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narrow sense, and the futile industry of the the importance of classical studies in the de-
philological or historical specialist, into the velopment of culture is so great that their
pursuit of literary studies.
friends cannot remain silent while their
very
This subject is not a new one. It has for existence is jeopardized. Classical studies are
many years engaged the pens and the persuasive already too much discredited by the men of
powers of able men having the interests of the their own household, and the most dangerous
humanities at heart. But the tendency against foe of these studies is the man who, while
which our protest is declared remains persist- posing as their champion, does his best to de-
ent, and as long as it controls the teaching of stroy their vitality by ignoring their lasting
the literary classics, whether ancient or modern, claims to our consideration.
in any large number of our universities, it must
The immediate suggestion for the above
be combated without ceasing, even with much observations was provided us by a paper on
repetition and the laboring of the simplest | Classical Teaching in Italy," written for “ La
“.
points. Mr. Churton Collins has said many a Rassegna Internazionale”
Rassegna Internazionale” by Signor Enrico
strong and vital word upon this theme in con- Corradini. Of all countries in the world, Italy
nection with the study of modern literature, should be bound to preserve the methods of
and we do not hesitate to reproduce some of the humanities in its teaching of the classics —
his observations, even at the risk of presenting Italy, the birthplace of Latin literature, and one
ideas that will seem hackneyed to those who of the ancient seats of Greek civilization. But
of late years have been following this conflict
even Italy has failed in its obligations, and
of educational ideals.
allowed its classical teaching to degenerate into
“To say that the anarchy which has resulted from
textual and philological investigations, into
confusing the distinction between the study and inter-
minute studies of historical and archæological
pretation of Literature as the expression of art and
genius, and its study and interpretation as a mere mon-
questions. Signor Corradini's personal recol-
ument of language, has bad a more disastrous effect on lections are so much to the point that we bave
education generally, would be to state very imperfectly thought it best to translate his own words into
the truth of the case. It has led to inadequate and
English.
even false conceptions of what constitutes Literature. It
has led to all that is of essential importance in literary
“ To begin with a recollection of my own, when at
study being ignored, and all that is of secondary or
the age of eighteen I entered the university for my
accidental interest being preposterously magnified; to
first course in letters, my first compliment from one of
the substitution of grammatical and verbal commentary
the professors was this: Don't you know German, you
for the relation of a literary masterpiece to history, to
must learn German if you wish to profit by your
philosophy, to æsthetics, to the mechanical inculcation studies. I was a youth of moderate intelligence, mod-
of all that can be imparted, as it has been acquired, by erately desirous of learning; I wished to become a
cramming, for the intelligent application of principles
fairly good teacher or a fairly good writer; I had en-
to expression. It has led to the severance of our Lit- tered the university knowing Italian and Latin pretty
erature from all that constitutes its vitality and virtue
well, and Greek after a fashion; but I could have ex-
as an active power, and from all that renders its de- pected anything rather than that an Italian youth, de-
velopment and peculiarities intelligible as a subject of
sirous of perfecting himself in the literature of his
historical study. In a word, it has led to a total mis-
country and in the ancient literatures of which it is the
conception of the ends at which literary instruction outgrowth, should be advised to begin by learning
should aim, as well as of its most appropriate instru-
German. I suddenly perceived that I and the worthy
ments and methods."
professor who gave me that advice must be two persons
This indictment, severe as it is, does not exag-
by nature irreconcilable, and this irreconcilability was
soon manifested between me and the other professors,
gerate the alarming conditions of literary study
between the little Greek and Latin and Italian taught
in the majority of our universities, and indicates me in the good old fashion in the college of priests and
clearly the need of a far-reaching reform. the much Greek and Latin and Italian which they
In the study of the ancient classics, even
wished to teach me, scientifically and by modern meth-
ods, in the university. Thus my four or five years
more than in the study of modern literature,
the university were for me, and, God helping me, will
the same unfortunate conditions obtain, and
remain, the most Beotian of my whole life. What had
the young student's passport to success and happened? I had found the historical method, natu-
professional advancement is too often found, rally the German, in full flower at the university; that
not in his power to interpret the ideas upon
is to say, a manner of teaching on the part of the pro-
fessors and a manner of learning on the part of my
which literature is based, and which make it
fellow-students in no wise corresponding to my intel-
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come a fair teacher or a fair man of letters, not corre-
sponding to the nature of those same classical studies, SOME RECENT PHASES OF ENGLISH
or their genial tradition among us since the days of the
TEACHING.
Renaissance, not corresponding to the purpose of pre-
paring youths for teaching, to the vital character of our It seems to be generally admitted that no other
people, to the ambition of any intellect or any talent, subject which has a place in the present curricula
however modest. I found, in short, in place of geni- of secondary schools is so unorganized pedagogic-
ality and moral consciousness patient, frivolous, and
ally as the study of English. The last decade has
futile research; in place of any attempt of the spirit of
seen the almost universal adoption in high schools
man, brought into contact with the most beautiful lit-
and academies of a distinct method of science in-
erature in the world, to impart its fire and force to
hundreds of youths, I found certain cold and dull ultra-
struction - the laboratory method. History, too,
-
montane senilities forcing youths to Benedictine tasks
has developed a pedagogy of its own, in the library
of minute philology and minute history, that they might
method which the college is handing down to pre-
acquire a perfectly useless éducation de luxe, whatever paratory schools having the necessary equipment.
serious work they might otherwise have wished to do. In the teaching of foreign languages, especially of
In place of what we are accustomed to call belles-lettres, Latin and Greek, many of our difficulties have been
I found a scientific criticism, so-called by the ridiculous
met by the first-year books in those languages. But
vanity of those who practice it. Homer and Demos-
the comparatively recent introduction into both
thenes, Virgil and Cæsar, Dante and Petrarch, as if
schools and colleges of the formal study of English
not sufficiently outraged by the fate that for centuries
turned them over to priests and monks, had suffered
has brought into pedagogy a new and perplexing
final disaster by falling into the bands of the new
problem which has not as yet been solved. We are
Byzantines from Austria and Prussia.”
still in search of a scheme of English instruction
The language is strong, but who shall say
on which all are broadly agreed, one which will do
for this branch of study what the laboratory method
that the strictures are unjust? Those who
has done for science instruction.
make themselves the partisans of this sort of One of the most obvious reasons for this slow
classical teaching are apt to say that they are development of a rational plan for the teaching of
opposing positive knowledge to the nebulous English is the miscellaneous character of the subject-
theories of the rhetoricians and aestheticians. matter itself. Etymology, grammar, formal rhet-
But these may also claim a positive character oric, oral reading, spelling, composition, literary
for their teachings, and they may add, further. history and biography, literary criticism, sometimes
more, in the words of our present advocate,
a course in mythology, and the accumulation of a
that when classical instruction in Italy was in
vast amount of general information necessary in
the elucidation of the texts of the authors read, are
the hands of the rhetorical æstheticians, “ the
all included under the general term “ English.” In
classical authors were read because they are
handling this heterogeneous mass of material, it is
great poets, because they are great artists, be difficult to maintain a point of view which will give
,
cause they are great philosophers, because they unity and perspective to our teaching and make
tell us great things, because they are the mir- | possible a definite and orderly progression from
ror of noble life and the witness of fair year to year.
humanity.” And again, “ if Greek and Latin We shall speak first of recent phases of English
are studied throughout the world, it is because teaching on its analytical side, - that is, of methods
the people who spoke those languages were in
for the critical examination and study of master-
large measure the fathers of our modern civili pieces; and secondly, of the constructive side of
zation, and civilization is humanity, not Byzan-
the subject, or theme-writing.
In the study of pieces of literature, the writer
tine erudition ; if Greek and Latin are studied
has been unable to discover any new tendencies at
throughout the world, it is because in them is
all large in their scope or general in their accept-
expressed the maximum potency of life, fair The discussion of certain topics connected
and strong, speculative and active, with which with the particular masterpieces read, the answer-
men and races have ever been animated, and ing of questions on the thought or form, and the
this too is humanity, not erudition.” We learning of sundry footnotes, make up the body of
should like to reproduce this vigorous and elo-
this side of the work. In general it may be said
quent argumentat greater length, did space per-
that English teaching in its analytical aspect is still
in bondage to the word-by-word and line-by-line
mit; as it is, we are glad to have had the oppor-
method of foreign languages, especially of the
tunity of calling thus much of attention to it,
classics. While one should not undervalue the
and of affirming our belief that it represents habits of accuracy and precision in thought and
an ideal of teaching that now more than ever expression which result from the practice of looking
is needed in the work of higher education, both intently at words, it must be confessed that it is
in Europe and in our own country.
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telescopic view of a piece of literature is often as Along with this widening of the thought side of
important as the microscopic. To study a poem composition has gone a narrowing of the scope of
word by word, without realizing its plan or appre-
the formal rhetoric required in any one year, and
ciating the broad sweep of the author's thought, is a distribution of the departments of rhetoric, so
like studying a building brick by brick, without a that in many schools narration and description con-
conception of the whole. Many teachers precede stitute the first year's work, exposition that of the
this intensive study with a rapid reading of the second, argumentation and persuasion that of the
whole selection, to give the student an idea of the third, with a review of these five divisions in the
as
methods
.
literature itself, one of them superficial and the Another recent tendency to be noted is the in-
Another of the hopeful signs
of the time is the me
other minute to tediousness. We need some new creasing importance attached to the construction of
thought in this direction; but the recent text-books wholes. The complete theme is being made the
on English, suggestive as many of them are, do not basis of instruction, and is taking the place in some
help us. They follow traditional lines in the analy- measure of miscellaneous exercises on the smaller
sis and study of literature.
elements of discourse the word, the sentence, and
It is to the constructive side of the subject that the paragraph. The older rhetorics made exercises
we must look for a distinct advance. The student's on these minor elements their chief concern, and
own composition is being emphasized at present aimed mainly at mere accuracy in mechanical,
more than any other phase of English study. Even grammatical, and rhetorical detail. They began
the colleges are requiring regular courses in daily with the word and ended with the theme. The
themes. The student is spending less time upon
the
present tendency is to reverse this order, patting
passive contemplation of the finished masterpiece the theme first. As a mason learns to handle and
of literature, and is trying his hand more often at fit his bricks by laying them in an actual wall, 80
some construction of his own, however crude. He the young writer should be taught to handle the
is being taken, as it were, from the picture gallery word, the sentence, and the paragraph, as parts of
of literature into the studio or the workshop; and a concrete whole which he is creating.
his own work, as in other arts and crafts, is being It is clear to any one who has been thinking on
made the basis of the instruction he receives. This this very perplexing question that this emphasis
bringing of constructive work to the front is one of upon the construction of wholes, the extension of
the most promising phases of recent thought on the thought-side or subject matter, and the narrow-
English teaching.
ing of the scope of formal rhetoric to one depart-
ment at a time, are all tendencies in the right
extension of the sources from which material for direction. And yet we are far from regarding the
composition is drawn. The student is no longer problem as solved. Oar recent writers on this sub-
confined to abstract ideas and the encyclopædia for ject leave the student in the position of an untrained
his thought, but is sent to literature, art, and com- workman who is shown the quarry where his stones
mon life for his theme-material. In many schools, lie, and is told that he is not to spend his time
home reading-books on which the class is required chiselling and polishing separate stones, but that
to report furnish the subject matter for composition. his work is to build a church in accordance with
The college entrance requirements set apart a cer- certain general principles of architecture, namely,
tain number of books to be used in this way. An- proportion, symmetry, etc., of which laws he has as
other means by which material for themes has been vague a notion as the young student has of the laws
extended is by the use of pictures. This is a feature of literary unity, coherence, and emphasis. What
of some of the newer books on the subject, and is the workman needs is a design which he can follow
derived from the practice of the elementary schools
until he has learned the use and proper relation to
which have long made use of both art and literature each other of the necessary members or features of
in language work. The third and most important all architecture, the arch, pier, roof, wall, buttress,
source from which students are now encouraged to and apertures. Only after he has seen these ele.
draw their material is common life. We find many ments in carefully organized structures is he capable
of the colleges to-day beginning their instruction in of making intelligent designs of his own. The in-
English with a theme-course that allows the student experienced writer, too, needs more help than the
to derive his thought from ordinary experience. text-books give him in the organization of his ma-
This is the social side of the study of composition, terial according to long-accepted general designs
-
and deserves more emphasis than the æsthetic side which we can find by the analysis of pieces of litera-
developed by the study of literature and pictures. ture. We feel that the next step in the development
The result of this enlargement of theme-material is of a distinct pedagogy for English teaching must be
to show the young writer that he may find his an attempt to solve this problem of organization.
subject matter in the objective world and is not We have new material, but no new method for
obliged to spin it painfully from the dark recesses either literary analysis or synthesis.
of bis own brain.
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is the immortality of the poet Tennyson proven; for it
COMMUNICATIONS.
is to these pieces that Mr. Harrison declares “it is a
far happier task to turn - the work “whereon bis
MR. JESSUP AS A CRITIC OF MR. FREDERIC
permanent fame must abide.” In short, not only is
HARRISON.
Tennyson possibly the first poet of his century, but he
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
is a poet of all time.
That a first-hand critic may occasionally " change his Mr. Jessup concludes: “ With such futilities as these
pace " in the logical sequence of an argument is not at does Mr. Harrison regale us in his essay on Tennyson.
all times greatly to be marvelled at. But when a Such captious dissections and philological peckings are
second-band critic, endeavoring to expose in the un- but the tin-soldiery of literary criticism. . . . Mr.
broken tracks of his forerunner the existence of such Frederic Harrison can write good criticism and he does
change of pace, stumbles and falls headlong, obliter- write it elsewhere in this volume; but the essay on
ating both his own prints and those of the innocent first- Tennyson is of little worth.'”
band critic, and scattering dust into the eyes of his The fact is at all events patent to any logical reader
knowledge-seeking audience, in what degree shall we that if such bottomless cavillings are the gist of Mr.
marvel?
Jessup's objections to the “Criticism on Tennyson,"
In the last issue of The Dial, Mr. Alexander Jessup they, indeed, are objections “of little worth”— are the
criticises Mr. Frederic Harrison's masterly estimate of very tin hobby-horses of second-hand criticism.
Tennyson. And why? Because Mr. Harrison in his
R. HAROLD PAGET.
criticism of “ In Memoriam" advances among the cons New York City, Nov. 8, 1901.
that: “With all its art, melody, and charm, we see
from time to time in • In Memoriam'a little too visibly
NOTES FROM JAPAN.
the sad mechanic exercise' which is the inevitable re-
( To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
sult of too rigid and prolonged devotion to the uses of The number of Japanese honored with the degree of
measured language.” And, a little farther on in the LL.D. from Occidental universities is increasing. A
same essay, Mr. Harrison speaks of Tennyson's “relig-
year ago Baron Kaneko, who had received LL.B. from
ious and philosophical pieces (especially. In Memoriam,
Harvard University in the 80's, was honored with
the most perfect of his poems), because his claim to
LL.D. by his alma mater. Recently Glasgow Uni-
rank as the supreme poet of the nineteenth century must
versity conferred the same degree on Prof. J. Sakurni,
rest on this if on anything"; while a little farther on still
of the Imperial University, Tokyo,- the first instance
Mr. Harrison continues: “ It is a far happier task to in the case of a British institution. Yale University is
turn to the more distinctly lyrical work of Tennyson
to confer the same degree on Hon. K. Hatoyama, one
that whereon his permanent fame must abide.”
of her own sons; and is reported to have offered the
The italics in both cases are Mr. Jessup's; and he
degree also to Hon. Mr. Kikucbi, Minister of Educa-
italicizes because it seems to him that though “most
tion, and to Marquis Ito. These honors are worthily
admirers of Tennyson will agree with Mr. Harrison in bestowed on able and scholarly men.
his latter statement, ... it is hard for them to under-
The scholars of Japan are naturally proud of the
stand his (Mr. Harrison's) singular disagreement with
fact, that, by the generosity of Baron Iwosaki, the Max
bimself"; and (to draw towards a close with Mr. Jeg-
Müller Library has been purchased for the Imperial
sup's “pique ') though“In two different books, or even
University in Tokyo, in accordance with the wishes of
in two different essays in the same book, such contra-
the late owner, and is expected to arrive soon.
dictions of view might be excused on the ground of The Foreign Language School, Tokyo, continues to
changed views, ... in the same essay they cannot be
grow in favor and influence. At its recent graduation
allowed to pass unchallenged, - especially as Mr. Har-
ceremony, ninety-two students were given certificates,
rison's Tennyson estimate' is full of this sort of
of which the largest number were for courses in Chi-
thing.""
nese, English, German, French, and Russian.
Is further exposition necessary to reveal the hollow-
A history of English literature, written in a most
ness of such arguments against Mr. Harrison's excel- entertaining way by Dr. Tsubouchi, is meeting with
lent criticism -- a criticism which only misses the quali-
great favor. One paper says: “Next to Chinese lit-
fication “ unequalled” because its entire dimensions erature in the influence it has had on our national life
depth, breadth, beight, — and its learned soundness, are
stands English literature."
almost consistently the characteristic of Mr. Frederic
A recent issue of the “ Japan Mail" has the follow-
Harrison's critical work?
ing item: “ Baron Takasaki, Chief of the Poets’ Bureau
However, if only for the benefit of Mr. Jessup himself,
in the Palace, says that the Emperor's love of poetry
let me put the “vexed” question in its plainest form: increases with years. Scarcely an evening passes that
1. “In Memoriam " is the most perfect of Tennyson's His Majesty does not compose from 27 to 30 of the
poems, though it has its weaknesses; as a philosophical
thirty-one-syllabled couplets called Wa-ka. These are
poem it strikes the key-note of nineteenth century handed to Baron Takasaki for examination. Baron
thought, and in so doing it places itself in the balance
Takasaki bas held his present position since 1892, and
against every circa-contemporary work sharing that
he declares that the number of couplets composed by
characteristic; if, ipso facto, “ In Memoriam” turns the
His Majesty from that time up to the end of last
scales, Tennyson is the poet who, as the prophet of his
March was thirty-seven thousand. The Empress also
“day,” may “claim to rank as the supreme poet of the
nineteenth century.".
fond of writing verses, but Her Majesty's pen
is not so prolific as that of the Emperor. She com-
2. And there is also to be weighed, quite independ-
poses about two couplets twice a week — quite enough
ently, the lyrical works of the poet - work whose tune
for any ordinary mortal, we venture to think.”
is in harmony with the song of all time — not merely
ERNEST W. CLEMENT.
with the ourrent fugue of an epoch, — of a day. Herein Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 20, 1901.
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His oppor-
Robert Stevenson, in 1807 “ began his great
The New Books.
work at the Bell Rock, the first lighthouse
ever erected far from land upon a reef deeply
“ R. L. S."*
submerged at every tide.”
“Sir Walter Scott accompanied the Commissioners
The task of preparing and presenting to an and their officer on one of the annual voyages of the
eager world an adequate life of Robert Louis Pharos (the board's official steamer); his Journal, pub-
Stevenson may
well have seemed a formidable lished by Lockhart, shows that he found Robert Steven-
one, especially after the two volumes of “ Let- son an appreciative and intelligent companion. The
Pirate and The Lord of the Isles were the direct result
ters" so admirably edited by Mr. Sidney Colvin;
of this cruise."
and the public regret at Mr. Colvin's inability A great engineer and man of action, Robert
to write the promised biography has naturally
been accompanied by some uncertainty as to
Stevenson also essayed writing, and his “ Ac-
the qualifications of Mr. Graham Balfour, who
count of the Bell Rock Lighthouse” has been
was requested to undertake the work. Mr. happily described as the “romance of stone
and lime," and the “ Robinson Crusoe of en-
Colvin was for many years Stevenson's most
:
intimate literary friend; Mr. Balfour was heard gineering.” Mr. Balfour adds :
of chiefly as one of Stevenson's fifty-odd first
“Traits are obliterated, and the characteristics of a
cousins. But Mr. Colvin saw his friend for
family may change, but the old man's detestation of
the last time in 1887, when he bade him good-whole page of Experience, and his perpetual quest and
everything slovenly or dishonest, his interest in the
bye at the ship's side in London. Mr. Balfour fine scent for all that seems romantic to a boy,' were
resided as a member of the family at Vailima handed down, if ever taste was transmitted, to his
during the last two and a half years of his
grandson. Of the one as of the other it will have been
said that Perfection was his design.'
cousin's life, and was admitted to an intimacy
shared only by the immediate members of the
The other grandfather was the Rev. Lewis
household. His acquaintance with every de-
Balfour, D.D., minister of Colinton, a parish
tail of the family history, remote or recent,
about five miles from Edinburgh. In “Mem-
seems both extensive and exact.
ories and Portraits " he is described as follows:
tunities, therefore, were unique; and it may be “ A man of singular simplicity of nature ; unemotional,
said at once that he has not been unequal to
and hating the display of what he felt ; standing con-
tented on the old ways. . . . When not abroad, he
them. To complain that the "Life" is less
sat much alone, writing sermons or letters to his scattered
inspiring than the “ Letters "— in other words, family in a dark and cold room with a library of bloodless
that Mr. Balfour is not Stevenson is a criti. books — and these lonely hours wrapped him in the
cism which should quickly be disarmed by the
greater gloom for our imaginations.”
author's modest and candid words in the preface. But his heart warmed to the sprightly delicate
“ In Stevenson's case, if anywhere, the rule holds, little “Smoutie," his grandson, when the boy
that all biography should be autobiography if it could; came in to recite a psalm. “ He took me in
and I have availed myself as far as possible of the
his arms, with most unwonted tenderness, and
writings in which he has referred to himself and his past
kissed
experience. To bring together the passing allusions to
gave me a little kindly sermon
himself scattered widely throughout his works, was an
for my psalm : so that for that day, we were
obvious duty; at the same time my longer quotations, clerk and parson.” “ Try as I will,” Stevenson
except in two or three manifest and necessary instances, later wrote, “I cannot join myself on with the
have been taken almost entirely from the material
reverend doctor; and all the while, no doubt,
which was hitherto either unpublished or issued only in
the limited Edinburgh edition."
and even as I write the phrase, he moves in
On this plan Mr. Balfour has written a nar-
my blood and whispers words to me, and sits
rative not unlike Hallam Tennyson's Life of
efficient in the very knot and centre of my
his father; and these two volumes may with
being
propriety take their place on the shelf next to
Such, and much besides, were his grand-
the “ Letters” and the best editions of the
fathers. Of his father, Thomas Stevenson, his
“ Collected Works."
inspired pen bas left us many a vivid portraiture;
Stevenson's ancestors, through several gen-
none, possibly, of bolder outline than this, from
erations on the father's side, were engineers to
“ Memories and Portraits":
the Board of Northern Lights ; his grandfather,
“ He was a man of a somewhat antique strain ; with
a blended sternness and softness that was wholly Scottish,
* THE LIFE OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. By Graham and at first somewhat bewildering ; with a profound
Balfour. In two volumes. With portraits. New York: essential melancholy of disposition and (what often
Charles Scribner's Sons.
accompanies it) the most humorous geniality in com-
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pany ; shrewd and childish ; passionately attached and stupid and merely logical mind panting in the rear; and
passionately prejudiced ; a man of many extremes, so, in an incredibly brief space of time helped you to view
many faults of temper, and no very stable foothold for a question upon every side. In sheer trenchancy of mind
bimself among life's troubles. ... His talk, compounded I have ever been his humble and distant follower."
of so much sterling sense and so much freakish humor,
These are but glances at a few of the people
and clothed in language so apt, droll, and emphatic,
who surrounded and, so far as in them lay,
was a perpetual delight to all who knew him."
affected the childhood of Robert Louis Steven-
We are not surprised when Mr. Balfour says
He was always “ being a boy ": in a
that “the characteristics of the father in his
boyhood might be ascribed with little alteration special sense he may be called the sacer vates
of childhood. Few writers have retained such
to the son.
The circumstances differed, but
the spirits, the freaks, and the idleness were
continuous impressions of childhood's dreams
the same.
and realizations ; none, surely, has voiced them
Of their relations to each other
he adds :
more truthfully. The delights of boyish “make-
believe" received their crown for
“ Thomas Stevenson's entire life was devoted to the
Louis
young
unremitting pursuit of a scientific profession in which
and his associates in the lantern-bearers," a
it was his dearest wish to see his son following in his sport whose description it were almost profane
footsteps. Yet it was from him that Louis derived to abridge.
all the romantic and artistic elements that drew him
“ Toward the end of September, when school-time
away from engineering, and were the chief means b "'
was drawing near and the nights were already black,
which he became an acknowledged master of his art.
we would begin to sally from our respective villas, each
“ The differences between the pair were slight, the equipped with a tin bull's-eye lantern. The thing was
points of resemblance many. The younger man devoted so well known that it bad worn a rut in the commerce
his life to art, and not to science, and the hold of dogma of Great Britain; and the grocers, about the due time,
upon him was early relaxed. But the humor and the
began to garnish their windows with our particular
melancholy, the sternness and the softness, the attach-
brand of luminary. We wore them buckled to the
ments and the prejudices, the chivalry, the generosity, waist upon a cricket belt, and over them, such was the
the Celtic temperament, and the sensitive conscience
rigour of the game, a buttoned top-coat. They sınelled
passed direct from father to son in proportions but
noisomely of blistered tin; they never burned aright,
slightly varied, and to some who knew them both well,
though they were always burning our fingers; their use
the father was the more remarkable of the two. One
was naught; the pleasure of them merely fanciful; and
period of misunderstanding they had, but it was brief,
yet a boy with a bull's-eye under his coat asked for
and might have been avoided had either of the pair been
nothing more. . . . When two of these asses met, there
less sincere or less in earnest. Afterward, and perhaps
would be an anxious · Have you got your lantern?' and
as a consequence, their comprehension and appreciation a gratified • Yes.' That was the shibboleth, and very
of each other grew complete, and their attachment was
needful, too; for as it was the rule to keep our glory
even deeper than that usually subsisting between father
contained, none could recognize a lantern-bearer, unless
and only son.”
(like a polecat) by the smell. Four or five would some-
Stevenson left no sketch of his mother, a fact times climb into the belly of a ten-man lugger, with
easily understood when it is remembered that nothing but the thwarts above them for the cabin was
she outlived him. Mr. Balfour supplies this
usually locked or choose out some hollow of the links
where the wind might whistle overhead. There the
deficiency with a description from which we
coats would be unbuttoned and the bull's-eyes discov-
can make only the briefest extract.
ered; and in the chequering glimmer, under the huge
“ In person she was tall, slender, and graceful; and windy hall of the night, and cheered by a rich steam of
her face and complexion retained their beauty, as her toasting tinware, these fortunate young gentlemen
figure and walk preserved their elasticity, to the last.
would crouch together in the cold sand of the links or
Her vivacity and brightness were most attractive. .. on the scaly bilges of the fishing-boat, and delight
Her undaunted spirit led her when nearly sixty to ac- themselves with inappropriate talk.
company her son first to America, and then, in a racing “Woe is me that I may not give some specimens
schooner, through the remotest groups of the Pacific, some of their foresights of life, or deep inquiries into
finally to settle with him in the undisturbed spot where the rudiments of man and nature — these were so fiery
he had chosen his home.”
and so innocent, they were so richly silly, so romantic-
.
And what a stimulus to his spiritual qualities ally young. But the talk, at any rate, was but a condi-
ment; and these gatherings themselves only accidents
must have been afforded by the society and
in the career of the lantern-bearer. The essence of this
conversation of his best-loved cousin, Robert bliss was to walk by yourself in the black night; the
Alan Mowbray Stevenson, — the “Bob” so slide shut, the top-coat buttoned; not a ray escaping,
affectionately commemorated in Memories and
whether to conduct your footsteps, or to make your
Portraits."
glory public: a mere pillar of darkness in the dark; and
all the while, deep down in the privacy of your fool's
“He was the most valuable man to talk to, above
heart, to know you had a bull's-eye at your belt, and to
all, in his younger days; for he twisted like a serpent, exult and sing over the knowledge.”
changed like the patterns in a kaleidoscope, transmi-
grated (it is the only word) from one point of view to
Stevenson had but scattered schooling, and
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(1867–70) was fruitful chiefly in giving to who have ears to hear. We need feel po
him an intimate knowledge of the highways shame for the tears which start as we read
and by ways of Auld Reekie, and in demon- such an instance as this, taken from the account
strating conclusively that he would never make of their sojourn on the Riviera in 1883–1884,
an engineer, the profession for which he was when Stevenson was attacked with the most
of course intended. As far as the University violent and dangerous hemorrhage of his life:
was concerned, he “acted upon an extensive “ The dust of street refuse gave him Egyptian
and highly rational system of truantry, which ophthalmia, and sciatica descending upon him caused
cost him a great deal of trouble to put in
him the more pain, as he was suffering already from
exercise." His studies were thus mainly in
restlessness. The hemorrhage was not yet healed, and
we now bear for the first time of the injunctions to ab-
the book of life: not unfruitful, as his readers solute silence, orders patiently obeyed, distasteful as
well know. Perhaps the two most notable they were. In silence and the dark, and in acute suf-
things of those academic days were his mem-
fering, he was still cheery and undaunted. When the
bership in the Speculative Society of the Uni-
ophthalmia began and the doctor first announced his
diagnosis, Mrs. Stevenson felt that it was more than any
versity - "that Spec' of which the fame has
one could be expected to bear, and went into another
gone abroad in the world largely by means of room, and there, in her own phrase, “sat and gloomed.'
his writings,”—and his coming under the whole- Louis rang bis bell, and she went to him, saying, in the
some influence of Professor Fleeming Jenkin
bitterness of her spirit, as she entered the room, Well,
I suppose that this is the very best thing that could
and his charming wife; together with other such
have happened!' Why, how odd!' wrote Louis on a
friendships, as those with Charles Baxter, James piece of paper, 'I was just going to say those very
Walter Ferrier, and Sir Walter Simpson. words.'"
Somewhat later, in an English visit, he met Sid- It was on his visit to London in 1873 that
ney Colvin and Mrs. Sitwell, whose correspond. Stevenson was “ordered South” by Sir An-
ence with Stevenson is so richly informing.
drew Clark, and went for the winter to Men-
In one of his morbid moods, now growing tone.
This was the first of those extended
happily rarer, he had written down the chief quests which were to make him an exile from
desires of his heart. "First, good health ; England for practically the rest of his life,
“ ;
secondly, a small competence; and thirdly, ó though he often came back and attempted to
du lieber Gott! friends.” The second and stay at home. “I do not ask for healtb,” he
third of these petitions were surely answered : once said, “ but I will go anywhere and live in
but the first -! Was ever man of genius so any place where I can enjoy the ordinary ex-
ruthlessly handicapped? Almost from the istence of a human being.' One after another
cradle the pitiful record of the struggle begins; they were all tried : Mentone, Davos, Hyères,
, ,
every ugly form of pulmonary disease wreaked Bournemouth; then, with lengthening range,
itself in experiment upon his corpus vile: pleu-
: pleu- the Adirondacks, California, and finally those
risy, congestion, pneumonia, hemorrhages, -
“Ultimate Islands" where he found alleviation,
these were their household words where the delights, a quiet home, and a mountain grave.
rest of the world speaks of malaria, indigestion, His life was undoubtedly blessed and prob.
or headache. In 1893 he wrote to Mr. George ably lengthened by the companionship and
Meredith :
devoted care of the interesting woman whom
“For fourteen years I have not bad a day's real
he met and loved in France, followed to America,
health: I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary;
and there married in 1880. Mrs. Osbourne's
and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have writ- first marriage had been unhappy; but her union
ten in bed, and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, with Stevenson was a source of happiness to
written in sickness, written torn by cougbing, written
when my head swam for weakness. And the battle
both, and her two clever and affectionate chil.
goes on — ill or well, is a trifle; so as it goes.
dren found in their stepfather a delightfulfriend
made for a contest, and the Powers have so willed that and guide.
my battlefield should be this dingy, inglorious one of Mr. Balfour's second volume describes the
the bed and the physic bottle.”
three years of life at Bournemouth, 1884-1887;
Of the magnificent heroism and sunny sweet- then the winter spent at Saranac Lake in the
ness with which he endured all this, we Adirondacks, with the details of which Ameri-
must learu from these volumes of Mr. Bal- can readers of the “ Letters” are familiar; and
four; for the “ Letters ” and other writings then come the chapters devoted to those pro-
allow us only to guess at them. The pathetic longed and romantic cruises in the Pacific
record is full of reproach to common comfort- which meant so much to Stevenson's body and
able existences, but has its inspiration for all soul. The“ Casco," a topsail schooner, ninety-
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five feet in length, of seventy tons burden, was Of the last years at Vailima Mr. Balfour
chartered at San Francisco ; the captain, the writes with considerable fulness, having been
cook, and a crew of four deck-hands, formed her a resident of the place along with the family,
complement; and the passenger-list included though not there when the end came
Stevenson, his wife, his mother, and his step-son. suddenly on the 3d of December, 1894. The
“At last, on June 26th, 1888, the party took up touching and romantic circumstances of the
their quarters on the • Casco,' and at the dawn of the burial of Tusitala are known to all the world ;
28th she was towed outside the Golden Gate, and headed
and Mr. Balfour simply repeats Mr. Osbourne's
for the south across the long swell of the Pacific. So
with his household he sailed away beyond the sunset,
admirable account from the " Letters." He
and America, like Europe, was to see him no more.'
allows himself, however, a chapter (headed
with the simple initials “R. L. S.") of appre-
From the published chapters “ In the South
Seas ”Mr. Balfour makes but sparing excerpts,
ciation of the genius and character of Steven-
relying rather on Stevenson's original rough
son, which is so admirably conceived and so
journal at the time, as striking a more personal readers will fail to return to it a second and a
temperately and tenderly expressed, that few
note and dealing to a greater extent with his
third time. Quotation in this case is almost
individual experience. The first voyage carried
mutilation, but here are one or two of the
them to the Marquesas Islands after a run of
closing paragraphs :
twenty-two days. His reception there was
“ There was this about him, that he was the only man
cordial, and his vivid impressions of this French
I have ever known who possessed charm in a high de-
possession so recently redeemed from cannibal-
gree whose character did not suffer from the possession.
ism are for the most part recorded in his The gift comes naturally to women, and they are at
published works. But we have from his note-
their best in its exercise. But a man requires to be of
book a charming picture of the good French
a very sound fibre before he can be entirely himself and
keep his heart single, if he carries about with bim a
missionary Père Siméon.
talisman to obtain from all men and all women the ob-
« The small frail figure in the black robe, drawing
ject of his heart's desire. Both gifts Stevenson pos-
near under the palms; the girlish, kind and somewhat sessed, not only the magic but also the strength of char-
pretty face under the straw bat ; the strong Gascon acter to which it was safely entrusted.
accent ; the sudden lively doffing of the hat, at once so
• There linger on the lips of men a few names that
French and so ecclesiastical; he was a man you could not bring to us, as it were, a breeze blowing off the shores
look upon without visions of bis peasant ancestors,
of youth.
Most of those who have borne them were
worthy folk, sitting at home today in France, and re- taken from the world before early promise could be
joiced (I hope often) with letters from their boy. fulfilled, and so they rank in our regard by virtue of
« Père Siméon admired these natives as I do myself,
their possibilities alone. Stevenson is among the fewer
admired them with spiritual envy; the superior of his
men who bear the award both of promise and of achieve-
congregation had said to him on bis departure • You
ment, and is happier yet in this: besides admiration and
are going among a people more civilized than we - hope he has raised within the hearts of his readers a
peut-être plus civilisés que nous-mêmes.' What then personal feeling towards himself which is nothing less
was Père Siméon doing here? The question rose in
deep than love."
my mind, and I could see that he read the thought. The publishers have given Mr. Balfour's
Truly they were a people, on the whole, of a mind far
volumes a handsome setting. There is a good
liker Christ than any of the races of Europe :
spiritual life, almost no family life, but a kindness, a
index ; and seven appendices, containing ad-
generosity, a readiness to give and to forgive, without
dresses of Stevenson on education and missions,
parallel ; to some extent that was the bishop's doing ; a list of the beautiful Vailima Prayers, four
some of it had been since undone ; death runs so busy drafts of the opening chapter of “ Weir of Her-
in their midst, total extinction so instantly impended, miston ” to illustrate the author's patient pains
that it seemed a hopeless task to combat their vices;
as they were, they would go down in the abyss of things in composition, a complete chronological bibli-
past; the watchers were already looking at the clock; ography of his works, and a curious dozen of
Père Siméon's business was the visitation of the sick, samples, nine from Stevenson and three from
to smooth the pillows of this dying family of man." his originals,” showing his power of using
We cannot follow the detailed itinerary of other men's style at will while forming his own.
these floatings through the “summer isles of Students can exercise their ingenuity in “plac-
Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea.” ing" these specimens, some of which are, in-
Seen by such eyes and reported by such a pen, deed, unmistakable.
they have yielded to us all no small part of Besides the portraits of Stevenson and Mrs.
their magical charm. From one group to an- Stevenson, there is an interesting chart of the
other the little party wove their way until the Pacific voyages, oddly added to the first vol-
last thread was drawn ashore at Apia, there to ume, while describing events of the second.
await the shears of Atropos.
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THE ORIGIN OF EUROPEAN PEOPLES.*
a transformation, preserving some elements of the
conquered tongues, as in the Neo-Celtic of Wales."
The author of “ The Mediterranean Race"
To the reader who has not followed the re-
is Professor of Anthropology in the University
cent periodical literature of anthropology, these
of Rome. He is one of the foremost workers propositions may come as a distinct shock.
a
in Anthropology and is notably bold and in. They upset some of the cherished dogmas of
dependent in thought. He fearlessly criticizes linguistic and anthropological science. Sergi
those anthropological methods which he believes proceeds to develope and sustain them in a
to be imperfect, and insists upon new ones, brilliant way. He first presents an historical
.
which he believes to be better. Anthropolog-sketch of the phases of Indo-Germanism. Next,
ists in general give much weight to the Cephalic he presents a detailed study of the Mediter-
index — or the proportion between the length
ranean Race. The Hamitic peoples of North-
and breadth of the skull. Sergi insists that it ern Africa — the Libyans, Egyptians, Western
has but little value, that the same cephalic Libyans, and the population of the Canary
index may be given by skulls which differ pro- Islands, are referred to this race, and are stated
foundly in character. He himself says: to differ only as local varieties of one great
“ According to my method of cranial forms, it is the
type. The peoples of Syria and Asia Minor,
forms alone that we have to take into consideration,
and I have shown that the same cranial form may vary
past and present, are examined and referred to
in measurements and in index without losing its char-
the same race.
The Iberians, Pelasgians,
acters; this is a natural method, such as is employed Etruscans, and Ligurians are South Euro-
in zoology. How many species of lark we should have
peans, of the Mediterranean Race, who have
if we calculated by measurement their indices of length
migrated by various routes from the old African
and breadth!"
bome. The extension of the race northward is
We shall gain the clearest idea of the author's
claimed upon British, French, Swiss, German,
treatment by stating nine propositions, which
Bohemian, Scandinavian, and Russian evi-
he formulates :
dence. The light dolichocephals (long-heads)
"1. The primitive populations of Europe, after Homo
Neanderthalensis, originated in Africa; these constituted
of the north are only locally-modified dark
the entire population of neolithic times.
dolichocephals from the south. Sergi bolds
66 2. The basin of the Mediterranean was the chief
that the diffusion of the Mediterranean Race
centre of movement whence the African migrations was interrupted by the immigration, from
reached the centre and the north of Europe.
Asia, of the Eurasian Aryans, who in physical
“3. From the great African stock were formed three
varieties . . .; one peculiarly African . .; another,
type, in language, and in culture, were unlike
the Mediterranean . . .; and a third the Nordic. the Eurafricans. They were inferior in culture
These three varieties are the three great branches of to the older population of Europe, but were,
one species, which I call Eurafrican, because it occupied, apparently, more vigorous and aggressive. The
.
and still occupies, a large portion of the two continents
of Africa and Europe.
whole argument is fundamentally anthropo-
“4. These three human varieties have nothing in
logical, based upon skull-form, but much and
cemmon with the so-called Aryan races; .. the Ger- able use is made of archæological and other
mans and Scandinavians
are Eurafricans evidence.
of the Nordic variety.
In the presence of this brilliant presentation
“5. The Aryans are of Asiatic origin, and constitute a
variety of the Eurasiatic species; the physical characters
we naturally ask whether it can be harmonized
of their skeletons are different from those of the Eur- with the teachings of others regarding Euro-
africans.
pean ethnology. Three good general discus-
“6. The primitive civilization of the Eurafricans sions of this field have been lately published
is Afro-Mediterranean, becoming eventually Afro-
European.
Keane's, Ripley's, and Deniker's. Keane
“7. The Mycenæan civilization had its origin in
has been much influenced by Sergi and by
Asia, and was transformed by diffusion in the Medi- Ripley. For him there are three European
terranean.
races — Homo europaeus, Homo alpinus, Homo
—
“8. The two classic civilizations, Greek and Latin,
mediterranensis. The first and third of these
were not Aryan, but Mediterranean
“9. In the course of the Aryan invasion the lan-
correspond to Sergi's two divisions of the
guages of the Eurafrican species in Europe were trans- Mediterranean Race; the second to Sergi's
formed in Italy, Greece, and elsewhere, Celtic, German, Eurasians. But Keane considers the northern
Slavonic, etc., being genuine branches of the Aryan H. europaeus to be Asiatic and Aryan and
tongue; in other cases the Aryan languages underwent
the H. alpinus to be Asiatic and, probably,
* THE MEDITERRANEAN RACE. A Study of the Origin of
non-Aryan. He recognizes Africa as the
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believes that an early short-headed (brachytectorate Parliament; i. e., from 1654 to 1656.
cephalic) population entered Europe from the It includes the incidents in Cromwell's career
south.
which are the most difficult for his admirers
Ripley recognizes three European races to explain consistently with the idealizations of
Teutonic, Alpine, and Mediterranean. So far the cult of nineteenth century hero-worshipers.
as regards the Mediterranean Race proper he It goes without saying that Mr. Gardiner has
would probably agree with Sergi. As regards no theory to establish, and that he strives
the Asiatic origin of his Alpine (brachyceph- simply to set forth the facts with that absolute
alic — short-headed) Race he would also agree integrity which has given him his high rank,
with Sergi, but probably does not consider not only among the historians of this age, but of
them Aryans. Regarding the origin of the all time. In fact, after one has read this volume,
Teutonic Race he is somewhat reserved. the conviction is strengthened that Cromwell
Deniker recognizes ten races and sub-races can never be understood, much less dealt with
in Europe. He characterizes them carefully, justly, if he is to be held up to latter-day stand-
employing stature, complexion, hair, cephalic ards or be pedestaled by the side of latter-day
index, nose form, etc., as his basis of classific heroes. His motives, his ideals, were of the
cation. He presents the synonymy of his ten seventeenth century, and of the early seven-
race-types with care, but we can hardly present teenth century at that. With these motives he
or discuss it here. For Sergi, Deniker's ten was consistent; to these ideals he was true;
types would be so many local varieties or sub- but neither men nor motives nor ideals can
varieties of his two-species – Eurafrican and have place in this age of political and religious
Eurasian.
light. Cromwell was called to the government
It will be seen that Sergi's book has great of the three
kingdoms at a time when the fires of
importance. Some of his views, which, when the Thirty Years' War were still smouldering,
he first proposed them, were ridiculed, have when its grim traditions were still fresh upon
already gained acceptance. Whether all his men's minds, and the renewal of the struggle
views will eventually be accepted or not, he between Protestant Europe and Catholic
deserves a respectful hearing.
Europe, as statesmen regarded things then,
FREDERICK STARR.
was one of the possibilities of the immediate
future. Only so can we understand the utter
obtuseness of the Protector to the actual con-
ditions which confronted Europe in 1654, and
his failure to grasp the fact that the old motives
CROMWELL AS A MILITARY TYRANT.*
which had determined the friendships and the
The appearance of the third volume of Mr. animosities of the era of religious wars were
Gardiner's " History of the Commonwealth passing away, and that a new series of motives,
and Protectorate," so soon after the publica- born not of religious traditions but of commer-
tion of the second volume (1897), gives new
cial hopes and ambitions, had taken possession
foundation for the hope that the author may of the statesmen of Europe and were to dic-
live to complete the monumental work to which tate the alliances and counter-alliances of the
he has devoted his life. The present volume future. Cromwell was not without glimpses of
shows no falling off from that high standard the new day at hand; but his mind was still
of workmanship which long experience has
as da
darkened by the shadows of the night which
taught Mr. Gardiner's readers to expect from was passing away. Hence he moved with un-
his hands,- unless possibly (one hardly more certain step; was frequently inconsistent with
than imagines it) in some slight traces of hur-his own avowed purpose ; and, to the worldly-
ried composition. As for the rest, there is the wise statesmen of the Continent, at times ap-
same masterly handling of material, the same parently “infamously hypocritical.” He failed
keen insight into the motives of men, the same
to discern the threat of future commercial and
cool unbiassed judgment and unflinching cour. colonial rivalry that lay in the upbuilding of
age in presenting results.
Holland and France, and wasted his time in
The period treated is that of the two years striving to draw the Protestant powers of Europe
which followed the assembling of the first Pro- into an offensive alliance against the Catholic
powers. As the immediate future was to reveal,
HISTORY OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND PROTECTORATE.
By Samuel Rawson Gardiner, M.A. Volume III., 1654-1656.
the real menace to England was not to come
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crippled German branch of the House of Aus- made the recently closed religious wars of
tria, but first from the waxing commercial power Europe possible. The most that can be offered
of Holland, and second from the waxing political in his defense is that the orders were never
ambitions of France.
carried out. Comparatively few people were
Mr. Gardiner does not try to apologize for deported, fewer still were hanged, and the new
this serious error in Cromwell's foreign policy. plantation of Ireland was only feebly under-
He simply sets forth the facts, leaving them to taken. For this, however, the Protector de-
present to the reader the real Cromwell, — not serves little credit. He had really set his heart
the far-seeing statesman, the wise diplomat, the " the great work," and yielded at last only
founder of British foreign policy, but a blun- because his subordinates — chiefly his own
dering soldier, thoroughly honest at heart, who son Henry - to whom he had entrusted the
by the accident of revolution had been put in conduct of affairs in Ireland, shrank from
charge of the delicate machinery of diplomacy firing up any such devil's caldron as the Pro-
- a machinery far too delicate for the rough tector's plans would have provided for his
hand of the swordsman. Hence, the great lieutenants.
Oliver hardly appears here to advantage. In It is easier to understand, possibly even to
his negotiations with Charles X. he is a well-justify, Cromwell's conduct of domestic affairs
,
meaning visionary, devoted to ideals which the
during these years. Ostensibly, a constitu-
world has outgrown, and without even the nov- tional government had been established, con-
ice's knowledge of the simplest elements of Consisting of a sort of strictly limited monarchy
tinental politics. In his dealing with Spain, be and a strictly limited parliament, mutually de-
is saved from the charge of most reprehen- pendent on each other, and in such a way as to
sible treachery only by the plea that he did not prevent either party from becoming supreme. In
know that his unprovoked attack upon San reality, however, in giving the Protector entire
Domingo and Jamaica was an act of war. control over the army, and in forbidding the
These are hard things for the admirers of parliament to reduce its size without the Pro-
Oliver's statesmanship to accept; but their tector's consent, the new constitution had
quarrel is not with Mr. Gardiner, but with the entirely nullified any independent authority
array of evidence which is here marshaled with which it might seem to confer upon the par-
the pitilessness of an indictment.
liament, and had reduced any opposition which
Little, also, can be said in defence of the parliament might see fit to offer, to the nature
,
Protector's cold blooded plan of removing of advice or at least a protest.
“Papists and other superfluous Irish” from the The issue was what might have been ex-
more fertile, and hence more valuable, parts pected. The first Protectorate parliament had
of Ireland to the uncultivated, unattractive re- no sooner come together than it proceeded at
gions of the west and south, in order to make once to strike at the foundation of the Protec-
room for a permanent settlement of bis Protest- tor's power, by seeking to amend the Instru-
ant soldiers. It may be that Cromwell would ment of Government under which he and they
“ meddle with no man's conscience,” as he wrote
.
exercised their authority, and finally denied
to the governor of New Ross in 1649; yet evi- the coördinate authority of the Protector alto-
dently in his scheme of toleration he had no gether. After five lunar months were passed
place for the Mass. The Catholic religion in in useless wrangling, Cromwell, taking advan-
Ireland was to be virtually proscribed; the tage of a technicality granted him by the
priests were to be persecuted, and the estates of Instrument, dismissed his parliament and pro-
their supporters confiscated to the advantage of ceeded for eighteen months to rule without a
the Cromwellian soldiery and the “ Adventur- parliament.
ers.” Out of a total population of less than So ended Cromwell's second attempt to
one million souls, according to Mr. Gardiner's
some sort of coöperation from what
estimate, fully one hundred thousand were might be called, if not the nation, at least
marked for hanging or for deportation to the representatives of the classes who were trust-
West Indian plantations. The animus which worthy from a Puritan point of view. . He
could conceive of such a wholesale attainder of then proceeded to conduct the administration
an entire people can be explained only by Crom- of the State much as he would conduct the ad-
well's ignorance of the conditions which existed ministration of his army in the field. He dis-
in Ireland, and by the fact that he imagined missed civil judges whose loyalty he had reason
himself still fighting out the issues which had to doubt, exactly as James I. had done in the
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days of Coke; he even went a step beyond
THROUGH UNKNOWN ABYSSINIA.*
Charles and Wentworth, and virtually placed
all England under martial law, dividing the
Among the crowding calamities of the war
country into eleven great military districts and
in South Africa comes the death of Captain
placing over each a major-general, who was
Montagu Sinclair Wellby, of the Eighteenth
responsible only to the Protector and his coun-
Hussars. Born in 1866, educated at Rugby and
cil. With their assistance, the Protector pro-
Sandhurst, and given his rank as captain in
ceeded to bring England up to the Puritan 1894, he was then able to take
the life of an
up
standard, closing up the alehouses, abolishing explorer in Africa, making extended journeys
bear-baiting by shooting the bears in their pens,
through Somaliland in successive years. In
and deporting people who made themselves ob-
1896 he went to Asia on the expedition through
noxious to the Puritan community either by Cashmere, northern Thibet, Mongolia, and
their immoral lives or an ostentatious advocacy China, which is described in his well-known
of forms of Christian worship which had been book,
book, “Through Upknown Thibet.” He re-
proscribed by the State. Of the latter, however,
turned to India, participated in the Tirab cam-
it is always to be borne in mind that Cromweli paign, and, that ended, joined Colonel John
showed little inclination to molest the sectaries
Lane Harrington, British agent at the Abys-
of England and Scotland so long as their views sinian court, at Harrar, in August, 1898. Ob-
were divorced from politics. But he did not taining leave from the Emperor Menelik to
hesitate to silence either Churchmen or Inde- traverse any part of his domains, Captain
pendent Levellers whenever they raised their
Wellby set out without a white companion at
voices against the existing order.
the close of 1898, explored vast regions of
With our modern respect for the sacredness Abyssinian territory which had never before
of constitutional forms, it is difficult to regard known the foot of a European, reached Lake
these acts of Cromwell in other light than the Rudolf, met many strange tribes of natives, and
acts of a military tyrant. At every step of
came out at Omdurman in July, 1899. The
South African war called him to the colors,
the great Protector, the unlovely jangle of the
military spur grates harshly upon the ear.
and he died at Paardekop on August 5, 1899,
And yet it is to be borne in mind that few men
having been shot by the burghers on his refusal
of repute in Cromwell's time had any concep-
to surrender after being surprised on a recon-
tion of the right of a majority of the people to
noissance.
direct the affairs of the nation. In the fun.
The record of his last journey is preserved
damentals ” which he tried to induce bis recal-
in the large and handsome volume entitled,
“ 'Twixt Sirdar and Menelik," an interesting
citrant parliament to respect, he showed a re-
markable understanding of the true relations
record of an important expedition, plentifully
of the various arms of government to each other
illustrated, but lacking a map and chronology
as embodied in English institutions ; and yet
as well as an index, which makes it less valu.
he had no conception of the authority of the
able than its real importance deserves. The
majority as the justification of government.
book is dedicated, by permission, to the Abys-
He had been set, not to execute the will of the
sinian monarch, and has had the benefit of
pation as voiced in the expressed will of major preparation at the hands of Colonel Harring-
ities, but “to do God's people some good"; and ton, who records in his introduction the unusual
even “ God's people " did not always know qualities possessed by his friend for the work
what was best for their own good. Tried by
he took up, noting among other things his abil-
the definitions of political science, Cromwell ity to make friends of the most uncompromis-
was unquestionably an usurper, a despot, and ing and antagonistic material, from the Lion
a tyrant,
yet no usurpation was ever so justi- infested country of Walamo.” These qualities
of Judah ” himself to the natives of " the devil.
fied by the conditions which made it possible ;
no despot was more sincere in his efforts to lead appear in the book as well, leaving it a simple
his people into righteous ways and save them
and picturesque recital of fact, modestly told
from the results of vice on the one hand and
but filled with the spirit of high resolve and
anarchy on the other; no tyrant ever tried
courageous humility.
harder to secure some legal basis for the
After many interesting experiences in the
authority which was denied him by the very
* 'TWIXT SIRDAR AND MENELIK: An Account of a Year's
laws which he strove to uphold.
Expedition from Zeila to Cairo through Unknown Abyssinia.
By the late Captain M. S. Wellby. Illustrated. New York:
BENJAMIN TERRY. Harper & Brothers.
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Abyssinian capital, where Captain Wellby was might have been.” Professor Macy defends
given an opportunity to study the methods of this course upon the ground that the principal
the Emperor's armies, the expedition set out purpose of historical study is to enable us to
from Adis Ababa with a mixed company of avoid in future the crimes and blunders that
Abyssinians, Gallas, Somalis, and Soudanese, have resulted in disaster in the past. Never-
a Pathan native officer acting as its lieutenant. theless, speculation as to what would have hap-
The caravan went along the River Maki to pened, if that which did happen had not bap-
Lake Zouai, on the way south to Lake Lamina, pened, is capable of no positive proof and can
previously unexplored and said to contain a result merely in the balancing of probabilities.
great treasure hid by a Danakil chief on one of Professor Macy's principal contention is that
its islands in the sixteenth century, passing the Civil War might have been averted had
along the Suksuk to Lake Hera or Hora, and the Whig party in 1848 and thereafter taken
thence to the new body of water. Hostile natives strong ground against the extension of slavery
prevented intimate acquaintance with the discov- to the territories, and made a strictly con-
ery, and the explorers hastened on to Wubar- stitutional opposition to slavery a paramount
akh. In the country of Walamo there was a issue. From this view we must wholly dissent.
curious experience with the “devils" of the The Whig party furnished little ground for
country, from which Captain Wellby himself hope. It was a party of dead issues and pass-
was not exempt — to his own surprise. Lake ing political leaders. It was a coalition of in-
Rudolf, or Gallop, was attained and some ex- congruous elements, the protectionists of the
cellent shooting followed, rhinoceros, hippo- North and nullifiers of the South. It had dis-
potamus, elephant, hartebeest, and gazelle con- claimed any principles in the campaign of
tributing to the supply. Passing through many 1840, and received a deserved punishment in
tribes of savages, the gigantic Turkana, the the accession of Tyler. The success of 1848
Abba, and the Tamata, the men suffered greatly was temporary and due solely to the personal
from lack of water, but found relief among the popularity of a politically colorless candidate.
Sbingkalla. The Nile was reached at Nasser, Had the Whig party embraced its great op.
and thereafter it was merely a question of float- portunity by taking a stroug stand against the
ing down stream with it. The expedition dis.extension of slavery, it would have been im-
banded at Omdurman.
mediately abandoned by its Southern wing and
The book is silent concerning the scientific have become as sectional as the later Repub-
results of the long and devious journey, but lican party. It might have saved itself, but
these will doubtless find the light elsewhere. would not otherwise have greatly changed the
JOHN J. HOLDEN. course of history. The opposition to a reju.
venated Whig party might have been less bit-
ter than the opposition to the new Republican
party, but the difference could not have been
POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE UNITED
STATES.*
great enough to avert the war.
The reasons
why the war could not have been averted are
Professor Macy's contribution to the “Citi- strongly stated by Professor Macy himself.
zen's Library” was announced as a “ History
“We are told that the Muhammedan child is taught
of Political Parties in the United States." The
to lisp the word infidel' with all possible spite and
title-page, however, reads “ Political Parties
It is made a part of his religion to hate and
in the United States, 1846-1861." The book despise the infidel.. A similar training led abo-
is not an outline history of the rise and growth
litionist and Southern • fire-eater' to hate and despise
each other. In many a Northern family children grew
of parties and the development of party ma- up believing that life in the South was typified by the
chinery, as we expected it to be, but is a sort bloodhound, the auction-block, and the mob. And the
of running commentary on the political history children of the plantations were in their turn made to
of the United States with special reference to
regard the pure-minded, self-sacrificing, auti-slavery
the period designated.
philanthropists as malignant aggressors, delighting in
stirring up the negroes to exterminating warfare against
The discussion throughout is characterized the white South... A generation bad grown up,
by breadth and liberality of spirit and by clear. honestly believing that the institution of slavery pos-
ness of insight into the “ view-points" of op-
sessed all moral and constitutional sanctions. They
posing forces. Much space is devoted to " what
could not understand the grouuds of Northern opposi-
tion; and no more could the North understand the
* PoliticaL PARTIES IN THE UNITED States, 1846-1861. Southern position respecting slavery. For a whole
By Jesse Macy, Ph.D. New York: The Macmillan Co. generation a false system of moral instruction in North
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and South had stifled the spirit of brotherhood and qualities is displayed in this story of the Revolu-
sown the dragon's teeth of misunderstanding and mis- tionary War. There is much finish in the detail,
representation.”
but there is nothing of the large imaginative sweep
This chasm between the sections was a slow that should characterize historical romance. The
and gradual development from the earliest best feature of Miss Jewett's book is found in its
times. It could have been bridged, if bridged
account of the brutal treatment meted out to the
at all, only by going at least as far back as
tories in New England during the turbulent days
the abolitionist agitation, and by substituting
that followed the outbreak of hostilities. This
for it a moderate and reasoning anti-slavery
aspect of our revolutionary struggle has been treated
in much too gingerly a fashion by the historians,
movement which would not have excited the
and it is only of recent years that the public has
counter-revolution in the South. But such a
been told the truth about the matter. Miss Jewett
substitution was scarcely within the range of tells the truth, and for this we may be thankful.
possibility, so that affairs were bound to come, But for the story of heroic deeds she has not the
as they did, to such a pass that a war between equipment, and ber Paul Jones, for example, offers
the sections, to use the phrase of the late Gen- a weak contrast to the figure of that captain as it
eral Jacob D. Cox, “ was essential to the re- appears in "Richard Carvel,” or even in the slap-
establishment of mutual respect.”
dash books of Archdeacon Brady. We trust that
F. H. HODDER.
Miss Jewett will at once go back to her study of
the humors of the New England town.
Mrs. Catherwood is better equipped with the
faculty for dealing with the high and heroic mat-
ters of history, but even she is well-advised to make
RECENT FICTION.*
character rather than action the main object of her
We regret that Miss Jewett should have attempted attention. It is certainly refreshing to turn from
to write a historical romance of the conventional the backneyed story that Miss Jewett has told us
sort. In delicate genre studies of New England to the narrative of the lost dauphin as it has been
life and character, she has few equals, and her reconstructed, from legend and imagination, by
work in this her chosen field is artistically satisfying Mrs. Catherwood. For her " Lazarre " is nothing
to an exacting taste. But in such a book as “The more than the youthful history of Eleazar Williams,
Tory Lover” she is out of her natural element, that singular personality who was firmly believed
and the result is a rather poor example of a species by some to be no other than the child of the French
of composition now only to be justified by extra- | king, rescued from the Temple, and brought to
ordinary dash and brilliancy. Neither of these America. Both in Northern New York, where
Williams lived among tbe Indians, and in the Green
*The Tory LOVER. By Sarah Orne Jewett. Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Bay region of Wisconsin, where he became one of
LAZARRE. By Mary Hartwell Catherwood. Indianapolis :
the pioneers of Western civilization, the legendary
The Bowen-Merrill Co.
story of his origin persists, and has resulted in a
A DREAM OF EMPIRE; or, The House of Blennerhassett. curious literature of the kind at which historians
By William Henry Venable. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
look askance, but which romantic and uncritical
BLENNERHASSETT; or, The Decrees of Fate, A Romance.
readers are apt to accept at something like its face
By Charles Felton Pidgin. Boston: C.M.Clark Publishing Co.
value. Mrs. Catherwood appears (although perhaps
CAPTAIN RAVENSHAW; or, The Maid of Cheapside. By
Robert Neilson Stephens. Boston: L. C. Page & Co. only for the purposes of her novel) to accept the
CARDIGAN. A Novel. By Robert W. Chambers. New legend as true in its essentials, and has certainly
York: Harper & Brothers.
achieved a remarkable success in making the figure
THEY THAT TOOK THE SWORD. By Nathaniel Stephen- of her Lazarre stand out as a living figure from
son. New York: John Lane.
her canvas. She follows bim from his assumed de-
WESTERFELT. By Will N. Harben. New York: Harper
& Brothers.
portation to this country, through the early years
TøE MANAGER OF THE B. & A. By Vaughan Kester. of his life as the adopted son of an Indian chief,
New York: Harper & Brothers.
through the period of aroused self-consciousness
The SUPREME SURRENDER. By A. Maurice Low. New when he comes to believe in his own exalted birth,
York: Harper & Brothers.
down to the Western time when he puts aside all
THE RIGHT OF Way. By Gilbert Parker. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
thoughts of claiming his birthright, and casts in
Bım. By Rudyard Kipling. New York: Doubleday,
his lot with the new nation that he is helping to
Page & Co.
build up in the wilderness. Before this conclusion
SJSTER TERESA. By George Moore. Philadelphia : The is reached, however, the author takes her hero to
J. B. Lippincott Co.
Europe, and provides bim with a series of surprising
PBILBRICK HOWELL. A Novel. By Albert Kinross.
adventures, both at the French court and at the
New York: Froderick A. Stokes Co.
far Northern court of the exiled Bourbon king.
TøE ETERNAL CITY. By Hall Caine. New York: D.
Appleton & Co.
His final renunciation is determined by his love for
The LADY OF LYNN. By Sir Walter Besant. New York:
a noble French woman, whom chance bas brought
Dodd, Mead & Co.
to America, and with whose fortunes his own have
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a
been singularly intermingled ever since his child- themes. Captain Ravenshaw," his new novel, is
hood. We began the reading of “ Lazarre" with a romance of English life in the days of Elizabeth.
many misgivings, occasioned by the difficult nature Not a historical novel in the sense of dealing with
of its subject rather than by doubts of the author's characters and happenings of resounding fame, it
capacity, but as we read into the book, our interest may be considered historical in what is perhaps a
grew deeper all the time, and its closing pages left truer sense of the term. That is, it presents a
us with the feeling that, however fantastic its sub- carefully-studied picture of the life of the time con-
stance, Mrs. Catherwood had contrived to give cerned, and results from a conscientious effort to be
reality to both situations and characters, the feeling truthful without being dall. It certainly is not
that, considering the difficulty of her subject, she dull, and we think the author has justified his own
had achieved an unusual and brilliant success. claim of being “ himself at home in Elizabethan
The figure of Aaron Burr is one that has long London." Like another romance reviewed in this
been waiting for effective portraiture at the hands article, “Captain Ravenshaw” is occupied with the
of some artisan of historical romance. Within the designs of an unscrupulous rake upon the person
last few months, two attempts have been made to and fortunes of an heiress, and of course this vil-
attract novel-readers to this interesting personality, lainy is foiled after the required number of stirring
and both attempts are deserving of attention. Mr. episodes and the usual amount of agony. The novel
W. H. Venable, in “ A Dream of Empire," takes is a fair average example of the class of writings
ap Barr's story at the time when, his term of office to which it belongs.
ended, he leaves the East a disgraced man, and The “Cardigan” of Mr. Robert W. Chambers is
embarks upon the mysterious undertaking whereby far more than “a fair average example” of his-
he hopes to carve out for himself a new political torical fiction. In this story of our revolutionary
fortune in the Southwest. The scene is first laid period he has even sarpassed himself — which those
in Blennerhassett Island, and shows us the con- who remember how highly we have thought of his
spirator in the first stages of his enterprise. His previous work will understand to be praise indeed.
fortunes are followed down to the final collapse of We should call the book one of the half-dozen
his scheme, the ruin of the Blennerhassetts, and strongest and most fascinating romances of Amer-
the arrest of Burr on charges of treason. The story ican history that have been produced of recent
is picturesquely told, and is above the average as years. The period is that of the single year pre-
an example of the sort of book which it represents. ceding the outbreak of hostilities at Lexington, and
Unfortunately, it is impossible to make a satisfac- the scene is the Mohawk region whence the authority
tory hero of romance out of a man with Burr's of Sir William Johnson was stretched forth to con-
record, and the feeling that he got no more than trol the turbulence of the Long House, and keep
he deserved destroys the artistic effect of the tragedy the warriors of the Six Nations on friendly terms
of his life.
with all the whites. The character of Johnson is
Mr. C. F. Pidgin, whose “ Blennerhassett" is the depicted for us with loving skill, and we share in
second of our Barr stories, realizes this difficulty the tragedy of his death — for it was nothing less
so fully that he takes the bull by the horns from than a tragedy for him to see all his efforts made un-
the start. Instead of apologizing for Burr, he availing through the unscrupulous intrigues of Lord
champions him throughout, makes of him a com. Dunmore's agents, and to witness the hideous spec-
pletely misunderstood and foully abused man, justi- tacle of his own English compatriots in league with
fying his conduct where it has been most condemned. savagery for the destruction of the revolting colo-
In order to carry out this plan, it becomes neces- nists. He, at least, remaining loyal to his King, and
sary to vilify both Hamilton and Jefferson, which would have seen the battle fought out in accordance
is done without the least hesitation. The audacity with the rules of civilized warfare; it was the cor-
of the thing fairly takes away one's breath. In row of his last days to see it waged with the sup-
order to rehabilitate his hero, the author invents port of Indian allies. We spoke not long ago of
imaginary documents, which are paraded with a the reappearance of the Indian in our American
great show of mystery; but just as we expect to fiction. No better example could be afforded than
have their contents revealed, they are forever lost. the present novel, which presents to us the familiar
As an illustration of the author's disingenuousness, figures of Brant and Logan, and which, further-
we may cite the statement in his preface that Burr more, exhibits a truly penetrative insight into Indian
" was elected to the highest position in the gift of customs and modes of thought. We are almost
the American people.' We cannot say that Mr. inclined to look upon Johnson as the true hero of
Pidgin has written a very good novel - in fact, he this romance, 80 commanding is his figure, and so
has not written a novel at all, but an imaginary compulsive of respect and admiration. But the
biography, which is quite a different affair. It story deals, after all, with the adventures of his
covers the whole of Burr's life, from the duel with ward, Michael Cardigan, a boy of sixteen in the
Hamilton to Barr's death, but the portraiture is opening chapters, and a man of seventeen at the
hopelessly distorted, and is quite unconvincing. close. It seems a purely wanton disregard of the
Mr. Robert Neilson Stephens divides his attention probabilities to give us so youthful a hero. Nothing
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ing upon him at least five more years. The most “ The Manager of the B. & A.,” by Mr. Vaughan
delicate piece of psychology in the book is offered Kester, is a much better book-in fact, it is one
by the gradual transformation of this boy's political of the best of the whole series. It takes us to a
ideals, through stress of circumstances, making in small town in the lumber region of Michigan, and
one short year an earnest patriot out of a fervent is concerned with the efforts of a new and energetic
loyalist. We will not carp at this, because the manager to build up the business of the railway.
author really performs the feat, although at the His reform measures make him unpopular, and he
outset, although knowing that it must be done, we is soon confronted with a strike. At the same time,
could not see how he was going to set about it. a family scandal is raked up against him, and serves
Novels of our Civil War are becoming increas- still further to embitter the situation. The
young
ingly frequent in American fiction. It would seem woman with whom he has fallen in love treats him
that we have at last reached the time when it is badly, and at last he gives up his job, and leaves
possible to take a dispassionate survey of that great the town which has become 80 stirred up against
convulsion, and when the spokesmen for either side him. Presently, the safety of the town is threatened
can count upon a sympathetic hearing from the by a forest fire, communications are cut off, and
partisans of the other. This does not mean that the situation grows desperate. At this juncture,
our war novels are to acquire a neutral tint, because the hero has an opportunity of coming to the relief
passion of some sort is essential to a vital descrip- of his former fellow-citizens, by himself driving
tion of the war period, but it does mean that the the locomotive that brings the needed fire-engines
majority of readers are ready to eschew bigotry in through the blazing forest. This act of daring
their championship of either cause, and are pre- causes a complete revulsion of feeling toward him,
pared to take a generous view of the motives of even the young woman in question also sees the error of
those whom they believe to have been essentially in her ways, and everything ends happily, or at least
the wrong. Of recent war novels, They That as happily as could be expected. The story is a
Took the Sword,” by Mr. Nathaniel Stephenson, is specimen of crisp and vigorous workmanship, typi-
a modest but unusually satisfactory performance. fying an important aspect of American life, and
It deals with a few days only, in the summer of carries out the purpose of the series in which it
1862, and with a single episode of the struggle. appears rather better than most of the other volumes.
.
The scene of the book is the city of Cincinnati, and Mr. A. Maurice Low, the author of “ The Su-
its theme the attempted capture of the city by a preme Surrender,” is a Washington journalist and
sudden Confederate raid, abetted by the Southern correspondent, and endeavors to picture the polit-
sympathizers who formed a large part of the popu- ical and social life of our capital city. Long
lation of Cincinnati. The boyish hero of the story practice at his business, coupled with shrewd pow-
is pitifully weak, and his actions are such as to ers of observation, has given him unusual qualifi-
estrange our sympathies in large measure; but he cations for the task which he has undertaken. We
makes what atonement he can, and he is only a cannot escape the temptation to think of his studies
boy, after all. The closing scene in Washington, of public mén as partaking of the character of
when he is pardoned by the President, is much like portraiture, although it is probable that most of his
the similar scene in Mr. Churchill's “ The Crisis," figures are composites. One Senator, however, is
although the figure of Lincoln is not presented in hardly to be mistaken, so accurately are his public
as firm an outline.
activities and political methods presented. The
Since we last spoke of the monthly series of time of the story is one of great political tension ;
American novels provided by one of our oldest there is great danger of a war with England, and
publishing houses, three new volumes have been the conservative elements of the government find
added to the collection. “ Westerfelt,” by Mr. it almost impossible to keep the nation to a rational
Will N. Harben, is a story of Northern Georgia
, co
course. The private interest of the story centres
and introduces as to a very crude type of civiliza- about a conspicuous Senator and the daughter of
tion. The hero is a young farmer who trifles with a member of the Cabinet. The Senator is married,
the affections of a rastic maiden, in consequence' bat the young woman in question falls in love with
whereof she takes her own life and he is filled with him, and has no hesitation in telling him about it.
remorse. Removing to a neighboring village, he His feelings are reciprocated, and the affair goes
buye a livery stable, and falls in love with the on in clandestine fashion until it gets to be talked
daughter of a woman who keeps the village hotel. about, and they realize that they stand upon the
a
This interferes with the designs of the village bully, brink of a social aby88. They both try to convince
who is a moonshiner and a leader of whitecaps. themselves that their love is not wrongful, and in
This ruffian makes several attempts upon the life this endeavor, elaborate a novel theory of the mar-
of his rival, who manages to escape, although by riage state. Marriage, they conclude, should be a
no means with a whole skin. By these devices, and contract for three years, terminable at the pleasure
a miserable misunderstanding between the lovers, of the parties concerned. Bat this theory differs
the story is kept going, but it does not prove a re- 80 greatly from the practice of society in its present
markable performance. We may thank the writer, benighted stage of ovolation that when the critical
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woman impulsively decides to marry a persistent O'Hara, the son of a former soldier, and when his
old-time lover for whom she cares little or nothing, education is taken in band by his father's regi-
and the Senator, after making a great speech and ment. His unusual gifts are marked out by certain
then resigning his office, finds the problems of des- government officials, and be is put in training for the
tiny all solved for him by the fatal bullet of an Secret Service, in which department we feel quite
anarchist, conveniently provided for the occasion. sure that he will become distinguished, although
We do not think much of this book on its ethical the book ends when he is upon the threshold of his
side; on its intellectual side, it has a certain bard new career. The story offers us a great variety of
It is Oriental types of race and character, including the
a & good deal like Mrs. Atherton's “Senator North,” winning personality of a Thibetan holy man, seek-
the resemblance being rather closer than ought to ing through long years and in strange lands for the
exist between two novels by different bands. river of cleansing whereby he may gain the longed-
For the last time, 80 Mr. Gilbert Parker assures for release from the Wheel of Change. The Bud-
08, has he drawn upon the Canadian storehouse for dhist attitude toward life is very sympathetically
the material of his fiction. This is a matter of figured in this venerable character, who seems to
regret, for no one before him has made the Cana- 08 quite as interesting as Kim himself. It is need.
dian past, as embodied in history, or the Canadian less to say that few Europeans understand the
present, as embodied in the humble lives of the workings of the Oriental mind as Mr. Kipling
coureur de bois and the habitant, so vivid to our understands them, and far fewer bave bis gift of
gaze, or so pregnant with dramatic or pathetic imparting the understanding to their readers.
possibilities. “ The Right of Way” is a story of Among English writers, he has been matched by
rather recent times, and the scene (except for a Mrs. Steel, but hardly by any other in our day.
sort of prologue) is laid in a remote village of Qire- Mr. George Moore's "Sister Teresa” is a sequel
bec. It is a strong and beautiful story, telling to “ Evelyn Innes." It describes the growth of
how a brilliant but dissipated lawyer of Montreal the singer's determination to forsake the world, the
becomes dead to the world through an accident, breaking of her relations with the two lovers who
and how he takes up life anew in the humblest had so influenced ber life, her tentative experience
of village surroundings, and becomes in some sort of the convent, the death of her father, and the
the good genius of the place. He will not return taking of her religious vows. The scene of the
to his old home, although his reputation has been book is laid for the most part in the convent, and
unjustly blasted, because his return would bring the story is little more than the analysis of her
misery to others; and he is content to leave a tar. swaying emotions as she is urged now this way
and
nished name among the circles in which he once now that, as the world and the church alternately
moved that he may save from suffering the wife appeal to her distracted spirit. The book is unde-
who, believing him dead, has become happily niably a dull one as dull as the “ En Route"
married to another. This is, no doubt, a very of M. Hayamanns, which it inevitably brings to
high pitch of moral heroism, and, taken together mind, and it is a book which leaves an unpleasant
taste in pages are which
-
all the instincts of such a man would have revolted
, deal, as in its predecessor
, wiens musical themes
:
it strains the reader's credulity almost to the “ Philbrick Howell,” by Mr. Albert Kinross, is
breaking point; but, once admitting the essential a novel of modern English lıfe, chiefly concerned
improbability of the situation, the working-nut is with the fortunes of a young man of letters. He
both ingenious and logical.“ The Right of Way” is in love from childhood with a girl who seems
is not a better book than Mr. Parker's two other worthy of him, but who in reality is shallow and sel-
long novels, but it is upon about their level of fish. His own generous nature cannot see in her the
achievement, and is certainly one of the eight defects that are evident to others, and his devotion
or ten best novels of the year.
is unbroken until in tbe end she reveals herself in
Mr. Kipling's new novel is a story of the India an unmistakeable light. He finds the usual conso-
that he knows so well — a story entirely without lation in the love of another girl, but this part of
love-making or other sentimental interest of the the story is not very convincingly managed. Nor
conventional sort, yet singularly enthralling. It are the probabilities very strictly observed in de
is entitled “Kim,” which is the name of the scribing the hero's career as a novelist. Such im-
principal character. Kim is a child of Irish par- mediate success as comes to him is anything but
entage, cast as a waif upon the sea of Indian life the rule of authorship. The story is pleasantly
when an infant, and growing up under native in- told, with animation and genuine sentiment.
fluences. He is a preternaturally shrewd little Mr. Hall Caine is doubtless a fair mark for ad.
beggar, and has had to learn the lesson of living by verse criticism, yet we cannot hold to be either
his wits from his earliest years. Although he generous or fair the dead set that the English re-
speaks English, he prefers Hindostanee, and the viewers have made against “The Eternal City.”
racial traits that are his by inberitance seem to Granting that the novel is extravagant and bas
have been almost wholly submerged. They re- many faults of taste, granting that improbabilities
appear after it is discovered that he is Kimball meet the eye in every chapter, granting that its
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NOTES ON NOVELS.
pressive to deserve for the book a more respectful The student of character will detect a certain incon-
hearing than it is receiving from most quarters. sistency between the recent public speeches of Mr. Will-
In the first place, its idealism, although both utopian iam Allen Wbite and his well-told stories of American
and sentimental, is on the whole of the inspiring political life, now gathered together in a book with the
sort. Then its picture of the social and political
excellent title of “Stratagems and Spoils” (Scribner).
conditions of modern Italy, although drawn with
In the speeches, Mr. White extols the glory of America,
melodramatic intent, is correct in its main outlines,
and urges the extension of our beneficent influence
throughout the world ; in the stories he paints with
and has been carefully studied from the documents.
merciless truth the complete lack of idealism in our
Finally, the plot of the story, although far from
political methods, selecting typical examples of thieves
original, and audacious beyond what is fairly per- and robbers in the States and nation, and apologizing
missible, is well put together, and keeps the interest for the universal deference to money, however obtained,
of the reader in a condition of breathless tension. by stating in bis preface that our politicians are quite
We certainly do not believe in the practicability of as moral in their way as our lawyers, merchants, and
Mr. Caine's special type of Christian socialism, nor clergymen, in theirs. This combination of political
do we condone his balf-veiled apology for the
optimism and pessimism in one personality, the reader
methods of violence in revolution, but we believe
of Mr. White's book is permitted to account for as
that the book is a sincere expression of the author's
best he may. Certainly the graphic and convincing
tales he has here set down contain the truth graphic-
outlook, clouded by sentiment as that may be, and
ally set forth, and with much knowledge of literary
distorted by his unbalanced judgment. And, after art. They are interesting to a degree.
all, the author's vision of a purged Italy, of a spir- Mr. George Horton has contrived a pleasant disap-
itualized papacy and a republican polity, is essen- pointment in his new tale of modern Greece, “ The
tially no other than the vision of Mazzini, and that Tempting of Father Anthony " (McClurg). With a
is the divinest vision that has been voucbsafed to humor and quaiutness quite his own, he gives the his-
any Italian of the last century. We cannot helptory of a lad, the son of the village priest, who feels
balking at the improbability of the heroine's con-
himself called to a life of extreme asceticism after the
duct in betraying her husband. A woman of Roma's
manner of St. Anthony the Great.
With little of pa-
finesse and penetration could not have been tricked
rental encouragement, he implants himself in a munas-
tery not far from his home, leaving this, after years
80 easily, and would never have succumbed to the
spent in holy living, for a life in a distant retreat. But
pressure pat upon her. The appearances of the
in his wandering he meets a beautiful girl, nature as-
Pope as a character in the story are usually unfor- serts herself above austere religion, and, it being the
tunate. Despite labored attempts to maintain the policy of the Greek Church to discourage monasticism,
dignity of his office and the saintly character of the Mr. Horton is able to make that time honored happy
venerable man, the author has distinctly failed in ending to his book which should end all romances.
investing him with the attributes that both art and Messrs. Samuel W. Merwin and Henry K. Webster
historical fact demand. For in spite of certain
continue to develope the vein of commercial romance
deliberate confusions of character and biography,
they discovered in their first book through the last from
this figure is in the main intended for that of the
their joint pens, "Calumet Kº" (Macmillan). The
•
narrative is chiefly concerned with the erection of a
present pontiff, just as the figure of the King is
buge elevator on the bank of the Calumet River in
that of the present ruler, and just as the figure of
South Chicago, its completion within a given time being
Bonelli is that of the prime minister so recently absolutely necessary in order to break a "corner
" in
deceased. But for all these strictares we are not wheat. The undertaking calls forth all the resources
disposed to visit “The Eternal City ” with utter of the modern contractor, complicated by chicanery on
condemnation, or to deny it the possession of many the part of the railways interested in the “corner," by
remarkable qualities.
labor troubles, accidents, and a number of minor
“ The Lady of Lynn," a posthumous novel by Sir
A simple romance is threaded through the
Walter Besant, is an excellent example of the art,
exciting and well-told story, which is one for business
men to find interest in, as well as the classes more ac-
or artifice, of this pleasant story-teller. It is a tale
customed to reading fiction other than that provided
of the last century, and has for its theme the
by the daily papers.
machinations of a London gambler and rake, who
With painstaking and patience, Mr. John Uri Lloyd
learns of the existence of an unsophisticated heiress
is reaching toward literary comprehension. “Warwick
in the quiet seaport of Lynn, and who marshalls of the Kuobs ” (Dodd) is a second “Stringtown” story,
his disreputable allies to descend upon the town, dealing with the primitive religion and passion of the
and help him bear her off. It takes a good deal of proviucial Kentuckians of that locality. The hero,
rather ponderous machinery to carry this plot into
from whom the book takes its title, is a hard-shell Bap-
effect, and Lyan for a time is turned into a gay resort
tist preacher during war times.
A Southern sympa-
of fashion. We need not say that the villain is foiled,
thizer on the border, he is drawn into the conflict upon
which his two eldest sons have entered with much an-
and that the virtuous maiden bestows her charms
willingness, only to come into greater grief through the
and her wealth upon the man who loves ber for ber-
betrayal of his daughter by a Northern college student
self, and who is instrumental in rescuing her from
who has been his guest while investigating the geolog-
her persecutors. WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. ical formations of the neighborhood. There is the
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tendenoy to discursiveness so marked in the former
books from this hand, though in less degree; and a gen-
eral formlessness in structure, though this again shows
improvement. Mr. Lloyd will do better stili.
A well-finished novel from a new band may be rec-
ommended in Mrs. Elinor Macartney Lane's “Mills of
God” (Appleton). The name of the author is an as-
sumed one, taken for the purpose of aiding the veraci-
ousness of the story, which deals with aristocratic life
in Virginia at the close of the eighteenth century and
the beginning of the nineteenth. The heroine is of
royal descent on one side, and the hero an English no-
bleman with whom, though married, she fell in love.
The child of this passion plays an important part in the
prettily told narrative, disagreeable as the facts dealt
with must be considered. The feeling of the period is
transferred successfully, though there is an absence of
what might be called national Americanism rather
startling to contemplate.
Philadelphia, a Republican city, is in the bands of a
political machine quite as corrupt and irresponsible as
Tammany in its worst days. It is of an imaginary
character who attains the beadship of this vast ring
that Mr. Francis Churchill Williams writes in “J.
Devlin-Boss” ” (Lothrop), a political novel of more than
ordinary interest. Devlin comes into view as the “copy
a morning newspaper, entering into politics as
be grows older as naturally as an American business
man keeps out of it. Climbing on the heads of his fel-
lows tbrough sheer strength of character, he soon be-
comes the boss of the water-office, withstanding until
the close of the book the desultory efforts of the re-
spectable element in the community to oust him. Mr.
Williams lets his readers see what it is that gives Dev-
lin his power, and adds greatly to our general knowledge
of municipal affairs. A pleasant love-story runs beside
the political exposition.
The “ Portrait Series” which the Messrs. Harper
are publishing shows the widest variance in the stand-
ard of the short stories that make up the several vol-
Mr. Van Tassel Sutphen's “The Nineteenth
Hole,” for example, contains the lightest trifles written
around the game of golf and the fashion of riding in
self-moving vehicles. It requires a decided interest in
either pursuit to make make them readable, the cumu-
lative effect of a volume of them being almost appall-
ing. On the other hand, Miss Elizabeth C. Jordan's
“'Tales of a Cloister" afford a most interesting glimpse
into convent life in the United States, being drawn
largely from the writer's own education in a convent
school. The sweetness and sincerity of the sisters, the
innumerable problems presented by their pupils from
the outer world, the beautiful atmosphere of unques-
tioned faith and hope combine to make the book note-
worthy and attractive.
Not the kailyards, but the Scotch middle-classes,
are drawn upon for the material Mr. George Douglas
uses in “ The House with the Green Shutters ” (Mc-
Clure, Phillips & Co.). The story deals with the ac-
cumulating misfortunes of a family whose head has
made much money by shop-keeping. A slattern of a
wife and a fool of a son combine to bring the story to
an unmitigated tragedy, the doom of degeneracy.
Sombre and unrelieved, there is a searching of hearts
and analysis of motives which place the novel on a
high plane among its fellows. Quite incidentally, the
evils of unrestricted competition are shown without pal-
iation. However little the community in which the
story is placed may appeal to the reader, it serves as
an admirable human background for the fate which
creeps so relentlessly upon the house of Gourlay.
“The Road to Ridgeby's” (Small, Maynard & Co.)
is a tender romance in which the asperities of farming
life in Iowa are softened and idealized. It is by the late
Frank Burlingame Harris, a young newspaper writer of
fine ambition, and is remarkably free from the errors
which so often go into a first book. It tells the tale
of a rich young man who is seized with the desire to
wander. His journey brings him to the home of a col-
lege girl, the adopted daughter of a farmer. Her
academic career ended, she returns home and bravely
seeks to repay her foster parents by pledging her hand
to the man who holds the mortgage on their farm.
The vivifying power of true love shines through the
story, and keeps it sweet and spiritual.
Henry of Navarre is a prime favorite in song and
story, and the prevailing taste in historical novels
leaves his memory no opportunity for neglect. It is
about his career in early life that Mr. Hamilton Drum-
mond has written the first of two recently published
novels, giving the book an appropriate title, from the
faithful servant of the King who attends bis fortunes
through its pages, “A King's Pawn” (Doubleday).
Mr. Drummond has filled his story with war and mi-
nor battle, the clashing of swords and rattling of ac-
coutrements. Having done this, he is content to leave
love quite out of the question, a woman's vengeance
taking its place. In the other story, “The Seven
Houses” (Stokes), compensation is made by giving the
book a heroine and hardly a hero at all. Here again
France is dealt with, and there is some little fighting;
but it is rather a war of wits than of armed men. The
narrative is well put together, and the astrological
prediction of the first chapter governs the rest.
Mr. James 0. G. Duffy has taken a most dramatic
incident in the history of one of the curious religious
sects with which America is filled, for the foundation
of bis first novel, “Glass and Gold” (Lippincott). A
girl, misled by her teacher, a clergyman in the sect, is
beloved by an artist. Reading a book on confession,
by her betrayer, she is persuaded by its reasoning to
make public confession of her fault to the Californian
congregation to which she belongs, in order to bring a
clean record to her affianced husband. The rest of the
book tells how she sought to live down the consequent
scandal, essaying an entrance upon society in New
York and Ireland, after being left a fortune by her
heart-broken father.
Two recent collections of stories show a remarkable
similarity of contents. Both are written in an English
provincial dialect, both deal with the somewhat primi-
tive passions of a simple village folk, and both are
told in an artless manner, differing wholly from the
treatment an American usually gives such themes.
One is “ Dunstable Weir" (Scribner), by “Zack
(Miss Gwendoline Keats); the other, “The Striking
Hours" (Stokes), by Mr. Eden Pbill potts. The differ-
ences in treatment are largely due to the difference in
sex of the two authors. He tells, for example, of fights,
with a zest that is somewhat lacking in those which she
describes. The dialects used are, to an American, very
much the same, -
or no further apart, let us say, than
the speech of Virginia and of Massachusetts.
“ The Last of the Knickerbockers" (Stone) is a di-
verting little book, fully carrying out the promise of
Mr. Herman Knickerbocker Vielé's earlier “Inn of the
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Silver Moon." It deals with the two classes that go to “ Jack Racer” (McClure, Phillips & Co.) is placed.
make up New York “society,"— the old Dutch fami- The author, Mr. Henry Somerville, bas made a faith-
lies on one side, and the newly-rich on the other. At ful picture of American life in a minor town under
the boarding-house of Mrs. Bella Ruggles, a number settled conditions, his knowledge of young manhood
of the old families sequester themselves in shabby- and womanhood enabling him to give his readers a
genteel splendor. Not far away, the largest operator subtle and interesting account of the manner in which
in Wall Street inhabits a palace of Roman magnifi- the hero comes into his own, which means, among
cence. Between these two households the action of other things, the love of a charming girl. A bit of
the book is divided. The story is interesting in itself, politics, of the better sort, enlivens the story.
and the manner of telling it is still better, with wit As may be expected in Miss Anna B. Fuller's lit-
and satire, and a love for New York which is almost erary work, “ Katharine Day" (Putnam) is a worthy
pathetic in its intensity.
novel. The scene is laid in a New England college
Jones Berwick is the hero of Mr. B. K. Benson's “ A town - which is quite unmistakably Cambridge. Here
Friend with the Countersign” (Macmillan), as he was the fortunes of the heroine are followed from her
of « Who Goes There?” But it is a Berwick freed motherless infancy, through a disappointment in love
from the incubus of a dual personality, though still en- and sorrow over the incapacity of an only brother, to a
gaged in scouting for the Union armies. Engaged to finding of herself as a trained nurse visiting among the
Lydia Khayme as he was at the close of the former poor, and eventual happiness. Four or five of the
book, the element of romance is lacking here, as well as characters stand out as vivid portraits and studies of
that of mystery; and the author relies upon the fascinat- American types, not the least notable being a grand-
ing life of a scout for holding his readers' interest. mother who represents the best New England tradi-
Thongh the book is unusually long, it will be read with tions and inherited common-sense.
unabated interest by those who like bairbreadth escapes, One of the more recently formed territories of the
the frequent references to official documents in the foot- United States makes its bow to literature in Mrs.
notes giving it the air of complete reality.
Helen Church Candee's dramatic “Oklahoma Romance"
As an excellent bit of fun, Miss Molly Elliot Sea- (Century Co.). Suitably enough, the story turns on a
well's latest story, “ Papa Bouchard” (Scribner), may contested land-claim, in which a villainous Westerner
be cheerfully commended. It deals with the revolt of tries to wrest from a recent importation from the East
an elderly bachelor, an advocate of Paris, against the his well-won acres near a growing “city,” only to be
domination of an elder maiden sister with whom he has baffled in the end by the Westerner's own daughter,
lived for more years than he cares to acknowledge in who loves and is loved by the “tenderfoot.” A vivid
his emancipated condition. He is joined by a faithful impression of life in a new and unsettled community
valet, and even by the family parrot, which developes is given, with ambushes, murders, and all the varied
into the most ribald of birds in his new-found liberty. incidents of the frontier.
The hero, from whom the book is named, comes upon Abandoning his field of historical romance for a
a designing widow at the beginning of his independent comparatively modern day, Mr. Halliwell Sutcliffe sets
She and his ward and niece, and the latter's an amiable example to his fellow romancers. But
husband, an army officer, contrive to get him into a tri- “Mistress Barbara" (Crowell) is a compromise at
a
angular difficulty over a diamond necklace, which pro- best, for the tale is concerned with love, like his older
duces a ridiculous and laughable situation. “Sprightly romances, its modernity being only partially apparent
is a favorite word of Miss Seawell's, and it well de- in the setting in Yorkshire about the year 1830. There
scribes the narrative.
is a strike in the woollen mills in the neighborhood,
Mr. Guy Boothby bas written a sequel to bis previous which the hero does not suffer from because he has
accounts of the life-bistory of a strange man, with the always treated bis own men with consideration -
title “• Farewell, Nikola'” (Lippincott); and having
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distinct advance over such a contest between capital
disposed of this character for a time, bas gone on with and labor as Charles Reade once dealt with. It is
a detective story of the approved sort, called “My pleasant to observe that Mr. Sutcliffe is not a man with
Strangest Case” (Page). In the former book, there is a single string to his bow, and it is to be hoped that
the usual combination of hypnotism, ability to read the he will write more books of this latter sort.
future, experimentation with unknown drugs of un- Mrs. Sarah P. McL. Greene bas woven a somewhat
known powers, revenge, and death. Doctor Nikola is intricate love-story into her latest book, “Flood-Tide"
still engaged in attempting to discover the secret of (Harper). The scene is placed in a fishing village on
life, and the book closes with his future apparently the North Atlantic coast, a region just now popular
bound up in a Thibetan lamasery, whither he bas gone with authors. The “patives " - curiously individual
to learn the mystical lore of its inmates. In the latter folk, and strongly suggestive of the loss in picturesqe-
story, one man robs bis two companions of the jewels ness which city polish entails — throng the pages with
they bave discovered in Burmese China, and they de- their quaint sayings and beliefs, expanding the book to
vote their lives benceforth to the attempt to bring bim twice what its size would otherwise be, and making it
to justice, the Chinese having captured the twain, delightfully desultory. Religion plays no small part
blinded one, and cut out the tongue of the other. Fair- in the argument, the ancient salty expounder of the
fax, the famous London thief-taker, is called in. Tra- Apocalypse being a treasure to be cherished among
gedy closes the book as it opened it. Incidentally, a characters of fiction.
number of Fairfax's other experiences are narrated. Now that Mr. Mark Ashton has called attention to
Dealing with all that is weird and uncanny, Mr. Boothby it in “She Stands Alone, the Story of Pilate's Wife"
holds the secret of keeping his readers' attention, and (Page), all the world will wonder why this woman has
the two books are certainly exciting.
so long been neglected in Christian song and story.
Somewhere between the Alleghenies and the Miss- As the author says, it was Pilate's wife alone who
issippi River lies the little town in which the scene of pleaded for the life of Jesus when all his followers had
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denied or left him. Utilizing the scanty legends that a period of stress under Morgan, with plenty of good
have grown up about the life of Pilate, introducing fighting, the book closes peacefully enough at Versailles.
several historical characters of the day, and informing There is action and to spare, with no flagging in inter-
the whole with knowledge of classical times, Mr. Ash- est from beginning to end.
ton has written a strong story, certain to command Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson provides her public
attention. The tone of the book is dignified and ele- with another tale of Irish life among the gentler
vated; but it is doubtful taste to make pictures that classes, in " That Sweet Enemy” (Lippincott). Here
have been made for other purposes serve as illustra- the daughter of an impoverished house with a private
tions here.
feud against the descendants of those who have come
A very pretty and vivacious story has Miss Frances into their former estates is taught, after a long strug-
Aymar Mathews made of “My Lady Peggy Goes to gle, to love the enemies of her family — who have been
Town” (Bowen-Merrill). The influence of the play- living in complete ignorance of the prejudice. A taste
wright's art is shown in the manner in which the work of the revolt against British tyranny always in the
is put together, and few changes would be needed to hearts of the oppressed Irish peasantry adds life and
fit it for stage presentation as a comedy. Lady Peggy action to the pages.
takes on the apparel of her twin brother, and under- The Rev. Robert McIntyre appears as the author of
goes the most surprising adventures, at one time being a “first novel” in “A Modern Apollos” (Jennings
at the point of hanging as a highwayman. Not much & Pye). There is a great deal of the author himself
attention is paid to the historical or other probabilities; in the narrative; bis clerical experience, his knowledge
but the rapidity of the action and interest of the dia- of the Scotch character, and his early life as a black-
logue would carry off even greater faults. The illus- smith, all being drawn upon. A huge conspiracy
trations by Mr. Harrison Fisher are excellently done. against the currency of the nation gives him a small
A charming humanity lifts "'Lias's Wife” (Page) army of desperate villains for a background, and
far above most studies of American rural life. The through their instrumentality the hero proves himself
inhabitants of one of the little islands off the coast of a very muscular Christian indeed. There is material
Maine constitute most of the characters, but the hero- enough for twenty stories in the work, which is here
ine is of French descent and daintiness, and the story rather ill digested into one.
revolves around the coming of a young clergyman to A modern novel, half Scotch and half English, and a
the island to spend a summer. Quaint Yankee humor, collection of short stories with their scenes laid in Scot-
the ability to draw a personality in a few sharp and land and Austria, are Mr. S. R. Crockett's contributions
unerring strokes, and a most interesting body of men, to the fiction of the day. In “Cinderella," a little
women, and children, make this latest of Mrs. Martha Scotch girl is defrauded of her heritage by her most
Baker Dunn's books a pleasant one to read.
respectable uncle, who goes to the extent of ordering
The tender history of a crippled foundling, adopted her arrest for the theft of one of the rubies brought her
by a young woman of means after her convalescence by her father from Burmah, all the others being in his
from serious illness in the hospital at the door of which possession. In “Love Idylls," nine tales of various
the baby has been left, will be found delicately and length, all concerned with the master passion, combine
sympathetically told in “As a Falling Star” (Mc- to entertain the reader. Mr. Crockett is always inter-
Clurg), from the pen of Miss Eleanor Gaylord Phelps. esting, and these exercises in various styles of the art
The little boy is one of those hopeless physical wrecks of fiction will please many readers. Both books are
of our civilization whose end is bound to come when published by Dodd, Mead & Co.
life is hardly begun, but his spiritual service to the Hostilities with the Indians on the Western frontier
girl who loves him shows that he has not lived in vain. during the second war of independence against Great
The theme is a difficult one, but handled with skill for Britain give Mr. James Ball Naylor the materials for
a first literary effort.
“ The Sign of the Prophet” (Saalfield), General Harri-
It must be something of a tax on the inventors of son and Chief Tecumseh both appearing among the
detective stories to bring their leading characters back characters. The siege at Fort Meigs, and the rein-
to life after killing them at the close of an earlier book. forcements brought to Harrison by General Clay, close
“ Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracks. the story, which owes much of its interest to the daring
man” (Scribner) is an illustration of this, the hero be- of Mr. Naylor's hero, a scout. The book is simply con-
ing left some miles from human aid in the Mediterra- structed and of considerable historical interest.
nean Sea in a previous work narrating his exploits. A somewhat conventional love-story is to be read in
But he is very much alive indeed here, and after a life “ The Marriage of Mr. Merivale” (Putnam), by Mr.
of intelligently conducted criminality puts a climax to Cecil Headlam. The hero is forced to care for an
it by going to South Africa to shoot burghers. Though invalid mother during the ten years that elapse before
left for dead again, it will doubtless be possible for his seeing the girl of his heart again, and in that time he
creator, Mr. E. W. Hornung, to bring him forth once gets into trouble with the inevitable Frenchwoman of
more, at least.
the English novelist,- a woman so much more attract-
In the way of historical romance, Miss Lafayette ive than the other that the reader's sympathies are in
McLaws's “ When the Land Was Young" (Lo
danger of confusion. The book begins with a cricket-
both dramatic and picturesque. Much of its action re- match,— reminding one of the rarity of that game in
volves around the old city of St. Augustine. The English fiction.
Spaniards take a Carolina Huguenot from the hands of Still more conventional, though a society detective
his captors, the Yemasee Indians, and one of his neigh- story, is Miss Adeline Sargent's “ My Lady's Dia-
bors goes to his rescue. With the help of a Choctaw monds” (Buckles). A woman received freely into the
chief, the Frenchman and his charming daughter are best houses of England turns out to be the wife of a
released, although the rescuer falls a prisoner in their convict who has served his term, using her position for
stead. He in turn is released by a buccaneer; and after the purpose of robbing her hostess.
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throw suspicion on the betrothed of an Englishman, mance of a Sculptor's Masterpiece" (Small, Maynard
who is certainly not a Sherlock Holmes, and his blun- & Co.). The resemblance of the statue to the girl
dering spins the story out to the usual length. The who really inspires it gives rise to gossip. The narra-
wrongfully accused girl suffers much through her tive is clouded by doubts as to whether the sculptor is
lover's stupidity, but it all comes right in the end. really in love with the mother who befriended him, or
Life in a little town on the New England coast is the daughter who admired him. The characters are
described in Miss Mary Devereux's “Up and Down well drawn, and the theme a novel and entertaining
the Sands of Gold” (Little, Brown, & Co.). The story The main situation, it may be noted, is not unlike
is discursive, filled with anecdotes of the quaint folk that treated by Mr. Bret Harte in one of his latest
who populate the place in rather abrupt contrast with short stories.
a family of Creoles living in one of the old houses. “Caleb Wright, a Story of the West" (Lothrop) is
The book is not as impressive as the author's earlier a good, hearty, wholesome account of a married couple
“From Kingdom to Colony," though its action takes from the East who went out West to grow up with the
place in the present day.
country, and in the operation made the country grow
Such an atmosphere as dwells around the Knights of up with them. It is written by Mr. Jobn Habberton,
the Round Table is used with great skill by K. and and shows that understanding of the inventive Amer.
Hesketh Prichard in their “ Karadac, Count of Gersay” ican and his abilities in many directions which makes
(Stokes), “Gersay” being an ancient spelling of the the story a criticism of life in something like Arnold's
name of the island between France and England better comprehension of the phrase.
known as Jersey. The time is that of William the One of the few lads who sees life as it really is,
Conqueror; but the hero is a Celt, the deeds are those without illusions, is the hero of Mr. Henry M. Hyde's
of romantic chivalry, and the book is in no strict sense “One Forty-Two, the Reformed Messenger Boy"
historical. Such legendary lore as it utilizes is more (Stone). Told in a dialect that is distinctive from its
than welcome, and the idealism and interest of the free use of slang rather than from any marked vari-
book make it notable among its fellows.
ance from the standard in pronunciation, the sixteen
Mrs. Hugh Fraser (a sister of Mr. Marion Craw- tales in the book are vivid, picturesque, and, it may be
ford) has made a readable book of “ Marna's Mutiny" worth while adding, strictly true. If not a pleasing
(Dodd, Mead & Co.). It is concerned, like others of picture of life in a great American city, the story has
her writings, with the always interesting country of the merit of accuracy, and, within the limits set, of
Japan; a daughter of one of the Scandinavian consuls literary feeling and proportion.
being the heroine. Into every incident of the book There is a humorous side to house-moving, for all
something of the country itself is brought, and it Franklin's ranking it among the calamities; and this is
makes an admirable background for the little idyl it brought out to the full by Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine
enshrines. In addition, there is a minor love story or in “ The Van Dwellers" (J. F. Taylor & Co.). Though
two, by way of variety.
concerned with New York, the name is not derived
Piety is the dominant note in Miss Amy Le Feuvre's from the Knickerbockers, but signifies those mortals
“ Heather's Mistress” (Crowell). Twin girls, orphaned who spend so much time in changing their domicile
in early life and left quite alone in the world, except that they are said to dwell in the furniture vans which
for faithful servants, by the subsequent death of their convey their chattels. A couple come from Oshkosh
stern old grandmother, are taken from Quaker sur- to the metropolis to live. They find just the place they
roundings out into the great world. Then, after tast- have longed for. Experience proves it undesirable.
ing of its pleasures, they return home to find peace They move on. More experience teaches the same les-
and comfort in religion. We think Miss Le Feuvre After passing through all the grades of knowl-
is writing without knowledge of Quaker life, thought, edge, they complete a post-graduate course and become
or ideals, turning that amiable sect into an evangelical “ commuters," – it is so good for the children.
Christian body without compunction.
Mr. H. G. Wells, the English Jules Verne, again
Austria is seemingly remote from the world of the challenges comparison with his prototype in scientific
novelist, and it is with unusual interest that Madame fiction by “The First Men in the Moon” (Bowen-
Longard de Longgarde's novel, « The Million” (Dodd, Merrill). By the discovery of a substance which is as
“
Mead & Co.), will be read. The author's earlier impervious to gravity as iron is to light, it becomes
books, in which she made her maiden name of Doro- possible to shut off the earth's attraction from a prop-
thea Gerard well-known, is guarantee of good work- erly constituted hollow receptacle, which thereupon
manship, and her residence since her marriage in goes over to the moon. Though dead on the surface,
Austria opens up a new field for her English readers. as astronomers hold, the inmates of the receptacle find
The action of “The Million " takes place in a city of an abundance of intelligent folk in the caverns that
Galicia, not far from the Roumanian frontier. The extend through the satellite, and these creatures are
story is strong and convincing, and must add to the shaped something like insects externally but with as-
reputation of the author.
tonishing diversities of habit and structure. We like
A sculptor in posse catches a glimpse of a pretty M. Verne's story best.
girl who has gone in bathing with some of her fellows “ The Grip of the Bookmaker" (Fenno) is a better
in a decidedly unconventional manner, as he is passing book than its title. Mr. Percy White is not telling the
with a tray of plaster casts on his head. The girl's story of a commonplace entanglement with a gambler,
mother befriends him, when she hears that he is ambi- but the life of a young Oxford man whose father, an
tious to study in Italy. A few years after, the family usurer and seller of chances on the turf, has determined
go to that delightful land, and learn in Rome that the to make a gentleman of him, though he still forces him
young peddler has risen to fame through a statue into constant companionship. The young man loves
which he has made. This achievement gives name to above his father's station, as a matter of course, and his
Mr. Franklin Kent Gifford's “ Aphrodite, the Ro- trials are spiritual in good part and very real.
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Old Holland
and text.
on the Old Testament writings down through the
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
Second Isaiah, or to 538 B.C. This third volume
The quaintness and picturesqueness is divided into three books: Book IX. treats of
in picture of Holland, so long as they endure, “Hebrews and Egyptians "; Book X., of " Hebrews
will form a tempting subject for and Chaldæans"; and Book XI., of “ Hebrews,
pencil and brush, and a charming pleasure ground Chaldæans, and Persians." The larger part of the
for the still larger class of sojourners in quest of volume is a discussion of historical questions and
the artistic. Messrs. Boughton and Abbey, a dozen material. But the author presents two chapters of
years ago, indulged in a “Sketching Ramble in more than ordinary interest : “ Deuteronomy and
Holland "; and nothing that has appeared since has Hebrew Literature" (pp. 19-80), and “Religion
equalled their account in good-humoured apprecia- and Morals” (pp. 81-125). In the first of these,
tion of the Dutchman and his country. The volume the author specifies the beginnings and growth of
with the title “ Old Dutch Towns and Villages of Hebrew literature. He discusses the origin of
the Zuider Zee" (Lippincott), which has for the writing, and even the source of the alphabet now in
writer of the text Mr. W. J. Tuyn and for its illus- use --- showing that the Phænicians probably did
trators Messrs. Nieuwenkamp and Veldheer, is far not get their alphabet in Egypt. In tracing the
more sumptuous in appearance, but can hardly be origin of Hebrew literature, the author has reached
said to convey the charm of its predecessor. The grounds quite surprising to most Old Testament
text, though it brings to light many interesting bits
The Pentateuch is composed of the dif-
of antiquarian lore, is little more than a collection ferent documents now commonly found there by
of notes setting forth pertinent information in re- Old Testament scholars. Belief in David's Psalms
gard to the subjects of the illustrations. It is for is “impossible (p.51). Even Psalm 18 contains
the latter that the work will be examined by those a theophany (v88. 7–17)“ to which David and his
interested in artistic Holland. It can hardly be age were incompetent." The book of Deuteronomy,
said that the artists' severe, poster-like treatment “ found” at the time of Josiab, was the chief source
of the old Dutch architectural lines, mellowed and of inspiration in the reformation inaugurated by
even decrepit with age, at all carries with it the that ruler. The chapter discussing the “religion
feeling which the originals inspire. The intense and morals” of Israel is full of interesting facts
conventionalization of black and white that is cul. regarding the prevalence and power of religion
tivated by artists who come close up to their sub- among the Israelites during the successive ages of
jects seems decidedly inappropriate for old Holland, their history. The remaining chapters of the vol-
which very properly demands a modest share of the ume are replete with the results of a careful and
enchantment of distance. The scenes chosen are, discriminating scholarship, fully abreast of the latest
on the whole, typical and pleasingly reminiscent. discoveries in arcbæological fields touching the Old
The omission of the entire east coast of the Zuider Testament. The volume is concluded by indices to
Zee detracts from the comprehensiveness of the the complete series, but we have no maps on which
work and deprives the artist of some choice material, to trace out the momentous history pictured in
such as may be found in Franeker, Harlingen, these full volumes.
Workum, Hindelopen, and several other cherished
Mr. Bernbard Berenson's latest
embodiments of departed glory. The volume will The study and
criticism of
be valued by those to whom scenes quaint and Dutch
work, “ The Study and Criticism of
have a peculiar fascination ; but it can hardly be
Italian Art” (Macmillan), is a col-
said to fill the very real need for an adequate and
lection of seven essays written at intervals during a
sympathetic account of what Holland offers to the period of ten years, but all having a common pur-
artist and the tourist.
pose- to illustrate a method of studying the his-
tory of art more abstractly than it has been studied,
In 1894, Professor J. F. McCurdy and freed as much as possible from entangling
A monumental
of the University of Toronto issued irrelevancies of personal anecdote and the sterile
work completed.
the first volume of his “ History, prosings of so-called connoisseurs. The world's art,
Prophecy, and the Monuments" (Macmillan). In he urges, should be studied as independently of all
1896, the second volume appeared, carrying the documents as is the world's fauna or the world's flora.
history down to the fall of Nineveh in 606 B. C. Documents should be consulted chiefly for mere
After nearly five years we have the third and con- convenience of naming. The most striking of the
cluding volume, which closes with the end of the
present essays is one which applies this method to
Babylonian exile. The whole series is a remarkable certain pictures hitherto variously ascribed to either
presentation of Semitic history previous to and con- one of the Lippis, to Botticelli, or to Ghirlandajo.
temporaneous with the writers and literature of the
In these pictures, not only their characteristics in
Old Testament down to the fall of Babylon. More common but their differences from each of the
than this, it weaves together both the contempo- others seem to Mr. Berenson a sufficient warrant
raneous and Old Testament records in such a man- for constructing a new artistic personality, — prob-
ner as to present the facts in their interrelations.ably a follower of Sandro Botticelli, whom he
The work is thus a kind of historical commentary
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“ Bella Simonetta” of the Pitti, ascribed to Botti- Building, a Study of the Principles of Architecture
celli by so many generations, is taken away from in their Relation to the Church” (Small, Maynard
him and given to “ Amico," on the ground that & Co.), will fill any such “long-felt want." It is
“no serious critic who looks at the gawkiness of the pitched in too high a key to be of much practical
figure and the timidity of the execution will think service to those who are forced to face the problems
of Sandro as the real author"; whereas certain of church building. It is a beautiful book, and so
merits — drawing, folds, lighting and perspective abundantly illustrated (there are 125 illustrations
of the opening - are distinguishing merits of besides frontispiece and vignettes) that one might
“Amico." By similar processes of comparison, almost read the book by looking at the pictures ";
Filippino loses and“ Amico "gains several pictures ; and such a process would not be without profit or
the general conclusion being that this newly discove the acquisition of new ideas.
the acquisition of new ideas. But after the beauty
ered personality was artistically neither so deep nor of the typography has impelled one to pursue the
80 gifted as Botticelli, more fascinating but not so letter-press, one feels that he finds therein but one
serious as Filippino Lippi. Each of the essays is man's ideas, and that, if it were desired to build
illustrated by fine and clear full-page copies of any of the churches therein recommended, but one
great paintings, forty-three in all; and text and architect could be found who could design it. The
pictures combine to make this one of the most at- book presents high ideals, - which is quite right;
tractive art-books of the year.
but where, under the conditions of life existing in
this country, would it be wise or possible to build
A guide to
Surrey is the subject of the new vol- the style of “Country Chapel" (costing $5,000 to
the byvays ume in Dent's “ County Guides ” $10,000) which is here recommended? And the
Of Surrey. series (Macmillan). Unlike the tra- author's “ Village Church” (costing $30,000)
•
ditional guide-book, it makes delightful reading for seems misplaced in a small town, as things are in
the stay-at-home; and any tourist who gets hold America. The author's dogmatism is likely to be
of it will certainly steal a day or so from London repellant to many who would in an exigency turn
highways to make some of what its author felicit- to this book for help, and his style is flippant in
ously calls its “intimate excursions” along the by- some cases and likely to be misunderstood. His
paths of Surrey County. The book is in three
use of such terms as “ wicked” and “vicious," in
parts, of which the first and most important deals connection with things pertaining to the church,
with the story and scenery of the county, grouping brings them in the category of slang. The book is
its detail in seven itineraries. The author, Mr. a collection of articles recently published serially in
Jerrold, is apparently an enthusiastic cyclist and
a religious periodical, and in preparing them for
pedestrian, a lover of scenery, and finely apprecia-republication the author has not quite given them
tive of the literary and historic associations of the that quality of permanence which should differen-
county whose quaint chroniclers are all his friends.
tiate a book from a magazine polemic.
With equal zest - and always in charming English
- he tells us of the yew-lined Pilgrims' Way, of
“ Deafness and Cheerfulness” (Little,
the Thames meadows where Shelley lounged and
Brown, & Co.), by the Rev. A. W.
of silence.
wrote “ Alastor,” of the castles visited by Elizabeth
Jackson (who will be remembered as
in her stately summer progresses, or of Moor Park Dr. Martineau's biographer), cannot fail to bring
where Swift Airted with Stella and learned of comfort and strength to those dwellers in a world
William III. how to cut asparagus.
Then the of silence, more or less complete, who have ceased
author drops a hint to the cyclist to avoid a rut-
to invoke the aurist's aid and now turn to the phy-
ted bit of road, or calls attention to a picturesque sician of the soul for such balm as he may have to
little coppice with an alluring foot-path through it ;
offer. Himself a sufferer, and an uncomplaining
so that the reader who finds nothing to interest him one, the writer deprecates any excess of tenderness
must indeed be difficult to please. The second part
from those about him. “I would rather,” he says,
of the book consists of special articles upon the bird
“ have them take it for granted that, though the
life, flowers, moths and butterflies, geological for-
way of suffering is appointed me, there is yet some
mations, and cycling tours of Surrey ; while the toughness in my fibre, that I can take the natural
third contains a gazetteer of the county. Maps and
discomforts of my infirmity with a reasonable de-
illustrations add much to the interest and practical gree of equanimity." He compares the deaf and
value of the book, which is attractively bound in
the blind, and, judging from personal observation,
flexible cloth covers.
thinks the latter the happier, as they certainly are
the more fortunate in eliciting sympathy. Distract-
That there is need in this country ing head noises harass the deaf, as a rule, which
for expert information on the subject may partly explain the apparently greater serenity
of ecclesiastical architecture, reduced of the blind. The chapter on “ The Pathos of
to such form that it can be used practically by Deafness ” is enlivened with anecdotes, amusing as
church builders, one has but to take a cursory view well as pathetic. It is of interest to learn, from a
of our church buildings to determine. But it is noted aurist's experience, that more than sixty per
doubtful if Mr. Ralph Adams Cram's “Church cent of an average community are below the normal
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in hearing power generally without consciousness author's efforts to catch sight of some of the rarer
of their defect. Mr. Jackson urges the deaf frankly among them, are the chief themes of the essays,
to acknowledge their infirmity, to use an ear- which are, however, quite informal, even pleas-
trumpet, and, most important of all, to learn lip- antly rambling in manner, and in no sense constitute
reading if possible. The book was written, as we
ve ac bird book.” It is the lover
of birds, and the
are in a position to know, from an intense desire on wild woods and hillside nooks which they most fre-
the author's part to do something for those who suf- quent, rather than the professional student of birds,
fer as he has suffered, and is from beginning to end who speaks in these essays. Indeed, it is clear
a reflection of his own experience. It thus appeals that the author could no more kill a bird for the
with conviction to all readers, and especially to the purpose of classifying or mounting it than he could
deaf. Both practical and spiritual is its lesson, kill a human being for that purpose. The reader
manliness and courage its dominant note.
who is not a bird enthusiast, however, need hardly
fear that the book will bore him, since it is written
Felix Reville Brunot, the subject of in a refined and very pleasant style. Moreover, a
A good man and
patriotic citizen.
an appreciative memoir by Dean
mild and engaging humor, not so obvious or insist-
Slattery, of Faribault, Minn., was a ent as to interfere with the main purpose, is dif-
good man and a devout Episcopalian, whose life
fused throughout, and helps the book to escape
touched closely that of the nation, particularly dur- tediousness a fault which the general reader may
ing the troublous period of the Civil War, and feel is not always avoided by some otherwise admir-
subsequently in dealing with the Indians and in
able nature books. It is not too much to say that
attempting a solution of the Indian question. Mr.
“ Footing it in Franconia” is a very good book in
Brunot was a successful business man of ample a fine if not a very widely popular kind, as popu-
fortune, and during the Civil War he gave largely larity is measured in these days.
of his means to aid the Union cause and to mini-
mize the sufferings of the brave boys in the field.
In “An Introduction to Psychology"
Perhaps Mr. Brunot will be longest and most grate- A new tert-book
(Macmillan), Miss Mary W. Calk-
fully remembered for his efficient labore
of psychology.
the
among
ins, Professor of Philosophy and
Indians, and especially for his services as presi- Psychology in Wellesley College, has added a note-
, a
dent and a member of the Board of Indian Com- worthy volume to the existing aids to the teaching
missioners. It was his constant purpose to see that of Psychology. The work represents the results of
the Indian agents did their duty by the poor red the author's teaching experience, and conveys a
men in their keeping. This was a herculean task;
vital sense of close-range instruction. It embodies
for practically all the government's agents bad pur- no particularly novel or unusual features, but pre-
sued an almost uniform policy of looting the Indians sents a very comprehensive range of psychological
of that which was allotted to them. But most of
topics with lucidity and interest and with apprecia-
all, Mr. Brunot pursued a policy of peace and edu- tion of the bearings of recent discussion and research.
cation among
the Indians. And this policy was suc- The inclusion of chapters upon Comparative and
cessful in a marked degree. He was able to prove upon Abnormal Psychology is a praiseworthy step;
to any
fair-minded
person
that General Sheridan's as is also the constant illustration of psychological
terse statement that “the only good Indian is a principles by direct reference to experiences of every-
dead Indian” was not true. The absolute unsel- day life. The value of a text-book, apart from its
fishness and deep religious convictions of the sub- readability, has come to lie more and more in its
ject of the memoir are marked features of the adaptability to the peculiar needs of courses, and to
book. Perhaps it is quite natural that this should
the points of emphasis maintained by instructors.
be so, coming, as it does, from one of his own faith, Those who share Miss Calkins's views of the gen-
and an admirer. The book contains several excel-
eral plan and scope of a collegiate course in Psy-
lent illustrations, and a map of the Indian reser chology will find in her book direct aid and much
vations in 1874. (Longmans, Green, & Co.). indirect stimulus. It seems not inappropriate to
note in connection with this contribution, that it is
There could not well be a more ge-
Por bird and
the first text-book in Psychology written by a
nial and kindly student of the bird
nature lovers.
world than Mr. Bradford Torrey
woman; that this distinction should be reserved for
America argues well for the cause of American
shows himself to be in the beautiful little volume en-
education.
titled "Footing it in Franconia" (Houghton, Mifflin
& Co.), a series of nine essays recounting the au-
The unappropriated blessings of the
The Spinster's
thor's experiences during vacation rambles through
earth need not suffer for the conso-
the woods and over the hills of Franconia. It may
lations of literature, when such a work
be well to state that the Franconia in the case is as Miss Myrtle Reed's "Spinster Book" (Putnam)
neither a duchy nor a district in Germany, as the is to be had. To be sure, nine-tenths of the volume
reader outside of New England might suppose, but is about love and marriage ; but in giving such
a delightful region in Grafton County, New Hamp- preponderance to those subjects, the author only
shire. The bird-visitors to Franconia, and the proves her intimate knowledge of the spinster heart.
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mony take
a
The last chapter, which encourages every singly ing, when the nature of the information given is
blessed woman to hope that the belated Prince may taken into account. Marriage, divorce, and ali-
yet arrive, is especially sympathetic and consoling.
up
the first of the three parts, and here
But perbaps the greatest charm of the work is that the seeker after knowledge can obtain it on points
the writer has so far lived up to the motto “ Not as widely removed as the “Plural Marriages of the
for ourselves "— which all spinsters have apparent- Mormons” and the “Change of Name after Di-
ly adopted toward man as to extend it to books vorce.” Less space is given to woman in connection
also, even her own. Her chapters will consequently with business, but the discussion is still thorough,
be a delight not only to the “unattached ” but to and few questions could be propounded for which
everyone. The wedded in every degree of bliss, an answer is not at hand. Such topics as feminine
the widowed and the widowered as well as the un- citizenship, the suffrage, the appearance of women
wedded in every grade of approach to the confirm- in court as attorneys or as witnesses, and the em-
ed state — which it seems spinsters never reach ployment and protection of women, take up the
will find something here to learn and to laugh at, last part. Throughout, the differences in the reg-
about themselves and about each other.
With a
ulations of the several States is made clear; and
great fund of shrewdness and wit, and no little the value of the work is enhanced by a preliminary
delicate sentiment, Miss Reed has explored the
essay on
“ The Study of Law for Women," by
matrimonial side of man's vanity and man's tender- Professor I. F. Russell.
ness, of woman's folly and woman's virtue. Her
style is a little too pretengely Emersonian, and the
brittle and unwelded sentences sometimes grow
monotonous. Nor has she always escaped the
temptations of the epigrammatic to sound more
BRIEFER MENTION.
cynical than they are, and to appear anxious to say
The Century Co. publish this year five new volumes
clever things. But underneath these few surface of “Century Classics.” “The Autobiography of Ben-
faults there is much genuine “star-dust” — worthy jamin Franklin ” has an essay by Professor Woodrow
to be found and enjoyed by men, women, and Wilson, “ Tales by Edgar Allen Poe” are introduced
spinsters.
by Mr. H. W. Mabie, while Ruskin's “ Sesame and
Lilies and “ The Crown of Wild Olives,” which are
History of
Never have the Jesuits been 80 put into a volume together, have no prefatory matter
the Jesuits numerous and prosperous in En- save the author's own. “ Hypatia," in two volumes,
in England.
gland as now,
with their seven col. completes this list, and has a critical foreword by Mr.
leges, their numerous churches, and their two hun-
Edmund Gosse.
dred and fifty fathers engaged in active work, be-
“ The Government of the American People," by
sides lay brothers and those under training and
Messrs. Frank Strong and Joseph Shafer, both of the
absent on foreign missions. But the outlook was
University of Oregon, is a recent educational publica-
tion of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. It is suited
decidedly dreary for them when the first emissa-
for the higher grades of the grammar school or for
ries of the Society courageously landed on British
lower grades of the high school. Among the many re-
soil in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Rev. Ethel-
cent text-books of this subject for young students, this
red L. Taunton's painstaking “History of the Jesu- seems to us one of the very best. It is logical in its
its in England” (Lippincott) fills acceptably a gappresentation, and its plan is such as to provide a con-
in the voluminous annals of the Society of Jesus. tinuous narrative, from the government of the early
But the author seems to underrate the difficulty of
towns and counties down to the government of the
the historian's task when he says, in closing his
Federal Constitution. Although a small book, it con-
tains much matter, and, what is still better, puts the
preface: “In these days when archives are open to
student on the track of further information and inves-
author a sure
66
hand' in unraveling the records of the past." This ti qethe following modern language texts have recently
jaunty attitude is hardly the one to be assumed,
we should think, by a writer who has to handle a
perplexing topic like the Gunpowder Plot, which
still baffles the ablest historians. In point of style,
this bulky volume can scarcely be said to possess
the fascination of romance. Perhaps it is not pos-
sible, or indeed desirable, that it should.
appeared: “Germany and the Germans ” (being Herr
P. D. Fischer's “ Betrachtungen Eines in Deutschland
Reisenden Deutchen” in abridgment), edited by Pro-
fessor A. Lodeman, and published by Messrs. Silver,
Burdett & Co.; Hauff's “Lichtenstein," abridged and
edited by Professor Frank Vogel, and published by
Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co.; Herr Heyse's “Hochzeit
auf Capri,” edited by Dr. Wilhelm Bernhardt, and
published by Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co.; Daudet's
« Le Petit Chose," abridged and edited by Professor 0.
B. Super, and published by Messrs. D. C. Heath &
Co.; Goldoni's “La Locandiera,” edited by Professors
J. Geddes, Jr., and F. M. Josselyn, and published by
Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co.; and Señor Echegaray's
“O Locura 0 Santidad,” under the same editorial and
publishing auspices as the text last mentioned.
“Woman and the Law” (Century
A law book
for women.
Co.) is a useful compilation by Prof.
George James Bayles, of Columbia
University. It contains in comparatively little
space, a discussion of the legal condition of woman-
kind in America. The treatment is popular, in the
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are
66
Pope's “ The Rape of the Lock," with Aubrey Beards-
NOTES.
ley's illustrations, forms the latest volume in the
“ Flowers of Parnassus " series, published by Mr. John
The “ Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” is pub-
lished as a “ Pocket Classic,” for use in schools, by the
Lane. Lovers of Beardsley's work will be glad to have
Macmillan Co.
these characteristic specimens in so convenient and in-
expensive an edition.
Beginning with the November number the well-
The “ Artistic Craft Series," a collection of illus-
known « English Illustrated Magazine” will be pub-
trated technical handbooks, is announced by Messrs.
lished by Mr. T. Fisher Unwin of London.
D. Appleton & Co. Each craft will be dealt with by
Messrs. Benj. H. Sanborn & Co. announce for publi-
an expert qualified to speak with authority on design
cation in January a new Classical and Historical Atlas,
as well as on workmanship. The series is to be in-
consisting of some thirty carefully-executed maps.
augurated with a volume by Mr. Douglas Cockerell on
“ A Primer of Political Economy," by Mr. S. T. “ The Craft of Bookbinding, and the Preservation of
Wood, is a recent publication of the Macmillan Co. It
Books."
is a very small book indeed, but it contains the essen-
About one hundred short speeches selected for prac-
tials.
tice in declamation are brought together in Mr. A.
“ Tony Butler” and “ The Fortunes of Glencore
Howry Espensbade's “ Forensic Declamations,” just
two new volumes in the Standard library edition of
published by Messrs. Silver, Burdett & Co. The
Charles Lever's novels published by Messrs. Little,
selections cover a wide range of authors and subjects,
Brown, & Co.
from Burke to Mr. W. J. Bryan, from the civilizing in-
“The Story of Little Nell," extracted from the fluence of Athens according to Macaulay, down to the
« Old Curiosity Shop," and edited for school purposes spoils system according to Mr. Carl Shurz. We are
by Miss Jane Gordon, is a recent publication of the glad to commend this little book.
American Book Co.
Messrs. Silver, Burdett & Co. have sent us five new
Messrs. Ginn & Co. publish, presumably for the volumes of their “Silver Series of English and Ameri-
reading of school-children, “ The Legends of King can Classics.” The titles are as follows: “ Selected
Arthur and his Court,” retold in simple English by Essays of Charles Lamb,” edited by Mr. Ernest D.
Miss Frances Nimmo Greene.
Nortb; Macaulay's " Lays of Ancient Rome," edited by
“ The Epigraphical Evidence for the Reigns of Ves- Mr. Duffield Osborne; “Selected Poems of Robert
pasian and Titus," by Mr. Homer Curtis Newton, is Burns,” edited by Professor Charles W. Kent; George
one of the “Cornell Studies in Classical Philoiogy,” Eliot's “Silas Marner,” edited by Professor Carroll L.
published by the Macmillan Co.
Maxcy; and “The Holy Grail” idyl of Tennyson,
Miss Louisa Parr's “ Dorothy Fox," published by the edited by Miss Sophie Jewett.
Messrs. Lippincott, provides an acceptable reprint, with Mr. Charles F. Lummis, editor of “The Land of
illustrations, of one of the most popular novels for Sunshine,” makes the interesting announcement that
feminine readers of the past generation.
the magazine, beginning next January, will be enlarged
Messrs. Silver, Burdett & Co. are the publishers of to “standard magazine size,” its scope broadened to
“An Elementary French Reader," with notes and vo- take in the entire region of the Pacific coast, and its
cabulary, prepared by Mr. Gaston Douay.
Each au-
title changed to “Out West.” We not only wish the
thor represented is made the subject of a biographical enterprise success in its enlarged venture, but we feel
note, which is an excellent idea.
quite confident that it will be successful. The peri-
England,” by Mrs. Frederick Boaz, and “ America," odical already has a considerable constituency, and
by Miss Mary Ford, are two small volumes of history needs only to become better known to gain a much
for children, just published by Mr. Thomas Whittaker. larger following.
They are neatly printed, and the former of the two
volumes has a number of illustrations.
Mr. William S. Lord, Evanston, is the publisher of
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humor, by Mr. Roswell Field. The story appeared in
“The Atlantic Monthly,” but in an abridged form, a
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
few months ago.
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of careful editing and textual accuracy. There are
mans. Green, & Co. $5. net.
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No. 371.
DECEMBER 1, 1901. Vol. XXXI.
CONTENTS - Continued.
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CONTENTS.
PAGB
THE RIGHT READING FOR VERY YOUNG
CHILDREN. Charles Welsh
427
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG-I.
449
Books of travel and adventure. -- The romance of
history. – Heroes and heroines of peace. - Stories of
success in various fields. About girls and for
them. — Stories of school life. – Abouts cats and
fairies.- A medley of songs and jingles.- Old favor-
ites in new forms. — For older girls. — A few books
with a moral.
.
COMMUNICATION.
429
The Books Children Prefer. J. Breckenridge Ellis.
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NOTES
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• 456
JOHN RICHARD GREEN. William Morton Payne . 430
CLIPPING THE WINGS OF ROMANCE, Edward
E. Hale, Jr...
433
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
457
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS
457
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A QUEEN'S COMRADE. Edith Kellogg Dunton 435
STANDARDS OF TYPOGRAPHIC TASTE. Wallace
Rice
438
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THE RIGHT READING FOR VERY
YOUNG CHILDREN.
THE INNINGS OF THE ANIMALS. Charles Atwood
Kofoid. ..
439
Seton-Thompson's Lives of the Hunted.– Frazer's
The Outcasts. — Foster's In the Forest. --Sharp's
Wild Life near Home.
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STORIES OF THE ENGLISH LAKES. Lewis Wor-
thington Smith.
440
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS - I.
442
Baldry's Hubert von Herkomer. - Shakespeare's
Works, “Twentieth Century" edition.- Brownell's
French Art, illustrated edition. – Malan's Other Fa-
mous Homes of Great Britain. - Lanciani's New
Tales of Old Rome. — Mabie's Norse Stories.- Hart-
mann's A History of American Art. — Rowlands's
Among the Great Masters of Painting and Oratory.
- Dixon's The Tower of London, holiday edition.-
Mabie's A Child of Nature. – Windle's The Wessex
of Thomas Hardy. – Arabian Nights' Entertain-
ments, Dent's edition. Daudet’s Monday Tales
and Letters from My Mill, holiday edition. — Gib-
son's A Widow and her Friends. — Miss Hayden's
Travels Round Our Village. — Johnson's The Isle of
the Shamrock. – Watanna's A Japanese Nightin-
gale. — Agnus's Jan Oxber and Love in Our Village.
- Motley's Dutch Republic, holiday edition.
Long's Beasts of the Field and Fowls of the Air.-
Dickens's The Holly Tree and The Seven Poor
Travellers, illus. by C. E. Brock. – New volumes in
the “Thumb-Nail Series." Wait and Leonard's
Among Flowers and Trees with the Poets. - Allen's
Florence, in the Travel-Lovers' Series." -Miss Pep-
per's Maids and Matrons of New France. — Duruy's
General History of the World, holiday edition,
Mrs. Goodwin's White Aprons, illustrated edition.-
Dunbar's Candle-Lightin' Time. --Shepperd's Plan-
tation Songs. - Wood's Glories of Spain. - Hamer-
ton's Contemporary French Painters and Painting
in France, new editions. — Anthony Hope's Dolly
Dialogues, illus. by Christy. – Mitchell's Amos
Judd, illus. by A. I. Keller.- Bate's The English Pre-
Raphaelite Painters, new edition. — Browning's Saul,
holiday edition. - Strang's Famous Actors and Ac-
tresses of the Day in America. — The Garden of a
Commuter's Wife. – Balzac's The Chouans, "Lux-
embourg" edition.-Miss Brine's Mother and Baby.
— Boynton's The Golfer's Rubaiyát.
In considering the old-world and classic
Nursery Books for children, and in discussing
their suitability and value, one is confronted
with two difficult problems, about which there
has been of late much difference of opinion
expressed. One problem is as to the literary
.
style, and the other as to the content of the
stories.
There are those who desire to reduce all the
classic stories to one uniform level of language,
suited to what they consider to be the child's
stage of mental development. On the other
hand, there are those who believe that it is de-
sirable to give the stories as nearly as possible
in the form in which they were originally
written.
There are those also who object to anything
like what may be called, for the want of a more
definite expression, the “ blood and thunder"
element in some of the older nursery tales, and
would eliminate altogether from the children's
reading such stories as “Jack the Giant-
Killer, “ Jack and the Bean Stalk,” etc.;
while there are others who do not deem such
stories to be harmful.
Now, the selection of books for children
should not be governed by any fads or passing
fancies, but should be based upon principles
that lie deep down and are permanent; and as
a great responsibility attaches to all who have
anything to do with the upbringing of youth
in connection with the choice of their books, it
is very desirable to find out the right path and
to pursue it. It should be premised that the
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class of books to which I am referring are books quiet and fretful. She took him in her arms
intended to be pleasure-books for children, not to quiet him, and purely by accident took up a
lesson-books out of which they are to be book of English ballads and began to read
taught, but books which they may read for their aloud. She continued for some time, until the
delight and gratification, and out of which they child, soothed, fell asleep. The next day at
may get some mental nourishment to aid their about the same hour the boy went to his
growing intelligence and power of imagination, mother and said, “Mamma, Mamma, la-la,
and help in the development of character. la-la." She could not understand what he
First, as to this question of style. Will not meant; but he continued persistently. She put
the child in reading for his pleasure, to get at her hand upon everything within reach, and
the sense of a story, unconsciously absorb a finally upon the green book from which she
more varied vocabulary, and therefore acquire a had read the ballads the day before. With
greater power of self-expression, if we give him intense excitement the child cried, “ Mamma,
books which have various and distinct charac-la-la ; Mamma, la-la," and she repeated the
teristics of style? In the old-world wonder reading of the day before. Day after day for
stories, as they may be called, the flavor of the months that child insisted upon having his dose
style is that associated with books that belong of ballad ; and now that he is a grown-up young
to an earlier period of our history, a style man, he still keeps his love for that particular
adapted to the thought and action of the story; form of literature.
and is it wise to attempt to reduce them to the A careful observation of children will indi.
common level of “schoolbookese,” carefully cate, too, that character is early indicated by
adapted to every grade of school work, in order the tastes they evince in these directions. The
to make the task of the teacher smooth and his first bit of rhyme learned by a little boy whom
path straight?
I once knew well was the action-verse of Mother
These stories, with their archaic flavor, Goose,
written in a style remote from the present, are
“ There was a man of Thessaly,
not as a rule unintelligible to the child in his
And he was wondrous wise,
pleasure reading at home or in school. Should
He jumped into a bramble bush,
And scratched out both his eyes."
not the child, from the beginning of his read-
ing, be accustomed to varied styles in liter. The next thing that attracted him as he grew
ature, for the very same reason that his food older, and which he appropriated of his own
should be varied ? Do we not want the child accord, was
to absorb, not to discriminate, by means of his
“ Drive the nail aright, boys,
Hit it on the head."
pleasure reading ? Many of the archaisms
which are objected to in these stories have a Vigorous rhymes of this kind always appealed
current value as much as those in the Bible to him; and when he grew up he became a
and in Shakespeare. They are employed in sturdy, indomitable, forceful man of action.
later life, on rare occasions it is true, and gen- Now, with regard to the content of such
erally when the emotions are most deeply stories as those of the “ Jack”
" series, it is
stirred; they have the ring of true metal in necessary to repeat that they are not put before
them. I would not give children stilted or children with a view to teaching them the tales;
awkward sentences, or bad grammar, or coarse but is there any reason why healthy children
and vulgar language ; but I think there is of to-day should not read these stories with as
much to say in favor of retaining the flavor of much delight and as little possibility of harm
these earlier versions as much as possible. as the children of past generations have done,
With reference to this question of variety whereof the memory of man runneth not to the
of style, I have found in some very young contrary ?
children, long before one would have expected If a boy is left to grow up without making
it, very considerable variations in the degree acquaintance with such stories in his early
of their sensitiveness and appreciation. One days, is he not far more likely to get hold of
child will enjoy the lilt of the ballad, while the “ blood and thunder" literature which he
another child will become impatient with it. will find on the news-stands, at an age when it
A very interesting story was recently told me, is more likely to be hurtful to him, than if the
by an intelligent and highly cultivated lady, of natural desire for reading about deeds such as
her experience with her own little boy. One those described in the tales to wbich I am refer-
day, before he could speak, he was very un- ring had been satisfied at an earlier period ?
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old age ?
President G. Stanley Hall tells us that the ten upon the supposition that youthful minds cannot
love of fight is “ biological and self-preserva-
digest strong intellectual food. When I was young,
tive"; behind all that we call moral courage
I looked with disfavor upon all works ostentatiously
“ for boys and girls.” But was I an exception? It
there must be something of the physical to back
was this point I determined to settle. Why are juve-
it up. In fact, what we call moral courage is the nile works usually for the day, only? If they reach
outgrowth of something physical; and do not the heart of the young, should they not possess the
the pictures of physical courage and prowess
perennial freshness possessed by great novels — since
in these stories, without always exactly impels prefer books which older readers enjoy, wby should we
the young we have always with us? But if the young
ling the child to go and do likewise, inspire seek to disguise the truth? That such works cannot
bim with a sense of conflict and conquest, which, be appreciated in all their depths, is apparent enough ;
when once stirred, can be led in directions but do young people find so much which they can
where it tends to the making of strong char-
appreciate in mature works, that they prefer them to
books carefully written down to the comprehension of
acter?
boys and girls ? When the cautious mother presents
A great deal has been said on the subject of her daughter with a copy of "Little Flossy's Rainy
“
the heritage of fear with which every child may Day," or "How Lena Did,” is that daughter secretly
be said to be born. I know of a boy who was
wondering if David Copperfield will find his aunt's
house, or if Jean Valjean will reach a happy, serene
never painfully disturbed by any of the “ Jack.
the-Giant-Killer" stories, but who was rendered In taking the vote, each child was requested to send
miserable and unhappy for many years of his a list of his or her ten favorite books, in the order of
little life by the nameless horrors with which preference, and a list of the three authors found per-
the teaching of the doctrines of Calvinistic sonally most enjoyable. I was assured by mature
readers that few lists would be sent, since children of
Christianity filled his little soul. It is quite from nine to fifteen years of age have not read ten
right to shield the young from needless and books for pleasure; but, still mindful of my own youth-
nameless terrors, but the most fearful child ful experiences, I put from me the thought that I
thrills with delight and glows with satisfaction
might have been a great exception to the human race,
when he finds that the giants and other beings sand members, and the thirty-five books which fol-
and waited. I heard from nearly all of the two thou- •
that inspired him with terror are defeated ; low are those oftenest named in the lists forwarded.
and are not these perfectly legitimate sensations The little girl who, in her list of ten, named the
to evoke?
books which received the greatest popular vote, was
We older folk are stirred to the depths of
ten years old. I name the works in the order of their
popularity:
our being by a dramatic representation, but all Little Women, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Robinson Crusoe,
the while at the back of our minds we know Old Fashioned Girl, Black Beauty, Little Men, Under
that the actual tragedy is not actually taking the Lilacs, Longfellow's Poems, Dickens's Child's His-
place before our eyes; and has not the boy, tory of England, John Halifax, Pilgrim's Progress
,
long before he reaches the age of scepticism Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Barriers Burned Away,
Joe's Boys, Little Lord Fauntleroy, David Copperfield,
about his fairy stories, a similar kind of sub- Last Days of Pompeii, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room,
consciousness which does not interfere with the Swiss Family Robinson, The Lamplighter, Helen's
emotions evoked ?
Babies, Wide Wide World, Lady of the Lake, Ivan-
CHARLES WELSH.
hoe, Jane Eyre, Æsop's Fables, Elsie Dinsmore, Oliver
Twist, Prince and the Pauper, Lamb's Tales from
Shakespeare, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Look-
ing-Glass, Green Mountain Boys, Titus.
A great many other books were general favorites,
COMMUNICATION.
coming close behind the leading thirty-five. A few of
these, standing high in the list of favorites, were the
THE BOOKS CHILDREN PREFER.
following: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Prince of
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
the House of David, Deerslayer, Thaddeus of Warsaw,
Wishing to know what books children prefer (rather
Scottish Chiefs, Old Curiosity Shop, Adam Bede, Mad-
than what books parents prefer for their children), I
cap Violet, Scarlet Letter, Vicar of Wakefield, Frank-
recently took the vote of about two thousand young
lin's Autobiography.
people, between the ages of nine and fifteen, belonging
The following authors proved the most popular:
to the “ Advance Society," an association which I organ-
Miss Alcott, Longfellow, Dickens, Whittier, Scott, E. P.
ized several years ago for the encouragement of good Roe, Sophie May, Mrs. Stowe, Mrs. Burnett, Bryant,
reading among the young, and which has a weekly J. T. Trowbridge, Martha Finley, James Whitcomb
department in the St. Louis Christian-Evangelist.” Riley, Eugene Field, Mary E. Wilkins, Kate Douglas
These children live in thirty-nine states, and Canada,
Wiggin, Irving, Thomas Moore.
and I feel justified in the conclusion that the lists for- These facts carry their moral with them.
Are they
warded are fairly representative of the tastes of Ameri-
not of more value than a world of theories ?
can childhood.
J. BRECKENRIDGE ELLIs.
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struck me, and at first the cane hurt me like a blow,-
The New Books.
but the stupid stage'.soon came, and I used to fling
away my grammar into old churchyards, and go up for
my spinning' as doggedly as the rest. Everything
JOHN RICHARD GREEN.*
had to be learned by memory, and by memory, then, as
now, I could learn nothing. How I picked up Latin
The author of “ A Short History of the Heaven knows; but somehow I did pick it up, and when
English People” was born in 1837, and died we got to books where head went for something I be-
in 1883, at the comparatively early age of
gan to rise fast among my fellow schoolboys. But I
forty-five. Although eighteen years have really hated my work, and my mind gained what it
elapsed since his death, his life has not hith-
gained not from my grammars and construing, but
from an old school library which opened to me treas-
erto been written. Mr. Leslie Stephen has at ures I had never dreamed of."
last undertaken the task, at the request of Mrs. This distaste for the routine methods of edu-
Green, and the result is a biography, chieflycation debarred him from high university
compounded of Green's letters, and thus essen- distinctions, but was in reality, as the event
tially autobiographical in character, which is proved, his scholarly and artistic salvation.
one of the most important books of the year, His genius was too original to suffer compres.
and one of the most fascinating books of its sion into the academic mould, which would
kind in English literature. Just why there have deadened his most vital intellectual im.
has been so much delay in the publication of pulses. Religion was an early preoccupation
this material, which is treasure-trove in the with him, and for a time his youthful bent
highest sense, is not explained. Mr. Stephen seemed to be in the direction of Catholicism.
simply asks his readers “ to take for granted But this inclination never went any farther
that there have been sufficient reasons for than the announcement, at the age of fifteen,
the postponement. The work consists mainly that he intended to join the Church of Rome
of the letters, as has already been stated, and as soon as his brother Anglicans should be ready
the editor's own contributions to the text con-
to accompany him.” Since this amounted to
sist of introductory narratives to the four putting the matter off until the Greek Kal-
chapters into wbich the book divides, and a ends, there does not seem to have been any
few connective and explanatory passages. For real danger.
this matter, Mrs. Green supplied most of the Green was matriculated at Jesus College in
facts, although the editor has also drawn upon 1855, and it was there that he contracted the
articles by Mr. Bryce, H. R. Haweis, E. A. friendship with Dawkins for which the readers
Freeman, Mrs. Humphry Ward, and one or of these letters have such cause to be thankful.
two others. Most of the early letters are ad The chief intellectual influence of those col- .
dressed to Professor Boyd Dawkins, the famous lege years was Stanley, who helped him when
geologist, who was a life-long friend of the he most needed spiritual succor, and probably
historian, while the later letters are mostly determined his choice of the clerical vocation
addressed to Freeman, who always had a warm by making him realize that the church stood
place in his affections for the “Johnnie for something more than Oxford theology.
Green ” whose early efforts he had encouraged. When it came to his examination for orders,
An appendix to the work contains a bibliog- he “flatly refused to read Paley's • Evidences'
raphy of Green's writings, and the text of the even at the cost of rejection, because, he said,
sermon which he preached in memory of his the argument was out of date.” Stanley ap-
dear friend, Mrs. Henry Ward, mother of Mr. preciated the difficulty, and told him to take
Humphry Ward, who died in 1862.
up the “ Horæ Paulinæ " instead. When the
Green was born at Oxford, and entered examination came, the bishop, who was strong
Magdalen Grammar School at the age of eight. on Paley, made difficulties, and summoned
Here is a reminiscence from those earliest days the young man to an interview. Green told
of his self-consciousness.
the story, and the bishop said, “O Stanley,
“ All was not fun or poetry in those early school Stanley !” During his college years, he wrote
days. The old brutal flogging was still in favour, and
busily on his favorite subjects, but also min-
the old stupid system of forcing boys to learn by rote.
I was set to learn Latin grammar from a grammar in gled with people, and gave evidence of his
Latin! and a flogging every week did very little to help
remarkable social talent. He even indulged
me. I was simply stupefied, — for my father had never in an occasional flirtation and began to think
* LETTERS OF John RICHARD GREEN. Edited by Leslie
of marriage. This is his ideal in the year of
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“I have not settled on the individual, but I can tell caused Jenkins to explain that the Bishop was ' a first-
you the species. Not the beautiful — your Junos, Min- class in mathematics, you know, and so has a right to
ervas, or Venus's, — but some quiet, demure, little party treat on scientific matters,' which of course silenced my
whose beauty at the best will be that of expression ; cavils. Well, when Professor Draper had ceased his
who won't mind pets, humors, and eccentricities ; who hour and a half of nasal Yankeeism, up rose Sam
will never invade my study or pop in on my musings mivel,' and proceeded to act the smasher ; the white
with some vapid suggestion to visit the Blinks's or chokers, who were abundant, cheered lustily, a sort of
some bothering inquiry about papering and painting. •Pitch it into him' cheer, and the smasher got so up-
Some one who won't talk of her love, or expect demon- roarious as to pitch into Darwin's friends Darwin
strations in return, but whose love will be like sunshine, being smashed — and especially Professor Huxley.
changing and warming and comforting, and lighting Still the white chokers cheered, and the smasher rattled
up all the dark corners of one's morbid temperament. • He had been told that Professor Huxley had said
Some one who can decipher my horrible scrawl and copy that he did'nt see that it mattered much to a man
my manuscripts for the printer. Some one who can pet whether his grandfather was an ape or not. Let the
our little ones without spoiling them ; who will care for learned Professor speak for himself' and the like.
me without overcaring for me ; who will be charitable Which being ended - and let me say that such rot
without any anxiety for niggers at Timbuctoo ; and never fell from episcopal lips before arose Huxley,
good without confession twice a week or working slip- young, cool, quiet, sarcastic, scientific in fact and in
pers for some dear' curate. Some one who can play treatment, and gave his lordship such a smashing as he
without being constantly strumming; who can paint may meditate on with profit over his port at Cuddeston."
without having her fingers always sniudgy ; who can
contrive a good dinner and yet not degenerate into a
The rest of the story, as contained in the words
mere housekeeper."
of Huxley's reply, has frequently been printed,
and is familiar to the public.
Green's friendship with Dawkins gave him
a lively interest in science, and this contributed
Green's clerical career began at the close of
1860, and lasted for over eight years. He oc-
not a little to the value of his historical work.
He always wrote history with an eye to the cupied five posts, and his work was mostly done
in the East End. “He made friends with the
physical characters of the scenes wherein it
was enacted, and readers of his most popular poor individually as he did with more culti-
book will know the charm of his descriptions. troubles and planned amusements for them,
vated persons. He sympathized with their
One of the finest qualities of his writing results
directly from the fact that he consulted nature getting up penny readings or taking them
as well as books and brasses, manuscripts and
to Rosherville or Epping Forest." Green's
monuments. But humanity always had the activity during his clerical period would be
first place in his interests. Writing once to
astonishing in a strong man; it is doubly
Dawkins, he said : “ Interesting as the anti- astonishing in a man of his delicate consti-
clinal axis of Old Red,' the flexures and dips'
tution. He was early threatened with danger-
ous disease, and the last fifteen years of his
of the Mendip range may be, Man and Man's
life were one protracted struggle against the
History to my mind is worth them all. Nihil
geologicum a me alienum puto, but still Tri.
ravages of the malady that finally proved fatal.
lobites and Echini are only Kingcrabs and
But he worked manfully away at his parish
Starfishes, while Man is Man." Speaking of
duties besides doing an incredible amount of
his scientific interests, we may note that the Saturday Reviewing and other miscellaneous
epoch-making book of Darwin found him ready writing, and at the same timegathering material
to understand it without making the usual
and strength for his own most serious work.
theological difficulties. He was one of those
A great grief came to him early in his clerical
life in the death of Mrs. Henry Ward, the
who witnessed, with glee at the discomfiture
wife of his incumbent, and the sermon here re-
of the theologian, the famous passage-at-arms
between Wilberforce and Huxley in the Sum printed as an Appendix gives expression to his
mer of 1860. The story has had several appreciation of her character. The letters to
versions, and Green's is one of the liveliest of
Freeman begin in 1864, and become increas-
them all.
ingly frequent and meaty. The following,
“I was introduced to Robert Chambers (the supposed of the - Norman Conquest,” is a typical speci-
written with reference to the second volume
author of the • Vestiges') the other day, and heard him
chuckle over the episcopal defeat. I have n't told you
that story, have I ? On Saturday morning I met Jen- “ My dear Freeman this is simply to tell you
I
kins going to the Museum. We joined company, and have done it — appendices and all — and vote for the
he proposed going to section D, the Zoology, etc., 'to greatest living historian we have. Not that that will
hear the Bishop of Oxford smash Darwin. Smash
or that if I say it as I shall in print you
Darwin ! Smash the Pyramids !' said I, in great wrath, will do anything but write an immensely long letter
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magnificent. It isn't a bit overdone, and I won't say my good fellow, how I wish you were here. I
anything more irreverent about • holloaing in a wood.'
am in such tearing spirits at the prospect of
When edition 2 comes, run your pen through two-
Freedom. William Tell, ora pro nobis. Oh,
thirds of the Now's'and three-quarters of the . Then's.'
The first always make me think you have just awoke
Leonidas, Garibaldi, all illustrious Bards of
from a five minutes' nap and set to again ; the second freedom, hoorah-te pro nobis !" The next five
is what I call the showman's demonstrative. As to
years of his life belong to the “Short His-
the Earls you are as mad as a batter or else all England
tory” — “Little Book," he calls it in his let-
was as mad as a hatter; and as to Florence I can fancy
that libellous shaven-pate patting his paunch in Pur-
ters. The Macmillans had offered him terms
gatory and saying · Tell a lie — tell a lie — tell - which relieved him of the problem of liveli-
lie, and in some seven centuries you will at last get a hood, - at least in its more pressing aspects —
swell to believe it.'
and he was not called upon to struggle against
« But never mind you are the Gt. Hn. now living,
poverty and disease at the same time. His
and you have a right to be as mad as a hatter, and to
believe what you please. Q. E. D. - Good-bye.” "
long projected work on the Angevin kings was
set aside, for he realized that the chances were
A sharp attack of pleurisy in 1867 gave against his living to complete it. But the
Green warning that he must change his mode
“ Short History” represented a task that lay
of life if he would not speedily terminate his
well within his powers and the span of life that
career. After much hesitation, he decided to
probably remained to him, and he set about the
give up the Church, and devote himself to his-
work with zest. The plan is first mentioned in
torical writing in more favorable surroundings
a letter dated near the close of 1869, and from
than he had hitherto enjoyed. How he felt
that time on the correspondence is largely
about this change of life is indicated in the
letter from which we take this passage:
concerned with the progress of the work.
The remainder of Green's life was spent
“I have a great wish not to part cable altogether - largely abroad. He had visited Normandy in
I -
the hold the church has over me, however slight, is a
really healthy hold to a mind like mine. Moreover, I
1867, and Anjou the following year, but it
have still a great faith in the capacity of the Ecclesia
was not until the autumn of 1869 that he had
Anglicana to meet the national requirements of En- his first glimpse of Italy. He wrote of this
gland in a way that no sectional action can do. And
then, too, there is the feeling of honor which tells I came back last week very tired, but
with a new
trip:
against quitting a ship when she looks as if she were
sense of the world's beauty, and -
what will you say
getting into rough water.”
to me - a resolve to go to Italy every year till I die.
A sort of commentary on these words may The land has cast its spell on me as it did on Theodoric
be taken from an earlier letter describing an
and the Ottos.”
excursion of Green's parishioners to Rosher- It was just after his return from this visit that
a consultation with his physician revealed the
“One never realizes what the monotony and narrow- fact that his life was hanging by a thread.
ness of the life and thoughts of the ordinary shop. Instead of discouraging him, this knowledge
keeper is, till one spends a whole day in the midst of
seemed to supply a new inspiration for work;
them, as one does on the excursion day once a year;
twice a year it would kill me. Luckily I have immense
and, for a man in his condition, his activities
social powers with these people, and they all voted me during the remaining years of his life seem
most chatty and agreeable; but the blank burthen of almost incredible. A letter of 1871 has this
tbe day was indescribable. I retreated from it coming acute bit of philosophy:
home into a corner and found a charming little maiden
of 17 who prattled to me of everything in heaven and
“ The Piazza at Florence gave me the same thrill that
I remember on the Lake of Lucerne : -I am afraid an
earth, with a great many Mr. Green’s'in every sentence.
I told her I usually carried a book in my pocket in
even more delightful thrill, for after all Swiss dem-
case I had nothing to do for half an hour. Oh, yes,'
ocracy is a democracy of institutions, we admire its
she said, 'I suppose it is the Bible.' Ab, me! it was
constitution, its landesgemeinde and the like, but Flor.
Ten-
entine democracy was a democracy of men.
the Physiologie du goût. But are these the thoughts
of little maidens concerning parsons -
tonic freedom is too often a development of man on
are we ideals
with perennial Bibles in our pockets ?”
one side only, the political, while Italian was (I feel
all the answer that lies in that was ') a development
When Green found himself at last freed of the whole man — political, intellectual, religious,
from clerical duties, the sense of relief was very
artistic.”
great, and even the knowledge that his physical The next extract is written from San Remo :
condition was precarious could not curb his ex- “I am going to high mass to-morrow, inasmuch as
uberance of spirit. “ Won't it be jolly to have
Catholicism has an organ and Protestantism only a
harmonium, and the difference of truth between them
no sermons to preach on Sundays !” he writes to
don't seem to me to make up for the difference of in-
Freeman ; and a few days later, “Oh, Freeman, struments."
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CLIPPING THE WINGS OF ROMANCE.*
well Green should have given up his duties as
a priest of the Anglican communion. His sense Many a reader today, as he looks back over
of humor remains as keen as ever. Meeting the current flood of historical fiction, will re-
Professor Mahaffy in Rome, he writes thus of member the time when it first became apparent
the encounter:
that Realism was not the only force in litera.
“He was on his way to Athens, and simply picking ture. With some “ The Ballad of East and
up stray bits of Hellenism, sculptures and what not, by West” marks the moment, with some “ The
the road. One of his aims is to verify Greek busts;
Prisoner of Zenda,” with some “Under the
he doubts Pericles,' and a little doubts Alexander
Red Robe.” With some it was “Doctor Pascal"
whereat I wept and fled. Likewise he is seeking to
know how Hellenic young women kept their clothes on,
“ Lourdes.” There were many even, watch-
a question wrapped in the deepest mystery, and in- ers in the dawn, who felt the truth within
soluble by the Highest Germany. Perhaps it was too them when they confessed a wild delight at
insoluble for the Hellenic young women themselves,
“King Solomon's Mines," when they speculated
as to judge from the later sculptures they seem soon
to have dropt the effort to keep their clothes on. Pers deeply upon “ Mr. Isaacs,” when they sat up
.
haps that is why Mahaffy calls the Periclean time the all night over “ The Wreck of the Grovener.
age of Decadence."
Whatever the moment, the time came when
The “Short History” was published in 1874,
Realism was not the one thing needful, when
and had a great and immediate success. It
Naturalism seemed unnatural, when Psycho-
took the public by storm, much as Macaulay's logy was captured by the laboratory, and
history had done a quarter of a century before.
Human Documents were no longer seen in
It was no sooner off his hands than Green was
the magazines. Then began for many a very
busy with projects for extension and revision. happy time: they could read a novel, enjoy
The revision of the one-volume work proved
it immensely, and yet feel that they were
Then Stevenson became the idol of
beyond his powers, but the extension into the literary.
four-volume “History” became an accomp-
the hour.
lished fact in 1880. “ The Making of Eng.
We have lived on since those days with minor
land” followed in 1882, and “The Conquest literary movements, but still we remain in the
of England” a year later, the year of the
temper to think well of Romance, to like to
author's death. The “Stray Studies from
read about it, in fact to welcome such a book
as Professor Beers's “ History of English Ro-
England and Italy ” were first collected in 1876,
the “ Readings from English History ” were
manticism.” We feel in touch with Romance
edited in 1879, and the “ Short Geography of
to-day.
the British Islands” was published in the same
This new volume of Mr. Beers's work is more
year. This latter work was done with the help interesting in its subject than was the first, on
of his wife, for Green was married in 1877 to
the eighteenth century, as anyone will under-
Miss Alice Stopford, and his last six years The book is easily written, has much curious
stand. But not the subject only is interesting.
were blessed with a wedded companionship of
unusual sympathy and intimacy. A series of detail, much just criticism. It informs us on
articles on “Oxford during the Last Century
many points, recalls to mind a good deal with
and a selection of the “Essays of Joseph Ad-
which we were sub-consciously familiar, differs
dison” completes the list of books bearing with us on a good many points where we can
a
Green's name. The series of “ Primers ” which argue pleasantly. It is not too scholarly for
he edited should not go unmentioned, nor the general reading, nor so popular as to be useless
many articles written for the “ Saturday Re-
for the student.
view," of which over one hundred and sixty
I do not myself agree with the author as to
are here listed. And all this work was done
his conception of Romanticism. This may be
by a man who never knew what robust health
ancient history now, for that conception was
meant, and the last fifteen years of whose life
put forward in the previous volume and debated
were one protracted struggle with the arch
by his critics a year ago. But the matter is
even more important in this volume, and as it
enemy. His life was heroic in a higher than
the usual sense, and the revealing record now
is bardly possible to give an idea of the book
published endears him to our memory even
without saying something about its subject, I
more than do his books.
*A HISTORY OF ENGLISH ROMANTICISM IN THE NINE-
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make no apology for discussing the matter stage tinsel of medievalism had been taken
again.
away. Scott went directly from one to the
Prof. Beers defines romanticism as medieval. other; how can we say, it was romance in the
ism in modern letters and art. He explained summer of 1819 but not in the spring ?
and defended this view in his first volume, and Surely there must have been something in com-
now he remarks upon some criticisms, that mon, and that something very probably the
every writer has a right to make his own thing worth knowing about. Medievalism was
definitions ; or at least to say what bis book largely stage setting, - even Professor Beers
shall be about." His own book he wishes to
to S
sees nothing very meritorious in it, — just as
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be about the revival of medievalism in nine- the sighing and sternness was largely sentiment;
teenth century literature. Hence he writes of but how can one look beneath and not see that
Scott's poems and of some of his novels, of the real thing is that which they have in com-
Coleridge's poetry and of Keats and Leigh mon ?
Hunt, of the romanticists of Germany and Scott set a fashion of medievalism, and there
France, of Tennyson, of the Pre-Raphaelites were other fashions too in the years following
and the neo-Pre-Raphaelites; and, finally, of the Waverleys. Professor Beers is not writing
the medievalising tendencies outside of litera- of Realism and he has nothing to say of
ture, such as the Anglo-Catholic movement, Dickens. But Dickens himself (who can doubt
the revival of interest in Gothic architecture it ?) had his fancy for romance. Without
and the socialistic interpretation of the Middle counting Sidney Carton on the scaffold, think
Ages. That is surely an interesting set of of Lady Dedlock lying before the grated ruin
topics ; if a man likes to read of those matters where her lover was buried, of Lizzie Hexam
and write of them, why not read his work with rowing her father about as he plied his strange
pleasure ?
vocation on the river, of Miss Haversham in
I have read his book with pleasure ; indeed her rotting wedding dress and her one satin
I rather think that that is the reason why I slipper, and of how many more. Dickens often
cannot be wholly satisfied with it. Call it ro- thought of himself as dealing with romance,
manticism or not, I feel that there should be as he says in the preface to “Bleak House,”
something more. If only Professor Beers the romance of real life. Better examples still
would say, “ All in good time, my little sir.”
” of the same sort of thing are “ Jane Eyre ” and
Perhaps he is about to write other volumes still. “ Wuthering Heights. Not medievalism of
Quarreling about the definition of terms is course, but that spirit of romance was not so
stupid business for third parties, but after all different from the spirit which underlay the
is it not tantalizing for a man to give you a medievalism, that we can appreciate the one
book about the romance of “ Ivanhoe and without the other.
Quentin Durward” and yet say nothing about And then Stevenson. Surely Professor Beers
“ The Bride of Lammermoor” and “Waver might have let him in. He was of the nine-
ley,” to tell of the romance of Tennyson and teenth century and he wrote “ The Black Ar-
yet be silent concerning the Brontës, to tell us row.” It is true that he cared very little for
about “Lautrec” by Payne and "Lays of “ The Black Arrow" (called it tushery, never,
France" by O'Shaughnessey and to omit en- oh never, read it, once published); but after
tirely all mention of Stevenson ?
all is the spirit of the book so different from
Ivanhoe is a romantic figure and so is Quentin that of Kidnapped ” and “Treasure Island” ?
“
Durward. But is not Lucy Ashton ? Her Professor Beers does not write of Stevenson :
brother thought so. And is not Edward Wa- he prefers to write of the medieval revival, and
verley? He himself at least, felt that he had be holds that he has the right to use the defiui-
known romance.
Professor Beers chose to tion of romanticism that he finds in the dic-
write of the medieval part, but how can one tionary. Quite so: a man should certainly
write well of one without saying a word of the have preferences and he certainly cannot be
other? Lucy Ashton and the Master of Ra- blamed for using a dictionary. Still, a historian
venswood are typical romantic figures, of literature will want to be something more
typical certainly of the romance of their time, than a chartered libertine and a colleague of
which no doubt had its weak and its silly side. the Earl of Chatham and Theophile Gautier.
But aside from all that, it had something posi- He will want to be one who in all the superficial
tive, and its positive power was not different appearances of literary history perceives the
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and eccentricities but perceives true likenesses the broader sense. And if it means something
and affinities, one who can make clear and more, that is only because a greater number
intelligible and interesting matters which had of things to which the word may be applied
been confused and without sense.
have something in common, and if they have
The fact that men of letters were interested something in common, it is probable that they
in medievalism, though it may itself be ex- will be better understood by an exposition of
plained, does not do much to explain the course it. This Professor Beers is well aware of For
of literature in the nineteenth century. I it is the principle which guided bim in his
should like an explanation of “ Waverley," for first volume, which, although based on the
instance, and especially of “St. Ronan's Well”; same definition, really deals with many things
I should like Byron and Browning given a which have not the slightest touch of medi-
place in the general movement; I should like evalism. He saw that a trae history demanded
to know why Dickens loved the romance of a treatment of various things which lay out-
real life; why the Pre-Raphaelites became side his definition. I am sorry that he did not
æsthetics and then decadents; in what ways, take the same liberty in the present volume.
beside the individuality of genius, Stevenson
EDWARD E. HALE, JR.
differs from Scott. Doubtless Professor Beers
has no desire to explain these matters.
I avoid saying what I consider romance.
Professor Beers describes others who offer
A QUEEN'S COMRADE.*
definitions as seeking to express the true in- It seems odd, after a reading of “The
wardness of romantic literature by analyzing Queen's Comrade,” that no writer of biogra-
it into its elements, selecting one of those phy before Mr. Molloy has thought of exploit-
elements as essential and rejecting all the rest ing the life of Sarah, first Duchess of Marl-
as accidental.” That process seems to me well borough. Comrade of one queen and influential
enough, provided always that the one element
enemy to another and two kings besides, she
selected turned out really to be essential. played a part in English politics such as no
Such a result I should say was one of the tests woman before or since her day has aspired to.
as to whether the work were well done or not.
She was possessed of an almost Napoleonic
Professor Beers certainly cannot imagine that effrontery and an outspoken brusqueness wor-
the true critical method consists in analyzing thy of Cromwell himself. And yet, through
something into elements and considering them the recent flood of memoirs, lives, and letters
all equally important. That at least is not his
That at least is not his she has waited until now for her Boswell.
own method, for he goes through no analysis Possibly this is because she has inspired her
at all, but settles on one quality (an accidental would-be biographers with the same awe which
one, by the way) and decides that his book kept most of her contemporaries in unwilling
shall be about that.
subjection. It was certainly no easy task to
All this discussion about the name of a reconstruct from the appalling mass of letters,
book may seem hypercritical. It is not, for journals, contemporary history, and state pa-
only when we understand just what his subject pers, which confront the student of the Stuart
is, can we understand why Professor Beers period, first the strange, strong personality of
does not say upon it anything really illuminat- the Duchess, and then as a background the
ing or final. I should say he failed to explain stirring days in which she lived. Yet there
the one element which he considers. In dealing
was the material for a fascinating narrative,
with the romance of medievalism apart from the and Mr. Molloy has written it with a finish
other forms of romanticism, he makes it im-
which betrays the practiced hand.
possible to get the true understanding of either. The best thing about his book is that it has
That is why his book, though careful and both vitality and accuracy. The author does
abounding in curious and interesting points, not allow his wealth of material to oppress the
does not have any of those real generalizations reader whose interest is in results, not pro-
and keen bits of insight that are so exhilarat-
cesses ; neither does he permit bis imagination
ing to the reader, and when well-founded so
to indulge in any riotous games of theoretic
valuable to the student.
chance. His history — for, as we shall see, the
Professor Beers really knows better. He
THE QUEEN'S COMRADE. The Life and Times of Sarah,
knows that romanticism is something more
Duchess of Marlborough. By Fitzgerald Molloy. In two
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book is practically an account of the English and insolent rebuffs and accusations of insin-
court during the Duchess's lifetime, with the cerity on hers, she was finally pleased to be
stress laid on personalities rather than on gracious; and at the age of seventeen became
principles — is detailed, anecdotal, vivid, but Col. Churchill's wife. In spite of her self-
trustworthy because supported in every in. ishness, her caprices, her frightful temper, and
stance by documentary evidence. Gossippy of her dangerous outspokenness which ultimately
course so intimate a narrative is bound to be, wrecked his career at its height, her husband
but the gossip is authentic and no modern seems always to have loved her warmly and to
invention.
bave found his truest happiness in her society.
Judged by a narrowly conventional standard She, on the other hand, appears to have re-
Mr. Molloy is open to criticism for a tendency garded him from the first as chiefly a tool of
a
already noted to disregard the requirements of her ambitions, a convenient threat to hold over
a strict sense of unity. For nearly a chapter the head of the hapless Anne when, like the
every now and then we lose sight of the traditional worm, she ventured to turn upon
Duchess, while we read of club life in Queen her oppressor.
Anne's London, of Monmouth's rebellion, or It was not until the close of the tragic reign
William's intrigues, presented with a detail of James, whose hard fate it was always to
act against himself, that Lady Churchill,
Ducbess's career. But her royal acquaintances whose influence over Anne had by this time
are so well worth knowing that we are very become absolute, began to take an active part
willing to condone the lack of subordination in politics, her first move being, characteris-
resulting from undue attention to their high-tically enough, to incite Anne against the king
nesses, merely for the sake of the broader out- who had been to her the kindest of fathers and
look thus afforded. Also and here is the to the Churchills the most generous of bene-
real defense for the introduction of so much factors. Highly typical of the heartless fri-
seemingly extraneous material — there is noth- volity of the time is the account Mr. Molloy
ing in the book which does not help the reader gives us of Anne's light-hearted desertion of
to a grasp of the curious ethical standard of her father. Accompanied by Lady Churchill,
the times, without an understanding of which who seems to have planned the affair as a con-
the Duchess would be incomprehensible, -a venient means of cscape for herself from the
monster of insincerity, cupidity, and ingrati- monarch her husband had betrayed, the doting
tude. As it is, she moves before us very hu- Anne « stole down a backstairs ” to the coach
man, completely in and of the world around which was awaiting her.
her, now the centre of that world's shifting “ The escapade had for her something of the excite-
interest, then pushed into the background. So, ment and pleasure of an elopement. The fact of her
like all but the greatest of mankind, -the few
high-heeled shoe sticking in the mud caused much
indisputable heroes who can hold the stage
merriment, and Lord Dorset's pulling off his leather
gauntletted glove and begging her to slip her foot into
against all comers, - she played her varying it as he half carried her to the coach, gave him the air
part, now heroine, now supernumerary; and of a second-hand Raleigh. She was in such mirth that
thus Mr. Molloy has wisely chosen to repro-
none who heard or saw could think there was a possi-
duce her.
bility of her father losing his crown or of the nation
She was born on the gala May-day of
being in a state of civil war.”
Charles II.'s glad return from exile, and spent
Lady Churchill's next step was to influence
much of the impressionable period of her life
Anne to forego her claim to the crown in favor
at the Merry Monarch’s brilliant and vicious
of William. In her “ Account of her Con.
court, as playmate to the shy little Princess
duct," written years after, she tells us that she
Anne and maid of honor to the second Duchess
was then “so very simple a creature” as never
of York, Anne's step-mother. It was while
to guess King William's real design in coming
she was acting in this latter capacity that Col.
to England.
John Churchill, Master of Robes to the Duke
“Having never read, nor employed my time in any-
of York, met her at a ball and was caught
thing but playing cards, and having no ambition myself,
I imagined that the Prince of Orange's sole design was
fast in the toils of her wilful beauty. Utterly to provide for the safety of his own country by obliging
incapable apparently, even in girlhood, of any King James to keep the laws of ours; and that he
deep affection, Sarah was keenly appreciative
would
go
back as soon as he had made us all happy."
of her lover's brilliant prospects; and, after The Duchess of Marlborough as a type of
repeated avowals of love undying on his part guileless simplicity is very amusing, but it is
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probably true that William did deceive her as the gossip that buzzed about the court with
well as her husband and many another of reference to their stormy meetings. Increas-
James's whilom friends. How the “ glorious ingly turbulent interviews and impertinent
Revolution " dwindles, when Mr. Molloy shows letters marked the stages of the famous quar-
us the men behind the issue, from a great blow rel which raged for four weary years and rent
struck at tyranny to a clever bit of political the whole court in twain. Finally the Queen,
chicanery foisted by the crafty William upon sick of lectures and reprimands, forbade the
a bewildered and unsuspecting people - Duchess the court. The long and unpopular
coup d'état almost as dramatic and quite as reign of the Marlboroughs was over. The
unprincipled as Napoleon's of the eighteenth Duchess, furious at her husband's counsel of
Brumaire!
mildness, flung her keys of office at the Duke's
In spite of the services Lord and Lady head and he carried them to Anne, who a few
Marlborough bad rendered in securing William months later wrote him that he too was dis-
his throne, they straightway fell out of favor missed from her service.
for their violent partisanship of Anne. Lady But though thus summarily stripped of her
Marlborough's dismissal shortly became the power, neither the distaste for court life which
bone of contention between the two royal sis- she declares she had felt ever since she was
ters, who ceased wrangling over it only when fourteen, nor her advancing years, brought
Mary died. Then William, who “entered the indomitable Duchess any desire for peace
into the quarrels of women as if he had been or real retirement. To the end of her days
one,” saw fit to patch up a reconciliation, which she was busy, like Martha before her, about
was empty and formal, and was followed, many things ; “though her activity was not
both for the Princess and her favorite, by just productive of peace or good will to any man.”
such slights and insults as had preceded it. We get a very vivid picture of her old age,
All this must have been exceedingly trying to spent in marrying off her granddaughters,
the high-spirited Sarah, who assures us, how-acting as nurse and purser to the Duke, or
ever, that she was not glad at hearing of swearing at his physician, quarrelling with her
William's death," so little is it in my na- daughters, reviling Anne and the Georges in-
ture to retain resentment against any mortal discriminately, husbanding her vast wealth,
(however unjust soever he may have been) and publishing first a lively “ Account of her
in whom the will to injure is no more.” In Conduct," and then a vindication of the afore-
view of later events we commend the Duchess's said “ Account” and of her character in gen-
sincerity in adding the final clause.
eral from the storm of condemnation her first
With the accession of Anne begins the most book had drawn upon her. So did the first
familiar and likewise the most brilliant chap-Duchess of Marlborough continue to war with
ter of the Duchess's story. As she herself the world until she left it; the art of which
she had most perfect control being that of
“ From this time I began to be looked upon as a making enemies.
person of consequence, without whose approbation, at No brief review of " The Queen's Comrade"
least, neither places, nor pensions, nor honours were be-
can do it real justice, for its chief charm is its
stowed by the Crown. The intimate friendship with
detail. The interest is well sustained and
which the Queen was known to honour me, afforded a
plausible foundation for this opinion. And I believe pungently spiced with variety. It is meant
therefore it will be a surprise to many to be told that for leisurely, luxurious reading, which it well
the first important step which Her Majesty took after repays; but it is made available to the student
her accession to the government was against my wishes in search of a particular point by the very co-
and inclination; I mean her throwing herself and her
affairs almost entirely into the hands of the Tories."
pious synopses that head the chapters.
EDITH KELLOGG DUNTON.
Whatever the “many” may have thought
of Anne's mild self-assertion, Lady Marlbor-
ough's surprise was genuine and her displeas-
PROFESSOR W. P. TRENT'S “ War and Civilization”
are too keen to be affected by any obligation is a small book containing two addresses first printed
that Anne's munificent bounty could bind upon in “The Sewanee Review." They constitute a fine
her. The war of words that followed between expression of American idealism, and oppose the essen-
poor peace-loving Anne and the haughty in- tial principles of political morality to the imperialist
tolerant Duchess is very vividly presented by
madness that has so greatly lowered the tone of our
national life during the past three years. Messrs. T. Y.
means of extracts from their letters or bits of Crowell & Co. are the publishers.
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But the love of luxury which grows with
STANDARDS OF TYPOGRAPHIC TASTE.*
increasing wealth demands excellence, since
Printing, as ordinarily practised, is a mere
it can afford to pay for it; and in England
question of craftsmanship, like stone-cutting, and the United States printers who retain
or wood-carving, or a score of other trades.
for themselves the noble simplicity of the best
But, just as the line that separates the stone-
cutter from the sculptor, or a Swiss peasant from to supply this new demand.
traditions of their art are striving worthily
Mr. Cobden-
an Andreas Zorn, is a difficult one to draw, Sanderson, with the newly established Doves
80 printing proceeds by stages infinitesimally Press in England, and in this country the
small from the status of a post-mediæval mys- De Vinne Press in New York, and the special
tery to that of a handicraft, and finally to that book-making department established in 1899
of a fine art. Indeed, taken in connection
at the Riverside Press in Cambridge under
with its kindred perplexities of type-founding, the direction of Mr. Bruce Rogers, are the
paper-making, and book-binding, it was the one
most notable examples of this praiseworthy
art that fairly baffled the genius of William
movement. It is with three notable volumes
Morris, the one over which he never obtained
put forth this season by Messrs. Houghton,
complete mastery.
Miffin & Co. at the latter press, that we are
Of late years there has been a woeful falling now concerned.
off from typographical excellence on one hand,
“Obermann," the masterpiece of Etienne
and a most determined attempt to revive its an.
Pivert de Senancour, is known to English-
cient glories on the other. The renascence of speaking people chiefly through the two poems
the ars conservatrix was at first complicated by of Matthew Arnold which bear the name of
the endeavor to do too much,— to substitute for Senancour's book, and those others that attest
modest and simple excellence in typography an
its influence. This work, almost inaccessible
effect that was largely decorative or pictorial.
even to the few to whom it makes its timid but
It was here that Morris made his most conspicu- passionate appeal, and, when obtained, found
ous failure. That time of experimental groping to hold between its covers much that has lost
was succeeded by a series of more or less doleful
its savor “in this our troubled day," is an
imitators of the work of the Kelmscott Press,
ideal book to be issued in selections and in a
some of whom have not yet gone to their reward
in the limbo reserved for false prophets. Many vision. Accordingly, Miss Jessie Peabody
fastidious edition, with discreet editorial super-
of our ambitious workers and self-imagined ex-
perts have yet to learn that the best printing fol. Frothingham, pleasantly remembered for her
translation of the “ Journal” of Maurice de
lows the good old rule embodied in the phrase Guérin, has rendered the vital portions of
ars celare artem; and they must learn it in the
“Obermann” into English, prefixing a critical
good old school of experience. Nothing, per-
and biographical essay on the author and his
haps, is better suited to bring a neophyte to
some degree of typographical connoisseurship width of reading and keenness of critical per-
work, and adding copious notes that reveal her
than some of the monstrosities that pass for fine
ception.
books among a sadly misled class to-day,— ill-
This is the first of the three volumes under
shaped pages printed on pretentious and inap- consideration. Xavier de Maistre's widely
propriate paper, from grotesque or freakish
type, with poor ink unevenly applied, and given known and greatly admired “ Voyage autour
.
to the world in flimsy or tawdry binding, a work
un-proof-read, unregistered, and inept.
this book is, and justly so, among those of
Such
literary judgment, it is known chiefly through
poisonous-looking volumes have a single merit:
the repeated editions of it that have been pre-
they carry with them their own antidote to all
discerning minds.
pared for the use of school-children. Adjudging
it worthy of a better fate, Professor de Su.
*OBERMANN: Selections from Letters to a Friend. By
michrast of Harvard University has written a
Etienne Pivert de Senancour, Chosen and translated, with
an Introductory Essay and Notes, by Jessie Peabody Froth- charming little preface for this new edition,
ingham. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
from that authorized in France, in which he
VOYAGE AUTOUR DEMA CHAMBRE. Par Xavier de Maistre.
Avant-Propos par F.-C. de Sumichrast. Boston: Houghton, says, among other things :
Mifflin et Cie.
Il ne s'était pas douté,' dit Sainte-Beuve,' qu'il devenait
MR. BROWN'S LETTERS TO A YOUNG MAN ABOUT Town. durant ce temps-là, un de nos auteurs les plus connus et les
By William Makepeace Thackeray. Boston: Houghton, mieux aimés. A son arrivée dans sa vraie patrie littéraire,
:
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cru étranger, et chacun lui parlait de la Sibérienne, du Lé- the others, but these are covered with a marbled
preux, des mêmes vieux amig.'
"Mais si Xavier de Maistre était en droit de s'étonner de
paper in S-shaped sworls, admirably old fash-
la réputation dont il jouissait en France, et dont il ne semble ioned, - even, like the “ Letters,” to the point
pas avoir soupçonné l'existence, qu'eût-il pensé, qu'eût-il dit of the sentimental. A vignette, in a manner
si quelque prophdte, quelque disense de bonne aventure lui
avait prédit que sa renommée passerait les mers, et que dans
not unlike Thackeray's own, decorates the title-
cette Amérique du Nord - célèbre à l'époque de la rédaction page. The type and paper reflect the feeling
du Voyage surtout pour les bons sauvages chers à Jean-
of the book to a remarkable degree, and the
Jacques Rousseau, — les premiers jours du vingtième siècle
verraient la publication d'une édition de luxe de son · Voyage
whole effect is finely and completely har-
autour de ma Chambre'?"
monious.
The third of these books needs no introduc- It is a pity that some benevolently disposed
tion, since it has steered its way successfully person, in an age when money for libraries is
for a long generation between the semi-oblivion flowing in millions, cannot establish small
of slender appreciation and the merciless popu- collections of these correctly made books at in-
larity of a text-book. This is “Mr. Brown's
This is " Mr. Brown's tervals throughout the land, for the purpose of
Letters to a Young Man about Town," con- establishing comparisons, and cultivating typo-
tributed by Thackeray to the columns of graphic taste.
WALLACE RICE.
“ Panch" during the year 1849. These letters,
addressed by an elder among men of the world
to one just about to enter upon the pleasant
life of the leisure class, are as witty and sound THE INNINGS OF THE ANIMALS.*
to-day as when first published, and abundantly
deserve the characterization given them by cated from the human breast, though it plays
The hunting instinct is by no means eradi-
James Hannay, quoted in the publishers' note, but little part, directly, in the economy of the
as being “inimitable, wise, easy, playful, worldly civilized life of to-day. The old habit still
social sketches." Most fit, like the other books
lurks in our veins, and most of us follow a good
mentioned, are such writings for a limited
animal story with something of the zest of the
edition suited to their luxurious content.
chase. Authors — and publishers too — have
So much for the literary and intellectual side
found this out; and, following in the wake of
of these three works; we will speak briefly of
“ The Jungle Books” and “ Wild Animals I
the habiliments in which they are clad. “Ober-
Have Known,” come new claimants for our in-
mann” is printed in two volumes, in a style
terest.
following closely, but without servility, that in
Some naturalists and more scientists are
vogue in France at the time of their publication half inclined to quarrel with this newly-fledged
a century ago. The heavy unsmoothed paper,
method of depicting animal life, and some
the clear print, the complete absence of decora-
would even relegate the whole anthropomor-
tion and color, the perfect registering of the phic menagerie to the forests of Wonderland.
pages, the accurate and intelligent proof- Mr. Seton-Thompson seems to have heard of
|
reading, the chaste binding in heavy cadet-
these criticisms, for in the preface of his latest
blue paper with paper labels on the back, all
collection of stories, “Lives of the Hunted,"
combine to give the book a pleasing aus-
he takes particular pains to state that “The
terity of appearance in happy harmony with its
material of these accounts is true. The chief
contents.
In de Maistre's book more of decoration is liberty taken is in ascribing to one animal the
adventures of several.” Nevertheless, we note
permissible. The frontispiece is a likeness of
that a particularly interesting adventure of
the author, from a portrait hitherto unpublished.
The title-page is printed from an engraving on
• Johnny,” the dyspeptic bear cub of Yellow-
stone Park, is told by Mr. Seton-Thompson -
copper by Mr. Sidney L. Smith, after the man-
ner of the eighteenth century. Engraved head-
* LIVES OF THE HUNTED. Containing a True Account
of the Doings of Five Quadrupeds and Three Birds; and, in
pieces, and half-title vignettes and tail-pieces Elucidation of the Same, over 200 Drawings. By Ernest
from wood, are employed with good effect. The Seton-Thompson, Naturalist to the Government of Manitoba.
initials, in rococo style, are rubricated. Where
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
THE OUTCASTS. By W. A. Frazer. Illustrated by Arthur
“ Obermann" has the effect of chasteness and
Heming. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
austerity, this volume is more light and fanciful. IN THE FOREST. Tales of Wood-Life. By Maximilian
The vellum back alone seems out of complete
Foster. Illustrated by Carl Rungius. New York: Double-
day, Page & Co.
harmony.
WILD LIFE NEAR HOME. By Dallas Lore Sharp. With
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on the
and it looses nothing in the telling
Mr. Dallas Lore Sharp's “ Wild Life near
authority of three bronzed mountaineers.” It Home ” belongs in a somewhat different cate-
is obviously unfair to ask for an extension of gory of animal books. These sketches recount
the list of authorities. It is equally unfair to the rambles of a naturalist whose sharp eyes
fail to recognize the fund of animal lore from and indefatigable patience have brought to
which the material of these tales is drawn. They light much of interest concerning the birds and
should not, however, be judged as scientific re- fishes, rabbits and opossums, muskrats and
ports upon the habits and instincts of animals squirrels, in their haunts in the fields, woods,
where unvarnished fact and cold logic admit of and swamps of New Jersey. The book follows
no embellishment for the reader's delectation. the conventional lines of nature-books, but with
They are essentially and primarily stories with more than the usual diversity of theme and with
an underlying basis of fact and observation. In exceptional vivacity of style.
any case, the court of final appeal is open, and The illustration of nature books has come
we can all take to the woods and plains and ob- to be a fine art, — indeed, a very special fine
tain a first-hand acquaintance with their furred art. In the books here reviewed we have the
and feathered denizens. The stories in Mr. work of several artists, exemplifying as many
Seton-Thompson's present collection include methods. The stilted wood-cuts of our older
his recent as well as some of his earlier con- natural histories look strangely out of place be-
tributions to periodical literature. Krag, side the work of the artists of to-day. The
Biddy and Randy, Johnny Bear, Tito, Chink, pictures in “ The Outcasts” are the least ef-
and the Kangaroo Rat, are most of them old fective. They are stiff and wooden, and one
friends; and whether old or new are sure of instinctively looks for evidence of the taxider-
a welcome from hosts of readers among the mist's work. The illustrations by Rungius for
children of all ages. In the humor and the “ “In the Forest” are very spirited, full of ac-
human element which this author finds in his tion, and wonderfully life-like, though the one
animal friends, lies one of the secrets of his entitled “ The Yearling Buck ” is evidently in-
well-deserved popularity.
correctly named. In Lives of the Hunted"
In Mr. Frazer's “ The Outcasts” we have an the author is the illustrator - a rare and most
example of what a fellow-writer is pleased to effective combination. These illustrations are
call “the archaic method, making the animals as unique as the text. Their great effective-
talk.” His theme is the origin of the Wood ness lies in the suggestiveness of the drawings
Buffalo, the surviving herd of American bison -the greater at times by reason of their some-
in the forests of Athabasca. The characters are what hidden meaning. Mr. Sharp's work is
A'tim the outcast dog-wolf, and Shag the old abundantly illustrated by Mr. Bruce Horsfall
bull driven from the herd. The portrayal, with much delicacy and skill, the artistic finish
which at times is Kiplingesque, may be true to of the work standing in strong contrast to the
life, but as a story it lacks humor entirely, and few bold lines of Mr. Seton-Thompson's mar-
the chief actors are not pleasing additions to ginals and tail-pieces. The two books last
one's animal acquaintances. The grim horror named are fine examples of the bookmaker's
of the struggle for life is the main impression art, showing taste and skill in every detail.
to be derived from the book, while the springs
CHARLES ATWOOD KOFOID.
of the reader's sympathy are not touched as by
the work of Kipling and Seton-Thompson.
The tales which Mr. Foster has gathered
together under the title - In the Forest" deal
STORIES OF THE ENGLISH LAKES,*
with the larger beasts of the woods. They are
in some cases biographies in which the animal For the number and importance of its literary
traits, good and evil alike as judged by human associations, perhaps no other part of England
standards, are portrayed with equal faithful- is so interesting as the lake region of Cumber-
ness, and withal with force and vividness. The land and Westmoreland. Two recent publica-
ring of genuineness and the spirited treatment tions introduce us to the charms and the history
add further charm to these tragic tales of wood-
* HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN THE LAKE DISTRICT. By
land life. Perhaps it is true, as Mr. Seton- A. G. Bradley. With illustrations by Joseph Pennell. New
Thompson has said, that the only way to make
York: The Macmillan Co.
an animal's history un-tragic is to stop before
LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS OF THE ENGLISH LAKES. By
Canon H. D. Rawnsley. In two volumes. Illustrated. New
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or
of this region from such different points of ciations of the English Lakes," first published
view as to be mutually supplementary, includ- in 1894, Canon Rawnsley touches not so much
ing, as they do, little in common. If both of
upon the scenes and their historic interest, as
the books are to be at one's disposal, Mr. upon the lives of men of letters who have spent
Bradley's “ Highways and Byways in the Lake here a day or a month or a year. Wordsworth
District” should be read first, not because it and Southey are perhaps the heroes of the
is the more important or the more enjoyable, book, and it seems at times that the writer's
but because it gives the necessary understand attitude toward them is, to say the least, not
ing of the country and the life of the people. seriously critical. He quotes commonplace
.
A map in the back of the volume, and the lines from Wordsworth very freely, and seems
characteristic drawings of Mr. Joseph Pennell, not to have any idea of the feeling about the
of which there are some eighty or ninety, help poet which Mr. Bradley expresses :
very much to a vivid realization of scenes and “One may be permitted, I think, some disappoint-
places. It is a region of but little more than ment that Wordsworth seems to have been almost in-
thirty miles square, and yet there is crowded
different to the moving pageants of history, the passions,
in it so much of lake and river, of mountain,
the humours and the pathos of olden days. It is nothing
that he wrote a few unremarkable poems on such sub-
brook, and fell, that, but for the author's ani- jects, or published a guide-book which deals chiefly with
mated showing, it would be hard to believe landscape detail and breaks ultimately into verse. Nor
that all of its localities are genuinely interest-
will the few notes he has left on manners and customs
ing. Keswick, Skiddaw, Derwentwater, Shap evidence of local antiquaries and historians. How much
seem of much moment when compared with the ampler
Fell, Carlisle,-names known and unknown,- is Wordsworth read nowadays ? if such a question in
follow one another so rapidly that only the such a spot is permissible. How many of the younger
author's easy literary art saves us from confu- generation have worked conscientiously through. The
sion. Many of the places he fastens in our
Excursion'? ... It is not in the least strange that
wherever in the Lake Country you find a
memories indelibly by a telling story or a
woman of literary tastes you find an enthusiastic dis-
characteristic anecdote. Here on the border ciple of the Rydal bard; but their pious belief that such
of Scotland there were stirring deeds for many devotion is common to all Anglo-Saxondom is more
centuries; and indeed, to say nothing of the noteworthy."
border warfare, the annals of the internal affairs The list of literary celebrities who have
of this part of the country are not lacking in been in some way connected with the Lake
dramatic interest.
Region is a long one; and whether they came
“ It is Cicely, the youngest of all these, that with for a chance view, for a vacation ramble, or
pale face and golden hair now looks down on us from for the purpose of establishing a home, we
the window in Penrith church. She was a famous and
haughty beauty, well-known in London, where she was
here make acquaintance with them in an inti-
commonly styled proud Cis of Raby. Her chief claim
mate fashion. What we learn of each is always
to notoriety, however, lies in the distinction acquired significant.
by her marriage and her motherhood. For she became In the putting together of so many things
the wife of Richard Duke of York, the Yorkist heir-
unrelated save for the fact of a common place
presumptive to the English throne, and mother of Ed-
ward IV. and Richard III. The first was captured at
of action, it inevitably results that the reader
the battle of Wakefield and hurried instantly to the
feels the lack of some unifying thread of nar-
block, and his head, decorated with a paper crown,
1, im- rative or of argument. Here came Shelley
paled on York gates. Their son, Lord Rutland, on this with his young wife, and here the poet-reformer
same occasion, begged on his knees for mercy from the
Black Clifford, the fiercest member of the strenuous
grew to have a bitter aversion for Southey.
Westmoreland line. As your father killed mine," cried Christopher North the hearty and happy,
. '
the northern wolf,' plunging his dagger into the boy's Coleridge the mystical, Carlyle the strenuous
breast, ‘so will I kill you.' Richard Duke of Clarence, and prophetic, Matthew Arnold the polished,
too, who was slain by Edward IV., was Cicely's brother.
and Gray the delicate, met here, drawn by a
She herself was grandmother to Henry the Seventh's
Queen, while her nephew Warwick the kingmaker suc-
common interest. The company is a motley
ceeded to this same manor of Penrith, where he kept
one, but the keen observer will not fail to
prodigious state."
get many new items of understanding of those
Castle, church, village, all call up legend or
that come and pass. In the presence of the
more recent story, and each takes color from mountains and the lakes, each man becomes
Mr. Bradley’s ready understanding of the spirit himself, and the best and the worst in him be-
of time and place.
comes clear to us as the face of nature.
In the new edition of the “ Literary Asso-
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ing in his energies or of weakening in his enthu-
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
siasm, his development in coming years is almost
certain to be as significant as it has been during the
No figure in contemporary art history is more time that has passed.
imposing than Professor Hubert von Herkomer, To the supply of new editions of Shakespeare
R.A. It is therefore quite fitting that the most there seems to be practically no end. The latest
distinguished of the art books of the season should comes from the house of Lippincott, consists of
be a study of his life and works (Macmillan). twenty handy volumes, and is called “The Twentieth
The volume is a truly magnificent super-royal Century Edition.” The special feature of this edition
quarto of one hundred and thirty-five pages, with lies in the numerous full-page illustrations, some
special binding designed by Professor von Herko- forty in all, finely reproduced in colors from designs
mer himself, and illustrated with sixteen photo by prominent English illustrators of the day, in-
,
gravure plates and about ninety half-tone blocks. cluding Mr. Byam Shaw, Mr. Patten Wilson, and
As a sympathetic study of an unusual and versatile others. Except for these illustrations, and the gor-
genius, nothing could be better than the text of Mr.geously decorative title-page, the books are severely
A. L. Baldry. To the average mind, why and how simple in style, entirely lacking in critical comment-
an artist paints pictures or brings into existence ary, and are issued without any editorial name. The
great achievements in bronze or marble is an un- only introduction to the respective plays consists of
accountable mystery. In the general estimation, two lines — one giving the date of first publication,
there is an uncanny touch of heredity in the way and another the number of acts, scenes, and lines.
that an artist's personality stamps an odd family Each play is also provided with a glossary, and,
likeness upon everything that comes from his hand. where the folio or quarto text is obscure, a pote
The public, not understanding the facts of art, in- stating on whose authority the present reading has
vests it with an array of fancies, and allows imag- been adopted. Numbered lines, and an index of
ination to run riot in sentimental ideas about the Shakespearean characters with the plays in which
men who can put their thoughts into a tangible they occur, are also useful features. The general
form. The skilful biographer is he who shows appearance of the volumes, and their lightness in
there is a necessary and most intimate relation be- the hand, commend them; and readers wearied with
tween an artist's personality and his life-product, a the over-weight of comment and of “editing” in
vital connection of cause with effect, although not some editions of Shakespeare may find here a wel-
always written where he who runs may read. In
come relief.
the present case, this dissection - or, perhaps more Art lovers will give a warm welcome to the new
properly, vivisection - is greatly satisfying. It and enlarged edition of Mr. W.C. Brownell's valu-
gives us the clue to an understanding of a man who able work on French Art” (Scribner), with its
“
gives the lie to the old proverb about Jack-of-all- forty-eight fine full-page illustrations of famous
trades. It explains what are the elements, and masterpieces, and a new chapter devoted to “ Rodin
how mixed, in this artist, that at one moment it is and the Institute." The earlier edition closed with
a portrait or a picture that engages him, at another “ The New Movement in Sculpture "; since that
it is an enamel, or he turns for awhile to music, edition appeared nine years ago, this new movement
teaches, lectures, does etchings, invents a new pro- has firmly established itself, with Auguste Rodin as
cess of engraving, goes deeply into artistic crafts- its master spirit. The distinction between M. Rodin's
manship, makes audacious innovations in theatrical art and the art of the Institute sculptors is well
art, and intrudes into many professions that ac- expressed by Mr. Brownell when he says: “The
cording to the popular notion are quite outside his Institute is inspired by tradition and guided by
sphere. Eight chapters are given to the record of nature; Rodin is inspired by nature and guided by
this varied activity year by year; the two concluding tradition.” There can not be much doubt as to
chapters describe the unique Herkomer art colony which type produces the higher art. To be guided
in the English country village of Bushey, and the by tradition is legitimate ; an originality that is a
sumptuous dwelling he has built for himself there. pure abstraction is characteristic of no great artist
But, unlike many of his brother artists, the building since the evolution of art began. Everything de-
of this house was not through a desire to construct pends upon
the
way
in which one makes use of his
an impressive pedestal for himself, but through an patrimony. There is an eternal opposition between
almost devotional intention to be true to a tradition using it in a routine and mechanical way, drawing
that has been handed down to him from his ances- the interest on it, so to speak, from time to time,
tors. For, in the last analysis, pride of race is the on the one hand, and on the other reinvesting it
leading motive in Herkomer's life. His wholly En- according
according to the dictates of one's own feeling and
glish art is the production of a man who, in mind, faculty. The latter is what every great artist has
habit, and temperament, is strongly and character- done, and what M. Rodin is now doing. He has
istically German. He is now in the best period of been called a French Michael Angelo; but, with a
his maturity, with capacities highly trained, and a temperament in some measure analogous to that of
deep and comprehensive knowledge of the details the great Florentine, his art is his own. Some of
of his profession. As there is no symptom of wan- his figures are conceived in somewhat the same


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spirit as Angelo's, but they are never run in the longed — even at a time“when a lecturer could not
game mould. Both the old portions and the new name the founder of the city as a man who had actu-
of this beautiful volume are full of fine and just ally existed, without blashing before his audience."
criticisms of art, and the illustrations place it among The history of ancient Rome cannot longer be
the best of the season's art-books.
written in the distrustful spirit of the hypercritical
The “Other Famous Homes of Great Britain and school. The twenty-three full-page plates and the
their Stories (Putnam) will find an eager public one hundred and seventeen illustrations in the text
awaiting it, the two earlier books of the same series are important features of this learned and beautiful
having won a host of friends. Like its predecessors, work.
the present volume is edited by Mr. A. H. Malan, A romantic interest always attaches to lands of
the separate descriptive articles being written either which not very much is known; and hence from
by the owners of the homes, or by those closely as- the earliest times the countries of Scandinavia have
sociated with the reigning families. Great Britain, been invested with a peculiar charm. As long ago
by favor of her governing class, possesses artistic as Tacitus, we find it written: “Here the light of
treasures — pictures, sculptures, and articles of the setting sun lingers on until sunrise, bright enough
virtu —in a series of private galleries which no to dim the light of the stars. More than that, it is
other country can hope to rival.
asserted that the sound of his rising is to be heard,
nations,
later in their awakening to artistic life, are and the forms of the gods and the glory round his
striving to do in their museums and public galleries head may be seen.” For hundreds of years stories
has already been done by the aristocracy of En- such as these, and others, of the battles between
gland in their own homes. They have lavished gods and giants, were repeated at Norse firesides
their wealth upon the purchase of sculpture and in the long winter evenings; and at last, more than
pictures, and with a generous hospitality have, in a one thousand years after Tacitus, they were brought
large sense, made them the property of the public. together in books known as the Eddas. These an-
Scattered throughout the length and breadth of the cient books, which a brave and noble race carried
land, these stately homes stand with doors open to in its heart through all its wide wanderings and
the st