udent, the owners and occupiers regarding conquests, take one back to the beginning of time,
themselves as trustees and custodians for the public and tell of the birth of the worlds and the coming
weal. The descriptions of twelve of these ancestral of the gods to rule over them. Messrs. Dodd,
houses, with their traditions, their treasures, and Mead, & Co. have this year given us a new collection
their architectural and picturesque features, are of these “ Norse Stories,” re-told by Mr. Hamilton
illustrated by about two hundred photographic Wright Mabie in a very pleasant way, and illustrated
plates, making a truly sumptuous as well as in- by ten colored plates and marginal decorations on
structive volume.
each page by Mr. George Wright. There are seven-
“New Tales of Old Rome" (Houghton) is the teen of these tales, beginning with “ The Making
newest of that delightful series of archæological of the World” and the creation of man. Out of
books on Rome which, from time to time during the the ash and the elm trees were created the first
last dozen years, have come from the pen of Mr. human pair, the gods calling the man Ask and the
Rodolfo Lanciani. In this volume the author's his- woman Embla. The last two stories are “ The
torical and archeological researches are brought Twilight of the Gods” and “The New Earth."
down to date, and classified under eight different We are continually hearing that all the good work
heads, as follows: The New Discoveries in the of the world, whether in literature, music, or art, be-
Forum, The New Discoveries of the Sacra Via, longs to the past,—to which frequently is added the
The Sacred Grove of the Arvales, The Truth corollary that none of it exists or has existed in
about the Grave of St. Paul, Strange Superstitions America. Especially when American art is in ques-
in Rome, Jewish Memorials in Rome, Scottish Me- tion it is likely to be set aside as briefly as “Snakes
morials in Rome. The present campaign of ex- in Iceland” in the famous treatise. But that there is
ploration is one which will remain memorable for- no American art will be hard to prove after reading
ever in archæological records of the Eternal City. | Mr. Sadakishi Hartmann's two delightful volumes,
Former undertakings seldom touched the deepest "A History of American Art" (Page), with its
levels, but this new movement has for its object to sixty-six reproductions of sculpture and painting
reach the early imperial, the republican, the kingly, from American hands. In most cases each artist is
and even the prehistoric strata, wherever it is pos- represented by but one picture, the exceptions being
,
sible to do so without special injury to the later and three from C. J. Brush, and two each from Hunt,
higher structures. In the course of the work, many Fuller, La Farge, Whittier, and Sargent. The or-
important discoveries have been made, the most im- derly treatment of the text is shown by the headings
portant being a cenotaph which Professor Lanciani of the chapters: American Art before 1828, Our
believes to be the veritable national monument Landscape Painters, The Old School, The New
of Romulus, the founder of the city, raised not School, American Sculpture, The Graphic Arts,
long after his death. This discovery is regarded American Art in Europe, Latest Phases. These
by the author as a distinct victory for the conserva- topics are treated discriminatingly, with much frank
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scientious recognition that there is a nobler and far resents nearly every European nationality in addi-
more difficult mission compulsory upon the critic, tion to the English names.
namely, to seek out and set forth the innermost In "A Child of Nature” (Dodd, Mead & Co.),
essence of every work, the thought the artist has Mr. Hamilton Wright Mabie tells a very sweet and
endeavored to express.
touching story of an unsuccessful life as the world
The lives of all great men furnish interesting counts success. As a lad, John Foster seemed set
stories in connection with their labors, but it is quite apart and alone in his fellowship with Nature,
a surprise to find how often these have appealed to while all his neighbors were fighting the stubborn
artists as subjects for pictures. Last year, Mr. Wal- fields inch by inch ; if he had ambitions, he never
ter Rowlands published two volumes devoted re- spoke of them; there was no touch of romance in
spectively to the musicians and the authors; now the work or in the home; there were few books to
we have from the same hand “ Among the Great read, and these, with a single exception, had nothing
Masters of Painting” and “ Among the Great Mas- to say to the boy who had found that another and
ters of Oratory” (Dana Estes & Co.) which carry a finer crop could be taken off the farm, if one knew
on the same scheme and are equally fascinating and how to harvest it. His discovery of the heart in
instructive. In dealing with the artists, the unique Nature came to him very young ; later he grew
feature is that instead of reproductions of their own into a sense of the Universal Spirit, and lived in
works we have some incident in their lives as con- the light which has shone on the path of every poet
ceived by the imagination of some brother-artist of since time began. He dwelt in the creative mood,
a much later generation. Phidias giving a “private although the power to create was denied him. But,
view" to Pericles and Aspasia of his newly-com- in the end, every man comes to his own. With
pleted frieze of the Parthenon, by Alma-Tadema; John Foster, this was only years after his death,
Cimabue's Madonna carried in procession through when another man, a kindred spirit, found in the
the streets of Florence, by Sir Frederick Leighton ; old farm-house the loose sheets which bore the faint
Raphael and Michael Angelo in the Vatican, by and disconnected tracings of Foster's inarticulate
Horace Vernet, these are instances of the nature experience.
experience. With the generosity of a fine spirit,
of the pictures, while the text recalls the attending the young man interpreted the life of the older man
circumstances and gives some account of the modern through the rich atmosphere of his own tempera-
artist. In.“ Among the Great Masters of Oratory,” | ment; thus at last the life sown in secret bore
the text is naturally devoted chiefly to quotations harvest in the wide field of the world. Illustrations,
from the respective “Masters,” the range being in photogravure, and decorations are provided for
through a list extending from Demosthenes to Lin- this volume by Mr. Charles Louis Hinton, and none
coln, Beaconsfield, and Gladstone. There are thirty. more refined and beautiful are to be found than on
two illustrations in each volume, and in all respects,
these artistic pages.
exterior and interior, these books will please the fas- It has often happened that a novelist or poet, by
tidious.
the sheer force of his creative imagination, has
There have been seven English editions of the given vitality to regions otherwise almost unknown
famous work by W. Hepworth Dixon called “Her and quite dead. In this way, Mr. Thomas Hardy
Majesty's Tower.” But there is still room for the
suscitated, one may even say recreated, the
American holiday edition of Messrs. Crowell & Co., old half-forgotten kingdom of Wessex in England.
issued under a new name “ The Tower of Lon- Before his time, those who used this term at all
don.” The subject is of course perennially inter- were thinking of a land made memorable by the
esting, both to students of history and of literature. ravages of a horde of sea-borne adventurers who
The Tower colors Shakespeare's page, casts a mo- gradually drove before them the earlier possessors
mentary gloom over Bacon's story, and Raleigh’s of the country-side. But Wessex as a living,
History of the World was evolved in its gloomy breathing reality, Wessex as a part of nineteenth-
vaults. By turns a prison, a palace, and a court, century life, sprang first into existence under the
the whole edifice is alive with story — the story of touch of the magic wand of its novelist. Accord-
a nation's highest splendor, its deepest misery, and ingly, Mr. Hardy's ardent admirer, Mr. Bertram
its darkest shame. But if the imagination needs C. A. Windle, assisted by the artist Mr. Edmund
any aid in such a case, it is here abundantly sup- H. New, has issued a goodly octavo of three hun-
plied by sixty choice illustrations, largely new, and dred and twenty-five pages called “The Wessex of
representing a truly wide range of research, often Thomas Hardy” (Lane), text and pictures combin.
in private galleries not easily accessible to the pub- ing to identify the localities of the different tales.
lic. From the collection of His Majesty King The plan of the book is to take readers to the scenes
Edward VII., at Windsor, we have portraits of where the stories are laid, and when there to allow
Queen Elizabeth as a young Princess, two portraits Mr. Hardy himself to describe them. There are
of Anne Boleyn, the Holbein portraits of Henry those who do not care greatly for his type of rastics;
VIII. and Thomas Howard third Duke of Nor- there are those who dislike his themes; but there are
folk, and Van Dyck’s Charles I. Hatfield House, few who will deny that when he writes of scenery
Sherbourne Castle, and Montague House have fur- and of nature he is almost unrivalled. Therefore
nished other pictures, while the list of artists rep- these twenty chapters of commentary, with their
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illustrations, maps, and with their incidental refer- Gibson's drawings need any praise-words. That no
ences to the tragedy and comedy of the novels as one can do more with a few lines than Mr. Gibson,
each place is visited, furnish forth an attractive and has been granted long ago; and from those who
useful volume, and one freed from the occasional care for his themes there is sure to be instant de-
unpleasantness of this master of English fiction. mand for everything signed by his name.
To old and young, to the wise and the simple, the In “Travels Round Our Village” (Dutton),
collection of oriental tales known as the “ Arabian Miss Eleanor G. Hayden shows that she is mistress
Nights' Entertainments” has for many generations of the “art of putting things” by making an enter-
afforded a source of abounding delight. The French taining book of three hundred and twenty pages out
were its first translators among Europeans, and of wbat to most persons would appear material un-
through them our first English versions were ob- profitable to the last degree. Old-world customs
tained. The first complete translation of the “Ara- and archaic forms of speech still linger in this Berk-
bian Nights" direct from the Arabic into English shire village of rural England, whose name is not
was that made by Mr. E. W. Lane, about the mid- to be found in Bradshaw nor yet in the Postal
dle of the present century; the first attempt among Guide. Men there go about their tasks in a spirit
English artists to portray the life and customs of of serene leisureliness ; the village touches the high-
the mysterious East as unfolded in these stories was way only to fly from it again, as if in an excess of
that of Mr. Stanley Wood. But these pictures were shyness. Yet even in such a sequestered corner
made for a limited edition, while Mr. Lane's monu- there are humors, homely comedies, and simple
mental work was published without illustrations. pathos. Of these the author writes, believing it to
To combine this text and these illustrations in a be good in these days of bustle and strife to drift
popular edition is to supply a real want; and this for awhile into some quiet backwater which the tide
has now been done by the publishing house of J. M. of progress stirs but just enough to avert stagnation.
Dent & Co. (New York: Macmillan). The work The leisurely reader will find much suited to his
consists of six volumes, has a hundred illustrations mood in this handsome volume, with its picturesque
in photogravure, is neatly but simply bound, and drawings by Mr. L. Leslie Brooke ; but lovers of the
is handsome enough to serve as a gift for anyone sensational or the thrilling may spare themselves
who has grown a bit tired of psychological introspec- the trouble of cutting its leaves.
tion in fiction, and who will be glad to return for In “ The Isle of the Shamrock” (Macmillan )
awhile to the harem or the caliph's court “in the Mr. Clifton Johnson adds to a reputation already
golden prime of good Haroun Alraschid.”
established by his previous volumes of a similar
In one sense, Alphonse Daudet was the pioneer character entitled “Among English Hedgerows"
of the modern short story in France. At least he and "Along French By ways." Mr. Johnson travels
was the first to apply this form of literary art to a with his camera, and furnishes his own illustrations
passing phase of thought, to a momentary emotion, of poverty-stricken but picturesque Ireland. “A
and to incidents that are psychological in character Knitter on the Highway,” “A Farmyard Pamp,”
rather than anecdotic. Reading life deeply, he “A Jaunting Car," the subjects of some of Mr.
found that the least important event is full of sol. Johnson's photographs, are wayside pictures that
emn significance, that the humblest life holds in hardly could be seen elsewhere. The author's diffi-
itself potentially the elements of the sublimest culty in identifying the shamrock will appeal to
draina, the profoundest tragedy. "The least page all tourists who have had similar experiences. Al-
he has ever written will preserve the vibration of though several of the chapters have had previous
his soul as long as our language shall exist,” said publication in various magazines, the book is not
Zola at his grave. The new holiday edition of his without unity, and is one of the pleasantest records
best short stories, “Monday Tales” and “ Letters of travel that has been offered this season.
from my Mill," published by Messrs. Little, Brown, A Japanese author, Onoto Watanna, and a Ja-
& Co., is as exquisite in outward appearance as in panese artist, Genjiro Geto, have combined to pro-
subject matter. The“ Monday Tales" are trans-
-
duce a book of rare beauty—“A Japanese Night-
lated by Miss Marian McIntyre. To the “ Letters ingale” (Harper). From the charming colored
from
my Mill” are added “ Letters to an Absent frontispiece depicting the lovers with “ the thousand
One," both translated by Miss Katharine Prescott petals of cherry blossoms falling about them ”in
Wormeley. Each of the two volumes is supplied the Japanese garden, to the end of the last chapter,
with four photogravure illustrations by such artists there is a delightfully oriental flavor to the whole
as Moreau, Avril, Bourgain, and Rossi.
volume, which gives it a distinctive place in the
“A Widow and her Friends ” (Russell) is the holiday list. The story is unusual, the scene being
title of Mr. C. D. Gibson's sixth book of published laid almost entirely in Japan; and after numerous
drawings. The "widow "is, of course, the “Gibson tragic and pathetic episodes it finally ends happily.
girl” in crêpe garments, and perhaps just a little The admirers of “Madame Butterfly ” will give
more charming in consequence. Her adventures this new work an equal place in their affections.
occupy about half of the volume, the remainder Daintily bound in white and gold, and boxed
being devoted to social satires of one kind or an- together, come two volumes from Messrs. L. C.
other. “Good wine needs no bush,” nor do Mr. Page & Co., “Jan Oxber” and “Love in Our Vil-
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lage,” by Orme Agnus. These are tales of rustic from the Milicete Indian. For example, “Meeko
life in a remote English village, seven miles from the Mischief-Maker” is the red squirrel; “ Kagay
any railway or telegraph station; and the charac- the Bloodthirsty” is the weasel; “ Little Tookhees
ters use a curious dialect governed by no rules of the 'Fraid One” is the wood-mouse, etc. In the
grammar. But for him who has eyes to see, the marginal decorations, by Mr. Charles Copeland,
peasant is something more than an awkward man each
page shows us the creature in the performance
with a sun-tanned face and wearing a smock. of some characteristic act; and this feature fur-
Village life has its palpitating dramas, and the ele- nishes a continual artistic delight. . There are also
mental passions of mankind exist wherever men a dozen delightful full-page illustrations by the
and women congregate, be it in obscure hamlets or same band. The volumes are dedicated to tbe
crowded cities. They only await their chronicler teachers of America who are striving to make
of sufficient insight to behold and sufficient skill to nature-study more vital and attractive by revealing
set forth. Whether or no the village called “ Bar- a vast realm of Nature outside the realm of Science,
leigh " exists on any map, or the character of “ Jan and a world of ideas above and beyond the world
Oxber" ever existed outside of the author's imagi- of facts.
nation, certainly this is a most touching and tender Nearly half a century ago, when Charles Dick-
story. In the mean cottages of Barleigh shines ens was giving public readings from his own writ-
the magic light that kings have desired in vain to ings, among the most popular of his selections both
see, and careworn faces are the masks of saints. here and in England were those taken from “The
The illustrator, Miss Bertha Newcome, has availed Holly Tree.” The public has always ranked this
herself of the picturesque opportunities of these composition high among the minor writings of
books with charming results.
Dickens; and now, bound together with his earlier
Upon the first publication of Motley's “ Dutch Christmas story, “The Seven Poor Travellers,”
Republic,” forty-five years ago, it was recognized and copiously illustrated by Mr. C. E. Brock, this
,
immediately as one of the most interesting histori- old favorite will rank high among the Christmas
cal books ever written in any language. Few pre- books of this year. The names of Dent of London
vious historians had so united laborious scholarship and Lippincott of Philadelphia are a guarantee that
with dramatic intensity. In truth, the work is nothing is wanting artistically. The introduction,
essentially an epic, having William of Orange as by Mr. Walter Jerrold, sets forth the nature of the
its hero; and, like the Æneid, recounts the fortunes inspiration for the motive which Dickens frankly
of a noble nation. Consequently, after the lapse avowed in all his work. Granting that strained
.
of nearly half a century Motley's work continues sentiment and unreal pathos may be found here and
to hold its general popularity as well as the force there in the wonderful series of Dickens's books,
of its appeal to cultivated minds. For many rea- there are by no means wanting stories where the
sons, the new holiday library edition just issued by sentiment is as real as it is beautiful, and where
Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. outranks all previous the pathos is absolutely unquestionable. And even
editions.
An introduction by Professor John after making all deductions that the most captions
Franklin Jameson of Chicago University gives a critic can suggest, who can name a successor to
summary of the principal events of interest in the Charles Dickens in the marvellous gift of telling
life of Motley, and reveals the plan and underlying tales for the Christmas-tide?
purpose of his writing; over fifty illustrations, Two new volumes of the “ Thumb-Nail Series”
many of them reproductions from rare portraits (Century Co.) are entirely worthy of the good com-
and famous paintings, help to a realization of the pany of their predecessors. Lincoln and Horace
characters and scenes ; the colored map is probably are the respective subjects of these volumes, and
the most elaborate one of the Netherlands yet their unlikeness is indicated by the cover-design in
printed in this country. This general literary and
each case
one modern and American in its sym-
artistic excellence is sustained in the fit setting bolism, the other classic and poetic, but both daintily
given the edition by the publishers.
developed in stamped leather of the familiar coloring.
“ Beasts of the Field” and “ Fowls of the Air” The Lincoln volume consists of thirty-seven ex-
(Ginn & Co.) are the titles of two beautiful com- tracts from his most famous speeches and lectures,
panion volumes that come side by side in a flat prefaced by a sympathetic introduction by Mr.
white box. The author of these books, Mr. William Richard Watson Gilder. Mr. Gilder has selected
J. Long, is not a stranger to the nature-loving pub- passages which show Lincoln at his literary best,
lic; indeed, these volumes include most of his pre- namely, those that were uttered when he was
vious sketches dealing with life as it is lived by the dealing with a cause in which his whole heart was
animals in the woods and the fields, with enough enlisted. Through all the prose of Lincoln's later
of new material to give variety and a wider range life there runs, like a Leitmotif in music, a burden
of acquaintance with the Wood Folk. It is the of high hope, touched with a heroism which is akin
human interest - if the paradox may be per- to pathos. The “Odes of Horace," a hundred in
mitted — in these animal lives that strikes the key- number, selected by Mr. Benjamin E. Smith, are
note of these stories. Each animal is endowed given in translations representing English authors
with a distinctive personality, and a name borrowed of all periods, from Milton to Dobson and Father
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Prout, and show how attractive Horace has been “advanced." The author is well equipped for deal-
to the poets of successive generations. It was a ing with her subject, owing to similar works in the
happy thought to bring this little sheaf of ancient same field ; so that the book is important from an
poems to modern hands in so acceptable a form. historical standpoint, and for the first time justice
“Among Flowers and Trees with the Poets” has been done to the brave and gentle women who
(Lee & Shepard) conjures up all sorts of idyllic made civilized life a possibility in a land of bar-
images ; and these are not shattered, but supple- barism. The illustrations, twenty in number, are
mented, by the charming book of selections com- mainly copied from authentic life-portraits.
piled and arranged by Miss Minnie Curtis Wait Abundant illustrations of excellent quality, be-
and Professor Merton Channing Leonard. The sides a large number of colored maps, are features
original purpose of the volume was to place at the that serve to bring even so substantial and standard
disposal of teachers a multitude of poems such as a work as Duruy's “General History of the World"
are needed in connection with nature-study, but into the category of Holiday publications, for which
which, from being so widely scattered, are not Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co.'s new two-volume edi-
readily available. But the book will serve a much tion is obviously intended. The two photogravure
wider circle than this, and, indeed, will be wel- frontispieces and forty-odd plates in half-tone are
comed not only by all lovers of nature, to whom it copied from famous engravings and paintings, form-
is dedicated, but by all lovers of poetry as well.ing together a collection of much interest. The
The poems are classified into six groups: Flowers, historical record is brought down to the present
in General; Flowers, Specified ; Trees and Shrubs, year, its continuation from 1848, where Duruy left
in General; Trees and Shrubs, Specified ; Flower- it, having been made by Professor E. A. Grosvenor
less Plants ; National Flowers. There are sixteen of Amherst College, who has performed this diffi-
full-page illustrations, the frontispiece being an cult task, and also that of editing the entire work,
illustration of the opening lines of Bryant's with marked ability and success. It is a tribute to
“ Fringed Gentian”-
Duruy's great work that after more than half a
“Thou blossom bright with autumn dew,
century it still holds a place which no other world-
And colored with the heaven's own blue."
history quite fills; and this complete pictorial edi-
The latest addition to the “Travel-Lovers' Series" tion will be deservedly prominent among the sea-
(Page) is a work on Florence, by the late Grant son's books of the more solid and enduring sort.
Àllen. Illustrated with eighty photogravure and The picturesque costume and romantic adventure
half-tone plates, bound in two volumes of white and of colonial life in America furnish a fine field for
gold, with cover design of Florentine symbolism, the illustrator as well as the story-teller. That
and neatly boxed, the familiar little hand-book is stirring novel of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 —
transformed into one of the choicest holiday books “White Aprons" (Little, Brown, & Co.), by Mrs.
of the season. The text is well worthy of this new Maud Wilder Goodwin, gains in its already well-
setting. Whoever undertakes to write about Flor- established favor by its half-dozen illustrations from
ence finds himself burdened by an embarassment different hands. The portrait of the heroine, Pen-
of riches. But Mr. Allen's scientific order of mind, elope Payne -
elope Payne - a frontispiece in colors, by Mr.
bis power of classification, and his ability to separate Thomas Mitchell Pierce, -is especially captivating.
the essential from the non-essential, serve a good Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar has already won
purpose here; and thus the arrangement of the wide recognition as a poet, using the dialect of his
book is of great value, whether one consults it as A selection of nine of these poems, bearing
student or as traveller, or simply as a lovely picture- the name “Candle-Lightin' Time” (Dodd), beau-
book. In looking through its pages one realizes tifully illustrated with photographs by the Hampton
anew the force of Shelley's lines:
Institute Camera Club, and with marginal decora-
“Florence, beneath the sun,
tions by Miss Margaret Armstrong, will be likely
Of cities, fairest one."
to win him fresh popularity. The book also reveals
“ The Maids and Matrons of New France" the great possibilities of artistic photography for
(Little, Brown, & Co.), by Miss Mary Sifton Pep- purposes of illustration. No studied “composition"
per, is the story of the part played by women in by the engraver or etcher could surpass some of
the making of Canada. Twelve years before the these glimpses of picturesque nature, or the poses
Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock, a ban. of the human figures. The three interiors and the
ner bearing the lilies of France was planted on the one landscape of the opening poem — "Dinah
headlands of Quebec. A comparison between these Kneading Dough" - are enough to establish the
”.
two companies of pioneer women, the Canadian artistic value of the book, and those following are
gentlewomen and the Pilgrim mothers, would result equally good.
in no discredit to the former. Although the French- Similar in subject and in dialect is the volume
women were dominated by strange superstitions and of " Plantation Songs" (Russell) by Mr. Eli Shep-
frequently inspired by supernatural visions, they perd. This too is illustrated by photographs from
never became slaves to witchcraft, as did their New life, by Mr. J. N. Otis, reproduced in half-tone.
England contemporaries. Many of them would even Both these books are handsome and do great credit
nowadays be looked upon as "emancipated” and to their respective publishers; but the differences
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between the two are, after all, very marked. Mr. events. Those who like to read with cold shivers
Dunbar writes poetry; Mr. Eli Shepperd writes chasing up and down the spine, may enjoy this
more or less musical dialect verse. There is a book ; for it is well-written, sparkling and gay
“catchy ”lilt in Mr. Shepperd's lines that possibly when it is not uncanny.
This new edition is for-
will win for them a place among
classic negro
mel. tunate in having for its illustrator Mr. A. I. Keller,
odies to be sung. The major part of the volume whose eight drawings, reproduced in colors, do
is given to “Hymns of the Black Belt”; they show much to relieve the tension of the weird and mystic
an intimate knowledge of the church-life of South- tale.
ern negroes, and are marked by artlessness and Public interest in the great artistic crusade that
spontaneity.
marked the middle of the nineteenth century in
In the “Glories of Spain" (Macmillan), Mr. England has never flagged, consequently it is not sur-
Charles W. Wood writes as delightfully as in his pre- prising that Mr. Percy Bate's “The English Pre-
vious volume, “The Romance of Spain.” Compara- Raphaelite Painters” (Macmillan) should have
tively few tourists visit the regions chiefly described reached a second edition. The letterpress bas been
in this volume, yet all who read it will certainly carefully revised, completed, and brought up to
wish to do so. Whether one's interest be in archæ. date; the illustrations include an even more com-
ology, architecture, picturesque scenery, history, or plete and representative selection of pictures by
humanity, he will find good meat here. A land so the Brethren and their associates, with others by
old that it contained cities of a million inhabitants painters who were temporarily under their in.
before the coming of Christ, and that it still uses as fluences, and still others of the most typical recent
a prison the house once occupied by Pontius Pilate; manifestations of Pre-Raphaelism. Among the lat-
80 rich that for centuries Moors and Christians ter, Mr. Bate gives the place of prominence to the
strove for its possession; so beautiful that Byron and work of Messrs. Cayley Robinson and Byam Shaw.
many other poets have made it the theme of
song ; Mr. Shaw, though still young, has given evidence
happy in some ways, so unfortunate in others that already of great technical accomplishment and
it arouses us to sympathy whenever we speak the daring in the use of pure color, along with an intense
name,– these are the materials which both text and desire to express his theme clearly, with a distinct
illustration serve to reveal in all their variety and preference for subjects of a high poetic order. Mr.
charm. There are about eighty-five illustrations, Robinson, on the other hand, is a dreamer of
and the book externally forms a fit setting for the dreams, and a dweller in the twilight land of old
content.
romance. The author is convinced that the prin-
The permanent value of Philip Gilbert Ham-ciples of Pre-Raphaelism remain as essentially true
erton's works on art is shown by the fact that to-day as when first promulgated; he feels, also,
among the multitude of entirely new books his that there is reason to trust that the coming men
writings are still sufficiently in demand to make may
do as fine work as their forerunners.
re-publication desirable. Although more than thirty The noblest poem of religious faith in the En-
years have elapsed, his “Contemporary French glish language is Robert Browning's “Saul.” It
Painters” and “Painting in France"
are still
has been called “ Messianic oratorio in words."
charming and profitable reading. Messrs. Little, It is also a great picture-poem, and even a very
Brown, & Co. have furnished the earlier volume unimaginative mind can hardly read it without con-
with sixteen illustrations in photogravure, the front- juring a series of mental images. Such verse nat-
ispiece being Bouguereau's “The Eldest Sister"; urally attracts the illustrator, and more than ten
the later volume has fourteen illustrations, with years ago a large volume with photogravure illus-
Aubert's “The Flower” as frontispiece French trations drawn by Mr. Frank 0. Small tempted the
art will not be likely ever to have a more just as book-buyer of liberal parse. Now the same choice
well as sympathetic interpreter than Hamerton. work is furnished to the more economical buyer by
A more fortunate illustrator for Mr. Anthony Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. It is a duodecimo,
Hope’s “Dolly Dialogues” than Mr. Howard bound in cloth with gilt top, beautiful paper and
Chandler Christy could hardly have been chosen. letter-press, and nineteen fascinating illustrations.
The piquant personalities of “ Dolly” and “Mr. In an introductory note of seventeen pages by Pro-
Carter seem thoroughly congenial to this artist's fessor John Angus MacVannel of Columbia Uni-
pen, and add to the already long list of his “fair versity, Browning is classed with Wordsworth and
women and brave men. Doubtless Mr. Hope's Tennyson as a “consecrated voice," one of “God's
book will take on a new lease of popularity, with truth-tellers." This poem, among Browning's re-
this edition, the publisher, Mr. R. H. Russell, hav- ligious utterances, is described as expressing the
ing given it an attractiveness in form and execution attitude of the poet's middle life, while certain
that will satisfy the most fastidious of holiday “Pauline" passages voice the early years, and the
purchasers.
6 Reverie” in “ Asolando” the final confession of
“Amos Judd” (Scribner) by Mr. John A. faith. To any lover of Browning this volume can-
Mitchell, editor of “Life,” is a story of love end- not fail to be a most acceptable gift.
ing tragically, in which the interest centres around “Famous Actors of the Day in America” and
the occult power of the hero to foresee future “Famous Actresses of the Day in America " (Page)


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have each reached the “Second Series,” and in- variety. As a sample of the book's quality, here
clude a practically complete history of the stage in is the opening stanza:
this country up to date. The present volumes differ “Wake! for the sun has driven in equal flight
from the first series in giving criticism prominence,
The stars before him from the Tee of Night,
rather than biography and anecdote. Thus, where
And holed them every one without a Miss,
Swinging at ease his gold-shod Shaft of Light."
noteworthy work has been done recently the same
occur that have been considered before,
but this time with the stress laid upon their charac-
terizations rather than upon their careers. Illus-
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
trations representing each character in some favorite
part add to the interest; but why the peacock
design of the cover ? This is something which we
It seems cause for congratulation that there are com-
paratively few books designed particularly for children
can imagine might be repugnant to a serious-minded
this year which deal with battle, murder, and sudden
actor or actress.
death. The English-speaking nations, giving an example
The Macmillan Company have been the means and a warning to all the world in South Africa and the
of adding several delightful gardens to modern Philippines, have apparently grown weary of much
literature, such as “ Elizabeth and her German fighting, and the national distaste for the course they
Garden,” Mrs. Earle's “Old Time Gardens,” etc.
have taken is apparent in the character of the volumes
In now publishing “ The Garden of a Commuter's
put out for the instruction and amusement of our chil-
dren. This has led to an increase in the number of
Wife" they give us another, less attractive in title
books of travel and adventure, as well as of those that
but really a peer of the others. The scene is a
stimulate the imagination fairy stories, and the like.
New England garden of the old-fashioned sort, in
More volumes of the sort that has long bad the esteem
the real country, not in a “ tailor-made” suburb.
of the world, — works, that is, of real and approved
There is a good deal about flowers, but there is merit, in some cases made over for little people, — are
even more of sparkling generalities and piquant also to be noted. The prevailing fondness for sociological
personalities apropos of the human characters con- studies shows itself in this minor department of human
cerned in the garden-making. Each chapter has activity also. Reflecting even better the spirit of the
its date, but this is only a starting point, and, like
times are the various works telling of boys earning a
the text of a good sermon, may develope in mani-
living for themselves, or of the roads to commercial
fold directions. The name of the author of this
success. Historical subjects, giving the author an oppor-
tunity to amuse and instruct at once, have lost none of
charming work is withheld, as is also the name of
their popularity in the books for children both large and
the artist of the eight beautiful photogravure illus- small. If there is a growing desire for the rare quality
trations.
called serenity in our literature, the great library now
Balzac's “The Chouans” in the "Luxembourg" announced for the young fails to show it. And, generally
edition (Crowell) will, if possible, be more enjoyable speaking, there is a woeful lack of all literary quality
than ever. The novel furnishes many opportunities here, the old rewritten stories exhibiting it far more than
for the illustrations which form a prominent feature
the new ones. Apart from these works, which shine by
of this edition, and the introduction, by Professor
reflected light, there is hardly a title in the long list
William P. Trent of Columbia University,
which bids strongly for renown beyond the passing year.
all that
Boys' books are still greatly in the majority, and those
can be desired. It tells us the date of the publication in which both boys and girls play a part are hardly
of this story, its place in the “Comedie Humaine," fewer in number than those designed for girls alone.
its purpose and chief characteristics. The photo A noticeable feature of the children's books for the
gravure frontispiece, as well as the twelve illustra. | holiday season of 1901 may be found in the lack of
tions in half-tone, are by Julien Le Blant.
eminent names of those concerned in their production.
“Mother and Baby” (Russell) is a collection of
The great masters of English fiction did not think that
twenty-six lullaby poems by Miss Mary D. Brine,
writing tales to tell to their juniors was in any way be-
neath their dignity a generation ago; to-day there seems
with a full-page picture in illustration of each poem.
to be a great gulf fixed, and those who write of the
The
poems voice the maternal sentiment with much
juvenalia have little or no reputation in the broader paths
sweetness of melody and depth of feeling. The pic- of literature. The exceptions, by their rarity, prove the
tures are sometimes copies of paintings by famous existence of the rule.
artists, sometimes photographs from life; but all are
The best of the books of travel and ad-
beautiful, and the volume as a whole will appeal
Books of travel
venture is probably Mr. Noah Brooks's
strongly to the Mother-Heart of womankind.
“ First across the Continent, the Story
A capital book to while away dull moments - if
- of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1803-4-5”
any such there be
- at a country club is “The Gol- (Scribner). Complete reliance is placed upon the diary
fer's Rubaiyát" (Stone) by Mr. H. W. Boynton. It
of the explorers, and most of the narrative is set forth
is a clever adaptation of the metre and philosophy of
in the very language of Jefferson's two captains. Noth-
ing but good can follow the perusal of this well-illus-
Omar Khayyam to the scenes and emotions of the
trated volume, whatever the age of the reader.-Mr.
golf links. There are seventy-nine stanzas, each Hezekiah Butterworth has prepared the second volume
illustrated with a pictorial border that fills the page, of the “Traveller Tales” (Estes), dealing this year
these being unsigned but full of ingenuity and with China. Proper regard has been shown for the tra-
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Siberian railway and the new seaports of Russia and describes the extended voyage of Captain Ransom and
Britain are described. Travellers of note are quoted, his companions from a port on Lake Michigan down
and many interesting bits of folk-lore preserved. The the canal to the Illinois River, tbence along the Miss-
book has numerous full-page pictures. 6. The Bears issippi to the Gulf of Mexico, around the point of
of Bear River” (Doubleday) is a story of early pi- Florida northward up the Atlantic coast, and thence,
oneer days in Indiana, describing the life of children by way of the St. Lawrence, the Welland Canal, and
in the second quarter of the last century. Mr. Charles the great lakes, back to St. Joseph again. It is a good
Major tells the exciting little stories, and, though he book, which loses nothing by confining itself to facts.-
taxes the credulity of older readers and fairly throws Thirty years ago, when whaling was whaling, Mr.
himself
upon
their mercy
in his diction, his book de- Thomas West Hammond engaged in that ancient Amer-
serves favorable mention.--Mr. Francis Hill, a new ican industry. His reminiscences, softened by the years
writer, brings some of the vigor and breeziness of the and enlivened by imagination, are set forth in “On
far West into “The Outlaws of Horseshoe Hole, a Board a Whaler" (Putnam). The excellent pictures
Story of the Montana Vigilantes" (Scribner). Law is are by Mr. Harry George Burgess, and the work as a
here vindicated, vice punished, and virtue rewarded, in whole is informing and interesting.-" The Cruise of
a manner ethically sound if a bit sensational.- A simi. the Mary Rose; or, Here and There in the Pacific"
lar environment answers for “ Boys of the Fort” (Mer-(Bradley) covers an immense extent of land and water,
shon), by Captain Ralph Bonehill (Mr. Edward Strate- and deals incidentally with the state of the souls of the
meyer). An army outpost is in this story besieged by South Sea Islanders. The book is by Mr. William H. C.
Indians and renegade whites, and the boys take a promi- | Kingston, and possesses minor historical value in addi-
nent part in raising the siege.—Another of Captain tion to its beivg a record of exploration and early mis-
Bonehill's volumes is called “Three Young Ranchmen" sion work.
(Saalfield), telling of boys who found work not the
Chronologically speaking, Mr. Arthur S.
The romance
most disagreeable thing in the world when success fol-
Walpole's “Little Arthur's History of
of history.
lowed closely after.-Mr. Frederick A. Ober deals with
Greece" (Crowell) leads all the long
the Southwest, where his small hero has accompanied train of books from which children may glean facts
his father in a search for health. There is an Indian from the annals of the past. It is a book that makes
boy for a chum, and much excitement of a healthy sort. its appeal to very young children, and is simply and
The volume is called “ Tommy Foster's Adventures prettily told, with many illustrations. — The most pitiful
(Altemus), and is plentifully illustrated by Mr. Stanley tale of all forms the basis of “Stepben, a Story of the
M. Artbur. Mr. Ober is a great traveller, and really Little Crusaders" (Crowell), by Miss Eva Madden.
knows the Indians.-A new edition, with pictures, of Stephen of Cloyes is the salient character of the book,
Mr. Samuel Travers Clover's “ Paul Travers's Adven- and the final catastrophe is greatly softened, as it
tures” (Lothrop) must revive interest in this true story should be if children are to read it. — “The Story of the
of a boy who went around the world on his own re- Cid for Young People" (Lee & Shepard) deals with a
sponsibility. Four books by Mrs. Mary Hazelton Wade fascinating and noble personality a manner that will
constitute the “Little Cousin” series (Page). They meet with childish approval. The facts are selected
deal, respectively, with the home life of children in from sufficiently authentic sources, but withont crushing
Russia, Borneo, Japan, and aboriginal America, and out the legendary glamour of the case, by Mr. Calvin Dill
have numerous pictures by Miss L. J. Bridgman. All Wilson. - The Spanish appear in quite another light in
are wholesome, and of a sort to remove irrational preju- “ Wind and Wave, the Siege of Leyden" (Bradley),
dice against people of another color and nationality which Mr. H. E. Burch opens with the massacre at
from our own.—Mrs. Chaplin Ayrton has written, and Haarlem, a scene of horror which, with its fringe of
Dr. William Elliot Griffis edited, “Child Life in Ja- heroism and misery, can never be forgotten. - Coming
pan, and Japanese Child Stories" (Heath), an inter- down to the evil days following the revocation of the
esting compilation with twenty-seven pictures, well- Edict of Nantes, Mrs. Millicent E. Mann chooses for
known to a former generation in its complete form. her heroine a little daughter of the royal shoemaker,
Professor Frederick Starr's “Strange Peoples " and who lends her name to the book “ Margot” (McClurg).
“ American Indians ” (Heath) deserve mention in this She takes refuge in the New York colony, like so many
connection, though published somewhat earlier in the Huguenots, and has many exciting times during ber
year. They are scientifically sound and wholly inter- days of small girlhood. — Going to the other side of the
esting.--Two boys who take an involuntary flight in a world, “ A Boy of Old Japan" (Lee & Shepard) is an
balloon and alight in an Inca city in the Peruvian account of the mediaval civilization of that pleasant
mountains may be read about in “ An Aërial Runaway, country, and the life led by a boy in it. Numerous
the Balloon Adventures of Rod and Todd in North and colored plates from photographs somewhat destroy the
South America ” (Lothrop). The authors are father feeling of remoteness of time. - English history begins
and son, Messrs. William P. and Charles P. Chipman. with " In the Days of William the Conqueror” (Lee &
The book is uncommonly exciting, the illustrations, by Shepard), a slight account of the life of the Norman
Mr. W. A. McCullough, bearing out the text." The chieftain, by Mrs. Eva March Tappan, with children
Rover Boys on the Great Lakes" (Mershon) is the fifth introduced to give it interest. -“ My Friend Anne, a
of a series by Mr. Arthur M. Winfield, in which kid- Story of the Sixteenth Century” (Warne) is a romantic
nappers play a leading part. There are adventures by biography of Anne Boleyn, by Miss Jessie Armstrong.
game ; somewhat more awake, it must be confessed, point of time “Hollyberry and Mistletoe” (Little), by
than most of their elders.-A transcript from real life, Mrs. Mary Caroline Hyde, which has to do with the
illustrated by reproductions from actual photographs reign of Henry VII. Both books have merit. — Coming
taken during the cruise, is “A Year in a Yawl" (Dou- now to America, the history of Mistress Anne Brad-
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Puritan Pioneer" (Page), in a really engaging manner. Captain Bonehill with the facts for “With Taylor on
- Miss Ruth Hall is much more ambitious with a con- the Rio Grande” (Estes). This is the second of a
temporaneous account of a young man who takes part in series, and deals with much of the fighting in Mexico,
the fight at Wethersfield and eventually drifts back to from Palo Alto to Buena Vista. — Mr. Byron A. Dunn
England to serve James II., after taking a gallant part adds another volume to the “ Young Kentuckians” se-
against the persecution of the Quakers in New England. ries with “ From Atlanta to the Sea” (McClurg), in
Her volume is named “The Golden Arrow" (Hough- which the young men of his former books make their
ton). - In the period immediately anterior to the War appearance once more in this.
The story has many
of the Revolution, the most exciting event is told by merits, historical accuracy not the least of them. —
Mr. James Otis in “When We Destroyed the Gaspee “ The Story of Manbattan" (Scribner), by Mr. Charles
(Estes). This bigb-handed declaration of rights by the Hemstreet, is to be included here. It is filled with
colonists on Narragansett Bay is receiving the attention historical references to places formerly noteworthy but
it deserves after many years of forgetfulness. The book now submerged in the rank growth of the metropolis,
is one of the “Stories of American History" series. – the numerous illustrations being taken from old books
By the same author, and dealing with the same period, and prints. Anything that will teach American cities
is “Our Uncle the Major" (Crowell), which is an ac- that they have traditions deserves welcome, and this
count of two small boys who arrived in New York at book is one of the best of its kind. — Of much the same
the time of the Stamp Riots and were rudely hustled by sort is Miss Amanda M. Douglas's “ A Little Girl in
the mob when it learned that their uncle was in com- Old New Orleans ” (Dodd), one of a series of which sev-
mand of the King's Fort overlooking the town. - The eral volumes have already appeared. It differs from
period between the two wars with the French and In- Mr. Hemstreet's book in conveying its instruction under
dians is utilized by Mr. G. Waldo Browne for “ The the guise of pleasant fiction, but is none the less com-
Hero of the Hills" (Page), in which Joseph Stark ap- mendable. — Mr. George Alfred Henty, the unwearied,
pears as a stripling on the frontier in company with has three more of his portly volumes published this sea-
Robert Rogers. It is a story of adventure rather than son, all in the manner to wbich a generation of boys bas
of actual fighting. — “ With Washington in the West” been accustomed, with a youthful hero or two moving
(Lee & Shepard) is by Mr. Edward Stratemeyer, the through a narrative made up of historical facts for the
first of a promised “ Colonial" series from that busy most part. " At the Point of the Bayonet, a Tale of
writer's pen. Braddock's defeat is used, for the fifth or the Mahratta War” has pictures by Mr. Wal Paget, and
sixth time in recent years, for the principal incident. is concerned with the series of episodes which led to the
How hard life might be made for a little girl in Revo- overthrow of the most warlike force met during the
lutionary days appears in Mrs. Adele E. Thompson's British occupation of India ; " To Herat and Cabul, a
“ Betty Sheldon, Patriot” (Lee & Shepard), where the Story of the First Afghan War," with illustrations by
small daughter of an officer in the Continental army is Mr. Charles M. Sheldon, deals with the awful calamity
taken into the wilds of Pennsylvania by her Tory uncle. that overtook the British army on its retreat from
Yorktown ends the book, as it did the war. The fine Afghanistan in January, 1842, redeemed in part by the
defence of Ft. Stephenson, and the battle of Lake Erie, defence of Jellalabad; “With Roberts to Pretoria,
appear in Mr. W. 0. Stoddard's “Jack Morgan, a Boy a Tale of the South African War," illustrated by Mr.
of 1812” (Lothrop), the youthful Jack having a sbare William Rainey, R.I., takes up the narrative where it
in both victories. He is with General Harrison also, was left in “With Buller in Natal” last year, and brings
taking the part of a scout. — To this period may be it down to the second stage of the conflict. All these
referred “A Frigate's Namesake" (Century Co.), by are published by Charles Scribner's Sons. “ Under
Mrs. Alice Balch Abbot, with pictures by Mr. George | the Allied Flags, a Boy's Adventures in China during
Varian. The small child of the story is a contemporary the Boxer Revolt” (Lothrop) is another volume in Mr.
of ours who has been christened Essex. As soon as E. S. Brooks's “ Young Defender" series, with the same
she grows old enough she interests herself in the brave hero to whom we were introduced in “ With Lawton and
deeds of our navy, and has some adventures with naval Roberts." The book takes its readers into every place
officers and others which are most instructive. – Mr. of danger during the advance of the allied armies, in
Kirk Munroe deals with the navy too, at a somewbat the beleaguered legations at Peking as well as with the
later day, in “ A Son of Satsuma; or, With Perry in advancing column. War turns its bright side out in
Japan" (Scribner). In addition to the fine story of the stories like this.
opening of the ancient empire to western influences,
Among the peaceful books intended more
there is a stunning fight, that at Qualla Battoo. — Go-
particularly for boys, “Citizen Dan of
ing back to the early history of the Plymouth Colony,
of peace. the Junior Republic" (Bradley), by Miss
Mr. Munroe pays tribute to a fine Indian character in Ida T. Thurston, is one of the best. The interesting
“The Belt of Seven Totems, a Tale of Massasoit” (Lip- experiment in self-government which is actually going
pincott). If similar wisdom had been shown by the on in many places in the United States bere serves as
other colonists in dealing with their aboriginal neigh- a frame for the biography of a wilful, lazy, half-grown
bors, it would not have been necessary for Mrs. Jackson lad, the son of wealthy parents. Under the influence
to write “ A Century of Dishonor." Mr. Munroe has of a little world of boys and girls, in which the passions
left out a great deal of fighting in these two books of and blunders of life are reproduced with much fidelity,
his, but they are none the less entertaining. — Mor- the horo rises to a knowledge of himself and the sig-
gan's Men" (Little) has Nathanael Greene and Sumter nificance of his actions. His promotion at the close is
among its characters, and is a thrilling story of the unnecessarily abrupt, but the story deserves study by
Southern campaign, with a lover and his beloved for educators everywhere.—“Our Jim” (Estes) is an ao-
good measure. It is by Mr. John Preston True, with count of the manner in which one wholesome boy made
illustrations by Mrs. Lilian Crawford True.—The Mer. several scapegraces of his own age ashamed of their
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wilfulness, chiefly by setting a good example.—“Lem, calling it " The Little Clown." It is a sterling book,
a New England Village Boy” (Scribner) is a story of in which the small sorrows of childhood appear, as they
healthy and simple boyhood, told by Mr. Noah Brooks should, as a source of great misery to those on whom
in a manner that is certain to suggest autobiography. they fall, and is sensible, humorous, and true, into the
It will bring Mr. Aldrich's “Story of a Bad Boy" to bargain.— In the “Cosy Corner Series” (Page) is a
mind more than once, though Lem was the better be- story of “A Bad Penny," in which a sailor lad who is
haved of the two.—"A Young Inventor's Pluck endeavoring to make restitution of some plate stolen
(Saalfield) is not so much concerned with invention as by an uncle long before is himself accused of theft,
with a gang of unredeemable villains who persecute and succeeds in clearing his name after long probation.
the inventor and his sister. Mr. Arthur M. Winfield The story is one of the early republic, and has the battle
has here written a sensational tale, full of excursions between the “Chesapeake" and “Shannon ” in it.-
and alarums.- Quite at the other extreme is the sec- Of nearly the same date is “In the Poverty Year”
ond of the “ Randy Books," by Miss Amy Brooks, (Crowell), by Miss Marian Douglas, a pathetic trans-
called “Randy's Summer (Lee & Shepard). It is cript from the annals of New England in the year
placid and serene, with much innocent fun of a mild 1816.— In “Little Dick's Son” (Crowell) a small
sort.-
:-“Out of Bounds” (Lippincott) is another of Mr. boy's imaginary companion is gradually developed into
Andrew Home's books, a good sized volume of short a conscience by Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells. It is a
stories of schoolboy life in England. Poachers and spiritual little tale of more than ordinary merit.— The
'squires figure in the scrapes into which the youngsters adoptiop of a twin by the little chap in “Boy Donald
fall, and the whole atmosphere is foreign to the Ameri- and his Chum” (Lee & Shepard) makes fun for the
can schoolboy, but manly and hearty for all that. Mr. small readers of Penn Shirley's latest book, the sequel
Harold Copping provides the illustrations.— A smart to the “Boy Donald " story of last year.
village lad starts with nothing and brings himself to a
Stories of
A most useful book, in a day when the
great deal in “How Dexter Paid his Way" (Crowell),
cities are overcrowded with ambitions
by Mrs. Kate Upson Clark. The story is wholesome various fields. country boys and girls, is Mr. James
and stimulating, with luck as well as good qualities on Otis's “ Larry Hudson's Ambition" (Page). It tells of
the hero's side.—~ The Little Cave Dwellers" (Crow- two country boys. who are being worked by a severe
ell), by Mrs. Ella Farman Pratt, tells of a little boy taskmaster, a farmer, and of the acquaintance they make
most unjustly accused of crime by some older boys who during a journey to New York City. The street boy
should have known better, together with some experi. they find saves the farmer from being swindled, and is
ments in aboriginal life both novel and ingenious.— taken out to the farm at his own request. He finds the
“ Little Sky-High below Stairs" (Crowell) has to do life there, for all its hard work, so much better than
with the small son of a Chinese family of rank, who his street life in the metropolis that he is happy all day
lives in a Christian household for a year, and tells what long. The book makes one long for the good time when
happens when his host and employer goes to China everyone will have both city and country life, each
with him. It is an interesting and unusual tale, by Mr. relieving the disadvantages and teaching the virtues of
Hezekiah Butterworth. One of the best things in any the other. - Anecdotes of those who have made various
of the season's books is the letter which the lad who is sorts of success in the world are embodied in the volume,
described in “A Twentieth Century Boy” (Lee & “ How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men
Shepard) sends home to his mother. The conclusion Told by Themselves" (Lothrop). Dr. Orison Swett
of this story, by Miss Marguerite Linton Glentworth, Marden bas interviewed a number of men and women
is not nearly so credible as this single missive.- who are in the public eye, millionaires, inventors, authors,
“Galopoff, the Talking Pony" (Altemus) carries out musicians, educators, and others, and has in this way
an original idea of Mr. Tudor Jenks's, in which a little enabled his subjects to tell their own histories. It deals
horse tells some American boys who own him of his with the various elements that go to make up success
life abroad, and at the end rescues his little Russian in the modern world, though it is silent on one of the
master of earlier days from shipwreck.—A sentimental most important of them all, sometimes called luck. -
story, in which a small boy shows how much can be " Pine Ridge Plantation, the Trials and Successes of a
done to help the world by youngsters, is Mrs. Sophie Young Cotton Planter" (Crowell) is by Mr. William
C. Taylor's “The Story of a Little Poet” (Little, Drysdale, recounting the experience of a smart farmer's
Brown, & Co.). Among other precocities is the lisping boy who has wit enough to go to the South and start
in numbers, many of which are given. They show for himself, with his sister to give him encouragement.
much talent in versification, and are quite as good as There is both humor and good sense here. A party of
many of the drawing-room songs of the day.--Miss young fellows take a contract to supply a Southern
Josephine Dodge Daskam recites a series of episodes railway with ties. How this is done, amid many dis-
in the life of a normal, healthy, mischievous little fel- couragements and adventures in a wild country, is told
low, calling the volume containing them “ The Imp and by Mr. George Cary Eggleston in “Camp Venture, &
the Angel" (Scribner). The illustrations are by Mr. Story of the Virginia Mountains" (Lothrop). Business
Bernard J. Rosenmeyer, rounding out a most desirable difficulties are not the only ones surmounted, and the
book for half-grown folk.-A real and enduring friend- story is one of real life. “ Two Boys in the Blue
ship between the son of a mechanic and the heir to Ridge” (Estes) is, for all its title, chiefly concerned
great wealth used not to be remarkable enough to make with the way two young men get along in a New York
a book of, in America at least, but it may be welcomed real estate office, and is a business story of interest to
in “My Friend Jim, a Story of Real Boys and for those just entering upon commercial life. Numerous
Them (Lee & Shepard). The story is honest and illustrations are done by the author, Mr. W. Gordon
manly.-Mr. Thomas Cobb has taken time from more Parker. - It occurs to a boy in San Francisco that there
ambitious fiction, to write one of the pretty little vol- may be precious metal in the ruins of some old reducing
umes in “ The Dumpy Books for Children" (Dutton), works not far from his home, and he leases the land
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from its occupant. His guess was quickly verified, and the foundation of “Only Dollie” (Lee & Shepard), by
the pleasantly told subsequent history is embodied in Miss Nina Rhoades, with pictures by Miss Bertha G.
“The Golden Chimney, a Boy's Mine" (Robertson), Davidson. A little drudge comes into her own, to the
by Miss Elizabeth Gerberding. – Mr. Arthur M. Win- delight of all readers._" Peggy's Trial” (Page) is a
field has taken the material used by the late Horatio stepmother, and Mrs. Mary Knight Potter, the author
Alger for a boys' drama, and worked it over into Nelson of the little book, shows how great a calamity a small
the Newsboy” (Mershon). It is the familiar story of
thing may
be
among small people.-— Reforming a
a little castaway in city streets, who makes something regular army man is not an easy task, but Miss E.
of himself in spite of the greatest temptations, coming Livingston Prescott's little girl in "A Small, Small
into his own at last. – Mrs. Helen Dawes Brown has Child” (Page) accomplishes the feat. It is a pathetic
grasped the important factor, so little considered in the little incident. The utter forgetfulness which well
modern business world, of loving kindness and human disposed persons sometimes bestow upon their own
sympathy between employer and employed. The small childhood makes the negative misery of “Gatty and I”
heroine of " Her Sixteenth Year” (Houghton) is only (Page) a book worth taking to heart by those who are
too anxious to be of some assistance to her father, a in contact with children not their own.- A rude ex-
manufacturer. To this end she enters his shop at a terior covering a warm heart will be found depicted in
moment when a strike seems imminent, and by being “ Marcia and the Major” (Crowell), a story of the
her simple self brings about an understanding which Rocky Mountains by Mr. J. L. Harbour.- Bears, large
precludes trouble. It is a good example for others to black bears, enter the scene in Mrs. Harriet Prescott
follow. - How a little Irish girl in a small town won Spofford's “ The Children of the Valley” (Crowell),
ber way to the esteem of her neighbors is told by Mrs. disturbing, not unpleasantly, the serenity of a pleasant
Gulielma Zollinger in "Maggie McLanehan"(McClurg). summer story.-" The Flat-Iron and the Red Cloak”
Blessed with common-sense and a yearning toward in- (Crowell) is a pretty little tale by Mrs. Abby Morton
dustry, Maggie begins with a single friend and ends with Diaz, imaginative in conception, though dealing with
a real place in the community. But she was more for- homely things.— A long series of misadventures lends
tunate than most, subjectively and objectively.
humor to the title of “The Would-Be-Goods” (Har-
Among the books intended for little girls per), by E. Nesbit, who is really Mrs. Hubert Bland.
About girls
“ 'Tilda Jane” (Page), by Miss Marshall It is an English story, filled with innocent adventure
and for them.
Saunders, is an unusually moving and and mischief. Mr. Reginald B. Birch makes the pic-
interesting tale of a little inmate of one of those orphan tures. “ Four on a Farm, Summer at Hill Top
asylums which serve as a field for amateur philanthro- (Little, Brown, & Co.) is rather a book for girls than
pists to disport themselves in. It is an intelligent re- boys, though the happy four are equally divided be-
volt against that modern evil known as institutionalism, tween the sexes. As in all Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith's
and is provided with suitable illustrations by Mr. writings, there is here a wholesome spirit, quite free
Clifford Carleton.—“Daddy's Girl” (Lippincott) tells
from mawkishness.
how the thought of a small child keeps a man from
« The Captain of the School” (Little,
Stories of
profiting by the dishonesty into which his wife's ambi-
school life.
Brown, & Co.), in spite of its title, is
tion had led him. It is by Mrs. L. T. Meade, with
rather more concerned with girls tban
pictures by Mr. Gordon Browne; and it reveals a ten- with boys. A large family of children bring them-
dency, common in books of this class, toward showing selves up, for the most part, and have many troubles
a bigb mortality rate among good children. - Mr. and as many compensations in the process." High
Albert Bigelow Paine's "The Little Lady, Her Book” School Days at Harbortown" (Little, Brown, & Co.),
(Altemus) is a bright and cheerful collection of small by Mrs. Lily F. Wesselhoeft, has certain resemblances
adventures, inspiriting in the outlook upon life. Several to the preceding story, but is centred more on school
artists have had a hand in its interpretive drawings.- affairs and less on those of a private family. It is a
“ The Lonesomest Doll” (Houghton), written by Mrs. worthy book, well illustrated by Mr. H. C. Ireland.
Abbie Farwell Brown, is a story of the entrée upon
the In"A Nest of Girls, Boarding-School Days" (Dutton),
highest mundane life of a neglected soul among dolls. Miss Elizabeth Westyn Timlow writes from the ful-
It is interesting and well written. — Postage stamps, a ness of her experience, and lets her readers into the
bicycle, and several other desirable articles, are the secrets of a young teacher in a girls' seminary of
things referred to in “What Came to Winifred” learning. The ideal school in Miss Gabriella E. Jack-
(Estes), by Miss Elizabeth Westyn Timlow. The son's “ Caps and Capers, a Story of Boarding School
beroine is a wholesome little body, sane and sweet.- Life” (Altemus) is almost identical with Miss Tim-
The lost luxury of hospitality in one of the Gulf States | low's, an agreement among educators rare enough to
before the war finds sympathetic portrayal by Mrs. M. be noted. In the latter book, however, a school con-
E. M. Davis in “Jaconetta, Her Loves" (Houghton). ducted on the wrong principles is set in abrupt con-
It will be found interesting by grown people as well as trast, making the story more informing but no more
children. A friend of several years standing appears interesting.--"The Prize Watch " (Saalfield), by Mrs.
again in Miss Grace Le Baron's “ Jessica's Triumph" Emily Guillon Fuller, is the tale a mother tells to her
(Lee & Shepard). There is a moral in the story, and children of her own school days, with a generous and
a bringing to grace of a rich young girl, indicating a unexpected climax.- Miss Helen Leah Reed in “ Bren-
field for missionary work sometimes neglected. It is da’s Summer at Rockley” (Little, Brown, & Co.), bas
a wealthy little miss who is one of the heroines in “ A written a sequel to a former story of school life, in
Pair of Them (Crowell), the other being a hunchback which Brenda passes a pleasant summer at the sea-
from the poorest part of the national capital. The shore. It is a wholesome book, telling of a merry and
poor child confers beauty of soul upon her companion, healthy vacation.- Miss Evelyn Sharp, discoverer and
and has a small dog to help her. The book is by Miss inventor of “Wymps," calls her latest book “The
Evelyn Raymond. The favorite Cinderella theme is Youngest Girl in the School ” (Macmillan). All sorts
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comes to grief through a blunder by one of her teach- “ Prince Harold " (Page), with drawings by Miss Aline
ers while she is swinging at the gymnastic exercises of Witry for Miss L. F. Brown's letter-press, is concerned
the school.
with a monkey among other things, and is very funny. –
Three stories about cats attest the grow- “ Lucy in Fairyland” (Lee & Shepard) is Miss Sophie
About cats
ing popularity of a much misunderstood
and fairies.
May's account of a little girl who visits the woman in
household companion. • Madame An- the moon, the man of lunar fable having been super-
gora” (Estes), by Miss Harriet A. Cheever, is the sort seded in these days of petticoat supremacy.
- Mr.
of story that cats in fiction have accustomed us to, with William Rose tells “The Tin Owl Stories ” (Estes),
children always in the foreground. — In“ A Jolly Cat with Miss L. J. Bridgman's drawings to help him. The
Tale” (Lee & Shepard), Miss Amy Brooks tells with short tales of which the book is made up are quaintly
pen and pencil of an ambitious feline family who learn interesting
(what we human folk do not know) that the garments
There are songs and verses galore, some
of convention are cumbersome and uncouth. « Tbe
A medley of
new and some old. Among the latter,
songs and jingles.
Candle and the Cat” (Crowell) has a little girl
a sumptuous book has been made of “Old
who sends her light into a naughty world, and a cat Songs for Young America" (Doubleday). “Yankee
named Trolley to help her in good deeds. Miss Mary F. Doodle" and “ London Bridge” indicate the variety of
Leopard is the author, and the book is well illustrated.-- the selection. All have been harmonized from the old
Cats, being the natural companions of witches, and sub- airs, by Mr. Clarence Forsythe; and Miss Blanche
ject to a deal of superstitious mistreatment on that ac- Ostertag has made a number of beautiful drawings of
count, may well be associated with the numerous fairy children for every page, color and black-and-white
books of the year. There are still unused colors in the alternating. – Music accompanies “The Owl and the
spectrum, and Mr. Andrew Lang's “ The Violet Fairy Woodchuck, with a Few Others” (Rand, McNally &
Book " (Longmans), with its handsome illustrations in Co.), by Mr. William Harold Neidlinger, with illustra-
color by Mr. H. J. Ford, has the merits of its prede- tions in color by Mr. Walter Bobbett. Fanciful jingles
cessors, with some of its own added. Doubtless the
make a series of “song stories” of interest. Miss
stories suitable for inclusion in these volumes are innu- Carolyn Wells has another of the books to which lovers
merable, but the later books show the tendency to go of wit are growing accustomed, “The Merry-Go-Round"
farther and farther afield. Many of those in this book (Russell), with a number of cheerful pictures by Mr. Peter
are from African and Roumanian sources, and of much Newell. One of the limericks, passing into a household
interest and worth.— Altogether African are the Rev. word, may be given : “ A canner exceedingly canny, One
George W. Bateman's " Zanzibar Tales ” (McClurg), morning remarked to his granny: "A canner can can
translated from the Swahili of the eastern coast during Anything that he can; But a canner can't can a can, can
an extended residence as a missionary. They bear a de he?'" A new edition of Miss Agnes Lee's attractive
lightful vein of humor, akin to that in “Uncle Remus," « The Round Rabbit, and Other Child Verse" (Small,
and a morality which does not show a crying need of Maynard & Co.) has been published, with good pictures
missionary effort. - Another volume in “ The True An- and pretty end-papers.
Miss Zitella Cocke writes
pals of Fairyland” is concerned with “Old King Cole" « The Grasshopper's Hop" (Estes), a book of pleasant
(Dent-Macmillan). Familiar stories bave been edited rhymes for young folk, for which Mr. J.J. Mora makes
by Mr. J. M. Gibbon and illustrated by Mr. Charles suitable illustrations. • Jingleman Jack” (Saalfield)
Robinson into new attractiveness. The book is really has for sub-title “ His Pictures and Rhymes of the
beautiful. — Lacking color, but with pictures by Miss Callings, the Crafts, and the Trades of the Times.”
Helen Maitland Armstrong which lose nothing by Mr. Harry Kennedy accompanies each trade, and the
comparison, a volume of “Swedish Fairy Tales" verses describing it by Mr. James O'Dea, with handsome
(McClurg) is a valuable addition to the child's library. pictures in color.-"Jingles from Japan" (Robertson)
The stories, written in Swedish by Miss Anna Wahlen. is a book printed and decorated in the Japanese man-
burg, and translated idiomatically into English by her ner, the verses by Miss Mabel Hyde and the pictures
brother, Mr. Axel Wahlenburg, combine sweetness and by Miss Helen Hyde. It is quaint and good to look
vigor. - "Fairy Tales from ar" (Wessels) contains at. — There is nothing better of its kind than “Dens-
translations by Miss Jane Muliey from the Danish of low's Mother Goose” (McClure, Phillips & Co), for
Mr. Svend Grundtvig, with numerous pictures by Mr. which Mr. William Wallace Denslow has provided the
Sydney F. Aldridge. The tales show a common origin colored pictures in a manner that leaves little to be
with those of Miss Wahlenburg's, and are also meri- desired. A change or two has been made from the
torious. — A little book but a nice one contains Mr. A. accepted version of the rhymes, but it is too palpable
Comyns Carr's “The Fairy of the Rhone" (Page). to set the reader wrong.--" The True Mother Goose "
This is a variant of an old theme, but perennially fresh (Wessels) keeps strictly to the text, which Miss
and wholesome. “ Royal Rognes" (Putnam) is an Blanche McManus has drawn all sorts of pleasant de-
original story by Miss Alberta Bancroft, dealing with signs for.—“ The Pirate Frog and Other Tales ” (Rand,
two sons of the redoubtable King Goldemar, and all McNally & Co.) is made up of clever verses by W. A.
sorts of accessories, kobolds and the like. The draw- Frisbie, with many pictures, not so clever, by Mr.
ings for the book, by Mr. Louis Betts, are unusually Frederick R. Bartholomew. – Miss Bertba Upton has
good, and the volume is attractive. Abundant humor done the verses and Miss Florence K. Upton the pic-
characterizes Mr. Frank M. Bicknell's “ The Double tures for another “Golliwog" book, the “Auto-Go-
Prince" (Estes), in which one fat scion of fairy royalty Cart” (Longmans). The work of these two sisters is
becomes two thin scions, to the great delight of all con- too well known to need comment.--A useful and merry
cerned. — A fairy gift makes all sorts of fun for a little book is the “ Frolics of the A B C” (Laird & Lee),
boy in “ The Magic Key” (Little, Brown, & Co.), Miss the rhymes by Mrs. Fannie E. Ostrander and the pic-
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story.—“Where Was the Little White Dog” (Estes) “ Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates” (Scribner), a
is done by Miss Margaret Johnson in her well-known book to be numbered among children's classics.
manner, a picture of the thing being used instead of “ Findelkind” (Page), by Ouida (Mlle, de la Ramde),
the word standing for it, whenever possible in the and “Madam Liberality,” by Juliana Horatia Ewing,
text.–Stories, pictures, rhymes, and all sorts of things are re-published in compact little volumes by L. Č.
to interest a child, appear, as usual, in this year's | Page & Co. Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co, have founded
“Chatterbox” (Estes) perhaps the most popular book a "Home Library of the World's Best Literature for
of them all. Of the same sort, but with a leaning Children," with numerous volumes, among wbich may
toward early piety which is implied in the name, is be named Thackeray's “The Rose and the Ring," edited
“Sunday Reading for the Young" (E. & J. B. Young by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale; Irving's "Dolph
& Co.). – Miss Alcott's “Little Men” and “Little Heyliger," edited by Mr. C. H. Browne; Miss Martin-
Women” have both been dramatized into forty-five- eau's “The Crofton Boys,” edited by the Rev. William
minute plays, suitable for school children, by Miss Elliot Griffis; Mme. de Ségur's “The Story of a Don-
Elizabeth Lincoln Gould, with numerous pictures by key,” translated by Mr. Charles Welsh ; Jean Ingelow's
Mr. Reginald B. Birch. Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. “ Three Fairy Stories,” edited by Mr. C. F. Dole; and
are the publishers.
many more.
Old stories have been reprinted in quan-
Several romances for youth introduce
Old favoriles
tity, and Emerson's statement to the
love as an element, and so make an ap-
in new forms.
girls.
effect that every time a new book is
peal rather to growing girls than boys.
published one should read an old one might hold good “Chevrons, a Story of West Point (Lippincott) is
with these. Mr. Peter Newell's wash drawings for one of these, written by “B. H. L.," and fully illus-
“ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (Harper) leave trated. An accurate picture of life in the national
nothing to be desired, and as interpretations of the de- Military Academy is given, and there is incident and
lightful humor of the text may safely challenge com- sentiment both.- :-"A Very Naughty Girl” (Lippin-
parison with Sir John Tenniel's excellent pictures. This cott), by Mrs. L. T. Meade, is the account of an heiress
is indeed a book worth having. – Mr. John J. Mora has who enters the English bome which is to be here some
done the drawings for a new edition of the perennially day, and does not make herself any more disagreeable
attractive “ Reynard the Fox” (Estes), in the manner than the daughter of the 'squire in occupancy.—“Miss
of his “ Æsop's Fables " last year. Miss Eva March Bouverie" (whose name, we believe, is pronounced as
Tappan bas done a rather curious and daring thing in if spelled “boobry ") sets forth the manner in which a
ber « Old Ballads in Prose” (Houghton), taking a divided family fortune is reunited in the third genera-
number of the time-honored tales in inimitable rhyme, tion by descendants of opposite sexes. It is written by
the Robin Hood cycle among others, and turning them Mrs. Molesworth and published by Lippincott.- Miss
into prose narrative with Miss Fanny Y. Cory's pictures L. E. Tiddeman tells of a victory over self in “Celia's
to belp her. Such work could not well be less than Conqnest” (Lippincott), and affords a contrast between
interesting, but an argument may arise over its being French and English life at the same time. The view
done at all. - Blanche McManus (Mrs. M. F. Mansfield) of French domesticity, it may be noted, is somewhat
makes the illustrations for a number of good old tales, broader than in the ordinary British novel.--"Teddy,
“Undine," " Rip Van Winkle," “ The Dragon of Want- Her Daughter” (Little, Brown, & Co.) is a sequel,
ley,” and others, published with the title, “Told in the after three years, to the popular “ Teddy, Her Book.”
Twilight” (Wessels). —"The Boy's Odyssey” (Mac- Like the other, it is a charming little character study,
millan), with the adaptation by Mr. Walter Copland showing a profound knowledge of girl nature.— Miss
Perry and the pictures by Mr. Jacomb Hood, is excel- Laura E. Richards writes and Miss Etheldred B. Barry
lently done throughout. - Somewhat similar work, illustrates “ Fernley House” (Estes), a story of West-
more inclusive but not so thorough within its limits, are ern cousins in an Eastern summer-house, with a fire
the two books by Mr. Alfred J. Church, “Stories from and a gallant rescue by a girl for excitement.— The
Homer” and “Stories from Virgil” (Crowell). Both author of “ Miss Toosey's Mission " describes the mourn-
volumes have their value enhanced by suitable illus- fully disappointing career of a trained nurse in “ Las-
trations. — In the same series as the two books just sie” (Little, Brown, & Co.). Forced by sentiment to
mentioned are issued Don Quixote" as retold by remain with her father in his village home in England
Mr. Calvin Dill Wilson, “Gulliver's Travels,” Edmondo after her mother's death, all her ambitions are brought
de Amicis's “Heart, a Schoolboy's Journal," and to nothing, and the end is tragic.— Miss Carolyn Wells
Jean Ingelow's “Mopsa the Fairy," with a colored ingeniously contrives her “ Patty Fairfield” (Dodd), so
frontispiece in each case and numbers of half-tone that she describes (and caricatures a little) four homes
pietures. They are bandy books, and not expensive. -- in as many different parts of the country, the studious
Mrs. Edgar Lucas bas made a new translation of the Boston household being perhaps the most assailable of
« Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm” (Lippincott),
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them all. The book is one to chuckle over.
with a cover design, illustrated frontispiece, and numer-
A number of little books are frankly and
ous pictures besides, by Mr. Arthur Rackham. - On A few books
unabashedly moral, and show collectively
with a moral.
the heels of this comes another new translation of
a marked advance upon the Sunday
“Grimm's Fairy Tales” (Dutton), by Miss Marion school tale of a generation or two ago.
“ When the
Edwards, with many pictures by Mr. R. Anning Bell. River Rose," written by Miss Jane Ellis Joy, tells
There are some tales not ordinarily included in this of a little boy and girl who are in the second story
edition; otherwise there is little choice between the of their wooden house when it is carried off by a flood
two.-Louisa M. Alcott's “ Little Men” (Little, Brown, down the river. They calk the floors with strips torn
& Co.) has been provided with new illustrations by from the family linen, and reach in safety a spot ashore,
Mr. Reginald B. Birch, making a sterling book. where they bring the joy of the gospel to a heathenish
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family.--"Ruby, Pearl, and Diamond” are the names territorial development of the nation, and provide a
of two small girls and a cat, their adventures being- series of nineteen exercises, for which careful directions
written by Miss Emma S. Allen, with a palpable are given. Teachers will find this a useful auxiliary
moral. · Little Maid of Doubting Castle," by Mrs. for their work in United States history.
Mary E. O. Brush, tells of a small stray girl who unites M. Marcel Prévost's latest nove Frédérique,"
a long-estranged father with his son during the joyous translated from the French by Miss Ellen Marriage,
holiday season. -"Rosey Posey's Mission,"
the well-known Balzac translator, will shortly make its
Louise E. Baker sets it down, is to bring a haughty American appearance in an authorized edition from the
little rich girl to a knowledge of better things, Rosey press of Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Posey being her little colored maid. “ Tommy Tuck-
Mr. Henry C. Lahee has written a little book on
er" is a small stray boy who goes to work for a “Grand Opera in America” for the “Music Lovers'
fisherman on the New England coast and eventually Series," published by Messrs. L. C. Page & Co. It is
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cures bim of the drink habit in one of its most violent
an interesting compendium of facts, making no pre-
forms. Mr. J. C. Cowdrick is the author. - Another
tensions to literary form, illustrated with portraits.
family which sets a good example in the matter of total
The “Lovers' Library" of Mr. John Lane, embodies
abstinence lives over a grog-shop in “ The Upstairs
Family” of Mrs. O. W. Scott. The owner has every
an excellent idea, but the publisher does not seem to
have made the most of it. Three new volumes have
reason to wish they did not, for the town goes “ dry'
just been added to the series, and contain, respectively,
soon after through their influence. 6 The Minister's
selections from the “love poems" of Burns, Landor,
Twins" are named Hannah Matilda and Elizabeth Ella,
and Mrs. Browning.
and their pious little antics are to be laughed over. Mr.
Frank E. Graeff comes near satire in this book. Miss
A book which certainly belongs in the class of
Felicia Buttz Clark's “Beppino
Lamb's biblia abiblia is “ The Physician's Visiting List,”
is a little Italian
fiddler living in the heathen blindness of Roman Catho-
now in the fifty-first year of publication, which comes
from Messrs. P. Blakiston's Son & Co. It is neatly
licism and rescued thence by some high-minded Amer-
ican travellers in Italy. All the preceding books in
gotten up, and contains various useful tables, besides
this paragraph constitute the “ Inglenook Tales,” are
the blank pages for daily memoranda.
illustrated, and published by Messrs. Jennings & Pye.-
Gabriel Tellez, better known by his pseudonym of
Of the same sort in intention, if not in form, are Mrs.
“ El Maestro Tirso de Molina," is introduced to Amer.
Maud Ballington Booth's “ Lights of Childhood" (Put-
ican students of the Spanish language by an annotated
nam). Firelight, gaslight, moonlight, lovelight, and
text of his famous comedy, “Don Gil de las Calzas
homelight are appropriately discussed, with no little
Verdes." Dr. Benjamin Parsons Bourland is the editor,
sentiment and feeling.
and the volume is published by Messrs. Henry Holt &
Co.
Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. announce for early
publication a life of Herbert Spencer, by Dr. David
NOTES.
Starr Jordan, President of Stanford University. It
will be complete to date, and comprehensive in every
To Mr. John Lane's series of “ Handbooks of Practi-
particular. The lack of any reliable biography of
cal Gardening” has been added “ The Book of Old-
Spencer will undoubtedly insure a favorable reception
Fashioned Flowers," by Mr. Harry Roberts.
for a volume by so eminent an authority.
Mr. John Lane is the publisher of a pretty edition The “Oxford India Paper Dickens,” published by
of “Casa Guidi Windows," with an introduction, dated Mr. Henry Frowde, is to fill seventeen volumes. The
ten years ago, by Miss A. Mary F. Robinson, now
first of the seventeen is before us and contains « A Tale
Madame Duclaux.
of Two Cities” and “ A Child's History of England,"
“ The Conquest of the Old Northwest and Its Settle- which seems a most unfortunate bracketing. There are
ment by Americans” is an excellent reading book for over eight hundred pages in this volume, which is never-
young people. Mr. James Baldwin is the author, and
theless easily pocketable. The original illustrations of
the publishers are the American Book Co.
Cruikshank, “ Phiz," and others are used.
The “ Asgard Stories” of Miss Mary H. Foster and An important addition to the source material for
Miss Mabel H. Cummings, are told in simple language historical study is provided by the “ Select Documents
for children, and include the most important myths of of English Constitutional History” which has recently
Norse antiquity. Messrs. Silver, Burdett & Co. are been edited by Professors George Burton Adams and
the publishers.
H. Morse Stephens, and published by the Macmillan Co.
Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. are starting a series The whole period from the Conquest to the present
of « French Novels of the Nineteenth Century," and time is covered by this compilation, and by means of
Flaubert's “Salammbo" appears as the first volume. judicious abridgment a very large aggregate amount of
Mr. J. W. Matthews is the translator, and Mr. Arthur material is provided. The French and Latin documents
Symons sapplies an introduction.
are given in translation.
Mr. H. W. Wilson, of Minneapolis, publishes a Mr. J. M. Dent seems det mined to republish the
“ Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature," which ap- whole of English literature in the neat and artistic little
pears monthly, and indexes the contents of sixteen volumes with which readers have of late years become so
periodicals. The method is cumulative, like that em- familiar. Thackeray and the Bible are his latest enter-
ployed in the Cleveland « Index."
prises, “Vanity Fair,” in three volumes, and “Genesis,"
Messrs. Ginn & Co. publish an atlas of “Outline in one, being now at hand. The Bible is in the favorite
Maps for an Historical Atlas of the United States," Temple" form, and will make twenty-four volumes.
prepared by Professor F. H. Hodder. These maps are There will also be an introductory volume by the Bishop
to be colored by the student to represent the progressive of Ripon, and the book of “ Ecclesiasticus " as an experi-
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ment, — to see whether the public wants the Apocrypha Method, Defeat of the. Margaret L. Knapp. Atlantic.
as well as the Canonical texts. Each book has a special Midnight Sun, Lost in Land of the. McClure.
editor, the name of Professor Sayce, for example, ap- Monroe Doctrine, Modification of. W. Wellman. No. Amer.
pearing on the title-page of the “Genesis." The Messrs.
National Physical Laboratory of Great Britain. Pop. Science.
Lippincott are the American publishers of this most
New York, Rebuilding of. World's Work.
charming of Bibles, for which we predict a very large
Paris Revolution of 1830, A Woman in the. Harper.
Parthenon Soulptures, New Light on. Chas. Waldstein. Harp.
sale.
Peking to St. Petersburg by Rail. Alfred Stead. Rev. of Rev.
Dr. Nathaniel Lord Britton's - Manual of the Flora
Pilgrimage, A Forgotten. E. C. Piexotto. Scribner,
of the Northern States and Canada” is published by Pillsbury, John S. Horace B. Hudson. Rev. of Reviews.
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. It is based upon the text Pilot, Making of a. A. W. Vorse. Scribner.
of the “Illustrated Flora" of Messrs. Britton and Brown, Plants, Sensory Mechanism of. D. T. MacDougal. Pop. Sci.
but the descriptions are condensed, and the cuts are
Platt. William Allen White. McClure.
omitted altogether. This makes it possible to condense
Poetry and Criticism of 1901. W. M. Payne. Rev. of Rev.
the three volumes into one, and the use of thin paper,
Presidential Assassinations, Prevention of. North American.
small type, and narrow margins makes this one of very
Private Property at Sea. J. G. Whiteley. Forum.
Publicity as Means of Social Reform. North American.
moderate dimensions, considering the immense amount
Rainfall, Influence of, on Commerce and Politics. Pop. Sci.
of matter it contains. The number of species is 4,162, Reciprocity and Foreign Trade. E. J. Gibson. Forum.
and there are 1,080 pages.
Redmond, John, M.P. Review of Reviews.
Religion in Germany, Status of. Rudolf Eucken. Forum.
Roosevelt Administration, Opportunity of. North American.
Roosevelt, President, Personality of. Century.
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
Salvini, Tommaso. Clara Morris. McClure.
December, 1901.
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D.APPLETON AND COMPANY'S Holiday fiction list includes the
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COMMUNICATION .
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The Max Müller Library of Japan. Ernest W.
TWO CENTENNIALS.
Clement.
REMINISCENCES OF AN ENGLISH CARICA-
A few weeks ago, a famous New England
TURIST. Ingram A. Pyle
504 institution of learning celebrated, with cere-
MR. HOWELLS TALKS OF FICTION. Richard
monies at once brilliant and dignified, the sec-
Burton
506 ond centennial of its birth. The occasion was
THE TRUE THOMAS JEFFERSON. Francis Way. in every way impressive; the sense of its par-
land Shepardson
508
ticipants for the spectacular and the artistic
FOUR CENTURIES OF EUROPEAN CULTURE was gratified by the pomp and circumstance of
AND POLITICS. A. M. Wergeland
509
academic processions and convocations; the
THE HISTORY OF A BOGUS KING. Percy F. intelligence of those who shared in the event,
Bicknell
. 511
whether as eye-witnesses or as observers from
THREE DANTE BOOKS. William Morton Payne . 512 a distance, was gratified by the exhibition of
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS - II. . .
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Lady Dilke's French Decoration and Furniture in historical continuity of aim and achievement
the XVIIIth Century. - Miss Repplier's The Fire-
which the celebration evoked. Two hundred
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Persian Poets. — Francis's London, Historical and years of an ever-widening influence for good
Social. – Johnston's Ireland, Historic and Pictur-
upon the community, of an ever-deepening de-
esque. — Gallon's The Man Who Knew Better.
Mrs. Champney's Romance of the Renaissance Châ-
votion to the truth that makes men free, con-
teaux. - Mrs. Earlo's Old Time Gardens. — The stitute a heritage in which the men of Yale
Burgess Nonsense Book. — Miss Brooks's Dames
may take a just pride, and afford an earnest of
and Daughters of Colonial Days and of the Young
Republic. – Fox's Blue Grass and Rhododendron.-
the fact, half-forgotten at times by the most
Miss Singleton's Love in Literature and Art.- thoughtful of us in the stress of our modern
Howells's Italian Journeys, holiday edition.-White's
materialism, that the life of the spirit still has
Selborne, edited by Grant Allen, smaller edition.-
Ollivant's Bob, Son of Battle, illustrated edition.- its share in our national development, and still
Powell's Historic Towns of the Western States.
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Mr. and Mrs. Blashfield's Masques of Cupid. - The
Lark Classics, new edition. — Reid's The Mohawk
of our nature.
Valley.--Bangs's Mr. Munchausen.--Herford's More
A few weeks later, a famous newspaper
Animals. – Mrs. Gummere's The Quaker. – Helps's rounded out the first century of its existence,
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd, in the "Clois-
ter Library." — Mrs. Shelton's The Salt-Box House,
and, with pardonable pride, seized upon the
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by C. E. Brock. – Tolstoi's Anna Karenina, holi-
day edition. – Mrs. Jameson's Shakespeare's Hero-
of this celebration were a special historical issue
ines, in “ Miranda's Library." — Miss Corelli's Bar- of the newspaper, a complimentary banquet
abbas, holiday edition. - Mrs. Wiggin's A Cathedral tendered to its present proprietors and editors,
Courtship, illus. by C. E. Brock. - Stone's Some
Children's Book Plates. — Davis's Her First Appear-
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There were no processions, no costumes, no together at all, is deprived of every hold of
academic functions — in the nature of the case,
this sort upon
them. On the other hand, the
there could be none of these things -- but there life of the collegian is a semi-cloistered exist- .
was a widespread feeling, which received mani- ence, offering limited opportunities for making
fold and often unexpected expression, that the actual use of the guidance so amply offered ;
newspaper in question had been one of the whereas the man for whom the newspaper is
most active and beneficent agencies in the his- produced is in the thick of the world's con-
tory of our civilization during the entire hun. Aict, confronted every day by practical prob-
dred years of its publication. Those who are lems of conduct, and to him the newspaper -
now directing the course of the “Evening that is, the sort of newspaper which provides
“
Post” of New York have cause for self- the text for these reflections comes just at
congratulation in the record made for them by the time of need, and brings its trained intelli-
their predecessors, in the progress or triumph gence or its broad social philosophy to bear
of the good causes for which their journal bas
upon the question at issue. This is its special
unswervingly contended, and in the steadfast-opportunity, and here, in proportion as the
ness with which its original aims have been reader believes in its honesty and its sincerity,
pursued. No one to-day, with the century's does it directly influence him to action.
history of that newspaper for a guide, could We hesitate to strike a balance in a case
frame a more exactly truthful statement of its like this, where none of the terms concerned
work than is provided by the programme
can be reduced to quantitative shape, yet it
printed in its very first issue: “The design of seems reasonably clear that the right sort of
this paper is to diffuse among the people cor- newspaper — the one that always puts truth
rect information on all interesting subjects; to above party, intelligence above passion, and
inculcate just principles in religion, morals, and philosophy above prejudice
may be at least
politics ; and to cultivate a taste for sound lit- as worthy an agency of the higher civilization
erature.”
as the largest university. Specifically, we
It is not our present purpose to speak in should hesitate to
say
that any one of our edu-
detail of the history or the achievements of cational institutions had wrought more effect-
either the college or the newspaper, but the ively for good during the past hundred years
close coincidence of their centennial celebra- than the newspaper now under consideration.
tions has set us to thinking about their com- But it would be impossible to name another
parative influence, and started the question as American newspaper of which this might be
to which of the two has proved the more potent said for so long a period, or perhaps for any
agency for good. The question is obviously period. However, one example is enough for
one that cannot be decided definitely, yet some proof of our contention, and that example is
analysis of the equation presented may prove afforded by the hundred years of honest and
interesting, and an examination of its several independent journalism for which the paper
terms will afford some basis for an intelligent of Hamilton, and Coleman, and Bryant, of
opinion.
Messrs. Schurz, White, and Godkin, stands
Stated in its simplest form, the comparison to-day in the estimation of the educated public.
takes the following shape: the college influ- The striking thing about this example of
ences a few hundred men, but its influence is successful journalism in the higher sense is that
exerted during the formative period of life, is the success has been achieved under competi-
steadily exerted for a number of years, and tive conditions. The newspaper in question
usually dwarfs all other influences during that has been a paying enterprise without sacrific-
period. The newspaper, on the other hand, ing anything of its honesty or independence.
appeals to many thousands of men, but its ap- While other journals have achieved a commer-
peal is intermittent, and always subject to the cial success by the sale of editorial opinions, or
competition of other influences. It is, more- by allying themselves with special interests,
over, an appeal made to men whose intellectual and suppressing the truth wherever it was
outlook is fairly well fixed, and whose opinions likely to imperil those interests, this journal
are not easily to be moulded. The college has has kept clear of all such entanglements and
the additional advantage of exerting social, insincerities, and furnished an object-lesson of
artistic, emotional, and other extra-intellectual clean journalism unaffected in its course by the
influences upon the men whom it brings to- claims of the counting-room. The plea for
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takes the form of saying that papers must be eousness. Yet in the very thick of the contest,
sold and advertisers placated; this newspaper its columns gave daily display, in the form of
bas by its example retorted that the truth must paid advertisements, to the specious special
be told and honest opinion expressed, no mat- pleadings of the partisans of corruption and
ter what the effect upon sales and advertise- civic disgrace. There was no disguise about
ments. And it is a great thing to have proved, the proceeding; the advertisements were
a
even by a single courageous example, that un- marked as such, and, according to the accepted
der such conditions the financial returns may ethical code of the journalist's profession, the
safely be left to take care of themselves. thing was perfectly legitimate. Yet a higher
This may be taken as an argument against code than this is readily conceivable, and such
our old hobby of the endowed newspaper, but a code would be made possible by the endow-
we propose to convert it into an argument in ment of journalism. Since we are determined
favor of such an undertaking. For with all to view the ideal newspaper as belonging in
that has been legitimately achieved for dignity the same category with the university, the ab-
and independence in the case now under con- surdity of the existing practice appears clearly
sideration, we believe that much more might enough when we point out that its educational
be achieved were a newspaper freed from the analogue would be offered by a university that
necessity of making itself pay. In the first should open certain of its classrooms to the
place, it might appeal to a far wider range of advocates of dishonest money and faith-healing
interests, and enlist the coöperation of a far
greater number of authoritative writers. If it truth, in whose name alone a university has
were frankly to assume the position assumed the right to exist. The fact that the institu-
by every college of high standing and offer its tion derived support from this barter of its
beneficiaries a service that did not pretend to shelter and its sanction would not condone
be measured by what was paid for it, there such an offense against educational morality,
would be an immeasurable enlargement of its nor, rightly considered, is the corresponding
possibilities for good. This is the result that offense on the part of a newspaper to be
might be reached by a liberal endowment, and condoned.
this alone would place a newspaper upon the
footing of a university. Even the best of
newspapers is forced to depend upon the ad-
COMMUNICATION.
vertiser for its main support, and the columns
which are filled with advertisements must
THE MAX MÜLLER LIBRARY OF JAPAN.
stand in startling contrast to the columns that
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
are filled with news and expert opinion. In
A recent issue of the “ Japan Mail" has the following
information regarding the Max Müller collection of
the very nature of the case, and under the best
books lately presented to the Imperial University:
possible conditions, the advertising columns “ Baron Iwasaki [the donor] stipulates that the
of a newspaper are largely given up to special library shall always be differentiated from other books
pleading and misrepresentation. The com-
and distinguished as the “ Max Müller Library "'; that
every facility shall be granted to students desiring to
mercial newspaper, however good its inten-
consult the volumes, and that precautions shall be
tions, must make this compromise with con- adopted to prevent the dispersal or injury of the books.
science, trusting to the intelligence of its readers The total outlay connected with its acquisition will be
to make due discrimination between the printed effected at the price fixed by the great Orientalist
himself
thirty-six thousand yen, the purchase having been
page that is bought and the printed page that
on his death-bed, namely, three thousand pounds sterling.
is unpurchasable. The great advantage of a Tokyo papers publish the letter addressed by Baron
newspaper that should be strictly an educa- Iwasaki to the Imperial University when presenting the
tional enterprise, properly supported by en-
library, and add that the first steps to bring about that
dowment, would be that it need not depend for Foreign Affairs, and were seconded by Baron Suye-
result were taken by Mr. Kato, late Minister of State
upon the advertiser for any part of its support.
matsu. They also publish a verbatim translation of
Our attention has been directed to this Professor Max Müller's statements with reference to
aspect of the case by an incident in the late
te the library -- statements dictated from his death-bed,
history of the very journal of which we have
which show that he regarded the collection of books as
of the bighest value to students of philology and com-
been speaking in such terms of deserved praise.
parative religion, and that many of the most important
During the recent political campaign in the volumes have copious marginal notes from his own
city of its publication, that journal was enlisted band."
ERNEST W. CLEMENT.
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French school of grotesque artists. George
The New Books.
Cruikshank is now almost forgotten as a political
caricaturist; it was as an etcher of small figures
that he excelled, in which humor and an ex.
REMINISCENCES OF AN ENGLISH
quisite appreciation of the ludicrous alternate
CARICATURIST. *
with beauty and pathos. He was the last
Mr. Harry Furniss is given the distinction actual representative of the school of political
by some of being the greatest caricaturist En- caricaturists of the reign of George III. But
gland has ever known, — and a short review of another worthy name follows upon his time:
the satirical art in that country reveals the we refer to Richard Doyle, the famous “H. B."
most famous names in the history of caricature. of the past generation. When Doyle ceased
Although it does not come within the scope of bis labors, the “Punch” school of satirists
the interesting volumes which Mr. Furniss has began theirs, and the spirit of the art survived-
given us in “The Confessions of a Carica- as it will do so long as England retains a sense
turist,” it may be timely, in view of the pre-
of the ludicrous.
vailing interest in the subject, to glance back English caricature in the early days was
a few score years. We find little of importance characterized by the unnatural qualities of
in the history of English art in the grotesque ferocity and truculency. Subjects were por-
and comic prior to that time when the appear trayed in such phases of life as civilization
.
ance of Hogarth marked a new epoch.
And shudders at and veils. To the caricaturist
it would be superfluous here to recapitulate in nothing was indecent or inappropriate. Un-
detail the achievements of that great domestic popular politicians were shown only as types
painter; particularly as his powers in caricature, of human depravity.
of human depravity. It was a sad contrast to
properly so called, though great, were subordi- the commendable work of Du Maurier and Sir
nate to his higher merits as a painter of John Tenniel. Charles Keene, one of the truest
" "genre,” as the French phrase it, a delineator humorists of them all, played upon the follies of
of popular scenes and incidents into which the the middle and lower classes in a manner that
humorous only entered as an ingredient. As delighted the drawing-room, and the people
a political caricaturist, Hogarth was a failure; of to-day applaud his efforts. Gillray is as
he left no school of followers. It was later, remote from them as Aristophanes ; Rowland-
re
when the incubus of the war with America was son as impossible as Rabelais. At the present
removed, and domestic faction reappeared in time the prime requisites of English carica-
all its pristine vivacity, that there appeared the ture are neatness, grace, good-breeding, a
first great English comie artist – James Gill to touch of sentiment, and a clear understanding
ray. Gillray has been described as the Rubens of life.
of caricature. Anyone who has studied Ru- We can now appreciate Mr. Furniss's posi.
bens's crowds of nude figures which approach tion as the greatest caricaturist England has
nearest to the order of caricature will appreciate
ever known. His work is distinguished by a
the justice of the parallel. Gillray was coarse remarkable versatility of talent, by a great
to excess, both in conception and execution. fecundity of imagination, and by a skill in
He possessed only one quality which was ap-grouping quite equal to that of Gillray. His
.
parently discordant with his ordinary char. criticism of life, thoroughly conventional as it
acter: his delineations of female beauty were is, is so roundly and vigorously expressed as to
singularly successful, and he dwelt on them command attention, and is moreover touched
with special pleasure, for the sake, perhaps, with the elemental quality of pure and genuine
of the contrast with his usual disfigurements humor.
of humanity. Rowlandson was endowed with Harry Furniss was born in Ireland, in the
much of Gillray's coarseness, but with little of town of Wexford, on March 26, 1854. When
his satirical power and none of his artistic a child his parents moved to Dublin, and at the
genius. James Sayer, a contemporary of Row-
age of twelve he entered the Wesleyan Con-
landson, possessed a certain amount of original nexional School, now known as Wesleyan Col-
talent as a political caricaturist. Henry Bun. lege, where he struggled through his first pages
bury was but the forerunner of the famous of Cæsar and “stumbled
over the os
pons
asinorum." While yet a boy in knickerbockers
TAE CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST. By Harry Fur-
niss. In two volumes. Illustrated. New York: Harper &
he edited a periodical, under the ambitious title
of " The Schoolboy's Punch," and it was a car-
icla
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toon drawn for this juvenile publication which artistic contortionist, who is grotesque merely
determined the great caricaturist's career. for effect.
Drawing seemed to come to him naturally and “ A contortionist twists and distorts himself to cause
intuitively. In 1873, after an encouraging con-
amusement, but he is by nature straight of limb and a
versation with Tom Taylor, then presiding gen-
student of grace. Thus also is it with the caricaturist
ius of the Panch ”table, he left Dublin, and
“
and his pencil. The good points of his subject must
be plainly apparent to him before he can twist his study
his imaginary walks down Fleet Street became into the grotesque. Perchance he may even entertain
a reality. His first serious work in London was a feeling of admiration for the subject he is holding up
for the “Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic
to ridicule, for serious moments and serious work are
News." In 1880 his first contribution to
no strangers to the caricaturist."
“Punch" appeared, and thereafter his humor- For some years Mr. Furniss worked with
ous hieroglyphics were a regular feature of “Lewis Carroll,” in illustrating that author's
that famous weekly.
bumorous books.
His work, however, was not limited to po- “ Carroll was as unlike any other man as his books
litical satire and Parliamentary caricature.
were unlike any other author's books. It was a relief
When one of the leading religious journals after the selfish commercial mind of most authors.
to meet the pure, simple, innocent dreamer of children,
wished to present, as a series of supplements, Carroll was a wit, a gentleman, a bore, and an egotist -
portraits of the leading clergy, he was selected and, like Hans Andersen, a spoilt child. He was not
as the artist.
selfish, but a liberal-minded, liberal-handed philan-
“If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I must not cari-
thropist, but his egotism was all but second child-
hood. ... To meet him and to work with him was to
cature my confessions by any mock-modesty. •Punch'
required funny little figures, and I supplied them; but
me a great treat. I put up with bis eccentricities -
my metier, I must confess, was work requiring more
real ones, not sbam like mine. I put up with a great
demand upon direct draughtsmanship and power. I am
deal of boredom, for he was a bore at times, and I
a funny man, a caricaturist, by force of circumstances;
worked over seven years with his illustrations, in which
an artist, a satirist, and a cartoonist by nature and train-
the actual working hours would not have occupied me
ing. The one requires technical knowledge – in the
more tban seven weeks, purely out of respect for his
other drawing does n't count.' The serious confession
genius. I treated him as a problem and I solved him,
that I have to make is that I have been mistaken for a
and bad he lived I probably would have still worked
caricaturist in the accepted and limited meaning of the
with him."
term. •It is the ambition of every low comedian to He speaks of Gladstone as a study as fascinating
play Hamlet, that of every caricaturist to be able to
to the artist as to the politician, and claims
paint a picture which sball be worthy a place on the
walls of the National Gallery,' are my own words on
that no portrait ever drawn by pen or pencil
the platform; but I do not essay to play Hamlet, nor
can hand down to future generations the mys-
do I paint pictures for posterity in my studio. There- terious subtlety in personality of the all-
fore I do not place myself in the category of either, powerful leader.
for I am neither a low comedian nor am I strictly
and solely a mere caricaturist.”
It was in 1887 that Mr. Furniss perpetrated
his celebrated artistic joke -- a bold parody
As we glance over the two hundred odd
illustrations included in his volumes, we realize
on a large scale of an average Royal Academy
Exhibition. This exbibition, which, it has
that Mr. Furniss's range is practically unlim-
ited. He is possessed of the power of rendering
been said, any man of less audacious and
the traits of all ages, temperaments, and call prodigious power of work would have shrunk
ings, boys and girls
, men of letters and Gainsborough Gallery. It consisted of some
from in its very inception, was held at the
women of society, the gay and the thoughtful, eighty-seven pictures of considerable size, exe-
the vicious and the good. He presents them
cuted in monochrome, and presented to a mar-
to us in their pleasures, their pursuits, their
joy, and their gravity. Whatever the subject, velling public travesties - some excrutiatingly
satirical
it has the air of being native and spontaneous.
His male figures redound with a certain vigor, exquisite in their rendering of physical traits
and are discriminated by the strongest traits
and landscape features -- of the styles, tech.
niques, and peculiar choice of subjects of a
of individuality. In the sentiments he ex.
number of the leading artists, " R. A.'s" and
pressed on the countenances, he had often the
choice of many moods, and he always appears
others, who annually exhibit at Burlington
to have selected the ruling passions. When
House. As one reviewer puts it:
“ London had never seen anything so original as
he departs from the literal flesh and blood
Harry Furnisa's Royal Academy. The work of one
facts, he magnifies the mental traits.
man, and that man one of the busiest professional men
Mr. Furniss describes a caricaturist as an in town! Indeed it might be thonght that at the age
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and wenta lidt merested tone formy thanquisimient_I valuable portion of the book,
and the publish:
of thirty, with all the foremost magazines and journals Peers, with an admixture of bishops, brewers, and other
waiting on his leisure, with a handsome income and an political party pullers; it is also an asylum for stranded
enviable social position, ambition could hardly live in political wrecks from the Lower House. Soldiers and
the bosom of an artist in black and white. Unlike sailors, too, are honored and sent there, not as politi-
Alexander, our hero did not sit down and weep that no cians, but merely to exist for the time being in a sort
kingdom remained to conquer, but set quietly to work of respectable retreat, before being translated to the
to create a new realm all his own. His Royal Academy, crypt of Westminster Abbey or St. Paul's. John Bull
although presented to the public as an artistic joke, has made this hereditary hotch-potch, and he must
showed that he could not only use the brush on a large swallow it. Jonathan selects his senators to his own
scale, but that he could compose to perfection, and after taste, and has them dished up fresh from time to time.
the exuberant bumor of the show, nothing delighted The Senate is not sombre and sedate as our Upper
and surprised the public more than the artistic quality House, but simplicity itself --- no gilded throne, no
and finished technique in much of his work — a finish Lord Chancellor in wig and gown, no offensive offi-
far and away above the work of any caricaturist of our cialism."
time."
Space forbids quoting further from these
On his first visit to America, Mr. Furniss vivacious “ Confessions," which furnish many
was amazed at the commercial spirit which hours' entertainment. Mr. Furniss has written
characterized New York City, and felt that the one of the most interesting autobiographies in
streets were simply museums of grotesque ad- recent English literature. He is a clever
vertisements. What impressed him most about
raconteur, and, whether describing his Parlia-
the metropolis was not the Brooklyn Bridge, mentary career, his tour in America, or his
nor Wall Street, nor the elevated railway, London club experiences, his mind is alert on
but the number of chiropodists' advertise- seizing the salient features of the life about
ments ! Speaking of the American newspaper him. The interesting drawings and sketches,
interviewer, he says:
which have already been referred to, form a
arrived, handed over Inky
eight gentlemen of the press — who placed me on the
interviewer's rack at the demand of insatiable modern
attractive.
INGRAM A. PYLE.
journalism. . . . And then to be handed a bad pen,
and worse paper, and have to draw pictures in pen and
ink, in the space of five minutes, for the eight gentlemen
who were watching to see how it's done. I have
sketched crowned heads on their thrones, bishops in
MR. HOWELLS TALKS OF FICTION.*
their pulpits, thieves in their dens, and beauties in their
Mr. W. D. Howells is a master in what I
drawing-rooms ; but I never felt such nervousness as I
did when I had to caricature myself on the occasion of
may call the chronicle-chat of literature. His
my first experience of American interviewing." tone of kindly confidence coupled with ample
Though his visit to this country was merely a authority, and always the air of conceding to
pleasure trip, he soon found himself in the
the reader the right of his own opinion, makes
hands of the “irrepressible lecture agent," of
him a delightful companion in a literary con-
whom he says: “Major Pond is a typical ference - that solitude à deux which is as
American, hospitable, kind, with an eye to
pleasant for literature as for life. In fact, Mr.
business, but I do not appear in his interesting Howells is that rare thing, a genuine essayist
,
book, nor was I ever on his business books
a man who in a richly human way and with
either.” In a reminiscent manner he frames
frank impressionism tells us of his likes and
This
his opinions of metropolitan life --- from the
- from the dislikes, inviting confessions in return.
hungry politician to the American girl, from impressionism in letters is most winsome and
the Bowery to Central Park, from Baxter stimulating, — in the right hands, as here.
Street to Fifth Avenue.
The reflection is inspired by his latest con-
tribution to literary criticism, the “ Heroines
Comparing the seats of government in
America and Great Britain, be submits the
of Fiction,” furnished bravely forth by the
following un-English view:
publishers, as befits the season, in two large
handsome volumes for which sundry capable
“The seating of the senators in these two assemblages
(the Senate and the House of Lords) is typical of the
artists have made some seventy full-page draw-
countries they represent.
In the British House of ings. It may as well be said here that nothing
Lords the Peers loll about on scarlet sofas; in America is more dangerous than to force the eye phys-
the chosen ones sit at desks. The British Peer has
forsaken one lounge to occupy another; the American
ical to see a creature of fiction already familiar
has left the office desk for the desk in office. In Brit- * HEROINES OF FICTION. By W. D. Howells. In two
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women.
to the eye spiritual. Even when the render- In a general way, Mr. Howells is happiest
ing is sympathetic and charming, it is another with those fictional creations whose authors
girl, for the girl you know, and so a shock.
a
have used his own method - that of the realist.
Personally, I prefer my heroines unillustrated. Hence, particularly charming is his hand-
This is not at all a stricture on the admirable ling of the women types (or female figures, as
art-work of these seemly books.
she would have called them) of Jane Austen;
The field covered is a wide one, practically also those of such later masters as Thackeray
the whole life of English fiction from Richard (whom he very properly points out to be by
son to our own day. For although Mr. Howells no means a consistent realist), Trollope, or
proposes at the outset to confine himself to the Mr. Hardy. His attitude toward the roman-
nineteenth century heroines of Anglo-Saxon ticists makes him a bit less sympathetic perhaps
a
fiction, he finds the eighteenth century types to the children, fair or foul, of their making ;
not only of Richardson but of such other yet the strictures are so frank, so gently put,
writers as Edgeworth, Austen, and Burney are and so intensely honest (it is always a principle
really modern and should come into the pur- not a person with this wise critic) that they
view. And so some of the most enjoyable and carry the more weight, whatever one's opinion.
suggestive pages deal with these earlier women Indeed, it is a triumph of Mr. Howells's fair-
of the native imagination.
mindedness and response to the great by what-
Such a study is really a sally into cultur- ever method conveyed, that what he writes of
geschichte ; for the ideals of a period are well Dickens is one of the best things in the two
reflected in the social place and power of its volumes, to be read with pleasure and profit
Mr. Howells is happily sympathetic by all lovers of the Master of Gadshill. Often,
to his theme, because he is aware of this fact, too, Mr. Howells's pen unerringly pierces the
and, too, because with him the underlying test gaps in the armor of some great romanticist's
of truth is always applied to a fiction, while art, his aim being all the surer in that his con-
his belief in the growth of social decency along viction that romance is not fiction's last and
with a finer' art, makes him a keen analyst of best word directs his peaceful missile -- the
-
society past and present, as well as of litera- pen that is mightier than the sword. This is
ture,
especially applicable to Scott, whose defects
Readers aware of his views on fiction - of are touched with a sort of loving sorrow, while
the principles he has long championed and his mighty qualities are at the same time at-
portrayed — will not be surprised to meet with tested to.
them here, always expressed with a winning
Just a word on the style of these essays.
tolerance and a welcome clarity. His doctrine Idiomatic English, vernacular that is easy yet
is found in a nutshell in volume I, p. 26, not vulgar, is what Mr. Howells always writes.
when, speaking of eighteenth century fiction, He is a deceivingly good writer; I mean it
he says it “had not yet conceived of the su- takes some culture in speech, in literature, to
preme ethics which consist in portraying life realize how good be is. His feeling for idiom
truly and letting the lesson take care of itself.” makes him daringly radical; he uses such
One feels like adding that this is quite ac- phrases as “falls down,” “it went," "faking,"
ceptable in the case of Mr. Howells, whose and yet others, in their popular signification.
lessons are wholesome, but less so when the But in the setting which he gives them they
message is of another sort.
What gives these add piquancy, and, for my ear, are void of
talks on fiction dignity and value are the fre- offense.
quent glimpses afforded of bye-gone manners The charm of this intimate, leisurely causerie
and morals, the atmospheric way in which the can only be shown in quotation and must here
evolution of society is pictured, decade by be taken on trust. Those acquainted with Mr.
decade, in standard novels during the life of Howells's attractive manner of literary criti-
that literary form. Only the really great cism need only to be assured that these volumes
critic, for example, can give off-band, as it embody a characteristic study — fruit of his
were, such an admirable explanation as does ripest. For those (if such there be) to whom
he of the successive changes of moral tone in this leader in our letters is less familiar, let it
the late eighteenth century and the early and again be said that the essay in its elder, nobler,
late nineteenth century as mirrored by Burney, and more alluring mood is not better illustrated
Austen, Thackeray, and, say, a contemporary in our day than by his work.
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terials are poorly digested, so that repetitions
THE TRUE THOMAS JEFFERSON.*
occur which a more careful examination of the
The author of the latest addition to the manuscript would have eliminated. The gen-
“ true” accounts of the lives of famous Amer. eral impression, however, is favorable, for the
icans asserts that the book is not so much a volume is full of suggestions and comparisons
formal biography as a series of sketches of that tend to show how the man moved in his
remarkable man—a red-haired, blue-eyed man, environment, and how the society of his time
who came to the Continental Congress in 1775, differed from the surroundings of public men
when he was thirty-two years old and almost to-day. For example, the picture is a striking
the youngest man in the body, bringing with one which shows two rural Virginians helping
him "a reputation for literature, science, and each other to train for high office, the one plan-
a happy talent for composition.”
ning to have the other his close friend
“ It was whispered about that, in addition to Latin always
always - for his political heir. The great Vir.
and Greek, he understood French, Italian, and Spanish, ginians are all introduced, and then comes this
was learning German, and intended to master Gaelic stinging criticism of the Old Dominion :
(if he could get the books from Scotland); that he
could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an ar-
Thomas Jefferson honored Virginia more than any
tery, plan an edifice, try a case, break a horse, dance a
other of her sons except George Washington; but Vir-
minuet, and play the violin, -- a long list of accom.
ginia, one of the greatest and most ungrateful of states,
plishments that were admired by the sixty serious
has not honored Thomas Jefferson. His neighbors, to
gentlemen in silk stockings and pigtails who sat in the
whose welfare he devoted so much time and labor, and
plain brick building up a narrow alley in Philadelphia
to whom his achievements brought so much glory and
and called themselves the honorable Congress.'
honor, permitted him to die destitute, and his family
to be driven by poverty from their home. They per-
Before Jefferson died, his versatility found mitted his estates to pass into the hands of aliens who
still further illustration in the invention of a now stand in his footprints and measure the value of
folding chair, a revolving chair, a copying versity of Virginia, which they have never fully appre-
his greatest gift to the people of his state, — the Uni-
press, an odometer, a pedometer, and a coinage ciated. They allowed his grave to be trampled upon
system; to say nothing of making ploughs and and his tomb to be desecrated, and the general govern-
proverbs, introducing merino sheep, Calcutta ment to restore the monument that was erected to his
hogs, and olives; writing the Declaration of In- memory, and a citizen of New York to preserve and
occupy the mansion in which he spent the best years of
dependence, organizing a political party, found-
his life. But Virginia also allowed the house of Wash-
ing a college, and breaking the Constitution. ington to pass out of her hands, the home of Madison
Frequent extracts from his account books show to be sold under the hammer, and the ruins of James-
a lavish expenditure for entertainment of town, the first civilized settlement on the continent of
friends that easily accounts for his bankruptcy,
North America, to be bought at auction by a lady from
Ohio who had the generosity to present it to a patriotic
and yet reveals the strange phenomenon of a
society of women. No state in the Union has furnished
founder of a political party, who was its great- more great men than Virginia; none has done so little
est leader, and yet for whom it is claimed that to honor them."
he never gave a dollar to influence an election, The idea of Jefferson's fixed opposition to
but on the contrary favored barring from office wholesale removals of Federalists, which finds
anyone who spent money for such purposes. expression in the statement that only thirty-
Such a character was an ideal man for a nine officials were dropped during the eight
newspaper correspondent to describe, and so years of his presidency, receives a rude shock
Mr. Curtis's little volume, in colonial buff and when table in this volume is examined show-
blue, gives us an interesting collection of missing a hundred and sixty-four changes out of a
cellaneous material that affords the reader a possible three hundred and thirty-four during
notion of the times in which Jefferson lived, the first term alone, although one oft-quoted
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and perhaps enables him to have a better con- letter is cited in which Jefferson says:
ception of the man than would be gained from “So that sixteen only have been removed in the
an historian who discussed his career from a whole for political principles — that is to say, to make
political standpoint alone.
some room for some participation for the Republicans."
Some of the familiar quotations are inaccu- Regarding Jefferson's power, it is stated :
rate; here and there are contemporary stories “ Jefferson intended that the new nation should be a
too good to be overlooked and therefore ascribed democracy ; and he would rather have let the whole
in this case to Jefferson ; and some of the ma-
world perish than that this purpose should fail. Never-
theless, he was the most absolute monarch that ever sat
THE TRUE THOMAS JEFFERSON. By William Eleroy in the Presidential chair. Although he introduced the
Curtis. Illustrated. Philadelphia : The J. B. Lippincott Co. practice of discussing all matters in his Cabinet and
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deciding questions of importance by vote, his powerful peace, or of such mental strife as secures the
individuality and persuasive reasoning controlling (con- greater victories and demands the more patient
trolled ?] his advisers in his official family and in
Congress. He exercised an influence in both houses of
toil. These last achievements seem for awhile
the national legislature, and with the people, that has
to exist only by fits and starts, the current of
never been equalled by any of his successors. He progress alternately advancing and receding in
formed a powerful party, he directed its action, and he its course; but gradually the beaconlights of
selected its principles; but he never assumed the atti- intelligence and discovery are kindled all over
,
sheltered by the dignity of his office. He worked with
the vast area, answering each other from afar,
singular silence and mystery, communicated bis wishes and encouraging each other as they become
to those who were loyal to him, and selected those who more numerous and bright. The world does
were able to carry them out with the greatest sagacity.
There has never been a more subtle or skilful strategist By them the hopeless are refuted, and the
progress; these annals of culture tell us that.
in American politics; there has never been a more ac-
curate observer of public sentiment, nor a better judge hopeful stimulated to greater effort. However
of human nature. .
much of barbarism and floundering ignorance
“ It is a curious fact that the founder of the party are still left for us to combat, we may hope to
whose creed is that all authority belongs to the people
alone was the greatest political dictator ever known in
see the steady growing of the light, both evil and
the United States; but it is equally true that the Dem- good continuing to exist as each other's antithesis
ocratic party has never been successful except under
and urging each other on to the inevitable strug-
the direction and leadership of a dictator."
gle that serves the mysterious principle of life.
Such quotations show the character of Mr. In looking through this book on the Culture
Curtis's “ The True Thomas Jefferson," a vol- side, England appears at first the most active
ume of illustrative material, stating details of the and intelligent of European countries. This
life of a great leader, showing faults and virtues is largely for the natural reason that no other
alike, on the whole commendatory, but most country receives such minute attention. Every
valuable by reason of comparisons showing the phase of development is recorded, even such as
United States of 1901 in opposition to that of
seem to the outsider of very small moment
1801, and indicating the place of Thomas
indeed. For England, too, a timely explana-
Jefferson as a leader from the view-point of a
tion of the value of each departure in the line
century after his great achievements.
of intellectual or social development is added
FRANCIS WAYLAND SHEPARDSON.
to most of the statements, while such help is
often lacking in regard to the events of similar
character in other countries. Many compilers
have added to the volume of facts presented, and
FOUR CENTURIES OF EUROPEAN their contributions do not always show equal
CULTURE AND POLITICS.*
care in selection or fulness of presentation.
At last we have a record of intellectual pro- The book contains the stately sum of 3765
gress coördinate with political events, in the chief events in Culture and 2326 in Politics,
“ Annals of Politics and Culture" by Mr. C. all these trebled or quadrupled in number by
P. Gooch. One glances at first curiously at side-lights thrown upon other events not espe-
these pages, where on the left-hand is given cially recorded. And yet we think that the
year after year the political history of Europe author of the Annals will be criticised, not so
since 1492, on the right-hand the chief events much for what he has put in as for what he
for the same period in the intellectual world, has excluded. We predict that these Annals
the first being so much better known and so
will ultimately swell to twice their present
much more boisterous in making themselves bulk,•for such a work is likely to create disa-
known, the others of so much greater conse- greement as to what should be included and
quence for our progress from the savagery of what omitted. Germans and Frenchmen will
assault and war to a basis of rational conduct.
doubtless have a good many things to say. As
While on the one side we hear the thunder of for us, realizing the difficulty of making a just
cannon, the clash of arms, or the mockery of selection in many fields, and grateful to the
,
diplomacy, - remnants of a predatory life good Fates and Lord Acton that such a book
which still repeats itself with wearisome mo- has appeared at all, we shall make only a few
notony,— on the other we behold the works of suggestions. Under the rubric Art is men-
tioned in due time Beethoven's “Fidelio," but
* Annals of POLITICS AND CULTURE (1492-1899). By nothing else of his, not even his Ninth Sym.
C. P. Gooch. With an introductory note by Lord Acton.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
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the completion of this opera, it appears strange ally crops out to offend the eye: why it should
that a work which stands as high in the history be Gunther instead of Günther, Moser instead
of music as Goethe's “Faust” in literature of Möser, or Holderlin instead of Hölderlin,
should be passed over in silence. Likewise, is quite inconceivable, since Böhmer and others
in the account of German achievements in are spelled properly. Abbt, it may be noted,
history are entirely omitted the two Von should not be printed Abt. On the other
Maurers, G. L. and K. Von Maurer, father hand, to print such hybrid mixtures as “ The
and son,-one of whom established the study fruchtbringende Gesellschaft” or “ The Auf-
of agrarian conditions in Germany, the other klärung” seems equally lacking in good taste;
known by his minute critical work in the com- why not “Die fruchtbringende," etc., or “The
parative study of Germanic laws with specific Enlightenment,” since this period belongs to
interest in the Anglo-Saxon period. This lat England as well as to Germany, or even more
ter subject is now attaining some importance On the death-list appear various names
in England, but has flourished in Germany not mentioned before in the text, and to most
since 1842. These men are unsurpassed in their people entirely unknown. The average reader
field, and are veritable founders of schools, needs an encyclopædia to find out who are
deserving to be mentioned, surely, in a place Ficino, Alciati, and numberless others who
where so many lesser lights shine. Further, figure nowhere but among the deaths, as if this
the beginnings and final success of the Postal was their chief accomplishment. That Hol-
Union, originating in Germany at the initia- berg's "Peder Paars ” or Baggesen’s “Comic
“
tion of the imperial postal minister Stephan, Tales” are put under Dutch literature, instead
are events of fully as great importance as the of under Danish, will surprise both the Dutch
Zollverein, which is after all but of national and the Danes. Attention might be called to
concern, while the Postal Union is of universal certain other oversights. The sentence on page
significance. The name of Sophie Kovalewska 33, note 191, makes it difficult to see to whom
ought not to be forgotten, either; her winning Ciceronianus is intended to belong, whether to
the prize of the French Academy of Sciences, Erasmus or to Longolius, the sentence being
under the circumstances under which she about as involved and obscure as if borrowed
gained that high honor, means a definite break from Longolius himself. It is also sometimes
with mediæval and clerical notions of the ca- difficult to understand the bearing of state-
pacity of women. It is the logical conclusion ments, such as the one on page 41, note 246,
of Mill's famous essay. And we might add where Poor Laws and Begging are mentioned
the query, if Du Maurier is counted worthy of as forbidden (presumably in England); or
mention as a draughtsman for “Punch," why in the line below, where the attempt to free
not also Keene, who had less mannerism and land from Uses presumably concerns England
at least equal wit?
again, while the succeeding line mentions
In regard to matters of wording, and style manufacture of silk in Lyons by Italians, thus
in general, a few things might be said. The making the whole matter apparently concern
method of quoting the title of a book or dames France. The addition of the title of Emperor
in English translation (which, it may be said, to Ferdinand, in the note on page 57, of his
is not done consistently) seems unscholarly sending Bubequius to Constantinople, would
Why not retain the original title, or at least solve one puzzle. We can easily see the ne
print that in parentheses after the translation ? | cessity of saving space, but there is space and
It is impossible to see the usefulness of trans- to spare in the book for such explanatory ad-
lating Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a name that ditions. It is rather a pity that the many
has become universally known, into “The errata must be swelled by omissions which
Boy's Wonderborn”; it strikes the reader as might easily bave been corrected.
flat in itself, and catering too much to the En- All these matters of complaint being little
glish habit of having everything anglicised. things as compared with the great things that
But this is not so bad as calling Peder Dass's have been achieved in this beginning of the
Nordlands Trompet “The Trumpet of Nor- systematic record of intellectual progress, we
way,” which is altogether misleading. Why do not feel it in our heart to end with anything
should Johann Sturm be called John Sturm, but hearty expressions of our satisfaction with
when that is not his name, and the change the book as a first and conspicuous attempt to
serves only to confuse the reader? The faulty enter a new and fruitful field.
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case.
here
THE HISTORY OF A BOGUS KING.*
reminded that it was largely Shaftesbury's and
Buckingham's influence that procured him this
It is perhaps not greatly to be regretted that rapid advancement. But his royal father's
the epoch of the Civil War and the Common- fondness for the young scapegrace was such
wealth has hitherto so largely engaged the at- that he was sure to be well provided for in any
tention of English historians that the period
A characteristic picture is given of the
immediately following has been somewhat neg. pleasure-loving monarch's mode of life at New-
lected. But now there are sigus, in such recent
market, just after seeing his son off for a 80-
publications as Dr. Osmund Airy's Charles journ on the Continent. A morning walk, the
“
A
11.,” Mrs. Ady's “Madame,” and Mr. Fea's cockpit, dinner, the cockpit again, the play,
II
“ King Monmouth,” that the unsavory chron- .
supper, “and so to bed," as old Pepys would
,
icles of Charles the Second's court are to be
say, — such was King Charles's daily pro-
-
made the subject of careful study on the part
gramme.
of specialists.
The chief interest in Monmouth's career cen-
Mr. Fea's elaborate and handsome work is
tres, of course, in his invasion from Holland
worthy of note, if only for the beauty of its
soon after his father's death, and in the battle
typography and binding and the number and
of Sedgemoor which put an end to his kingly
excellence of its illustrations. The ill-fated
pretensions. Our author is inclined to support
career, too, of James, Duke of Monmouth, the the charge of complicity on the part of the
natural son of Charles II., forms an important Prince of Orange in the fatal enterprise, Will-
chapter in English history; and considerable iam's motive being a natural desire to get rid
new material for a biography has come to light of a popular and dangerous rival. The disas-
since the publication, in 1844, of Mr. George trous issue of both Argyll's and Monmouth's
Roberts's excellent life of the Duke. Yet it is undertakings must have been foreseen by so
as a picture of the times, rather than of the shrewd a statesman and so experienced a sol-
man, that any recital of his adventures can be of dier. Mr. Fea makes but the briefest mention
value. Handsome, spirited, and brave in battle of the Duke of Argyll's unlucky raid, capture,
though he was, there is little in his intellect or
and execution. As this invasion of Scotland
.
character to command admiration. As was well
was an essential part of the general scheme, a
said of him by the Comte de Gramont, “son
detailed account of it would have been desir-
esprit ne disoit pas un petit mot en sa faveur.”
able. Of the battle of Sedgemoor — the last
In court morals, if in nothing else, there is fight worthy to be called a battle fought on En-
decided evidence that we live in a better world glish soil — a contemporary plan, drawn by the
than did our ancestors of two centuries ago. Rev. Andrew Paschall, is here printed for the
The Merry Monarch's weaknesses aroused 80 first time. The rout of the rebels, the capture
little reprobation that we find Lucy Walter's of Monmouth, his ignoble attempts to clear
illegitimate son enjoying the honor and emolu- himself at the expense of his followers, and his
ments of numerous high offices. When scarcely execution on Tower Hill, are all described in
out of his teens he was made Captain-General full; and we are left with a feeling of amaze-
of all the king's forces, Privy Councillor, Lord
ment that one so unworthy could have com-
Great Chamberlain of Scotland, Governor of manded such devoted support. It was from the
Kingston-upon-Hall, Lord Lieutenant of East humbler ranks that he drew his adherents, and
Yorkshire, and more besides ; while it was only
so constant were the people to their idol that,
the opposition of his uncle, the Duke of York,
even long after his death, they persisted in hop-
that prevented his appointment as Lord Lieu. ing for his reappearance among them. Cre-
tenant of Ireland. An annuity of six thousand
dence had been given to a false report that one
pounds, afterward increased to eight thousand, of his followers had mounted the scaffold in
was settled on him. Most astounding of all, his stead, and that “King Monmouth” him-
,
this illiterate youngster was elected, at the age self was safe and in hiding, biding his time for
of twenty-five, to the Chancellorship of Cam-
a second insurrection. So persistent was this
bridge University. Readers of Dryden's “ Ab-
belief that we even find Voltaire, some years
salom and Achitophel ” will not need to be after George III, had ascended the throne,
*KING MONMOUTH. Being a History of the Career of gravely refuting the conjecture that the “ Man
James Scott, "the Protestant Duke." 1649–1685. By Allan in the Iron Mask" was in reality the Duke of
Fea. Illustrated by the author with numerous Portraits,
Monmouth. One circumstance of importance
Sketches, Photographs, and Facsimile Letters, etc. New
York: John Lane.
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mouth's popularity: he stood, in the minds Comedy” satisfies our spiritual thirst, and
of the people, for the cause of Protestantism girds "the mind with power
,
- the mind with power by bringing it
against Popery, and their hatred of the latter into the presence of exalted ideals, intensest
had recently been kindled to a white heat by passions, and elemental truths." His tribute
Titus Oates and the so-called Popish Plot. to the sacred poem is so heartfelt and sincere
The new material drawn upon by the author that readers may profit by the study which he
makes his book well worth the writing. He has made of it, although that study is the re-
carefully cites his authorities in introduction sult of sympathy rather than of scholarship.
and in numerous foot-notes. Macaulay's asser- We can discern in the book not only the out-
tion that “the Civil War had barely grazed the lines of Dante's own thought, but also some-
frontier of Devonshire” is shown to be very thing of the process whereby the impact of his
far from the truth — thanks to a recently dis- thought has heightened the ideals and broad-
covered and authoritative document relating to ened the outlook of his commentator.
the Bloody Assize. No reign in English his- In form, this essay is a systematic study of
tory lends itself to illustration as does that of the “ Divine Comedy," prefaced by a chapter
Charles II., with its galaxy of court beauties of biography, and another in which the general
and its array of gay cavaliers, so pleasingly aspects of Dante's thought are considered. It
depicted by Lely, Kneller, Riley, Wissing, and is not as weighty a book as Symonds's “ Intro-
others. These portraits are here generously duction” or as Maria Rossetti's “Shadow of
reproduced in photogravure, and many views of Dante,” but it belongs with them in the class
historic places added. Indeed, so attractive of books that furnish helpful systematic guid-
are the pictures that we fear they excel the text ance for those who seek to follow the poet in
in interest. The dramatic side of the Duke's his spiritual pilgrimage.
his spiritual pilgrimage. Concerning the fit-
career might have been turned to better ac- ness of Dante's message for our own times the
count. The treatment of the theme is scholarly, author says:
but the reader does not turn the leaves with “Our greatest writers are not engrossed with the
bated breath to see what is coming next. How- actions of men, as was Homer; they are not absorbed
ever, if we cannot have both true history and
in delineating their passions, as was Shakespeare; but
are turning their thoughts into the deeps of the soul to
charm of style, let us by all means have the
learn the meaning of life and the realities confronting
former.
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
it. For this mood, which so often plunges men into
doubt, if not into despair, the triumphant faith of
Dante offers a corrective, and this meets the deepest
of our modern needs."
THREE DANTE BOOKS.*
Mr. Dinsmore writes throughout with enthu-
siasm, and often with eloquence. He some-
The Rev. Charles Allen Dinsmore is the
author of an earnest and thoughtful study of
times says a very fine thing indeed, as in the
following passage:
“The Teachings of Dante," a book which em-
a
“Only a mind of singular beauty could have con-
phasizes the fact that Dante stands in a vital
ceived a Purgatory, not hot with sulphurous flames, but
relation to the needs of our modern age, that healing the wounded spirit with the light of the shim-
his teachings have lost nothing of their essen- mering sea, the glories of the morning, the perfume of
tial meaning with the lapse of the centuries.
flowers, the touch of angels, the living forms of art,
The author tells us how, one summer day, jestic purity and love could have thought out a Heaven,
and the sweet strains of music. Only a spirit of ma-
several years ago, he picked up Longfellow's unstained by one sensuous line, revealing glory upon
translation of the “Inferno” to take into the glory until the ascending soul is lost in the splendor of
woods for an hour's quiet reading. He tells
incommunicable truth and the ardor of unutterable
love."
us how the spell of the divine poet straightway
fell
When the Oxford “Divine Comedy,” in
him, and has ever since remained as
upon
irresistible as the law of gravitation. He tells
Dr. Edward Moore's text, was published last
us, furthermore, how peculiarly the “ Divine
year, a companion volume of notes was prom-
ised for early issue. That volume, the work
* THE TEACHINGS OF DANTE. By Charles Allen Ding- of the Rev. H. F. Tozer, has now appeared,
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
AN ENGLISH COMMENTARY ON DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY.
and provides the student with an extremely
By the Rev. H. F. Tozer, M.A. New York: Oxford Univer satisfactory handbook for the elucidation of the
sity Press,
text. It is a volume of over six hundred pages,
THE NEW LIFE OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. Translation and
Pictures by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, New York: R. H.
into which an immense amount of information,
Russell.
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HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
abundant, as well as references to the sources
of Dante's facts and references. The discus-
For several successive years, Lady Dilke — who
sion of conflicting interpretations has been
was Miss Emilia Frances Strong and the widow
avoided, “ except in cases where the balance
of the late Rev. Mark Pattison before her marriage
does not greatly preponderate in favour of any to Sir Charles — has published valuable and author-
one of them.” We could wish that something itative works on French art in the eighteenth cen.
more of attention had been paid to the parallel tury. Her book “ French Painters brought out
isms in which modern literature abounds, but, in 1899, on “French Architects and Sculptors” in
on the whole, we cannot find any serious fault 1900, and now on “French Decoration and Furni.
with a work which offers so much material, and ture in the XVIIIth Century" (Macmillan), attest
80 effectively condenses it. Each of the Can- a wealth of reading and investigation continued
tiche is prefaced by a brief note, and each Canto through many years and presently blossoming into
is provided with a prefatory argument.
fine quartos. If it be a desirable thing to own fine
Among the holiday books of the present such a book as this, with its wealth of illustration
furniture, it is only less desirable to have at hand
,
season, none is more attractive than the illus-
and description. For Lady Dilke is an authority
trated edition of the “ Vita Nuova," in Ros-
who will never be satisfied with less than the best,-
setti's wonderful translation. Rossetti's text and “best” with her does not mean the most ex-
is given, and his own introduction. This is
This is pensive, or even the most authentic, specimens of
prefaced by an introduction written two years
French or other furniture. « Even delicacies and
ago by his brother, Mr. W. M. Rossetti, and graces of expression,” she says in her preface,
,
this in turn by an introduction prepared for the
“ finish of inlay, sharpness of carving and of chisel-
present edition by Mr. Fitz Roy Carrington. ing, are worthless unless sustained by sense of style
and respect for the laws of construction. . . Were
After all these introductions, the reader should
it not for their influence the priceless trifles which
surely find himself on good terms with both
the millionaire guards behind plate glass .
text and translator. Mr. Carrington's intro- would have no more title to honor, from an artistic
duction is chiefly concerned with the pictorial point of view, than the wax-flowers which the thrifty
features of the volume. These consist of fifteen
mistress of a country inn protects from houseflies
full-page plates, for which, strangely enough, with a glass shade. This is a hard saying, for
no titles and no table of contents are provided. alluring prettinesses of shining metal, gay china,
We are left to guess at the illustrations, unless
and marvels of finish are readily appreciated by any
we can identify them by reference to the preface. who live in costly surroundings; but the values of
Fortunately, they are for the most part familiar, style and construction demand some sacrifice; they
can be recognized only by effort, patient attention,
including Rossetti's paintings of “Dante's
and cultivated habits of observation.” What fol.
Dream” and “ Beata Beatrix," besides eleven
lows is so varied in subject and so rich in treatment
other studies, and adding, for good measure, that little more than a hint can be given of the
a portrait based upon the death-mask and the contents of the book. The first six chapters deal
Bargello portrait, reproduced in color. The
The with the question of decoration - as a background
book is beautifully printed and tastefully bound. for furniture, and so discriminated from architectural
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
effect pare and simple; the next two with tapestries,
and the remaining five with furniture of all sorts.
Every style and model has the necessary illustra-
“ FIVE THOUSAND FACTS AND FANCIES,” by Mr.
tions to eke out the descriptions of the letter-press,
William Henry P. Phyfe, is one of those miscellaneous
most of them half-tone reproductions of photo-
handbooks of curious and out-of-the-way knowledge for
which there seems somehow to be a need, in spite of the
graphs, but many in photogravure, and several score
regulation cyclopædias. It may be best described by an
in number. The book can hardly be described by
extract from the title-page, where we read that its con-
a smaller word than magnificent.
tents include “noteworthy historical events; civil, mili- Artist, book-lover, and cat-lover in one, Miss
tary, and religious institutions; scientific facts and Agnes Repplier has given us in “The Fireside
theories; natural curiosities; famous buildings, monu- Sphinx” (Houghton) a most fascinating study of
ments, statues, paintings, and other works of art and
the cat, from the days when she lived out her nine
utility; celebrated literary productions; sobriquets and
pampered lives in an Egyptian temple, and, dying,
nicknames; literary pseudonyms; mythological and im-
was ceremoniously buried in a gilded mummy case,
aginary characters; political and slang terms; deriva-
tion of peculiar words and phrases; etc., etc.” The
until now, when after long dark ages of persecution
editor's practice in preparing works of popular reference
and neglect she has won back a trifle of her ancient
has taught him what is wanted in a work of this sort, honor and reigns once more the “little god” of
and he has made a skilful selection of material. The hearth and home. Compared with the lives of her
Messrs. Putnam are the publishers.
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individual domestic puss is likely to seem dull and with the United States, has now extended to Ea-
spiritless; for hers is a distinctly feminine genius, rope ; and in the new volumes on London and
and her limited field of action, her love of chimney Ireland will be found admirable souvenirs and re-
corner ease, and her impenetrable reserve, combine minders of pleasant journeys abroad. “ London,
to defeat her biographer. But it is her race history Historical and Social,” by Mr. Claude de la Roche
that Miss Repplier chronicles, thus securing novelty Francis, is in two duodecimo volumes, filled with
of treatment among present-day beast epics, as well photogravures from the best-known scenes in the
as the largeness of interest which her little heroine's world's metropolis, having a text which is amiably
domesticity tended to preclude. In this series of discursive, and contains abundant references to
delightful essays she deals with pussy's varying authentic and traditional history for the better un-
fortunes in different ages and climes, with the legends derstanding of the subject, with a wealth of anecdote
of her witchcraft rites and revels, the French and to keep it sane and readable. To an American,
English estimates of her, and the treatment accorded the evidences of age are the most to be envied of
her by art. Every chapter illustrates and elucidates any of the cockney possessions ; and Mr. Francis
the conception of the cat familiar to those of us is right in devoting so much of his space to the
who remember the previous essays upon “ Agrip- portrayal of ancient customs and buildings surviving
pina" and " A Kitten.” “God of Egypt, plaything
“God of Egypt, plaything into the present. The book begins with Æneas,
of Rome,” witch and friend of witches, delight of and ends with an anticipatory description of the
Théophile Gautier or Sir Walter Scott,
coronation of Edward VII. It has a satisfactory
always for Miss Repplier “the little sphinx whose index, and a list of Mayors of the city. It also has.
ways are gentle, whose heart is cold, whose char- an excellent map, is well printed, substantially
acter is inscrutable.” The present volume, then, bound, and is in every way a book worth keeping.–
will be welcomed by all lovers of the cat; and it Ireland, Historic and Picturesque" is by Mr.
will be welcomed, too, by all who appreciate Miss Charles Johnston, and will serve as an unusually
Repplier. This new volume from her hand is fair and discriminating history of the island from
characterized by all the wealth of anecdote and the earliest times. The ancient Celtic mythology
allusion - the "curious and forgotten lore"- with is given in great detail, enough to make the book
which she is wont to surprise and delight her readers, serviceable as a work of reference in this field. The
and by all the vivacity and finish of which her style attitude is fair, neither favoring the Saxon invader
never fails. Miss Elizabeth Bonsall’s charming and overmuch nor searching out the faults of the natives.
sympathetic illustrations deserve mention as adding There is an abundance of description, and many
a crowning touch to the reader's pleasure.
photogravures to illustrate it. The great number
A sumptuous work in two volumes, abundantly of ruins depicted shows the effect of British oc-
decorated without and within, is “ Flowers from cupancy without need of further comment. The
Persian Poets” (Crowell), edited by Mr. Nathan book is in one volume, with an index and map,
Haskell Dole and Miss Belle M. Walker. Persian uniform with the work just commented on.
designs in gold on the cover, a Persian design in the Mr. T. Gallon has shown something of the feeling
sacred green of Islam bordering each page, speci- of Dickens in his use of grotesque English char-
mens of Persian calligraphy and photogravures acters, and this is more, rather than less, apparent
of Persian scenery by way of illustrations, com- in “ The Man Who Knew Better: A Christmas
bine to give the book physical beauty beyond that Dream” (Appleton). The story is that of a hard-
of good paper and careful printing. For its con- hearted man of business, a veritable Scrooge, com-
tents, the whole field of Persian literature has been placent and secure in his riches, and oblivious to all
gone over and made to yield its choicest fruits. A interests of life save his own balance-sheet. But
searching general introduction leads up to Firdausi's the years bring reversals, and, finally, through the
“Sohrab,” from the translation of James Atkinson. chastening experience of poverty and starvation,
For Omar Khayyám, dependence has been placed the “man who know better” comes to a real knowl-
on an anonymous rendering, accredited to E. A. edge of life — and of death, also. There are other
Johnson. Then follow Nizami’s “ Laili and Maj- characters in the book, not the least interesting of
num,” part of " The Masnavi,” and many of the whom are Bob Judkin and his company of strolling
shorter poems of Jelalu-’Din, or Rumi, with the players. The effect of the story is brightened by
“Day and Night” of Essedi to close the first the illustrations of Mr. Gordon Browne, which will
volume. The second contains the “ Gulistan" or suffer but little in comparison with the work
“ Rose Garden” of Sa'di, and selections from his of Hablot Browne, his father, the “ Phiz” of
“Bustan,” “A Persian Song,” and several of the pleasant memory. Author, artist, and publishers
odes of Hafiz, and the “ Yusuf and Zulaikha " of have combined to produce in “The Man Who
Jami. In every case critical and biographical notes Knew Better a book which reflects the true spirit
precede the excerpts. Within the limits set, no of Christmas more thoroughly than any other title
better
survey
of Persian literature in verse has been on our Holiday list.
given in English.
To Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney's “Romance
The photogravure series of travel-books issued of the Feudal Châteaux,” published last year, now
by Messrs. Henry T. Coates & Co., which began | succeeds the “Romance of the Renaissance Châ-
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teaux" (Putnam) from the same skilful hand, and, author and perpetrator of “The Purple Cow” has
like its predecessor, embellished with numerous had his varied witticisms and drawings gathered
beautiful illustrations in half-tone and photo- | into one volume with the title, “ The Burgess Non-
gravure. Ten little romances have been taken sense Book” (Stokes). Here one may read what
from their setting in history, and given a new place serves as an antidote to that most famous quatrain:
and added brilliancy here. The literary flavor of
“Ah, Yes! I Wrote the 'Purple Cow'-
them all is marked; the first story, for instance,
I'm Sorry, now, I Wrote it!
being of the three Châteaux of Nantes, Amboise,
But I can Tell you Anyhow,
I'll Kill you if you Quote it!”
and Blois, and based on the “ Book of Hours" of
Charlotte d'Albret. Not a little of the spirit of
Bat over among the “Poems of Patagonia" is
another version, beginning,
the age, so well translated here in terms of modern
“A Mayde there was, semely and make enow;
English, is supplied by that extraordinary gentle-
She sate a-milken of a purpil Cowe,”
man, Pierre d'Amboise, Seigneur of Chaumont,
who, in giving seventeen children to the world, pride in the achievement; the explanation being
which seems to indicate, after all, a certain lingering
several of them of consequence, aided the arts as
given that the color was due to “ The Master's
-something more than a mere patron of them. The
Mandement” that “His Kyne shall ete of nought
text ranges from the later reign of Louis XI. to
the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the illustra-
but Vylet Floures !” Probably the best form of jus-
tions consist of reproductions of historical paintings title-page : “The Burgess Nonsense Book, Being
tice that can be done the volume is to reproduce the
as well as actual photographs of the buildings de-
scribed. Notes and a bibliography accompany the
a Complete Collection of the Hamorous Master.
tales, but an index is lacking.
pieces of Gelett Burgess, Esq., Sometime Editor of
With the revival of formal horticulture comes
• The Lark,' • Le Petit Journal des Refusées,' &
Mrs. Alice Morse Earle's “Old Time Gardens,
• Enfant Terrible'; including the Purple Cow'
a Book of the Sweet o' the Year" (Macmillan).
with Forty Odd Nonsense Quatrains, the • Chewing
This learned American antiquarian has found no
Gum Man' Epics, the Gerrish' Ghost Stories,
Poems of Patagonia, Curious Cartoons, Autobiog-
more congenial subject than this, nor one which better
justifies the wealth of illustration lavished upon it. raphies of Famous Goops, & a Myriad Impossi-
It is with gardens " in the good old Colony days Rending Illustrations by the Author. The Whole
bilities, adorned with less than a Million Heart-
when we lived under the King" that Mrs. Earle is
concerned, and she must have wandered much and
forming a Book of Blissful Bosh for the Blasé; an
far to have accumulated the wealth of material
Amusing Antidote to Modern Neurøsthenia; a
from which she builds her pleasant pages. New
Stimulating Spur to Thoughtlessness, & a Restful
Recreation for the Super-Civilized, the Over-
England and the Old Dominion join in her tale,
and now and again she permits something from the
Educated, & the Hyper-Refined. Carefully Expur-
loveliness of the present to intrude gracefully upon
gated of all Reason, Purpose, & Verisimilitude, by
& Corps of Irresponsible Idiots. An Extrageneous
the ordered beauty of the past. One such thing is
Tome of Twaddle, an Infallible Cyclopædia of Bal-
the description of a sun dial presented by Dr. Henry
derdash, Ferocious Fancies & Inconsequential Va-
van Dyke to Mrs. Katrina Trask, upon which the
garies, Than Which Nothing Could be More So."
reverend poet has caused to be inscribed two senti-
ments which must be given here. On the face of
It is not an evil innovation, permitting every author
thus to furnish forth his own idea of his work; the
the dial, running about its edge, is this :
book itself is no small proof of Mr. Burgess's
“ Hours fly,
Flowers die,
aphorism, “ Nonsense is the Fourth Dimension of
New Days,
Literature."
New Ways,
The re-discovery of our ancestors continues
Love stays."
apace, though the latest work in this field of re-
Miss
While at the base of the gnomon may be read:
search is devoted to possible ancestresses.
“ Time is
Geraldine Brooks has prepared two handsome oc-
Too Slow for those who Wait,
tavo volumes, with photogravure illustrations by
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Messrs. Charles Copeland and H. A. Ogden, called,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
respectively, “ Dames and Daughters of Colonial
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
Bat for those who Love,
Days” and “ Dames and Daughters of the Young
Time is
Republic" (Crowell). “There may be, and there
Eternity."
often is, indeed, a regard for ancestry which nour-
Mrs. Earle remarks that, though for years a student ishes only a weak pride,” Daniel Webster is per-
of such lore, she knows nothing to match these “ mitted to say on the title-pages of both books. “But
quisite dial legends." The volume, from its lovely there is also,” it is added, “ a moral and philosoph-
cover to the ferny end.papers, abounds in kindliness ical respect for our ancestors which elevates the
and sunny serenity, - altogether a book to be loved.
character and improves the heart.” Yet it seems
That youthful humorist of the Pacific coast to be generally true that the more desirable the
whose sad fate it is to be known first of all as the ancestor the fewer the descendants; and certainly
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seems to keep pace with a fine disregard of the prin- Gautier, Dickens and Thackeray, Longfellow and
ciples many of them sought to inculcate. The colo- Hawthorne, W. S. Gilbert and Austin Dobson,
nial worthies discussed in the first book include Anne Lewis Carroll, Anthony Hope, and Rudyard Kip-
Hutchinson, Margaret Brent, Martha Washington, ling. It will be a strange taste indeed that cannot
Abigail Adams, and Elizabeth Schuyler, among find in all this range something worth the while ;
others; and among those of the young Republic are and the whole book, carefully printed and tastefully
Dolly Madison, Sarah Jay, Theodosia Burr, Patsy bound, is one to be treasured.
Jefferson, and Rachel Jackson. This shows a cath- After thirty years, Mr. William Dean Howells
olic taste, to say the least. Miss Brooks is happy has revised his Italian Journeys" (Houghton) and
in her manner, and the books, similarly bound and it is now repablished with admirably dainty illus-
placed together in a box, are very attractive. trations by Mr. Joseph Pennell. It is a thorough
“When winter snows begrey the air, We'll think revision, too, done with painstaking care, sentence
of summer bright and fair, - a sentiment which by sentence. A comparison of the new with the
comes forcibly to mind on looking through the old edition, published first in 1872, is an exposition
« Blue Grass and Rhododendron » of Mr. John in little of the well-beloved author's intermediate
Fox, Jr., issued in holiday attire by Messrs. Scrib- life. Not the least valuable feature of the handsome
ner's Sons. The book has an alluring sub-title, book is the brief introduction which Mr. Howells
too,-“Out Doors in Old Kentucky"; and all the
-
has prepared for it. At the outset, he says, he re-
promise of the letter-press is borne out by the turned a categorical refusal to the request for revis-
numerous pictures by Mr. F.C. Yohn, many of them ion and for a new preface. But having consented
from photographs. Mr. Fox went roaming through to one, the other followed as a matter of course.
bis beloved mountains, and came upon those de- Then he goes on : “ From time to time it seemed to
lightful survivals of a simpler age, the inhabitants me that I was aware of posing, of straining even,
thereof. He describes their life with the sym. in some of my attitudes, and I had a sense of having
pathetic comprehension which has given his tales put on more airs than I could handsomely carry,
and novels so worthy a place in our national liter- and of having at other times assumed an omnis-
ature, and supplements his descriptions with wise cience for which I can now find no reasonable
comments of his own, the twentieth century dis- grounds. So exacting is one at sixty-four—.” But
coursing upon the eighteenth, so to speak. This is there is no need to go further. When the book was
not the place for political discussion, but we are written, in 1871, Mr. Howells was thirty-four years
compelled to wonder at what Mr. Fox may mean old. Now he is sixty-foar years young. And that
by saying that the “anti-Goebel democracy” is is why this new edition is so well worth cherishing-
“the best in every way." Observing men in the
“
with the old one beside it on the shelf.
North have thought some of these “best” men The sumptuous edition of Gilbert White's “ The
fugitives from retributive justice, fleeing with murder Natural History of Selborne" published by Mr.
on their hands. Even if discussion of this sort is John Lane some time ago is now issued in a smaller
over profitable, it can hardly be at Christmas time. size in order to permit its sale at a lower price.
Several holiday seasons have accustomed us to
is somewhat reduced, but the resulting
look for some valuable gleanings from the various duodecimo retains all the pictorial and typograph-
fields of human endeavor, by Miss Esther Singleton, ical beauty of the earlier edition. The late Grant
among whose previous works “ Turrets, Towers, and Allen was the editor, and Mr. Edmund H. New
Temples ” and “Great Pictures" will be pleasantly provided a most alluring series of pictures, - birds
remembered. Excellent as these were, they are still at each chapter heading, and views of the places de
inferior to her new book, "Love in Literature and scribed interspersed through the book in appropriate
Art" (Dodd, Mead & Co.), which on its literary side places; and the whole volume has been made a
is a celebration both of the tender passion and of worthy memorial of the humble English country
that wider spirit which promises peace and good clergyman whose little duties thoroughly done have
will to man, and on the pictorial side a bringing to given him an enduring fame which his most mag-
,
gether in compact form of no less than thirty-two nificent contemporary might envy. It is worth
finely reproduced masterpieces fitted to her theme, while noting that no part of the apparatus of a
from the hands of the greatest painters. The choice useful book has been sacrificed in making this a
is catholic. Botticelli and Leslie, Rubens and Ros- beautiful one, the copious index being a treasure in
setti, Corot and Alma Tadema, indicate in brief the itself, just as the illustrations of birds are all drawn
range of art; while the literary classics of modern from life and are of scientific accuracy.
Europe have nearly all been laid under contribu- There is no occasion for despairing of good
tion, with a few writers of the later Greek world stories as long as “Bob, Son of Battle" can sell
added for good measure.
Here can be found af. itself to the extent of fifty-five thousand volumes
fectionate excerpts from the works of Theocritus and still warrant the Doubleday & McClure Co..
and Bion, Lyly and Peele, Cervantes and Molière, in preparing a special holiday edition of this ad-
Jonson and Shakespeare, Spenser and Marlowe, mirable work of Mr. Alfred Ollivant's. “The
Fielding and Sterne, Goethe and de la Motte Fou- better I know men, the more I like dogs," said the
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French cynic; but the growing realization of the “The Lark Classics" (Doxey) have already made
great democracy which nature exhibits to us would themselves known to lovers of bibelots, and their
have it read, “The better I know dogs and men, reissuance during the holiday season in the brightest
the more I like men and dogs.” Even here, of and stoutest of full leather bindings makes them
course, Adam McAdam is not quite Bob, but then, available as a superior sort of Christmas card, a
Bob is not quite Adam. This edition has numerous function for which their reasonable price makes
illustrations from photographs of the scenes de- them especially fitted. There are eight volumes,
.
scribed, taken by Mr. A. Radcliffe Dugmore and re- consisting of the "Rubaiyát” of Omar Khayyam
produced in half-tone. They depict every stage of in FitzGerald's translation, with additional poems
the tender tragedy, but the desire of the subject by Messrs. Justin Huntly McCarthy, Porter Garnett,
who sat for Adam to keep his physiognomy away and others; the “ Barrack-Room Ballads, Reces-
from the stare of the camera's eye has not helpedsional, and Other Poems” of Mr. Rudyard Kipling
matters ; the was
, “ Departmental , The
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two. Certainly if we were going to be a dog we Vampire, and Other Poems" in another; Mr.
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would be a colly. But we'd rather be a boy with Swinburne's “ Laus Veneris, and Other Poems,”
Christmas coming.
with an introduction by Mr. Howard V. Suther-
“ Historic Towns of the Western States” (Put- land; Shakespeare's Sonnets, with initial letters by
nam) is the new volume in the “ American Historic Mr. Porter Garnett; Eric Mackay's “Love Letters
Towns” series, following previous volumes on the of a Violinist”; Mr. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's “Love
New England and the Middle States, all under the Sonnets of Proteus "; and Richard Jefferies's “The
general editorship of Mr. Lyman P. Powell. As Story of My Heart.” Other volumes are announced
in former instances, there is a general introduction, in this admirable series, to be published soon.
written in this case by Mr. Reuben G. Thwaites, A famous spot in American history is depicted
preceding a series of local histories from the pens in “The Mohawk Valley : Its Legends and Its
of representative residents of the several towns dis- History" (Putnam) by Mr. W. Max Reid, with
cussed. In this book are dealt with, among other many illustrations from photographs taken by Mr.
places, Cleveland, by Dr. Charles W. Thwing ; In- J. Arthur Maney. From Campbell's "Gertrude
dianapolis, by Mr. Perry S. Heath ; Vincennes, by of Wyoming” to the recent novels of Messrs.
the late William Henry Smith; Chicago, by Mr. Clinton Scollard and Robert W. Chambers, this
Lyman J. Gage; St. Louis, by Mr. William Marion storied country has had its place in literature, and
Reedy; Omaha, by Mr. Victor Rosewater; Santa Mr. Reid's book adds not a little to what has gone
Fé, by Dr. Frederick W. Hodge; San Francisco, by before it. The strange legend of the Indian city
Mr. Edwin Markham; and Los Angeles, by Miss Norumbega, which the late John Fiske explained
Florence E. Winslow. Each city has its story thor- 80 satisfactorily, places the opening of the narra-
oughly illustrated, with pictures of historic spots, tive before the beginnings of history, and the Five
and of its principal buildings and monuments as (or Six) Nations, most powerful and most imposing
they stand to-day. The book is not less useful than of aboriginal governments, lend it the interest of
ornamental, much real learning being expended on their checkered history. Jesuit mission fathers,
the text, whicb is authoritative in every case. The French feudal chiefs of the new world, the soldiery
volume is handsomely bound and boxed.
of the two great nations of eighteenth-century
It is a merry and a lovely book which Mrs. Europe, and the final settlement of many years of
Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield has written and conflict in the peaceful present, combine to aid Mr.
Mr. Edwin Harland Blasbfield illustrated, with Reid in a task of much magnitude. Historical
the title “Masques of Cupid" (Scribner). Four scenes, buildings, and personages comprise the sub-
little one-act dramas make up the contents : “ Thejects of the threescore-and-ten pictures, completing
Surprise Party” first, a thoroughly modern bit a work undertaken with ambition and brought to a
from polite society in an aspect rather less polite conclusion with success.
than usual; “ The Lesser Evil” next, in which It seems fair to say that Mr. John Kendrick
Robert Louis Stevenson's “ The Sire de Mala- | Bangs was never funnier than in his latest book,
troit's Door” is utilized with Mrs. Stevenson's which announces itself thus : “Mr. Munchausen,
permission; then a commingling of French and Being a True Account of some of the Recent Ad-
Americans in a French country house in 1880, ventures beyond the Styx of the late Hieronymus
with the title “ The Honor of the Créquy"; and, Carl Friedrich, sometime Baron Munchausen of
finally, “In Cleon's Garden," taking the reader Bordenwerder, as originally reported for the Sun-
back to Athens in the fifth century before Christ day Edition of the Gehenna Gazette by its Special
and to a Cleon we have long known. Pleasant as Interviewer the late Mr. Ananias, formerly of Jeru-
these little love comedies are, the pictures for them salem, and now first transcribed from the columns
are no less charming - reproductions of delicate of that Journal" (Noyes, Platt & Co.). The book
pencil drawings, many in number. The book, a is enriched with many delicious drawings in color
large octavo, is one of the most graceful of the by Mr. Peter Newell, and is a happy caricature of
season's holiday books, and delightfully harmoni- a book which is itself a caricature. The opening,
ous in every detail.
which informs a waiting world of the manner in
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which communication was established between the (Dent-Macmillan), is to be welcomed. The first vol-
author and the late Baron, is as good as anything ume, already published, is made up from the writings
to quote: “It was not, to begin with, a dark and of Sir Arthur Helps, containing “ Thoughts in the
dismal evening. The snow was not falling silently, Cloister and the Crowd " and "Companions of My
clothing a sad and gloomy world in a mantle of Solitude.” It will be followed shortly by a trans-
white, and over the darkling moor a heavy mist was lation of St. Teresa's “The Way of Perfection,”
not rising, as is so frequently the case. There was showing the extensive range of the series. The
no soul-stirring 'moaning of bitter winds through books are beautifully printed on soft paper, bound
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the leafless boughs ; so far as I am aware nothing in flexible cloth, with a cloistral cover design, and
soughed within twenty miles of my bailiwick; and of a size and weight which will permit carrying
my dog, lying before a blazing log fire in my li-
. in the pocket. A photogravure portrait of Helps
brary, did not give forth an occasional growl of ap- serves to introduce the text, which should be too
prehension,” etc.
well known to require detailed description.
Mr. Oliver Herford is indefatigable in the attempt
An illustrated edition has been made of Mrs.
to do all that one man may to cheer his fellows. Jane de Forest Shelton's “The Salt-Box House;
"More Animals" (Scribner), with both rhymes and Eighteenth Century Life in a New England Vil-
pictures by himself, is the latest offering to this lage” (Baker & Taylor Co.). Mr. John Hen- .
end. If not exactly drawn from life, the beasts derson Betts has provided most of the pictures,
and birds show a lively naturalness which is rather including full-page drawings of typical scenes of a
enhanced than diminished by the still livelier distant day, as well as tail-pieces for some of the
rhymes. “The Do-do," for example, is commemor- chapters. The frontispiece is from an old paint-
ated thus :
ing showing the sort of habitation that went by the
“This Pleasing Bird, I grieve to own,
name of a “salt-box” house, with cabins for the
Is now Extinct. His Soul has Flown
negro slaves of its owner clastering at the back.
To Parts Unknown, beyond the Styx,
To Join the Arcb@opteryx.
The memory of many interesting things has been
What Strange, Inexplicable Whim
preserved in the text; for example, the ancient
Of Fate, was it to Banish him ?
name "winkum ” for the cider brandy now known
When Every Day the numbers swell
colloquially as apple-jack, the custom which re-
Of Creatures we could spare so well:
quired the caller upon the young ladies of the
Insects that Bite, and Snakes that Sting,
And many another Noxious Thing.
household to take personal care of what was known
All these, my Child, had I my Say,
as the “sparking fire,” and the text of President
Should be Extinct this very Day.
Washington's first Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Then I would send a Special Train
Pains have been taken to verify the statements
To bring the Do-do back again."
made from contemporaneous documents.
The last four pictures in this collection are devoted
That great novel without a hero, “Vanity Fair,"
to that strange beast which a boy described recently
as "half a dog tall and a dog-and-a-half long," the
appears in three handy little volumes as the fore.
Dachshund, smaller space not serving to give his
runner of a thirty-volume edition of Thackeray's
full dimensions. As a result, the book ends, more
works complete (Dent-Macmillan). A fine tinted
photogravure of the author's best portrait serves as
literally than most, with a "tail-piece." It is very
the frontispiece, and there are numerous illustra-
good fooling indeed.
tions in crayon and pen-and-ink by Mr. Charles E.
A curious work, evidently a labor of love in an Brock. A simple cover design, pretty end papers,
unsuspected field, is Mrs. Amelia Mott Gummere's
and all that makes a tasteful book, round out the
“The Quaker, a Study in Costume” (Ferris & work with a fulness of excellence which the Dent
Leach). Going back to the origin of the placidly imprint implies.
.
demure sect who so courageously set themselves Count Tolstoi's " Anna Karenina” has attained
apart from worldly influences, not only in thought the dignity of a sumptuous three-volume edition
but in word and apparel, Mrs. Gummere begins (Crowell), the translation by Mr. Nathan Haskell
with a consideration of the Quaker coat, most Dole being used for the purpose. Each of the
prominent of the various habiliments that went to volumes is provided with a photogravure frontis.
make up the “plain" dress, a part of the pride of
piece after a wash-drawing by Mr. E. Boyd Smith.
potential martyrdom.” Chapters on the coat, the The type is large and clear (as may be seen from
hat, beards, wigs, and bands by way of masculine the fact that more than nine hundred pages are used
attire, precede the section on the costume for to contain the text), the paper is good, and the
women, closing with a consideration of the Quaker
cover design simple and effective; these adorn-
bonnet. Much curious learning will be found in ments, with a rubricated title-page, combine to give
the text, and the book has numerous illustrations, one of the greatest of modern novels a setting worthy
many of which are reproduced in photogravure, of its art.
making it an appropriate gift for all of Quaker That expected collection of good things announced
descent.
as “Miranda's Library" is favorably introduced
A series of the best meditative writings of the by a gracefully designed volume reprinting Mrs.
ages, under the name of “The Cloister Library” Jameson’s “ Shakespeare's Heroines” (Dent-
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Dutton). The work is too well known to require the pictures by Messrs. C. D. Gibson and E. M.
any comment on the text, but Mr. R. Anning Bell Ashe, made into vignettes with a tinted frame.
has been given free scope in the decorations, and The story deals, as its many admirers know, largely
the result is charming — suitable in every way to with the stage and stage people ; but the spirit of
the fair creations of the master-poet. The frontis- Christmas is reflected in its bright pages, which are
piece and title-page are done in black and red, with made more bright by the tasteful adornments with
a similar use of color for every chapter heading. which the publishers (Harpers) have distinguished
In addition, numerous full-page illustrations contain this holiday edition.
portraits of the heroines themselves, done in line. Calendars are among the inevitable consolations
Soft, firm paper, light in weight, and a cover design of one more year gone, and this season they are
entirely in keeping, make up a gift worth giving sufficiently beautiful in many cases to serve their
and a volume worth keeping.
purpose. The “ Bryn Mawr College Calendar for
Miss Marie Corelli has her cult, like other 1902 is a pretty affair, and is to be had of the
writers; and a sacrifice on its shrine is the luxuri- Students' Building Committee at Bryn Mawr,
ous edition of “Barabbas, a Dream of the World's Pennsylvania, the profits from the sale of it to be
Tragedy," just published by the J. B. Lippincott applied to the fund for a new students' building.
Co. There is a bit of symbolism in the rubrica. Thirteen full-page drawings, reproduced in color
tion of its title-page, and Mr. Ludovico Marchetti on drab paper, will be found, done, as in previous
has done balf-a-dozen good drawings for the book, years, by Misses Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth
which are finely reproduced in photogravure. The Shippen Green, and Ellen Wetherald Ahrens, from
binding is red, stamped with gold,--this also seem- typical scenes in student life and from views in
ing to be somewhat symbolic.
many places, both at Bryn Mawr and elsewhere.
Following the holiday reprint of “Penelope's The work has decided artistic merit. — “ The Bird
English Experiences” last year, Messrs. Houghton, Calendar (A. W. Mumford) utilizes six of the
Mifflin & Co. now bring forth “A Cathedral Court- excellent color pictures which have been printed in
ship" - like its predecessor, the delightful work the volume called “ Birds and All Nature," the
of Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs. As before, several months being represented by a winged
Mr. Charles E. Brock has been selected for the creature more or less characteristic. The snowy
delicate and interpretive line drawings which so owl, for example, answers for January and Febru-
plentifully illustrate the work, and not one element ary, and the red-headed woodpecker for July and
of the humor implied in “a quantity of lemon August. In each case a description of the bird and
squash suitable for two,” and all the rest of the so an account of its babits accompanies the portrait,
thoroughly un-American things one finds in En- and the general effect is pleasing. —"A Calen-
gland, has been lost. If these British did not take dar for Saints and Sinners” has been compiled by
themselves so seriously, there would be a native the Young Woman's Missionary Society of the First
verse on "lemon squash ” which would out-Lear Methodist Episcopal Church, of Evanston, Illinois. .
Lear.
It consists of fifty-two cards, tied together with silk
One of the little nooks of art is exploited with cord and tassels, and bearing an attractive cover
admirable results by Mr. Wilbur Macey Stone design in red and black. There is a selection in
in “Some Children's Book Plates, an Essay in prose or verse for every day in the year, the
Little," published by the “ Brothers of the Book," authors represented ranging from Pythagoras to
at Gouverneur, New York. It is the sort of Will Carleton.
thing that one is glad to see done by somebody, Quite inimitable are the tiny volumes diminu-
tiny as the subject is, and remote from modern tive enough to be literal “waistcoat pocket books”
ideas. The book has unquestioned charm, the – which the Oxford University Press is issuing in
essay being something more than an excuse for the “ Oxford Miniature Editions." The latest of
giving a series of illustrations. The book-plates, these is the “ Dramatic Lyrics and Romances, and
which are pasted in, give American, English, Other Poems” of Robert Browning, with an early
French, and German examples, some from a by- portrait for the frontispiece, and more than a hun-
gone age with gaunt lettering and formal decora. dred titles contained in eight hundred pages.
Yet
tion and old-fashioned type designs for borders. the book, for all it contains, is less than an inch
Several are in color, and all show a firm grasp of thick, owing to the marvellous quality of India
the possibilities of the subject, from the little maid
Both as a specimen of fine book-
who is telling her troubles to a stalwart policeman making, and for the standard value of its contents,
with tbe motto “ Take Me Home,” to the plate of the little volume should be a favorite with Christ-
the Acorn Library, and its legend, “Small Plan- mas buyers.
nings for Large Endings." The edition is limited A series of rhymed skits on certain phases of
to three hundred and fifty copies.
modern American life may add to the hilarity of
That very pretty little story by Mr. Richard the Christmas occasion, many pictures in color
Harding Davis, “ Her First Appearance,” has been framing the lines.
framing the lines. The work is the product of the
taken from its companionship with the other “ Van imaginative genius of Mr. Leon Lempert, Jr., and
Bibber" tales and given a setting of its own, with is put forth by the C. M. Clark Pablishing Co.,
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with the title, “ Junk: Verses, Pathetic and Other-
wise, Mostly Otherwise ; a Book to Stagger Sorrow.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
It is dedicated by the Instigator," with apologies,
"
to the friends of his youth, and to others who have
Books designed more particularly for
survived the ordeal and are still his friends. The
boys, including works based on history,
for boys.
volume may indeed stagger them, as it has almost
begin with “A Boy in Early Virginia
(Jacobs), by Mr. Edward Robins, with illustrations by
staggered the critic.
Mr. John Henderson Betts. It opens on board the
If anyone in the United States has not read Mr.
“Susan Constant” in Chesapeake Bay in the April of
Winston Churchill's “ The Crisis," his last excuse 1607, a boy bero being there with the redoubtable warrior
for the singularity is taken from him by the new and explorer. It follows the fortunes of the two until
holiday edition which the Macmillan Company has the return to England in 1609, the Pocahontas incident
just issued of this record-breaking novel. Enclosed
being given due prominence.-- Captain F. S. Brereton,
in a box, with an extra board wrapper, may be
R.A.M.C., writes “A Gallant Grenadier, a Tale of
found the neatly printed volume, bound in half-
the Crimean War" (imported by Scribners), for which
Mr. Walter Paget provides the illustrations. It is of
sheep with gilt lettering, and sides of buff buckram.
Mr. Howard Chandler Christy's frontispiece has
the familiar type of historical books for growing boys;
drums, bugles, daring deeds, death, and glory inter-
been moved over to face the table of contents, and
spersing themselves through its exciting pages.
its place is taken by a portrait of the author in Harry Castlemon (Mr. Charles Arthur Fosdick) re-
photogravure with a facsimile signature.
appears this season with "
Winged Arrow's Medicine;
Mr. William B. Groos bas phrased “ One Hun-
or, The Massacre at Fort Phil Kearney” (Saalfield), a
dred and Forty-Four New Epigrams," and Mr.
book of the sort made well known by the author to the
Edwin J. Meeker has made a full-page picture boys of a long generation ago. It shows no signs of
appropriate to the sentiment he has hand-lettered
decreasing ability to interest, on one hand, or of increas-
below it, the book being published by Messrs. R. F.
ing literary perception on the other. The deeds de-
scribed are matters of real history and mightily
Fenno & Co. Mr. Groos has had better success
creditable to the soldiers engaged in them. - The
with thinking his thoughts than with setting them fourth story on our list drawing from the recent out-
into words. For example, “ Life to the ignorant break in China is Captain F. S. Brereton's “ The Dragon
man is one long night through which he sleeps of Pekin, a Tale of the Boxer Revolt” (imported by
without awaking seems verbose, and would be the Scribners). An English youth of seventeen years is
better clad in the terser form, “Ignorance is sleep
the hero, and he rivals the deeds done by the American
when it is not death,” or “ Knowing nothing is be-
boys in the American stories of tbe uprising he could
ing nothing, in man or monkey." But Mr. Groos
bardly hope to outdo them. — History made easy is the
“ American Boy's Life of William McKinley" (Lee &
is writing the epigrams, not we; and some of them
Shepard), from the ready pen of Mr. Edward Strate-
are very good indeed, “ Law often becomes the
meyer. There is not much excitement in the life story
tyrant of a republic,” for instance. • If our wishes
of the murdered President, at least not after the Civil
had wings how far we could fly” is one of the War closed, but there is much to instruct, and this the
good things that was said for the epigrammatist author has made use of, adapting the politics of the
some centuries before, however.
book to the intelligence of his readers, and making
Two more blossoms from Mr. John Lane's
the most of the anecdotes which have gathered about
“Flowers of Parnassus" series are issued in time to
President McKinley's memory. A pleasant and
serve as the best sort of Christmas or New Year's
homely tale of country boys in the days before Prairie-
cards,-Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton's “ Christmas
ton had a railway is Mr. John Habberton's “Some
Boys' Doings” (Jacobs ), with illustrations by Mr.
at the Mermaid,” with the pictures by Mr. Her- John Henderson Betts. It is more fact than fancy,
bert Cole; and William Blake's “ Songs of Inno- and can be read with interest by many who were boys
cence,” illustrated by Miss Geraldine Morris, with before the war between the States. Rescued by a
a little of the spirit of the poet's own designs. Prince" (Saalfield) is Mr. Clement Eldridge's account
There is always danger of the Christian Christ-
of a youngster who escapes multiform perils by field
mas sinking into the heathen Yule, or Saturnalia ;
and flood, cannibals furnishing the chief excitement. It
is really worth while getting into the most tremendous
and this tendency is gently resisted by Mrs. Mar-
garet E. Sangster in “ Talks between Times,” pub- illustrations are numerous.
scrapes when they can be got out of so bandily. The
The dedication of “The
lished by the American Tract Society. A photo-
A photo- | Billy Stories” (J. F. Taylor & Co.) “ to every boy
gravure portrait of the author is used for the and girl in the United States who hates to go to
frontispiece, most appropriately, the benevolence bed when bed-time comes” ought to secure its accept-
of the face it shows being admirably borne out by
For the rest, Miss Eva Lovett tells of a real
the kindliness of the little lectures on prayer, home,
boy, a healthy animal with a fine capacity for amusing
marriage, children, and other matters of daily life,
himself. He begins as an anthor and ends as an arctic
including a timely word or two by way of Yule
explorer, both occupations being carried on withont
Tide Musings.” If we are to be Christians, it is
leaving home. — Mr. Cleveland Moffett touches on a
little-considered side of real life in his “Careers of
well to be the kind that Mrs. Sangster is, with
Danger and Daring” (Century Co.), a somewhat mis-
sympathy for everything in the world except vol- leading title, which is concerned with steeple-climbers,
untary evil and its effects on the innocent.
deep-sea divers, balloonists, pilots, bridge-builders,
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firemen, dynamite workers, and others to whom excite- the biography of a little girl who has illnesses and
ment and daily bread spell much the same thing. The naughtinesses in the human manner, by way of diversi-
story of the wild-beast tamer is one of the best in a fying a wholesome and generally happy little life.
book that is useful, instructive, and undeniably full of “The Story of Live Dolls, Being an Account by Jo-
healtby interest.
sephine Scribner Gates of How, on a Certain June
A book or two having to do with Amer- Morning, All of the Dolls in the Village of Cloverdale
Two stories of
school athletics.
ican school-life may be commended for Came Alive, with Many Pictures Made at the Time by
the real pleasure they give an older per- Virginia Keep” (Bowen-Merrill) is the wording of the
son in the reading as well as the transcripts from healthy title-page of a really clever tale for very little girls.
boyish life which brings them home to the fellows of The bringing to life and speech of all the children's
the boys they describe. Mr. Ralph Barbour has written puppets is told with a fine air of reality. - Romance
his third book, " The Captain of the Crew" (Appleton). and mystery clustering about a priceless ruby lends
Like the two stories which preceded it, the well illus- excitement to “ The King's Rubies” (Coates), the story
trated volume is concerned with the boys at Hillton of a little girl. A boy or two, an old negro, some
Academy. • The Quarter Back,” of two years ago,
thieves, and other miscellaneous folk, give the book a
dealt with football matters ; and “ For the Honor of large variety, and the action is incessant. It is written
the School," last year, with track athletics. So this, by Miss Adelaide Fuller Bell. — A tale of school-girl
as its title indicates, has to do with success on the river, life in Washington, by Miss Armour Strong, has been
and the earlier sorrows and later triumphs of the cap- given the appropriate title of “Dear Days” (Coates).
tain and his young English room-mate are set forth The setting of the book on historical ground has given
with a vigor and reality that leave little to be desired.- the author the opportunity to tell many authentic anec-
Of the same sort is Mr. Allen French's story « The dotes of statesmen and others, and the book is an ex-
Junior Cup” (Century Co.). The book opens in a cellent one to place in the bands of growing girls.
summer camp where a lot of boys are having as good
Fairies, goblins, and sprites are the most
a time as health, leisure, youth, and irresponsibility can
Fairy tales
in plenty.
popular of imaginary beings, though
unite in giving them. Two of them are enlisted as
modern fairy stories are like modern
rivals for the prize which lends its name to the volume, ballads: better technically, it may be, but lacking that
and the wholesome emulation to which it gives rise is indefinable something which is the sonl of the whole
carried into the boarding school life which follows when matter. Precedence in this category belongs to “A
the jolly vacation days are over. So successful is this
Real Queen's Fairy Tales ” (Davis & Co.), which have
book and the one just mentioned that others must follow been translated by Miss Edith Hopkirk from the orig-
in the footsteps of Messrs. Barbour and Allen, to the inal by Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania, and illustrated
lasting benefit of anthors and readers alike.
by Messrs. Harold Nelson and A. Garth Jones. Mr.
“When Mother Was a Little Girl” (Ja- George T. B. Davis provides an introduction, in which
for girls.
cobs) is a title so good that we wonder the life of “ Carmen Sylva " is told, itself so near a tale
at its not having been used before. The of enchantment as to serve its purpose with rare fitness.
story is told by Miss Frances S. Brewster from incidents The stories themselves are based upon ancient Rou-
related by her own mother. The life described is the manian legends, and have in consequence an atmosphere
simple one of a Berkshire farmhouse. - The author and air (similar words of divergent significance) which
of "Three Girls in a Flat,” Miss Ethel F. Heddle, has are beyond mere imitation. They were written, we are
written a book of the same interest, “ An Original told, in three weeks, in order to assist in raising a fund
Girl” (imported by Scribners). The tale is of Lon- for the suffering Roumanian soldiers in the Russo-
don, and the heroine is the daughter of a broken down Turkish war of 1877; and the old traditions upon
actor, with a young mother who writes little stories, a which they are based have been used many times in
beautiful girl who hates London, a sort of fairy god. recent years, in such compilations as those of Mr. An-
mother, and various matters of interest. - A book of drew Lang, for example. The book is a desirable one,
similar content is Mrs. Evelyn Everett-Green's “Miss but it is the people long dead and forgotten, rather
Marjorie of Silvermead” (Jacobs), an English story for than the living monarch, to whom its interest is due.-
girls who are just becoming young women.
But here Miss Carolyn Wells apparently is joining the ranks of
the scenes are laid in the country for the most part. the literary indefatigables, but without any appearance,
There are lords and ladies throughout, and love at the so far, of being jaded. In “Folly in Fairyland'
end of the book. Another English book for girls is (Altemus) she has told a number of stories merrily and
Miss Izola L. Forrester's “ Rook's Nest" (Jacobs), a well, even to the inclusion of an alphabet of limericks,
book for a yonnger set of people than the others. It of which one is, “H was a humorous Hen, Who couldn't
describes a great deal of innocent fun and frolic, and all count further than ten; So when she got through With
its troubles come right in the end. - A sweet little story the numbers she knew, She just began over again.”
McClurg), the tale of a
E. )
by Miss Marguerite Bouvet and excellently illustrated
for ” ), which
by Miss Helen Maitland Armstrong. It is not without likely tales (using the American' instead of the
excitement, though uniformly sane, and it deserves British dialect) as any written for this year's children.
reading. - “ The Colburn Prize” (J. F. Taylor & Co.) The method lies chiefly in introducing the apparatus
is a “story of girls for girls" as the sub-title announces, of a whimsical fairy-land into the practical affairs of
by Miss Gabrielle E. Jackson. It tells of two girl every-day life. În “Gobbo Bobo, the Two-Eyed
friends at school, each of whom, though healthily anxious Griffin” (Warne), Miss H. Escott-Inman the author,
to win a prizé, makes a sacrifice of her own ambitions and Miss E. A. Mason the illustrator, have seized upon
for her fellow.- Miss Amy E. Blanchard writes and London as it is to make something that is decidedly
Miss Ida Waugh illustrates “ Mistress May” (Jacobs), London as it isn't. These veracious chronicles begin
Books
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with “When the Clock Struck Thirteen ” (which is (Russell) is offered by Mrs. Kate Dickinson Sweetser
very late at night indeed), and end in “The Wonderful as a substitute for the novels of the master himself.
Land of Zoologocady," which is north of day-after- Her method is simple: Tiny Tim, or Traddles, or David
to-morrow and south of day-before-yesterday. It is Copperfield, or Pip, is made the central figure in as many
very good foolery. — Aborigines (of America and sev- narratives, whereby their biographies are extricated
eral other lands) supply the material for Mrs. Jane from all extraneous matter and re-told in Mrs. Sweet-
Pentzer Myers's “Stories of Enchantment” (McClurg), ser's, not Dickens's, language. The work is certainly
for which Mrs. Harriet Roosevelt Richards has made well done, and the portraits of the boys, by Mr. George
the pictures. Telling of ancient things, the stories have Alfred Williams, are satisfactory; but are children not
simplicity; but this is sometimes forced. - Miss Kath- to be permitted to go to headquarters any more? There
arine Pyle has both written and illustrated “ As the is an inevitable difference between water from the living
Goose Flies” (Little, Brown, & Co.), which tells of five spring and the same water boiled and filtered.
little pigs, seven little dwarfs, the magic lamp, Princess
Nature books are excellent reading for
Goldenhair, and a number of other unusual animals,
A feir
nature books.
the young, and one of the best of them
persons, and things. The book and its pictures are ad-
this year is Mr. Edward B. Clark's
mirably suited to one another, and interesting to a “ Birds of Lakeside and Prairie” (Mumford). The
degree. Because it treats of some fairies, though the author has rambled over nearly all of Northern Ilinois,
pictures are from photographs of really live boys and hunting birds with an opera-glass rather than a fowling-
girls, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Brownell's “ Dream Children ” piece; and as a result be has a most interesting tale to
(Bowen-Merrill) may be included here. Mrs. Brownell tell at first-hand of birds and their haunts and babits.
is among the best known of those conscientious workers Sixteen illustrations in color, of a high order of merit,
who are making a fine art of photography, and some of make the book a most desirable one. - A brand-new
her most notable achievements in portraiture are used edition, fully revised, of the four “Nature Readers"
to supplement and interpret the letter-press of the book, of Mrs. Julia McNair Wright brings into present
which is drawn, both prose and poetry, from the most usefulness those really valuable adjuncts of study.
various sources. The introduction, by Miss Clara E. “ Seaside and Wayside” is their general title (D. C.
Laughlin, is a pleasant bit of writing. It must be said Heath & Co.), and nearly all natural science, from
that, charming as the illustrations are in subject and conchology to astronomy, falls into the purview of one
treatment, the process of reproducing in half-tone has or another of them. They are the sort of text-books
destroyed some of their most valuable characteristics, that may be read for enjoyment as well as studied for
reducing to mechanical woodenness much of the photog Cat” (Jacobs) is written by Mrs. S. Louise Patterson
instruction. “ Pussy Meow, the Autobiography of a
rapher's best effort. Quite as strange as any fairy
story, and rather more improbable, are the adventures for the purpose of making the same plea for kindness
of the young electrician recounted by Mr. L. Frank to cats that “ Black Beauty" did for horses and « Beau-
Baum in “ The Master Key” (Bowen-Merrill). The tiful Joe" for dogs. Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton has written
hero makes a small bracelet which serves all the pur- the introduction, and photograpbs from life are re-
poses of the enchanted carpet of old, a garment which produced for illustrations. -“In the Days of Audubon "
saves him from the possibility of bodily harm, a tube (Appleton) is a simplified account in reasonable com-
which paralyzes his foes for an hour when used against pass of the life of the great naturalist, written by Mr.
them, and so on.
Hezekiah Butterworth for the purpose of assisting the
Amidst the immense output of books for
Audubon Societies in their work of justice and mercy.
the day and hour, it still happens that Nothing could be better calculated to teach kindness
new form.
books of a generation ago, re-issued with
and courtesy to the feathered folk than the life history
the aid of modern pictorial resources, are often those of “the Protector of Birds," and the book goes forth
which seem best worth attention. This is true especi-
with the beartiest wishes for the success it abundantly
ally of such a work as Charles Kingsley's “ The Heroes; deserves. — Mr. Edward B. Clark, already referred to,
or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children" (Russell), which
is also the author of "Bird Jingles" (Mumford), a
comes this year with the sixty drawings, many of them series of pleasant little rhymes for children about the
in color, of Misses M. H. Squire and E. Mars. The more notable birds, with colored plates of the same sort
old stories seem doubly hallowed by their association used in his other work, commented on above. — These
with the genius of the parson of Eversley, and the same pictures serve also to brighten the “A B C of
generous octavo is a possession to be treasured. - So Birds” (Mumford) by Miss Mary Catherine Judd, and
the merit of the book becomes doubly valuable through
-. E. P. Dutton & Co., with a the authenticity of its bird portraits. The verses are
dozen color plates, and seventy balf-tone illustrations in called "nonsense rhymes” by their author, but they do
the text, by Mr. Walter Paget. “ What these tales not quite reach that level. « Flower Legends for Chil-
have been to you in childhood," say the gentle pair, dren” (Longmans) are fanciful little tales from history
“that and much more it is my wish that the true plays and tradition, by Miss Hilda Murray, set in beautiful
of Shakespeare may prove to you in older years color plates by Mr. J.S. Eland.-Mr. Clifton Bingham's
enrichers of the fancy, strengtheners of virtue, a with- “ The Animals' Picnic" (Dutton) is made up of humor-
drawing from all selfish and mercenary thoughts, a ous rhymes, and quite as humorous pictures by Mr. G. H.
lesson of all sweet and honorable thoughts and actions, Thompson. It is not a nature-book exactly, but there
to teach you courtesy, benignity, generosity, humanity; is a great deal of nature in it of a human sort.
for of examples teaching these virtues, his pages are
This seems to be a day when text and
full.” Such words are as apples of gold in pictures of
Songs and
jingles.
pictures long linked in the public mind
silver, and it would be well if no child's book were
are being cruelly dissociated. “Non-
published which could not worthily bear such a senti- sense Songs by Edwin Lear" used to have the author's
ment on its title- e-page. "Ten Boys from Dickens" pictures not many in number, it is true, but with a
Favorite
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certain feeling of congruity which made them valuable.
For this season's fine new edition (Warne) of a book
which is now classic, Mr. L. Leslie Brooke has provided
abundant illustrations in color, far better in point of art
tban Lear could ever hope to attain to, but still with
the something lacking which was not lacking before.
But the book is for children who do not know what
their elders knew about the subject -- and is it any of
their elders' business, in any event ?- “ History in
Rhymes and Jingles” (Saalfield) is a work of profes-
sorial dignity, the text by Dr. Alexander Clarence
Flick, who holds the chair of European history in the
Syracuse University, and the pictures by Mr. Carl T.
Hawley, B.P., who is the associate professor of drawing
in the same institution. It is a most inclusive work,
ranging from “ Antony and Cleopatra," which opens
thus: “O foolish Antony! Why do you stay? Do n't you
know that Rome wants you? You should n't go away, to
“ The Battle of San Jacinto,” which reads thus : " In
the great battle of San Jacinto, See what a scrape the
Mexicans got into, They fought it at a fearful cost,
The state of Texas then they lost, In the battle of San
Jacinto. [April 21, 1836.]” A little of that goes quite
a distance.
“Songs of the Days and the Year for Chil-
dren Old and Young ” (Grafton Press) is quite another
thing. In it Mrs. Harriet F. Blodgett, “ thinking no
innocent and pretty fancy ever to be despised,” in
Dickens's phrase, has done some really graceful and
beautiful little verses for the gratification of any au-
dience, however critical. It proves, though the proof
should not be needed, that literary flavor need not be
lacking in children's songs and verses, and we are sure
the little folk will be the better for it. — As “cunning
little volumes as ever gave pleasure to a childish heart
can be found in “The Bairn Books ” (Dent-Dutton),
written by Mr. Walter Copeland and illustrated in color
by Mr. Charles Robinson. One of them is called “ The
Farm Book" and the other “ A Book of Days.” Both
prose and verse are contained in them, and they would
make an ideal present for twins - being small enough
for Saint Nicholas to slip into a stocking "hung by the
chimney with care."
9)
a twelfth volume which reproduces Mrs. Gaskell's
“Life of Charlotte Brontë.” It is reprinted from the
first edition, and edited, with introduction and notes,
by Messrs. Temple Scott and B. W. Willett. There
is a portrait frontispiece.
Professor Ira Remsen's “College Text-Book of Chem-
istry,” just published by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., is
a manual that occupies an intermediate position between
the two other text-books by this writer. It is a volume
of nearly seven hundred pages.
Two of the pamphlet publications of Mr. David Nutt
have recently reached us. In the Oriental series we
bave “ The Babylonian and the Hebrew Genesis,” by
Dr. Heinrich Zimmern, and in the Romance series,
“ The Mabinogion,” by Mr. Iver B. John.
Two “Columbia University Germanic Studies” are
“Ossian in Germany,” by Dr. Rudolph Tombo ; and
“ The Influence of Old Norse Literature upon English
Literature," by Mr. Conrad Hjalmar Nordby. The
Macmillan Co. are the publishers of these monographs.
Dr. James Harrington Boyd's “College Algebra,”
published by Messrs. Scott, Foresman, & Co., is a
formidable text-book indeed, and we pity the luckless
collegians who have to work their way through it. It
is a book of nearly eight bundred exceptionally solid
pages, fortified against hard usage by a substantial
half morocco.binding.
The Cambridge " Shelley, published by Messrs.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., is similar in form to the other
“Cambridge” poets of this house, and is edited, as is
entirely fitting, by Professor G. E. Woodberry. The
“ Victor and Cazire" volume is not included, although
an account of its fortunes is given by the editor. There
are nearly seven hundred pages in this edition.
An "Elementary Zoology,” by Professor Vernon L.
Kellogg, is published by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. It
is a handsomely-illustrated work, well-equipped for
class-room and laboratory use. The treatment is pri-
marily systematic, but the ecological aspect of animal
study also receives careful attention. We are not
acquainted with a better book of its scope, and for its
purposes.
Professor Edward E. Hale, Jr., has prepared for
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co, a volume of “Selections
from Walter Pater" which promptly takes its place
with the Arnold and the Newman in the same series.
We have often commended these « English Readings,"
and this admirable addition to the series impels us to
renew our words of praise for their competent and
tasteful editing.
A recent “ Library Bulletin " of Columbia University ·
is a bibliography of “Books on Education in the Libraries
of Columbia University." The work has been prepared
under the supervision of Mr. Charles Alexander Nelson,
and fills over four hundred double-columned pages,
the number of titles being 13,500. Columbiana are not
included, nor are text-books ; since these categories
would seem to be important enough to justify special
catalogues.
“ A List of Serials in Public Libraries of Chicago
and Evanston,” corrected to the beginning of the pres-
ent year, has been compiled by the Chicago Library
Club, and makes a volume of nearly two hundred octavo
pages. Fifteen libraries are included, and the serials
catalogued reach the surprising number of 6640. Of
this number, no less than 3755 are currently received
in one or more of the libraries, and 2360 are in foreign
)
NOTES.
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An Introduction to Cæsar," by Mr. M. L. Brittain,
is a Latin book for beginners published by the American
Book Co.
“Carlyle’s Essay on Burns," edited by Professor Cor-
nelius Beach Bradley, is an English text just published
by Messrs. B. H. Sanborn & Co.
“ Freshman English and Theme-Correcting in Har-
vard College,” by Messrs. C. T. Copeland and H. M.
Rideout, is published by Messrs. Silver, Burdett & Co.
“ The Marble Faun," edited by Mrs. Annie Russell
Marble, has been published by Messrs. Houghton, Mif-
flin & Co. as a volume of the “ Riverside Literature
Series."
An abridgment of Jean de la Brète's “ Mon Oncle et
Mon Curé," edited by Dr. T. F. Colin, is published for
school use by Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co., who also send
us Theodor Storm's “ In St. Jürgen,” edited by Profes-
sor Arthur S. Wright.
The “Thornton” series of the Brontë writings, im.
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
(The following list, containing 133 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
languages. No more eloquent testimony than these fig-
ures could be offered in taking an account of the im-
portance of periodical literature in the intellectual
activity of the day.
Mr. Frederic Lawrence Knowles bas edited, and
Messrs. Dana Estes & Co. have published, “ A Year
Book of Famous Lyrics.” There is a poem or two for
every day of the year, all taken from English or Amer-
ican sources. There are also sixteen portrait illustra-
tions, a collection of notes, and all kinds of indexes.
Mr. Knowles has a pretty taste in verse, and we can
commend his anthology.
“ The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Literature and
Art,” by Mr. John Denison Champlin, is a third volume
in his popular series of reference books for boys and
girls. A notable deficiency in the earlier volumes,
which dealt mainly with science and history, is thus
supplied. The three books together would constitute
the best sort of a gift for a young person of inquiring
mind. Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. are the publishers.
Among the recent publications of the United States
Government is a work of the greatest value to the
geographer and the historian. It is "A List of Maps
of America in the Library of Congress,” including all
material of this sort in the national collection at the
time when the new building was opened four years ago.
The compilation has been made by Mr. P. Lee Phillips,
and the volume extends to over eleven hundred large
pages.
Mr. Reginald Rankin's English version of the text
of Wagner's "Nibelungen Ring" is now completed by
the publication of the second volume. This work is a
continuous poem in blank verse, rather than a simple
translation, although the actual words of the text are
used as far as possible. A great many descriptive and
connecting passages, however, are necessarily original
with Mr. Rankin. Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co.
are the publishers.
The American Book Co. publish “ A Brief French
Course," by M. Antoine Muzzarelli. The work is a
school text for beginners, having for its distinguishing
feature the embodiment of the reformed syntax de-
creed by the French government last March. In spite
of governmental action, the new rules have not met
with the approval of the best French scholars, and we
cannot but regret their appearance in an American
manual of the language.
The Messrs. Scribner send us a revised edition of
“ The Evolution of Sex,” by Messrs. Patrick Geddes
and J. Arthur Thomson. The book is now twelve years
old, and a restatement of the case seemed necessary,
although the authors see no occasion to modify the
essentials of their theory. The interesting confession
is made, however, that in the past ten years the authors
have “ been diverging biologically - the one towards
a Neo-Lamarckian position, the other towards a Neo-
Darwinian one."
“Government in State and Nation,” by Professor
J. A. James and A. H. Sanford, is a text-book for the
use of secondary schools. It adopts the approved
method of proceeding from local forms of government
to the government of the nation. The book seems to be
logical in its development, and historical in its treat-
ment. The suggestions for independent work are well-
considered, and there are abundant references to the
sources of information. The work is published by
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.
HOLIDAY BOOKS AND CALENDARS.
London, Historic and Social. By Claude de la Roche Francis.
In 2 vols., illus. in photogravure, 12mo, gilt tops. H. T.
Coates & Co. $5.
Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days and of the Young
Republic. By Geraldine Brooks. Illus. in photogravure,
8vo, gilt tops. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $4.
Historic Towns of the Western States. Edited by Lyman
B. Powell. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 702. G. P.
Putnam's Sons. $3, net.
Ireland, Historic and Picturesque. By Charles Johnston,
Illus. in photogravure, 12mo, gilt top, pp. 393. H. T.
Coates & Co. $3.
Old-Time Gardens: A Book of the Sweet o' the Year.
Newly set forth by Alice Morse Earle. Illus., 8vo, gilt
top, uncut, pp. 489. Macmillan Co. $2.50 net.
The Burgess Nonsense Book: Being a Complete Collection
of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess, Esq.,
sometime Editor of "The Lark," eto. Illus., 8vo, gilt
top, pp. 239. F. A. Stokes Co. $2.15 net.
Mr. Munchausen: An Account of Some of his Recent Ad-
ventures. By John Kendrick Bangs; illus. in colors by
Peter Newell. 12mo, pp. 180. Boston: Noyes, Platt &
Co. $1.50.
The Man Who Knew Better: A Christmas Dream. By
T. Gallon; illus. by Gordon Browne. 8vo, gilt top, pp. 224,
D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
The Crisis. By Winston Churchill. Holiday edition ; illus.
in photogravure, etc., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 522. Mac-
millan Co. $1.50 net.
The Salt-Box House: Eighteenth Century Life in a New
England Hill Town. By Jane de Forest Shelton. Illus-
trated edition ; 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 302. Baker &
Taylor Co. $1.50 net.
Her First Appearance. By Richard Harding Davis ; illus.
by C. D. Gibson and E. M. Ashe. New edition ; 12mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 53. Harper & Brothers. $1.25.
Christmas at the Mermaid. By Theodore Watts-Dunton ;
illus. by Herbert Cole. 24mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 66.
Flowers of Parnassus." John Lane. 60 cts. net.
Riley Farm-Rhymes. With Country Pictures by Will
Vawter. 12mo, pp. 187. Bowen-Merrill Co. $1. net.
Bryn Mawr College Calendar for 1902. Designed by Jessie
Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green. Bryn Mawr,
Pa.: Students’ Building Committee. $1.23.
A Calendar for Saints and Sinners. Compiled by the
Young Woman's Missionary Society of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois. 8vo. Published by
the Society. 75 cts.
Bird Calendar for 1902. Illus. in colors, 4to. Chicago:
A. W. Mumford. 50 cts.
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BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Literature and Art. By
John Denison Champlin, A.M. Illus., 8vo, pp. 604. Henry
Holt & Co. $2.50.
A Gallant Grenadier: A Tale of the Crimean War. By
Captain F. S. Brereton, R.A.M.C. Illus., 12mo, pp. 352.
Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
The Dragon of Pekin: A Tale of the Boxer Revolt. By
Captain F. S. Brereton, R.A.M.C. Ilus., 12mo, pp. 352.
Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
An Original Girl. By Ethel F. Heddle. Illus., 8vo, gilt,
top, uncut, pp. 387. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
Bernardo and Laurette: Being the Story of Two Little
People of the Alps. By Marguerite Bouvet. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 217. A. C MoClurg & Co. $1. net.
As the Goose Flies. Written and illustrated by Katharine
Pyle. 12mo, pp. 183. Little, Brown, & Co. $1.20 net.
American Boys' Life of William McKinley. By Edward
Stratemeyer. Illus., 12mo, pp. 316. Lee & Shepard.
$1.25.
The Story of Live Dolls. By Josephine Scribner Gates ;
illus. by Virginia Keep. Large 8vo, pp. 103. Bowen-
Merrill Co. $1. net.
Rescued by a Prince. By Clement Eldridge. Illus., 12mo,
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The Vicar and his Friends. Reported by Cunningham
Geikie, D.D. 12mo, pp. 348. Longmans, Green, & Co.
$1.50.
Loiterings in Old Fields: Literary Sketches. By James
B. Kenyon. 16mo, pp. 250. Eaton & Mains. $i.
The Liars: An Original Comedy in Four Acts. By Henry
Arthur Jones. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 120. Macmillan Co.
75 ots.
The Best Nonsense Verses. Chosen by Josephine Dodge
Daskam. 16mo, pp. 61. Evanston, Ill. : William S. Lord.
50 cts.
Nature and Character at Granite Bay, By Daniel A.
Goodsell. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 219. Eaton &
Maing. $1.50.
The Shrine of Silence: A Book of Meditations. By Henry
Frank. 12mo, pp. 273. Abbey Press. $1.50.
Winged Arrow's Medicine: or, The Massacre at Fort
Phil Kearney. By Harry Castlemon. Illus., 12mo, pp. 293.
Saalfield Pub'g Co. $1.
The King's Rubies. By Adelaide Fuller Bell, Illus.,
12mo, pp. 344. H. T. Coates & Co. $1.
Dear Days: A Story of Washington School Life. By Ar
mour Strong. Illus., 12mo, pp. 316. H. T. Coates &
Co. $1.
The A-B-C Book of Birds, for Children, Large or Small.
By Mary Catherine Judd. Illus. in colors, 4to, Chicago :
A. W. Mumford. $1.
Dream Children. Edited and illustrated by Elizabeth B.
Brownell ; with Introduction by Clara E. Laughlin. 12mo.
pp. 217. Bowen-Merrill Co. 95 cts. net.
When Mother Was a Little Girl. By Frances S. Brew-
ster. Illus., 12mo, pp. 229. George W. Jacobs & Co.
80 ots, net.
Mistress May. By_Amy E. Blanchard. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 231. George W. Jacobs & Co. 80 cts. net.
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
The Confessions of a Caricaturist. By Harry Furniss.
In 2 vols., large 8vo, gilt tops, uncut. Harper & Brothers.
$10. net.
Memoirs and Letters of Sir James Paget. Edited by
Stephen Paget, one of his sons. Illus. in photogravure,
eto., large 8vo, uncut, pp. 438. Longmans, Green, & Co. $5.
The Making of an American. By Jacob A. Riis. Illus.,
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 443. Macmillan Co. $2. net.
Types of Naval Oficers Drawn from the History of the
British Navy. By A. T. Maban, D.C.L. Illus. in photo-
gravure, 8vo, gilt top, pp. 500. Little, Brown, & Co.
$2.50 net.
The Marquis D'Argenson, and Richard II. By Reginald
Rankin, M.A. Large 8vo, uncut, pp. 300. Longmans,
Green, & Co. $4.25.
Richard Wagner, his Life and his Dramas: A Biographical
Study of the Man and an Explanation of his work. By
W. J. Henderson. With photogravure portrait, 12mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 504. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.60 net.
Now Glimpses of Poe. By James A. Harrison, Illus., 8vo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 58. M. F. Mansfield & Co. $1.25 net.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. By George Rice Car
penter. With photogravure portrait, 24mo, gilt top, uncut,
Beacon Biographies." Small, Maynard & Co.
75 cts. net.
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