturally enough, pseudonymous in author- sculpture. The whole is bound in half-leather of restful ship. “George Dorys," as is explained in the Our only quarrel with the book is that it translator's preface, is the assumed name of the sanctions the wanton pedantry of the spelling “Vergil.” son of the late Prince of Samos, one of Abdul- Messrs. Scott, Foresman & Co. are the publishers. Hamid's ministers and sometime governor of Crete. Through “The Mighty Deep and What We Know The author thus had abundant opportunity to gain of It” (Lippincott), by Miss Agnes Giberne, a fair con- inside information, and he appears to write from ception of the new science of oceanography and its aims personal knowledge. Terrible is the picture he and achievements may be had, set in language suffi- draws of the man whom Gladstone called “the ciently popular to appeal to those wholly ignorant of its existence. With the discussions of the tides and great assassin.” The charitable reader will hope that this despot is really not quite so fiendishly ciers, the great ocean currents and several similar their causes, the salt in the ocean and its sources, gla- cruel and cunning as he is represented. Other and phenomea, the physical geographies have made us famil- less forbidding portraits of him incline one to sus- iar. But in the descriptions of the curious animals pect that Mr. Dorys may have written in a mood dredged from vast depths, the varied proofs of the ex- not wholly free from prejudice. But the truth istence of active life in even the profoundest valleys would seem to be almost as hard to get at as is the covered by the sea, and the habits of sea monsters of Sultan himself in his double and triple walled seclu- every size and most extraordinary shape, Miss Giberne sion. His elaborate precautions against assassina- finds an almost undiscovered country for the informa- tion, his childish fear of the dark, and his abject unequal value, add to the interest of the volume. tion of her readers. Numerous illustrations, of rather dread of death, certainly bespeak something other There is a great deal of pathos in a life that is in than “a still and quiet conscience.” This volume some way devoted to the interest of culture while never maintains the high standard of interest and excel. attaining culture for itself. Some such sense of the lence of workmanship of the “ Lives of Royalties irony of fate must come to one who reads Mr. E. Mars- series in which it appears. ton's “Sketches of Booksellers of Other Days” (im- ported by Scribner), so pitifully outside the currents of Mr. William C. Todd, president of Some intimate thought and feeling fed by the books they sold do many sketches of famous the New Hampshire Historical So- of them seem. The sketches cover a period from New Englanders. ciety, is the author of a volume of the middle of the seventeenth century to the year of “ Biographical and Other Articles" (Lee & Shep- Waterloo, and contain a great many things to interest ard), dealing with Daniel Webster, Caleb Cushing, the curious. The miseries of apprenticeship are more and others, largely New Englanders, whose lives than binted at and the stern economy of one who would rise from proverty to a competance are told again and have been of moment in American history. The again. Though the sketches are in the main but per- material here gathered together has been in con- sonal histories touching little upon the larger concerns siderable degree a part of the personal experience of men, they have a very real interest for those who care of the writer, and so, while gaining in authenticity to know so much of the setting of authors' lives two and personal nearness, they are but incomplete centuries ago. 328 [Nov. 1, THE DIAL 9 It is a 66 The beautiful typography of the Merrymount Press NOTES. adorns Professor John Franklin Genung's thoughtful essay on “Stevenson's Attitude to Life," which the • Lessons in Elementary Grammar," by Mr. George Messrs. Crowell have made into a thin volume. A. Mirick, is a recent school publication of the Mac- pleasure to read such a book as this, and a further millan Co. pleasure to own it and see it lying on the table. “ Latin Composition Based upon Selections from Of editions of Boswell's “Life of Johnson " there are Cæsar,” by Professor Benjamin L. D’Ooge, is a recent seemingly no end. The latest on our list comes from publication of Messrs. Ginn & Co. the J. B. Lippincott Co., in six handsome library vol. “ The Book of the Greenhouse,” by Mr. J.C. Tallack, umes, edited by Mr. Augustine Birrell. The special is the second volume in the series of “ Handbooks of feature of this edition is a series of portraits, about one Practical Gardening," published by Mr. John Lane. hundred in number, selected with great care by Mr. The B. F. Johnson Publishing Co., Richmond, Vir- Ernest Radford. givia, send us a school text of " Macaulay's Essays on The “Centiloquio” of Santillana is a Spanish text, Milton and Addison,” edited by Professor C. Alphonso edited, with educational intent, by Messrs. Fernando Smith. Staud у Ximenez and Hubert M. Skinner. There are “ Cicero: Select Orations,” edited by Professor Ben- notes and a vocabulary for the student. An appendix jamin L. D'Ooge, is an addition to “The Student's gives a selection of Spanish proverbs, in both the origi- Series of Latin Classics ” published by Messrs. Ben- nal and translation. Messrs. Laird & Lee are the pub- jamin H. Sanborn & Co. lishers of this welcome little book. A new translation, supplied with original illustrations, Wbat will form the first complete edition of Thomas of “Sintram and his Companions” is published by the Kyd's extant works is about to be published by the Ox- J. B. Lippincott Co. in a dainty little volume. Mr. ford University Press. Mr. F. S. Boas, who has edited A. M. Richards is the translator. the works from the original texts, states in his Preface “ Original Investigation; or, How to Attack an Ex- that in the recent study of Pre-Shakespearean literature ercise in Geometry,” by Mr. Elisha S. Loomis, is a there has been no more marked feature, especially on small book which will be found useful by teachers of the Continent, than the increased prominence given to mathematics. Messrs. Ginn & Co. are the publishers. Kyd. « Elementary Experimental Chemistry” is a text- Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. send us ten new volumes book and laboratory manual for secondary schools. It in their dainty - What Is Worth While" series. Among deals with inorganic chemistry only, and is the work of the titles are « The Meaning and Value of Poetry,” by Professor W. F. Watson. Messrs. A. S. Barnes & Co. Mr. W. H. Hudson;“Standeth God within the Shadow," are the publishers. by President D. S. Jordan; “ Ecclesiastes and Omar A translation of Tasso's “ Amyntas,” (but not the Khayyam,” by Professor J. F. Genung; “ The Great- first, as the title-page claims), has been made by Mr. ness of Patience," by President A. T. Hadley; and Frederic Whitmore, and published at the Ridgewood “ Religion in Common Life,” by the late Principal Press, Springfield, Mass. It makes an oblong pamphlet, Caird. and is prettily illustrated. “ The Lyric and Dramatic Poems of John Milton,” “ The Story of Books," by Miss Gertrude Burford edited by Professor Martin W. Sampson, is the latest Rawlings, is an addition to the Messrs. Appletons' number of the “ English Readings” published by Messrs. “ Library of Useful Stories.” It is mainly a popular Henry Holt & Co. The introductory essay is elaborate, account of mediæval libraries and the work of the as is usual in the books of this excellent series, and the early presses, with numerous illustrations. notes are almost equal in volume to the text. A collec- Mr. Gerald H. Rendall's “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus tion of “Questions and Comments” and an appendix on to Himself” is now published by the Macmillan Co. in “Milton's Metres" complete the apparatus of this edi- the familiar “Golden Treasury" form. The translation tion. has been revised and the introduction abridged, the Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. publish in this country book aiming at the general reader rather than at the “ The Self-Educator Series," an English enterprise student. under the editorship of Mr. John Adams of Glasgow. Walter Bagehot's essay on "Shakespeare the Man" There are four volumes now issued: “ Latin," by Mr. is reprinted by Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Co. in a W. A. Edward; “ Chemistry,” by Mr. James Knight; volume which is rather striking in its mechanical make- and « French ” and “German," both by the general up, and is remarkable for its inexpensiveness. Bagehot editor of the series. The aim of these books is explained is such good reading that we hope for more of him in by their title, although there is no reason why they this form. should not be used in schools as well as at home. Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. publish the seventh Mr. Charles Welsh, who has made practically a life edition of Mr. C. W. C. Oman's “ History of Greece study of the subject of children's reading, has now from the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander the nearly completed a “Young Folks Library" of the Great." The work has been revised throughout, and world's best literature for children. The work will com- even draws upon such recent material as the Cretan prise twenty volumes, containing altogether more than discoveries of Mr. Evans. one thousand selections from every department of liter- A volume on “ Russian Political Institutions,” by The selections in each volume have been ap- Maxime Kovalevsky, formerly Professor of Public Law proved by well-known specialists, who have also pro- at the University of Moscow, is announced for publica- vided the Introductions, and the whole work has been tion this month by the University of Chicago Press. submitted to the final critical judgment of Mr. Thomas The work is based upon a series of lectures delivered Bailey Aldrich. The Hall & Locke Co. of Boston are at the University last summer. named as the publishers of this important undertaking. 9 ature. 1901.] 329 THE DIAL « The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise," reprinted from the anonymous translation of Watt's edition of 1722, forms a particularly acceptable volume in the “Temple Classics" (Macmillan). Miss Honnor Morten, who edits the edition, has elucidated the text with a num! of val able notes. Another recent volume in the same series is a metrical translation by Mr. Arthur S. Way of “ The Tale of the Argonauts” by Apollonius of Rhodes. Both volumes are supplied with the usual dainty frontispiece in photogravure. The collection of “Lives of the English Saints," as written by various hands at the suggestion of Cardinal Newman, is republished by the Messrs. Lippincott in a very attractive six-volume edition. This is the first complete reprint of the work since the original publica- tion of 1844–5. The editorial introduction is by Mr. Arthur Wollaston Hutton. Each volume has one or two portrait illustrations, the subjects being modern scholars and churchmen. We note particularly the fine portraits of J. A. Froude and Mark Pattison. Two volumes of more than ordinary literary interest will be issued shortly by Mr. John Lane. One of the two is Mr. William Archer's collection of critical essays on “ The Poets of the Younger Generation"; the other is an elaborate work on “ Jane Austen: Her Homes and her Friends," by Miss Constance Hill. The illustrations will be a special feature of each book, consisting in the former case of thirty-three portraits engraved on wood by Mr. Robert Bryden, and in the latter of drawings by Miss Ellen G. Hill and several photogravure por- traits. Mountebanks, Strolling. André Castaigne. Harper. Murder Trials, and Newspapers. C. E. Grindell. Atlantic. New York's Municipal Campaign. Review of Reviews. Pearsons, D, K., Friend of Small Colleges. 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