oser's early period. The Franz songs, on the
other band, range through the whole term of the writer's
creative activity.
Perhaps the most important feature of the “Vir-
ginia” edition of Poe was the new life of the poet
prepared by the editor, Professor James A. Harrison,
together with the volume of Poe's letters, then first
collected for such a purpose. The Messrs. Crowell, who
publish the edition, have been well-advised to make a
special separate edition of these two volumes of the
“Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poe,” thus securing
a large constituency who, already possessed of a good
text, are yet desirous of adding to their libraries the
biographical part of the “ Virginia” Poe, but hardly
feel justified in purchasing the entire set of seventeen
volumes. This library edition of the two volumes is
extra-illustrated with portraits and facsimiles, and
makes a most presentable appearance.
During the past half-dozen years the newspaper car-
toons of Mr.John T. McCutcheon have proved a source
of daily recurring delight to thousands of Chicagoans.
That this pleasure may be shared beyond the local con-
fines, Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. have selected an
even hundred of the best of Mr. McCutcheon's draw-
ings and published them in a handsome quarto volume,
fittingly prefaced by Mr. George Ade. With the tra-
ditional school of political cartoonists, who make of their
medium a grim weapon of ridicule and abuse, Mr. Mc-
Cutcheon has nothing to do. In his hands the cartoon
is a genial contribution to the cause of gaiety and good
humor. He prefers to deal with subjects of broad,
every-day, human interest, giving to politics no more
than its due proportionate place in the sum of affairs.
A keen intelligence and a frolicsome humor are every-
where evident in his work; his fun is always wholesome,
and his satire none the less effective because good-
natured. A word of particular praise should be given
the artist's “ boy" series; since “ Tom Sawyer” and the
“ Bad Boy" of Mr. Aldrich we have had no truer rep-
reseutation of typical boy life. This entertaining vol-
ume will go far toward establishing Mr. McCutcheon's
title to a foremost place among American cartoonists.
“Greek Composition for Schools,” by Professor
Robert J. Bennes, is a new publication of Messrs.
Scott, Foresman & Co.
“The English Language,” by Messrs. Frederick Manly
and W. N. Hailmann, is an elementary text-book pub-
lished by Messrs. C. C. Birchard & Co.
* Cymbeline," edited by Professor Edward Dowden,
has just been added to the library edition of Shakes-
peare in course of publication by the Bowen-Merrill Co.
The third book of Plato's “ Republic,” in the trans-
lation of Professor Alexander Kerr, has just been issued
in pamphlet form by Messrs. Charles H. Kerr & Co.
- The Rôle of Diffusion and Osmotic Pressure in
Plants,” by Mr. Burton Edward Livingston, is an
octavo volume in the University of Chicago Decennial
Publications.
“Historical Readings Illustrative of American Pat-
riotism," by Mr. Edward S. Ellis, is a new school
reading-book for children published by Messrs. Silver,
Burdett & Co.
Heroes of the Norselands," by Miss Katharine F.
Boult, is a new volume in tbe « Temple Classics for
Young People” published by the Macmillan Co. in
connection with Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co., of London.
“The Yellowplush Papers," “ Diary of C. J. de la
Pluche, Esq.,” “ The Fitz-Boodle Papers,” and “A
Legend of the Rhine,” make up the contents of the
latest volume in the Dent-Macmillan edition of Thack-
eray
“ A Survey of English Ethics,” published by Messrs.
Longmans, Green, & Co., is a reprint of the first chap-
ter of Mr. Lecky's “ History of European Morals,”
edited for the use of college students of ethics by Mr.
W. A. Hirst.
Professor James M. Hoppin's “Great Epochs in Art
History” has been published in a second edition by
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The work has been
carefully revised and corrected, and bas been given a
new preface.
In its enlarged form “ The Craftsman" continues to
gain steadily in value and interest. With the issue for
June two new departments will be added and commence-
ment made of an extended illustrated series of papers
upon American Ceramics.
A welcome volume in the “ Temple Classics" series
(Dent-Macmillan) is a reprint of Goldsmith's “ The
Bee" and miscellaneous essays, edited by Mr. Austin
Dobson. Miss Burney's “ Evelina,” in two volumes,
has also been added to the same series.
“ The Story of the Philippines,” by Miss Adeline
Knapp, is a reading-book for schools published by
Messrs. Silver, Burdett & Co. in their “World and Its
People" series. We cannot commend the disingenuous
chapter which describes the way in which the archi-
pelago became an American possession, but the work
is otherwise deserving of a certain measure of praise.
The fashion of turning novels into plays has led in
turn to the fashion of “players' editions” of the nov-
els converted, which means as a rule that these editions
are illustrated by a few photographs of stage scenes
and the portrait of some popular actor. Count Tolstoy's
“Resurrection " (Dodd), in Mrs. Maude's translation,
is the latest work of fiction to be given this form of
publication, and the last that we should have expected
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to see in such guise. But then, it is also the last that well printed and bound, and containing all the original
we should have expected would fall into the vandal illustrations. The English price for the complete set
hands of the playwright.
of twenty-two volumes is something less than forty
The third yearly volume of “La Chronique de France," shillings. “ Pickwick Papers,” « Sketches by Boz," and
covering the year 1902, together with its supplementary “Oliver Twist” are the first volumes to appear, and the
“Carnet Bibliographique,” have just been received from others will follow at the rate of one a month. This
the Baron de Coubertin, who seems to be both editor should easily take first place among the cheaper edi-
and publisher of these useful little annuals.
tions of Dickens.
Mr. Ripley Hitchcock, for many years literary ad-
memorial service for the late Alice Freeman
viser to one of the oldest New York publishing houses, Palmer was held at Harvard University on the last
and the author of several books and numerous maga- day of January, and many of her friends and educa-
zine contributions, has become associated with the firm tional associates gathered to pay their tribute to her
of Messrs. A. S. Barnes & Company in the capacity of memory. The programme of this meeting, and the
vice-president.
words spoken, together with five photographs, are all
In connection with the Emerson Centenary, Mr. Rob- reproduced in a volume of striking typographical ex-
ert Grier Cooke of New York will publish a revised cellence, published by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
and enlarged edition of Mr. John Albee's “Remem- The contents include addresses by Presidents Eliot,
brances of Emerson," which Dr. Edward W. Emerson Angell, Tucker, and Hazard. The Association of Col-
has spoken of as “one of the best of the works that legiate Alumnæ also have prepared a memorial publi-
have been published about my father."
cation, with portrait, giving an account of the meeting
The first book issued by the new firm of publishers,
held in Boston last December, for the purpose of plan- •
Messrs. Fox, Duffield & Co., is a tasteful reprint of the
ning some educational endowment in the name of Mrs.
morality “ Everyman,” which has been so impressively
Palmer.
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season just past. The text is the version prepared by
Mr. Hazlitt in 1874, from a collation of the earlier
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John Marshall: Life, Character, and Judicial Services, as
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Youth of Famous Americans. By Rev. Louis Albert
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THE DIAL
A Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
No. 407.
JUNE 1, 1903.
Vol. XXXIV.
CONTENTS.
PAOR
NATURE AND BOOKS. William J. Long
357
GARDENS AND GARDEN-BLOOMS. Alice Morse
Earle.
360
Mrs. Ely's A Woman's Hardy Garden.-- Fitzher-
bert's The Book of the Wild Garden.--Weed's The
Flower Beautiful.
.
A QUARTETTE OF BIRD-BOOKS. Sara A.
Hubbard .
362
Miss Bignell's My Woodland Intimates. Mrs.
Miller's True Bird Stories. -- Nuttall's Birds of the
United States and Canada, revised edition. — Scott's
The Story of a Bird Lover.
TRAMPS AND CAMPS AFIELD. Wallace Rice 365
Whiting's Walks in New England. -- Buckham's
Where Town and Country Meet. — Roberts's The
Tramp's Handbook.
.
BOOKS ABOUT TREES AND SHRUBS. Edith
Kellogg Dunton
366
Miss Keeler's Our Northern Shrubs and How to
Identify Them. - Parkhurst's Trees, Shrubs, and
Vines of the Northeastern United States. Miss
Going's With the Trees.
TRAVELS FAR AND NEAR. Charles Atwood
Kofoid
368
Kelly's Egypt. — Landor’s Across Coveted Lands.
- Alcock's A Naturalist in Indian Seas. -- Prich-
ard's Through the Heart of Patagonia. - Peters's
The Eldorado of the Ancients. --- Miss Betham-
Edwards's East of Paris.-Rusling's European Days
and Ways. — Triana's Down the Orinoco in a Canoe.
-Duke of the Abruzzi's Farther North than Nansen.
- Fountain's The Great Mountains and Forests of
South America. - Bayne's On an Irish Jaunting
Car.--- Collie's Climbing on the Himalaya and Other
Mountain Ranges.
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne . . 371
Harte's Trent's Trust. Hardy's His Daughter
First. — Cook’s Roderick Taliaferro. — Altsheler's
Before the Dawn. Brady's The Southerners.
Miss Liljencrantz's The Ward of King Canute.
“Graham Hope's” The Triumph of Count Oster-
mann. — Miss McChesney's Cornet Strong of Ireton's
Horse. -Miss Powell's The House on the Hudson.
- Mr. and Mrs. Castle's The Star Dreamer.
Pemberton's The Gold Wolf. - Oppenheim's The
Traitors. — Gwynne's The Pagan at the Shrine.
NATURE AND BOOKS.
6. Wbat books shall I read on my summer
outing ?” is a question often asked of one who
is something of a naturalist and a reader of
books; and the question covertly implies that
one must confine his recommendations to those
books that treat more or less directly of Na-
ture. Now if a summer outing means a sum-
mer resort, where society must still supplant
solitude, and where there are, therefore, many
hours to be beguiled, and long times of waiting
on the piazza for the sun to shine after rain and
make the excursion possible, then the question
of reading is a difficult one.
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The list of good
Nature-books is large, and from the list one
must choose those that best correspond to the
disposition of his questioner, whether it lead
him to ferns or flowers, to birds or beasts, or
deeper to the hidden meaning of things visible
but not half understood. If, however, a sum.
mer outing means a life in the open fields and
woods and waters, where a white tent nestles
among the trees and the heart of the forest is
telling you all its songs, where you know that
just around the point the deer and her fawns are
feeding, and the waves and ripples are calling
to you all day long their Indian names, tikoo-
wúk, tikoowúk, tikooweésuk, tikoowúk! like a
repeated invitation to come out in your canoe
and dance with them, then the answer is
perfectly simple. There is but one book to
read on such an outing, and that is the open
book of Nature herself; for nothing that man
has written can stand her competition for half
an hour without becoming dull and dreary by
comparison.
This is not the rash expression of a moment,
but the sober and rather sorrowful experience
of twenty years in which I took my favorite
books to the woods, season after season, and
brought them back invariably wondering what
was the matter with them.
Ruskin is good reading, and should keep his
charm out of doors if anybody can, for he
touches Nature most masterfully at times; but
presently, as you read, like a long-dreaded
shower on an excursion comes one of his in-
evitable and irrepressible scoldings. You take
it meekly enough, though you hoped to escape
that kind of thing when you went off on your
.
NOTES ON NEW NOVELS.
374
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LITERARY NOTES
378
.
A HUNDRED BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING 379
(A select list of some recent publications.)
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS
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vacation, chastening the spirit of the inner man out suspicion, as if you were one with the rest
to receive the discipline, while the outer man of her children who do no wrong, and who ut-
grins in his beard like a Philistine, knowing ters no complaint or reproach, but is more si-
he deserves his scolding yet thinking gleefully lent than usual, even when you violate her con-
how the archangels and seraphim will catch it fidence and kill her little children and drown
about the heavenly music and architecture when the delicate fragrance of her twin-flowers with
their turn comes. In the midst of it all, down the smell of your villainous powder.
comes a red squirrel to add his little stone to This was my own first hard lesson in the
those that are being pelted at you. He sets up
.
matter of books out of doors. The second was
a terrible scolding of his own, barking, snick- sharper, and left fewer regrets. I left behind
ering, reviling you for not seeing things as he these great spirits of literature, and took with
sees them, which is just what your author is me a dozen of the modern Nature-writers for
doing; and, a thousand to one, you drop Rus- rainy days. One of these writers weighed and
kin to watch the squirrel, who, in the woods at measured everything; told you the exact num-
least, does the thing more artistically and with ber of birds in a flock, and the precise diameter
more complete abandon. When he has done of the dewdrops on successive mornings; and he
with his scolding he takes you off to see some only served to convince me how utterly dreary
trinket that he has hidden under a mossy log, the common things of Nature may be if the
and in spite of yourself your half-primitive mind illumination of a man's own spirit be not shed
finds the little comedy more interesting than
Another, of many volumes and
all the seven lamps of architecture.
many mistakes, saw only the bare surface of
Emerson is also good reading, and has many things, the fur and feathers that clothed the
noble words and some exquisite poems about Wood Folk, but nothing of the spirit that ani.
Nature; but Emerson goes through the fields mated them.
As you followed him you shud-
hunting for a thought, and finding it at last in dered when he set fire to the silver fringes of a
his own head. For Nature never puts a thought birch-tree and left a blackened and unsightly
on the surface of things, and one hates in the ruin where a thing of marvellous beauty had
summer-time to have to cudgel his brains or been. He set his dog on every peaceable wood-
to dig in the earth for it like Jeremiah. When chuck, and sent his boy to kill all the chip-
he goes through the woods, Emerson is like a munks and sparrows in the neighborhood, at
water-color artist with his eyes at squint trying a time when they had their young to care for,
to determine the precise tone of things; and to supply the appetite of a ravenous hawk he
you, being a common mortal, prefer to keep kept as a pet, — all this, and much more of the
your eyes wide open, like a boy at a show, and same kind, written soberly for our edification,
see everything that is going on.
When he without a suspicion apparently that he is violat-
stops and meditates for hours, taking no ing all our best feelings, and that these things
account of time like a Hindoo philosopher, are as woefully out of place in the quiet woods
you must watch a frog on a log apparently do- as the party of men that you stumble upon, on
ing the same thing; and if you must think a Sunday afternoon, whose chief reason for be-
bard which is a woeful mistake on a sum- ing out of doors seems to be the beer-keg that
mer outing, for you miss all that Nature is say is set up in the place of honor in the midst of
ing and doing, and a preoccupied man might as them. Such a spirit can never understand
well camp on a roof-garden as on Olympus, - what it sees, however keen the eyes; for only
then it is vastly better to think for yourself once love, a sincere love without dissimulation, can
,
in a while than to let even Emerson think for you. interpret the shy life that, like a little child or
When you try the poets, you are no better the going forth of the morning, has no speech
off. Bryant, who aimed to be the poet of Na- nor language that our dull ears can comprehend.
ture, becomes mere jingle, with a suggestion of Another writer, of a cheerful, beautiful spirit,
rag-time in it, beside the soft and perfect har- some of whose books I had found delightful
monies of earth and air and water. Shelley's reading at home, took you with him on his
skylark comes down as if hit with a stone when pleasant rambles through the brush and over
a hermit thrush rings the first soft bells of his the southern mountains, talking cheerfully all
gloria in excelsis, and Wordsworth's too pointed the way of all sorts of things, opinions, ideas,
morals seem strangely out of place, like a ser- theories, — but that is just what you don't
,
mon at a concert, when you are face to face want in the woods. Nature has no opinions or
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Her life is perfect and complete, a joyous, panions, - the Faust, the thumbed Shakes-
,
faithful, optimistic thing, - and you can share peare, a copy of Martineau's essays, and the
it as it is, leaving your society ideas, your King James Bible, that are my usual travelling
doubts and pessimistic questionings, behind; associates. But I must confess frankly that
,
or she has nothing whatever to give you. So often weeks go by in the woods without seeing
I found these pleasant books very much like a one of these old friends opened. The truth is,
company of charming ladies that, after many that to read any book in the presence of Nature
importunities, I took with me on an early is simply to neglect the greater inspiration that
morning ramble, " to see and hear and learn made the best books possible. It is like try-
about the birds,” they said. And they chattered ing to read a volume of poems in the presence
so charmingly all together that Nature was quite of a lovely woman, who is infinitely more in-
forgotten, and the only external things we teresting herself than any of the poems she has
beard were a crow and a flock of blackbirds. inspired.
That was the second unexpected lesson; but So I go back to my thesis, which was prob-
the worst was yet to come; and I must hang ably also in Emerson's mind when he wrote:
my head as I tell about it, like a dog that finds
“ See thou bring not to field or stone
himself barking at his own shadow by mistake.
The fancies found in books;
One summer as I started for the woods with Leave author's eyes, and fetch your own,
a little company of friends, contrary to my usual
To brave the landscape's looks,”
custom of going alone, one of my own books and say dogmatically that the only book to
was published, and the first copy reached me
read out of doors is the book of Nature herself.
scarcely an hour before my train left. I took Spite of all the books that bave been written
it along gladly, thinking that now I had found about her, we have hardly as yet learned her
at least one good book for rainy days. That alphabet. She is like an immense library of
was for my friends, of course. Knowing the clay tablets, with their unknown stories of life
contents, I could hardly be expected to read it and death and human endeavor, and, like a
much myself, and, remembering my own past child that loves stories, we are still puzzling out
experience, I said with the vineyard owner the letters that shall unlock the treasures. The
when he played his last card, — surely they
surely they first five minutes out of doors brings you to a
will reverence my book. For a month or more story whose final chapter, if you ever read it,
I tried every dodge and crafty subterfuge that will be the result of a life's long lesson, — and
-
was possible to a modest man, to get my friends what do you want more for all your idle hours
to read the thing. It had some interesting than a life's lesson to occupy them cheerfully ?
observations about animals and birds in it, and The ferns that wave by the roadside where the
the drawings were beautiful. I would leave it shade is deepest; the moss that clothes the old
open carelessly on the camp table, with a strik- rocks of the wood; the bird that sings you up
ing picture uppermost, whenever I went away in the morning, and that sang last in the un-
salmon fishing or to watch the deer playing ; peopled solitudes of Patagonia ; the squirrel
but invariably on my return it was lying just that runs away when you spread him food and
as I left it. When my friends asked me ques- comes back presently with a companion to share
tions about birds or animals they had seen in it, and so reveals a language whose first whisper
the woods, I would answer vaguely, and say you have never heard and whose method no
that I thought there was a book in camp which naturalist has ever told you about, — in all
would tell them all about it. And then I would these things there are books to be read more
hunt for it, where I knew it was not, and put interesting than you may have brought with
it hopefully in their hands at last, thinking you, or happily left behind on your shelves.
there was now no way of escape. But in a moment The facts you see are but the letters given you
or two back they would come with the wretched to read the story that lies behind. There is
book under an arm, as if they were going to romance here too, the subtle, romantic play of
read it, and ask to be taken out in my canoe, mind whenever you remember or go back to the
or over the blazed trail to the beaver pond ; and old garret where your childhood's rainy days
in the charm of the thing itself we forgot all were spent among trunks of old costumes, and
about the poor picture of it that we were so claw-footed andirons with griffin heads, and a
shamefully neglecting.
Revolutionary cocked hat and a brace of horse
I gave up Nature-books in the woods after pistols, and pennyroyal and thoroughwort
that, and settled down to the four old com- swinging in fragrant bundles from the dusty
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rafters. Here in the woods was where your
childhood — the childhood of your race
The New Books.
spent, some uncounted-odd thousands of years
ago when your forebears were struggling up
GARDENS AND GARDEN-BLOOMS.*
through animal individuality to attain their
manhood; and everything you find here has some “Of the three hundred cyclamen plants that we set
suggestion and shadowy memory about it that out ourselves on the edge of the grove, not one has
shown either blossom or even green leaf – they are
can never be expressed, yet never wholly missed
vanished forever. The hedge of yellow roses is all
if the mind be open and receptive. The timid dead. And the anemones are all autumn bloomers -
mother bird that shows first a diplomat’s cun- Japan anemones. The gardener says there are no gar-
ning, and then more than a lion's courage, in
den anemones that blossom in the spring! I have done
shielding her young from your eyes and hands; exactly as that English book said and not one thing is
right."
the cautious track of a coon, the little brother
to the bear, beside the brook where he washed
This is a paragraph from a veritable letter
his dinner to give it the taste of fish before lately received from an American friend who
eating it; the cave, into which you must crawl
has a new American garden which was to be
by some inner compulsion; the stone arrow-wholly a Spring garden. And she would not
head and the wolf's bones that you find there; permit the local nurseryman and florist to plant
the great skull of a moose, with a ground-
it and make it like everyone else's"; nor would
bird's nest in the empty eye-orbit, while the
she ask advice of her neighbors for similar rea-
woodmice raise their children within its lofty
But carried into extravagance both of
white dome, - I can understand perfectly why money and hopes by the charm of Miss Jekyll's
my friends prefer to go with me, and find these delightful “Wood and Garden ” and “Home
things and let their minds play with them freely,
and Garden," and her rose and her lily books,
than to read about Nature in books. And, as
she followed the Englishwoman's rules and ex-
the woods are but the garret of our childhood, periences, and even her suggestions and hopes,
I understand too that only a child's glad spirit
and this is the first “flowery Maytime” of
will ever half comprehend the joy and inspir- | her first garden. Bulbs, seeds, plants, shrubs,
ation to be found there. For that is perhaps
- not one-tenth of those planted are living.
the best thing that can be said about the woods
She has learned in dismay that an English win-
and waters when
you
let
ter is not a New English winter; that English
your eyes see and
your
own heart speak: it makes you a child once
soil is not American clay and dirt; that many
more; brings back something of the child's English plants will neither flourish nor live in
faith, and his cheery, hopeful outlook on the
American borders; and that one cannot go to
world. And that is what every man seeks, or
English books for practical instruction and help
longs for unconsciously, in all his worry and
in making American gardens. Like the good
work, and that hovers about him like a dream
cook, we must have judgment, else the attract-
at dawn when he hies him away to the woods
ive volumes are almost valueless as teachers.
of happy memories : to forget his care and
But at last we have a book on gardens which
weariness and doubt, and be a child in his
will not teach us Americans to plant hedges
father's house again.
of delicate roses, or banks of cyclamen. Now
WILLIAM J. LONG.
we have given us " A Woman's Hardy Gar-
den " by Mrs. Helena Rutherford Ely,
DR. SELIM HOBART PEABODY, an old and very
valu- American book, by an American woman, about
able contributor to THE DIAL, died at St. Louis on the an American garden. Let us sigh with grati- .
twenty-sixth of May, at the age of seventy-three. Dr. tude and read the volume with delight. For
Peabody was a man of great learning, and an educator
by profession. Born in Burlington, Vermont, he was
here it all is, — what we should plant and when
a graduate of the State University, and his career as a
we should plant it; how to care for it after it
teacher included experience in his native State, Penn- is planted and growing; what to do if it does
sylvania, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Illinois. He not grow and blossom; what will blossom, and
was for a number of years a teacher in the high schools
of Chicago, and afterwards President of the University A WOMAN'S HARDY GARDEN. By Helena Rutherford
of Illinois. For the last ten years of his life his serv- Ely. Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Co.
ices were in demand as an expert in expositions, and he THE BOOK OF THE WILD GARDEN. By S. W. Fitzher-
filled important posts in the exhibitions held in Paris, bert. Illustrated. (Handbooks of Practical Gardening.)
Chicago, Buffalo, and planned for St. Louis. He was New York: John Lane.
one of the editors of the “International Cyclopædia,” THE FLOWER BEAUTIFUL. By Clarence Moores Weed.
as well as the author of numerous school books.
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when it will blossom, and what the blossom will rapidly. I bethink me of the whims, the freak-
be. We learn di annuals and perennials, and ishness, the shyness, the impossibility, of the
bedding out; we are given good sensible lists, demaire New England Mayflower that I have
with a few descriptions of rare plants, and of always known. I remember a certain pine-
garden shrubs ; we are told what we can do grove in old Narragansett, where, five years ago,
with them all, what we must not do, and what many cartloads of forest earth, and hundreds of
we cannot de; we learn the prices of plants and plants of the longed-for Mayflower, were placed
seeds, the cost of garden-making; we learn of with intelligent thought and loving care by
garden resources, and of makeshifts.
flower-growers of experience. Soil and plants
But the book is not devoted wholly to the had been conveyed from a pine-grove only
practical; it is full of garden-love, of the spirit three miles distant. Both were placed under
of happy out-door life. It is a good book, a
a the
the same kind of pine-trees, and the same sized
wholesome book; it influences you in the read- trees, and at like distances apart, affording
ing, just as working in the garden does in the thus the same light and the same shade. Both
doing, - not walking in the garden merely, groves were at equal distance from the shore
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but turning over the soil, pulling the weeds, of the bay; both had occasional stone boulders ;
nursing up a drooping plant, getting close to both had the same growth of underbrush.
the ground; you feel better and truer, — feel Three transplantings were made, to try differ-
;
that life is good and is worth living, while there ent seasons and conditions. Did these cher-
are gardens, and flowers blooming in these ished Mayflowers “grow well and spread
gardens, and women who are living and loving rapidly”? Not one plant is now living! I
both flowers and gardens, and writing about searched diligently this spring, and found not
them. The author tells of her Garden Diary – even a single rusty leaf.
a scrap.book of printed slips and an entry-book
for written notes, - a journal which should be The handsome book entitled “The Flower
kept by everyone who owns a garden ; for such | Beautiful,” is a natural product of our present
records afford a wonderful bond of union and interest in flowers; it treats of their decorative
of friendly controversy with other garden- use within doors, and is divided into three
owners, as well as a never-ceasing delight to phases of the subject, — 1st, their relation to
the diary-keeper. And in this case the Garden one another; 2d, their relation to the recep-
Diary has a special significance, for it is like tacle ; 3d, the relation of the whole composi-
a promise of a second and even more detailed tion to its environment. The text of this book,
book on Mrs. Ely's Hardy Garden.
curiously enough, is much more satisfactory
than the illustrations from photographic re-
A good book for Englishmen to use, and productions ; for we miss color, of course, in the
Americans to read, has been added to Mr. latter, though it is very distinctly conveyed to
John Lane's excellent series of books on En. us by the author's glowing words, which have
glish gardening. This is devoted to “The an extraordinary power of vivid presentation.
Wild Garden,” and like the others of the series I will not dwell on his instructions as to the re-
is suggestive rather than definite for consulta-lation of flowers to each other, for I find no in-
tion by American garden-owners. For not
For not clination among folk who arrange flowers at
only garden-plants but English wild-towers all to place sweet-peas with asters, from which
that grow readily and blossom happily in En- horror he warns us. We have all learned to
glish glades and meads and copses and spin-place each flower-family by itself in its vase.
neys, refuse to live in our plain woods and The question of this flower-holder is ever a wide-
pastures. And the author surprises us by his ly considered one.
Mr. Weed gives us many
report of the behavior of some of our Ameri- beautiful examples of the fine Japanese jars
can plants in English “wild gardens ”; we and vases for flower-holding; and though he
hardly recognize them. He describes the tells of glass vases, only one of his fifty-six illus-
Trailing Arbutus (Epigwa repens), or collo- trations displays a glass receptacle, and that
quially our Mayflower, as a hardy shrub with scarcely an artistic one-- a glass tumbler.
.
flesh-colored flowers, that grows and spreads Yet the beautiful and varied glass vases, such
readily wherever planted. It is difficult to as Mrs. Jekyll’s “ Munstead Glasses,” and even
think of the Mayflower as a shrub, nor will I the simpler globular and flaring cylindrical
call its perfection of pinkness flesh-color; and forms, are deemed by many flower-lovers our
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added to the blossoms.
variety. The stems of asters are coarse but
Nor does the author even speak of the splen- weak, and almost always must be cut short
did bowls, jars, and ewer-forms of brass and even when the growth is tall; therefore the
copper of oriental and barbaric make, and the arrangement in vases is necessarily stiff. Even
graceful metal jars for various domestic uses Mr. Weed's photographs, fine as they are, prove
in more civilized but simple communities. The this. And one-quarter of his illustrations are
copper jars are so fine for all the tawny, dull- of asters, — he is a faithful champion where he
red and Spanish-pink tints of our pative lilies, loves.
and our garden-strays -- for the azaleas and There can be no variety in arrangement with
rhododendrons (not purple ones) of our woods asters. Compare the aster plates in this book
and gardens, for our strangely-tinted peonies with the charming photographs of sweet-peas,
the
bleeding-heart; and the brass bowls are so fine buttercup of our old garden, or, still more
for iris and lupine, and both are invaluable for varied in outline and charm, the beautiful pop-
great bunches of flowering shrubs and fruit pies. These poppy photographs are perfection.
trees — for dog-wood and choke-cherry and A special teaching of the book — the signi-
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lilacs and snowballs, and for many of our ficance and value of flowers in the school-room,
coarser wild flowers.
the ways to use them, and to awaken interest
However, this book is not of wild flowers ; in them, - is given with special force. And,
illustrations and text are of garden-blooms. indeed, the whole book is full both of power
One vase of yellow lilies, one of golden-rod, and charm for all “out-doorlings” in every
one of lady’s-slipper, and a single plant of tway- page from cover to cover.
blade and trillium, seem a scant showing of
ALICE MORSE EARLE.
wild-flowers for indoors to one who has a vase,
bowl, or dish for each and every wild-flower,
from pussy-willow, blood-root, hepatica, may-
flower, Solomon's seal, columbine, through are-
A QUARTETTE OF BIRD-Books.*
thusa, calopogon, ladies' tresses, grass of Par- The study of American ornithology has arrived
nassus, and the last gentians, butter-and-eggs, at a happy stage in its development. The gun
and golden-rod. Of course it takes many years is falling into disuse, as a needless, not to say
to fill such a vase-closet; Mrs. Celia Thaxter cruel, accessory; and the opera-glass and cam.
had one with vases for every kind and color era are taking its place. Scientists have had
of poppies.
the birds in the earlier settled portions of the
In one or two points I differ from Mr. continent under consideration for upward of
Weed. I find no need for warning flower- two centuries. The species and their varia-
gatherers and vase-fillers not to “prefer expen- tions have been determined and recorded with
sive hot-house exotics to the beautiful flowers a minuteness and accuracy which leave little
that surround us out-doors." Such a preference work of the sort yet to be done.
" What we
no longer exists, or is even fashionable. On the want now,” remarks a distinguished authority,
contrary, I find our greenhouses given over to “ is knowledge of the living, not the dead, bird.
the forcing for the market of simple" country' A thoroughly exhaustive account of the habits
flowers, such as wall-flowers, stock, spiræas, of any of our commonest birds is still to be
deutzias, lilacs, sweet-peas, etc. Nor can I share written." With the wide-spread interest awak-
” .
his preference for the China aster. He callsened in this charming and gifted race, the
it a favorite flower, “ universally beloved," and desired information concerning their individual
deems it one of our most valued plants for in- traits and habits promises to be amply supplied.
door decoration. I do not find it popular nor
* MY WOODLAND INTIMATES. By Effie Bignell. Illus-
beloved ; and see many reasons why it is not trated. New York: The Baker & Taylor Co.
suitable for in-door decoration. The foliage is TRUE BIRD STORIBS from My Note-Books. By Olive
not refined; the flowers are top-heavy; the
Thorne Miller. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Bos-
colors are often crude. The author names these
ton: Houghton, Miffin & Co.
BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. A Popular
tints of his Truffant asters : “ bright rose-pink, Hand-book. By Thomas Nuttall. New revised and anno-
aster-purple, mauve, magenta, auricula.purple,
tated edition, by Montague Chamberlain. Illustrated. Bos-
ton: Little, Brown, & Co.
deep maroon,” — not an alluring list. The
THE STORY OF A Bird LOVER. By William Earl Dodge
Comet aster, of which there are half-a-dozen Scott. With frontispiece. New York: The Outlook Co.
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Earnest observers among both old and young spring by this little squirrel lady during one day the
are rising up in every locality, and those in
baby spent in the table d'hôte neighborhood. Early in
possession of a ready pen are relating the sig little creature to perilous heights among the maples, –
the morning I saw her leading the tender, inexperienced
–
nificant facts in their experience for the benefit eminences from which on every occasion he promptly fell
of inquiring readers. From these sources the to the ground with a thud suggestive of the destruction
general fund of information is constantly en-
of his entire internal economy.
Over and over I went
larging, while the importance and attractive
to the little flattened-out creature, expecting to find
him dead; but he never failed to pick himself up as
nature of the subject are coming to be more
soon as his scattered wits and suspended breath re-
justly appreciated.
turned. Once or twice he approached me and took
A second contribution from Miss Effie Big- refuge in my lap, but at his mother's angry call and
chatter he left me and returned to her. We saw her
nell, author of the popular “Mr. Chupes and
vigorously trouncing and disciplining the poor baby
Miss Jenny,” makes us acquainted with a con-
throughout the entire day, and one of our number in-
siderable range of out-door life with which she
sists that on two or three occasions the Spartan mother
has established relations of confiding friendli- slapped her child to give him confidence !”
ness by her gentle and judicious management. Miss Bignell finally interfered and took the
“ My Woodland Intimates," as she properly baby under her permanent protection. It
names them, comprise birds of many kinds, throve, and grew into a family pet, half
indiscriminate cotton-tails, and a family of be- squirrel-like and half human. From the
witching squirrels. Miss Bignell has availed samples above quoted, the value of the au-
herself of the favorable opportunities afforded thor's studies of her furred and feathered in.
a dweller in the country, for keeping her in- timates is plainly apparent.
timates under daily notice. She acknowledges
their claim upon her sympathy, as a superior
None need be told that the “True Bird
yet kindred personality, and by simple observ-
Stories from My Note-Books,” by Mrs. Olive
ances is mindful of their comfort. She spreads Thorne Miller, are both engaging and authen-
a table for them on a window-ledge in winter, tic. Their prime purpose is the entertainment
and in a safe resort under the trees in summer.
of children; but the adultonce opening the book
Cracked corn, seeds of the sunflower and maple, will yield to the spell of a talented and engag-
sweepings of the hay-loft, nuts, moistened bread, ing writer until the last page is finished. The
crumbled dog-biscuit, even cuttings of apple stories are short and simple, each enveloping
and banana, are provided to suit the varied some curious incident in bird-life witnessed by
tastes of her pretty pensioners. The wounded the writer and attesting the infinite variety of
and disabled are tenderly cared for until able disposition and accomplishment possible to the
to resume their independent habits. In return
“ tribes of burning plumage and choral voice."
for her faithful attentions, she receives touch-
One surprising narrative is connected with the
ing evidences of affection. She is welcomed
vocal achievements of the robin. A bird taken
and followed in her walks by bands of her early from the nest had never learned the song
feathered friends, who suffer a close approach of its forefathers. Observing its efforts to shape
with undoubted pleasure, and by expressive some sort of a coherent melody, a member of
tones and gestures give token of real gratitude. the family with whom it dwelt taught it to
A sharp controversy has lately occurred in
whistle Yankee Doodle." The robin caught
the magazines over alleged exaggerations in the tune perfectly, and it was thenceforth the
describing the behavior of wild animals, espe-
sole song in its repertory. Another robin, that
cially in their methods of parental discipline.
was confined near a parrot, learned to say
Miss Bignell notes an example of stern school-
" Aunt Maria” with the same distinctness as
ing among them, which lends credence to its clever tutor. It is claimed by some natur-
various disputed stories bearing on this latter alists that all singing birds may develop a
point. A pair of red squirrels were her intim faculty for speech. When the robin, the canary,
ates of long standing, the female showing par-
the goldfinch, the magpie, and the crow have
ticular familiarity and daring. She was an acquired the art, who shall say the capacity is
habitué of Balsam Bough Tavern, and brought wanting in any member of the group of Oscines?
her young infant to share in its bounties. Of Mrs. Miller adds her testimony to the evidence
their family life and discipline, Miss Bignell that animals are not insensible to the necessity
writes :
of a rigorous training of the young. One in-
I have never before witnessed such heroio bringing
stance of this kind, relating to the whip-poor-
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“ One evening after the wbip-poor-will bad sung for University, as curator of the Department of
some weeks, I was surprised to hear a droll baby voice
Ornithology, for over thirty years. He was the
trying to imitate his notes. On listening, I found that
the elder was teaching the youngster - actually giving
founder of the Museum which does honor, in
him a music lesson. First the perfect song rang out
the extent and value of its collections, to him
loud and clear, and the weak, quavering voice tried to and to Princeton. He has travelled widely in
copy it. Then the singer repeated the strain, and the search of material with which to stock the de.
infant tried again. So it went on night after night, till
the little one could sing almost as well as his father."
partment over which he presides. He has spent
years in the wild regions of the states east and
The appearance of a new edition of Thomas west, and has gleaned a store of fresh knowl.
Nuttall's manual of the “ Birds of the United edge from the book which Nature opens to all
States and Canada” is an event to be noted
earnest seekers. His natural fondness for the
with pleasure. The earlier two-volumed form birds was developed into the serious pursuits
is now compressed into one, and in addition to of the scientist while a student at Cornell and
the original wood-cuts the text is illuminated Harvard under the direction of such teachers
by a series of colored plates representing 110 as Burt Wilder, Louis Agassiz, and Jeffries
species. The name of Thomas Nuttall, “The Wyman. The plain unvarnished tale of his
English-American,” is held by later ornitho-
adventures could not fail to have many pas-
logists in high respect. Botany was his first
Botany was his first sages awakening sympathy and interest.
Mr.
choice in the field of natural science; but while Scott is at present striving to solve certain
collecting the plants native to this country, he problems in evolution by an intimate study of
found place in his heart for love of the birds,
birds in captivity. He has some five hundred
and time in his absorbing pursuits to give them individuals housed in six rooms in his home,
keen and careful observation. The first vol. and, providing them with conditions in accord
ume of his treatise on ornithology was pub-
with their habits, allows them the utmost free-
lished in 1832, and the second in 1834. It dom possible to the circumstances. It is an
was the first “band book" on American birds experiment of ambitious dimensions, and it is
accessible to the student, and was prized as
hoped that commensurate results will accrue
the work of an expert in scientific methods,
from it. In his revelation of avian idiosyn-
and one with a fine feeling for the beauties of cracies, Mr. Scott has not a more curious story
his theme. Wilson treated about 280 species,
.
to unfold than that of a pet crow, which some
in his great work on the birds of the United may pronounce a very wise bird, and others a
States. Audubon followed, with his magnificent very silly one.
.
illustrations of 506 species. Nuttall describes
“ This bird was allowed large liberty, was very tame,
a little more than 200, but with much breadth
and, with the traditional crow propensity for mischief,
played many pranks, both edifying and provoking, and
of knowledge and nicety of detail. After con-
some of them almost inconceivable. He would pick a
sulting the many authorities who have come
rose from the garden, bring it to the steps of the piazza,
after him, we may still go back to his pages and then carefully remove each petal, laying them in a
for useful bits of information not to be met
pile. After this was finished, one by one he would care-
with elsewhere.
fully remove each leaf to the step below, making a new
heap there. There were three steps to this piazza, and
for hours he would move his rose-leaves from one step to
The picture facing the title-page of “The
another, up and down, seeming to find infinite satisfac-
Story of a Bird Lover," by Mr. W.E.D. Scott, tion in the process. The whole was accompanied by
is a flash-light into the very heart of the au- much gabble, doubtless in crow language, which seemed
thor. He is sitting in the centre of a spacious
to me to indicate at times great pleasure, and at other
times rage and irritation, when the wind would disturb
room, with scores of wild birds, eating, drink-
his pile of leaves and he had to restore order from
ing, bathing, flying, singing, or resting quietly chaos."
on their perches. One has alighted on the gen-
tleman's finger; another on his head, apparently task, futile and mysterious !
Verily, a sable Sisyphus, with a self-imposed
with felonious intent on his hair; another, on
SARA A. HUBBARD.
his shoulder; while others are in various atti-
tudes close around him. He is at home among « L’AME FRANCAISE” is the title of a new French
them, they are at home with him, and all are monthly, devoted to art, literature, and philosophy,
on the friendliest terms with each other. It is published in Boston by Messrs. Marlier & Co. It ap-
a captivating scene, and a truthful rendering of
pears to be a Catholic organ, and its chief feature is a
daily occurrences in the bird-lover's experience.
translation, to be continued serially, of Father Shee-
han's “ My New Curate." The first number is dated
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The handsome volume is made up of little
TRAMPS AND CAMPS AFIELD,*
papers in prose, embellished by many repro-
Nature not only speaks a various language, ductions of photographs. These not sufficing
but in these later years she is speaking a great to convey all that he has to say, Mr. Whiting
deal through the mouths of almost innumer- turns to verse, seeking and finding his inspira-
able interpreters. Life in those sinks of hu- tion for it close to Nature's heart. Nor are the
manity, our cities, turns for recreation to
prose papers devoid of the essence of poetry.
simpler methods of living and more natural sur- They contain innumerable excerpts from the
roundings, — and turns, too, for re-creation as poets, especially from the older American
well. Mr. Howells has noted that, in America poets; and it is here that the reader familiar
at least, city people are all country people, with the writings of the younger singers. of
either by actual birth or by the remove of a Canada and America wishes that Mr. Whiting
degree or two; and interest in the open terri- could have acquainted himself with their work
tory adjacent is inevitable. Of the sentiment as well. But the spirit of the entire book is
of that cynical Frenchman whose solitary ob- based upon accurate observation animated by
jection to the city was that it is surrounded by imagination, as may be seen in the following
country, there is little or nothing in these passage from the essay called “ A Sabbath in
United States. Certainly it does not have the Open":
itself put into books that bring with them a “Now surely the spells of the frost are loosened, and
sense of expansiveness and a freer air, at once those skunk cabbages that choose, and that have not hur-
finer and more delicate. Growing luxury too
ried too much, will presently be humming all over their
spadixes with pollen-scattering flowers,
– for there is
plays its part, as well as the widespread imi-
sound in this work of reproduction, though our ears are
tation of English life: it is not too much to not finely enough attuned to distinguish it. Our yet im-
say that the twentieth-century ambition of the perfect senses miss a hundred shades and hues and tints
well-to-do among Americans is to live in both of colour, which artists are ever striving to discover and
the city and country, free to go from one to
fix on canvas ; they cannot see light where multitudes
of living things of so-called lower orders do see light
the other as the desire seizes them.
and go about their businesses; they cannot catch the
Of recent writers on the various moods of myriad overtones even of the musical instruments we
Nature, few have the outer eye and inward make, no one of which, not even the subtle violin, ever
vision of Mr. Charles Goodrich Whiting. In
registered the infinite delicacies and refinements of tone
his hours of labor a member of that most mod-
that vibrate to the spiritual sense; they cannot hear the
corn grow, though they hear the water trickle and the
ern and most urban of crafts, the newspaper frosts whisper; and even the movements of the ants in
profession, he has set up an efficacious antidote the ground, the beetles in the bark, the larvæ in the
to its exacting requirements in long rambles
wood, are only heard by a few whose trained ears have
reached a neater touch of hearing."
through that blessed New England country-
side where scenes as wild as ever greeted the
Fine as these things are, there some even
eye of a Wampanoag or Narragansett are
finer in the attitude of Mr. Whiting toward
within easy reach of the city dweller. With
that part of Nature which is often too little
a tried companion, Mr. Solomon Stebbins, to
considered, — humanity. In such a paper as
whom he dedicates his “ Walks in New En.
“ A Far Easter in the Future," he ventures
gland” as “the best man of wood and field I upon prediction, in part as follows:
« The time shall come when there will be no more
ever knew," he has rambled over hill and dale,
forest and meadow, marsh and rock, and gained despoilment of man by his brother man; when wealth
as now conceived will have become a meaningless term;
from all their secret of delight. It is not in when all things shall be done for the good of all and
the gentle spring, nor radiant summer, nor nothing for the good of one, — be that one king, em-
crispy autumn alone that he has sought to dis- peror, priest, president or great capitalist. The time
shall come, and then war will have become a hideous
cern the inartificial world, but during rain and
legend of the past, and no more shall men destroy the
snow, bitter cold and sultry heat, until he has
lives and hopes and happiness of other peoples for a
been able to see Nature whole and let his read. little trivial aggrandizement and the interest of a few
ers enjoy with him the profoundest of her ignorant and pitiable men misled by false ideas. This
secrets.
is the Easter of the future."
* WALKS IN NEW ENGLAND. By Charles Goodrich Though the Rev. James Buckham is known
Whiting. Illustrated. New York: John Lane.
as the author of a pleasant little book of verses,
WHERE TOWN AND COUNTRY MEET. By James Buckham.
he is content to limit himself to prose in “Where
Cincinnati: Jennings & Pye.
THE TRAMP'S HANDBOOK. By Harry Roberts. Illus-
Town and Country Meet," a volume in which
trated. New York: John Lane.
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strikingly like those of Mr. Whiting's. Orig. monly, before this discovery breaks in upon us, we have
inally contributed to weekly papers, both re-
given hostages and signed contracts whereby our re-
ligious and secular, these little articles are
version is mortgaged to the hilt, and we have nothing
left but to turn cynics and bark at every spectre of our
always those of a city man consciously in the
might-have-been. Some of us are bold enough to fix
country and eager to lay off the complexities a muzzle over the surly jaws of conscience, to repudiate
of civilization for the simplicities of open air
our contracts, to sacrifice our hostages, and escape with
and out-of-doors. As in so many cases where
the remains of our divine legacy into the backwoods of
life. On the whole, I think it is such who will derive
there is an honest love for Nature in all moods,
most value from this little book, the aim of which is
there is manifest in his writing a keenness of merely to tell those who are fresh from the civilized
the senses, of sight and sound and scent, de- world how they may most simply nourish and protect
nied - wisely, let us believe — to city dwellers. their bodies without sacrificing their spiritual lives at
The sense of smell being so little in use among
the altar of the devil of a commercial age.”
men tamed and domesticated, it is a pleasure Most appropriate to the spirit of the book is
to come upon such a passage as this :
the inclusion of a glossary of Romany words,
“ To me, the most ethereal and delicious moment of
and a bibliography of books which may be
this pursuit of spring is the time when, as we say, handily carried on such tramps as the author
,
spring is first in the air.' The expectation of the describes, all of them selected with discrimin.
new budding year is never quite so thrilling, so trans- ation and intelligence.
porting — Thoreau calls it exciting'. as then. That
WALLACE RICE.
first changing of the air, in late February and early
March, from the winter quality to the spring quality,-
have you not remarked it with all your senses, and been
mysteriously and irresistibly elated and exalted thereby,
BOOKS ABOUT TREES AND SHRUBS.*
as if body and soul were suddenly set in perfect tune
with the music of the spheres? And that earliest whiff It is not likely that forestry will ever rival
of the soil — is there any perfume to compare with it
in delicious suggestiveness ?
bird and animal study as a popular diversion.
How it recalls all the
sweet youthfulness of life and nature ! I know of
It utterly lacks both the human and the epic
nothing like the smell of the soil to bring back the
interest of the latter, and incidentally the
zestful, care-free days of boyhood, and to thrill the controversial, so strong just now between the
soul with intimations and prophecies of its own and “scientists" and the nature students," to
Nature's eternal youth.”
borrow the Rev. Mr. Long's terminology for
Equally devoted to the worship of Nature,
the two schools. Plant psychology rests on too
but from a practical and more prosaic point slight a foundation, and merges too easily into
of view, is Mr. Harry Robert's “ The Tramp's pathetic fallacy, to seem remunerative to the
Handbook.” Here one may learn how to put average man; and the pleasure of the quest is
oneself in the way of the delights that Messrs.
marred by the fact that the tree, once found,
Whiting and Buckham expatiate upon so de-
is permanently placed, while the bird flits tan-
lightfully,— what to take when on a tramp, how talizingly on to the next thicket. But we have
to tie knots, contrive packsaddles, set traps for lately made fairly sure of the bird. The thicket
live things, make and break camp, light fires, remains, — a bewildering tangle of trees, shrubs
cook food, dry clothing, and the like. It is a book and vines, more interesting because less fa-
written primarily for wandering life in England, miliar than the small plants that blossom in its
and many a plainsman and mountaineer in
shadow. So the tree, hitherto the most neg-
America could add to its recommendations ;
lected object in nature, is beginning to claim
but it is in full accord with the natural instinct
its share of attention. Forest preservation is
.
that sends the people of the English race a-wan-
coming to be ranked on a par with the work of
dering betimes, and it is small enough to be
the Audubon Society, and landscape gardening
carried in the pocket. Mr. Roberts, though he
is taking its place beside gardening proper as
mentions the soldier and traveller as those to an art equally absorbing and worthy of culti-
whom his work should appeal, takes for his
vation.
motto the finely regardless old phrase, “ It
"
And with the popular interest in trees come
shall be what o'clock I say it is,” and specifies *OUR NORTHERN SHRUBS AND How To IDENTIFY THEM.
a more direct appeal to primitive instincts thus :
A Handbook for the Nature-Lover. By Harriet L. Keeler.
Illustrated. New York:
“When we come really to think and experiment for Trees, Shrubs, AND Vines of the Northeastern United
ourselves, we discover that the so-called comforts and States. Their Characteristic Landscape Features. By H. E.
luxuries of our civilization are but the counters (or coun- Parkhurst. Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Song.
terfeit coins) for which we have been taught to sacrifice WITH THE TREES. By Maud Going. Illustrated. New
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the popular books about them. Three of these, flower or fruit, are very beautiful, and so clear
recently published, serve to suggest how wide as to make identification perfectly simple, often
is the field of research and from how many re- even without reference to the descriptions.
munerative points of view it may be overlooked. Mr. Parkhurst's work on Trees, Shrubs,
•
Miss Harriet L. Keeler's work on “ Our North- and Vines ” is necessarily more complicated,
ern Shrubs and How to Identify Them ”makes since it covers three times as much ground;
its claim to attention largely through its pict- and being written in a less popular manner,
ures, which supplement the clear and terse de- it demands more effort on the part of the ama-
scriptions so perfectly that the reader can with teur reader. But such effort is well repaid.
a minimum of trouble identify any shrub he Considerably over half the book is occupied by
is likely to come upon, particularly if it is in analytical keys and botanical descriptions of
flower. Mr. H. E. Parkhurst covers a wider trees, shrubs, and vines, native to the North-
field in his account of the “ Trees, Shrubs, and eastern United States, or foreign but culti-
Vines of the Northeastern United States." His vated there. The descriptions are very simple;
aim is much like Miss Keeler's, — to acquaint in identifying specimens, no microscope work
the reader with the distinguishing character. is required, and outline drawing of leaf forms
istics and ornamental value of each species and venation materially shorten the process.
described.
But his method of approach is But the more characteristic portion of the book
entirely different, and the basis of his analyti- consists of several descriptive chapters, several
cal keys is generally the leaf instead of the more which deal specifically with the trees in
flower. Miss Maud Going, the author of the the New York Central Park — a complete list of
third book under consideration, is a nature whose trees, shrubs and vines is given, - and
essayist. Identification of species plays but a one chapter devoted to the landscape features
small part in her scheme of study. Her vol- of a number of shrubs and vines. It is the
ume called “ With the Trees” contains a series amateur landscape gardener who will especially
of delightful rambling sketches, packed full enjoy Mr. Parkhurst's book. The author's own
of the tree lore of all the year, from the time bias toward that phase of the subject is clearly
“When the Sap Stirs ” to the fall of the leaf shown by his selection of Central Park as a
and the belated golden blossoming of the wych basis for study. His enthusiasm is contagious ;
hazel.
one lays aside the book with a new and dis-
It seems almost superfluous to speak in de- criminating interest in landscape, and a wish
tail of Miss Keeler's book on Our Northern to begin decorating something at once.
Shrubs,” further than to say that its general Mr. Parkhurst is already known to students
plan is the same as that of her well-known of nature through his books about birds; Miss
and authoritative work on " Native Trees." Going for hers about wild flowers. “With the
She writes for the amateur botanist and the Trees” ought to be read once, and then kept
nature-lover who wishes a more complete or a conveniently at band to be read again by
more popular description of our wayside bushes snatches. It is full of good things; but the
and the commoner of our imported shrubs than somewhat bit-or-miss arrangement of them, and
is given by the ordinary text-book ; and partic-
k
the lack of transition from point to point, make
ularly for those who are interested in the dec- it impossible to get hold of everything at first
oration of city parks and boulevards, country reading. However, what the style lacks in
roadsides, school yards, or their own home coherence it makes up in charm of allusion.
grounds, and who therefore wish a better un- Miss Going is equally familiar with reports of
derstanding of the habits and character of our the Bureau of Ethnology and bulletins of the
native shrubs. To this end the shrubs are Department of Forestry, with Thoreau's deli-
grouped by families (and why not furnish a cate descriptions and White's quaint observa-
key, at least for the larger families, in addition tions. She understands the place of the trees
to the guide to genera ?). Each of the two in myth and folk-lore, in modern poetry,
hundred and thirty species that are included is Indian handicraft, and the economy of nations.
analyzed scientifically and described popularly, These matters, however, are side-issues, subor-
generally with especial reference to its origin dinated to a more strictly scientific interest, in
and history, its hardihood, and its decorative the vital processes of the trees : where they
possibilities. There are over two hundred live, how they get their food, how they grow and
plates from photographs and a number from multiply. Methods of wind and insect pollin-
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are perhaps the special topics accorded fullest tion by the seventy-five colortypes of the author's
and most vivid presentation. Such chapter paintings, which deal not only with landscape sub-
titles as “ In a Hillside Pasture,” « The Life of jects, but also with the life of the people in city
the Leaves," “ The Cone-Bearers, and their
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streets, among the fellahin of the Delta and the
Bedawin of the desert. The technical work on these
Kin," « Trees of Streets, Parks, and Gardens,"
plates is most excellent, and as illustrations they are
“Seed-Time and Sowing,” will suggest the in-
exquisite. The idealized Egypt which we enjoy in
formal method of the book and the wide range
these illustrations we find also in the text. The
of interests covered. The essays are beauti- author is evidently an optimist, and no misfortune
fully illustrated from photographs.
perturbs his wholesome view of life, or shocks his
DAll three books are attractively bound and faith in his fellow-men. He is ever ready to appre-
well printed. Any one of them is certain to ciate their point of view, and to excuse their short-
direct and stimulate an interest in a fascinating comings. “Robbery, with which their name is often
“
branch of nature-study.
associated, is usually more or less incidental, and
EDITH KELLOGG DUNTON,
not a habit, and from their point of view is to some
extent justifiable. I noticed, on one occasion, a
sheykh's son wearing a lady's green silk dressing-
gown, and on my asking him where he got it he
rather ambiguously replied, Well you see, Allah
TRAVELS FAR AND NEAR.*
has given those dirty Egyptians all that fat land,
There is an Egyptian proverb that “who drinks
where they can see their food growing before them,
while our inheritance is this desert.' Then, mean-
Nile water must return.” Something of the charm
ingly, we take toll of the desert.'”
of this nursery of the world's art and civilization,
The author
of its interesting
people and its wonderful climate, Egyptians of to-day, especially of those parts of
writes from personal experience of the Egypt and
appears in Mr. R. Talbot Kelly's artistic work on
which tourists see but little if any. His comments
Egypt, and rouse in the reader a thirst for the
water of the Nile. “To its sunshine and air, more
on the simplicity and courtesy and hospitality of the
people in these untrodden paths are in strange con-
than to anything else, is due perhaps that subtle and
trast with the tales of travellers who follow beaten
mysterious charm which all who have ever been to
Egypt unconsciously feel.” The mellow warmth of
paths where the contamination of the backsheesh
has left its blight.
the Egyptian atmosphere, and the brilliant coloring prosperity which English control has brought to the
He is proud of the material
of its landscape under the transfiguring light of its
sunshine, are brought forcibly to the reader's atten-
country, and especially to the fellahin, and of the
record for fair dealing and honesty which the En-
* EGYPT. Painted and Described by R. Talbot Kelly. glish officials have established. “I speak as an
New York: The Macmillan Co.
Englishman” is the strongest appeal which the pro-
ACROSS COVETED LANDS. Or, A Journey from Flushing testing native makes for his veracity. The greatest
(Holland) to Calcutta, Overland. By A. Henry Savage
Landor. In two volumes. Illustrated. New York: Charles
portending evil is the industrial situation caused
Scribner's Sons.
by the irrigation works and increased demand for
A NATURALIST IN INDIAN SEAS. Or, Four Years with
labor which the native race cannot supply, owing
the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship “Investigator." By largely to the excessive (ninety per cent) death-rate
A. Alcock. Illustrated. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
among children. This he attributes to the low es-
THROUGH THE HEART OF PATAGONIA. By H. Hesketh
Prichard. Illustrated in color, etc., by John Guille Millais,
tate of women among the fellahin, where, owing to
and from photographs. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
Moslem influences, she has little legal and social and
THE ELDORADO OF THE ANCIENTS. By Dr. Carl Peters.
less religious recognition. It is different among the
Illustrated. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
Bedawin, where “she is helpmeet and companion
EAST OF PARIS. Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, to her lord, and with her children is treated with
and Champagne. By Miss Betham-Edwards. Illustrated
devotion and respect; and I believe that the Arab
in color. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
word watan' is the only equivalent in any language
EUROPEAN DAYS AND Ways. By James F. Rusling.
Illustrated. Cincinnati: Jennings & Pye.
for the English word • home.'” The book is valu-
DowN THE ORINOCO IN A CANOE. By S. Pérez Triana. able for its artistic comments on Egyptian atmos-
With Introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Illus- phere, landscapes, architecture, and domestic arts,
trated. New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co.
interesting because of its sympathetic insight into the
FARTHER NORTH THAN NANSEN. Being the Voyage of
the Polar Star. By H.R. H. the Duke of the Abruzzi. Illus-
conditions and problems of Egyptian social life of
trated. London: Howard Wilford Bell.
today, and commendable for the wholesome spirit
THE GREAT MOUNTAINS AND FORESTS OF SOUTH AMER-
which pervades its pages.
ICA. By Paul Fountain, New York : Longmans, Green & Co. Mr. A. Henry Savage Landor's Thibetan exploits
ON AN IRISH JAUNTING CAR THROUGH DONEGAL AND bave made his fame as a traveller secure. Readers
CONNEMARA. By S. G. Bayne. Illustrated. New York :
of his travels “Across Coveted Lands” will find in
Harper & Brothers.
CLIMBING ON THE HIMALAYA AND OTHER MOUNTAIN
them the same intrepid explorer, though the adven-
RANGES. By J. Norman Collie. Illustrated. New York: tures he narrates are less thrilling than in his former
Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons,
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Sea to Enzeli, and thence through Persia and the the peoples and the life on the various islets visited
country of the Beluchs to India. The author's in- by the ship. Mingled with the science, which is
terests and his point of view are political, military, excellent, there is some philosophy, and some quiet
and commercial, rather than humanistic, scientific, humor which, while it is not often found in works
or æsthetic. His book is a plea for the extension of of British scientists, is none the less pleasing. There
British influence and trade in these coveted lands, have been several books in the past dealing with
and for comity rather than strife with Russia, whose the discoveries of the “ Challenger,” the “Blake,"
persistent, unwavering policy of extension is rapidly and the more recent German expeditions, most of
invading Northern Persia. He also bemoans what which are more comprehensive, and contain more
Mr. Prichard in his book calls the “brusque un- scientific detail than is found in Dr. Alcock's pages.
adaptability of the Englishman," and insists upon There is, however, none which portrays so briefly,
the desirability that men for commercial pursuits 80 clearly, and with interest so well sustained
should be well trained in modern languages, and throughout, the life of the depths of the sea, its
that the powers of observation should be developed wonderful adaptations to conditions of darkness,
by the study of the sciences. To these factors he cold, and great pressure, its bizarre and curious
attributes much of German and American progress forms, and its interesting and instructive associa-
in recent years. The regions described in this work tions of commensal organisms in these abysmal sol-
are lands without forests, daily scorched by heat, itudes. Much fresh material was brought to light
pinched by cold, and swept by ceaseless winds. by the work of the “Investigator," and about a
,
Something of the monotony of the landscape and third of Dr. Alcock's book is given over to a more
the life of the people has crept into these volumes, technical account of these discoveries, to a list of
so that the reader welcomes any diversion,
the dredging stations, and a bibliography of the
the exploits of the Persian cats, the author's com- scientific publications dealing with the material
panions on this long journey. The manufacture of brought to light by these explorations. The book
* ancient carpets” is one of the most lucrative in- is therefore of great technical value, as well as
dustries in Persia. The desired antiquity is secured popular interest.
by spreading the new carpet in the middle of the The discovery, in recent years, in Patagonia, of
street of the bazaar to be trampled by foot passen- the fossil remains of a giant sloth christened mylodon
gers, donkeys, mules, and camels, for days or weeks, by the palæontologists, has led to conjectures that
the value of the goods rising as the wear increases. this curious relic of the past might be found still
Lovers of oriental carpets will find many references living in the forest fastnesses at the base of the
to methods of manufacture and types of rugs pro- Andes. The London “Daily Express," with com-
duced in the different localities. The book is abund-mendable enterprise, outfitted a scientific expedition
antly and handsomely illustrated by reproductions in 1900, to search for the monster. The quest was
of excellent photographs taken by the author, and fruitless ; but the leader of the expedition, Mr. H.
is a most valuable and welcome addition to our Hesketh Prichard, in his “ Through the Heart of
sources of information concerning lands of rising Patagonia," has brought before the public an inter-
political and commercial importance.
esting account of the expedition. The writings of
Travel by sea to-day has been robbed of its ter- Darwin, Agassiz, Bates, and Hudson have revealed
rors, not only by steam and steel, but by the patient, the plains and forests of South America as the
plodding, and little-known labors of the “Survey naturalist sees them. It is in like tenor that Mr.
ships of our own and other nations. They map the Prichard has developed his book, — a fitting addi-
coasts, discover and plot the shoals and hidden tion to an already memorable list of naturalists'
rocks, and register the tides and currents with such wanderings in the southern continent. Darwin
accuracy that the good ship makes port safely be- touched only the fringes of Patagonia; but Prichard
cause of their labors. For four years Dr. A. Alcock was enabled to push his explorations across the
was attached, as Surgeon and Naturalist, to the plains to the glacier-fed lakes, to gain an intimate
Ship “Investigator," of the Royal Indian Marine knowledge of the fast disappearing Tehuelche tribe,
Survey cruising in Indian Seas. The field of opera- and to learn much of the ways of wild animals in
tions of this ship included the coasts of Hindoostan regions where man's destructive habits are unknown
and Burmah, the Bay of Bengal, and the Anda- and unfeared by wild things. The writer is ob.
man and Laccadíve Seas, with the adjacent islands servant, quite as much of men as of nature; and
of coral origin. Her ports of call are not on the his story never lacks interest. The illustrations,
itinerary of any globe-trotter, and even the trading from photographs, are numerous and excellent;
ships shun many of her routes. Dr. Alcock, in his and there are also seven plates in color, by J. G.
narrative of “A Naturalist in Indian Seas," has Millais, of birds and mammals, which in composi-
clothed the story of his cruises with great interest, tion and color are hardly equal to the work of
principally by his clever description of the work American artists in this field.
which a Survey ship undertakes, and by his always Interest in many lines centres in Dr. Carl Peters's
novel account of the spoils of the sea which the “Eldorado of the Ancients.” His preface contains
trawl brought up from the vasty deep. These are his justification for the acts of cruelty for which he
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Africa. His main thesis is that the gold of Ophir of Edwards under the title of “ East of Paris.” The
David and Solomon came from South Africa ; that author is an English lady, an officier de l'Instruc.
the land of Ophir (Afur), or Punt of the Egyptians, tion Publique de France," and she writes with an
was reached by trading ships which ascended the artist's appreciation of the picturesque, an histo-
Zambesi, and that the word Africa itself may be rian's keenness for all that links the present with
derived from the ancient name of this legendary the past, and a gentle appreciation of French folk
country. The evidence which the author marshals and their ways that belies her British ancestry.
in support of his contention is convincing: Semitic Among other things, we find an interesting account
customs and mot words in the language and geog- of Nemours, a favorite haunt of Balzac, but to-day
raphical names of native tribes in the gold country, without a book-shop! Near this place, at Episy,
ancient records in Egypt, and Egyptian antiquities was projected the chapel and a mound in memory
in the regions of Rhodesia and Portuguese East of the Polish patriot Kosciusko, who spent the last
Africa, where immense areas bear evidence of sur- fifteen years of his life in the village. Pro-Russian
face workings and mines of prodigious extent of politics have forbidden the completion of the chapel
prehistoric origin. The author describes his ex- by the villagers. Students of contemporary history
plorations in the kingdom of Macombe, whom the and politics will appreciate the chapter of this work
Portuguese have never subdued, and in adjacent dealing with Germanized Alsace and Lorraine.
British territory. His comments on the undevel- The point of view of the author on this subject is
oped resources of this country, and on the political frankly French; but it will be a hardened Teuton
and industrial situation in South Africa, are both who will not agree that, for Catholic French-
interesting and opportune. German developments speaking Lorraine at least, the present national
in this part of the world in the next few years will boundary drawn and maintained by the sword is-
be watched with interest by all readers of Dr. most unfortunate. Six dainty colored plates, after
Peters's book. Uncommercialized readers will take paintings by Mr. Henry Detmold, adorn the book.
strong issue with the author's view of the labor In his “European Days and Ways," General
problem in South Africa. He rightly deplores the James F. Rusling aims to give "a common-sense
unwillingness of the blacks to work, and the inad- account of Europe as it is.” We find a plain
equacy of the usual penalties of civilized procedure straightforward unvarnished tale of travel from
in restraining petty crime; and justly claims that Italy to Scotland by way of most of the great centres
the blacks should make some return to the com- of interest on the Continent, a tale which contains
munity for security of life and property which the the frank comments of a practical American man
advent of civilization has brought to them. He de- of affairs upon European peoples and customs, told
plores the “Uncle Tom" sentimentality, and the without art or restraint. The book is packed — not
interference of Exeter Hall ideals with the regula-
with information. We learn how many
tion of the relations of the races in this land. Only counterpanes and salt-cellars the good ship “Aller"
practical men, who have to do with the difficulties, carried, how many square yards there are in St.
should be allowed to determine the policy. His so- Peters, the daily per capita consumption of beer in
lution is “ forced labor” under government control. Munich, and the number of guns Wellington had
Each negro should be compelled to work at least six at Waterloo. This information, together with the
months in each year for a white man, or he should comments on hotels, pensions, churches, galleries,
be compelled to work for the state for twelve years and railways, makes the work a fair sort of a guide
at the munificent salary of shelter, food, and two book. The author is intensely American, loyal to his
shillings a month, with the privileges of Sunday country, its rulers, and its institutions, to his faith
and marrying! The state would make its profit by and his temperance principles. Because of this
hiring the blacks, at an advance, to the mine-owners. purpose and this point of view, and withal because
Here lies the joker in this benevolent scheme. of the shrewdness and scope of the observations,
May Exeter Hall and Herr Bebel long live to the book is a valuable human document. It will
prevent any such exploitation of native races by the strike a responsive chord in many Americans whose
machinery of the state for the remote object of in- views are not usually placed in print. His com-
culcating in future generations of blacks an appre- ments are not, however, to our credit in every in-
ciation of the benefits of toil and the immediate stance, -as, for example, bis discussion of the relative
purpose of creating dividends for foreign corpora- cost of municipal government in London and New
tions ! The author mentions with approval the York, and his comment on German universities.
successful work of Bishop Hartzell in industrial Possibly we Americans are putting too much
education of the blacks in the American mission money in buildings. Surely brains' are of more
schools at Umtali. New motives, new needs, new importance than mere brick (or stone) and mortar."
desires, and new capabilities, which are thus in- The exigencies of a Colombian revolution com-
spired in the few, will in time leaven the race and pelled Señor Perez Triana to make the hazardous
afford a solution of the labor problem in its present journey from Bogota down the Andes to the river
form.
Tua, and thence “ Down the Orinoco in a Canoe."
Sketches of sojourn in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, The country traversed is rich in natural resources,
and Champagne are published by Miss Betham- and is destined to grow in commercial and political
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importance. Hence this book, which is a running “the finest natural scenery in the world, and by all
commentary on conditions now prevalent in that odds the greatest display of verdure in all its vary-
land, is of more than passing interest. The author, ing shades and colors.” The author knows Ireland
the son of an ex-president of Colombia, is well qual- too well to portray it to the uninitiated. Instead of
ified to interpret nature and the natives whom he giving us a picture of Ireland and the Irish of to-
meets. The book is written with Castilian senti. day and some insight into conditions affecting the
ment, Auency, and ease, and in style is unique Irish problem, he delves deeply into the ancient
,
among recent books of travel. To this enjoyable annals of “ The Four Masters,” and embellishes his
feature of the book there is added the novelty of a ride of 350 miles with historic incident and an oc-
land little known, a land of illimitable llanos and casional story. The illustrations, which are apt and
impenetrable forests, of magnificent waterways taking, in a measure make up for this shortcoming.
and wonderful range of tropical resources, and of The charm of mountain-climbing, as well as its
an uncivilized simple people, robbed and betrayed hardships and great dangere, are revealed in Mr. J.
by their own governors, and foreign traders Norman Collie's "Climbing on the Himalaya and
who are their only revelation of a more enlightened Other Mountain Ranges." About half of the book
world beyond the confines of their primeval is given to an account of various perilous ascents
solitudes.
amid the peaks and glaciers of the Himalaya Moun-
A brief account of the Arctic explorations of the tains, while the remaining chapters are devoted to
Duke of the Abruzzi is found in his book entitled the Alps, the Lofoten Islands, and the mountains of
“ Farther North than Nansen.” The thin volume, Ireland. American enthusiasts in this field will find
of less than a hundred pages, is not so ponderous a comprehensive account of the Selkirks accessible
as the elaborate reports of his predecessors in the from the Canadian Pacific Railway, and a good map,
fight for fame in the Arctic ice, but it is no less with routes, of this region, “the Switzerland of
interesting. Simplicity and directness mark the North America.”
CHARLES ATWOOD KOFOID.
tale, which the reader is loth to drop till it is fin-
ished. The Duke modestly claims that the achieve-
ments of Arctic explorers have resulted in great
material, commercial, and scientific benefits to the
world. But these have little interest to most peo-
RECENT FICTION.*
ple, and, it may be, benefit them even less than the
The last new book that we shall ever have (80
proof which such men as the author furnish that,
the publishers tell us) from the late Bret Harte is
with will, courage, and perseverance, man can dare
called “Trent's Trust and Other Stories," and its
anything, even though all the powers of Nature are
magic pages bring us once more into that Cali-
in alliance against him. Surely, 86° 33' 49'' of fornian environment which the author has taught us
latitude stirs the pulses in every man of action. As to know so well, and into the graceless companion-
a bit of book-making the volume leaves much to
ship of our old friends Jack Hamlin and Colonel
be desired, — lacking a table of contents, some Starbottle. There are seven stories in this new and
subdivisions, a map, and an index. The pictures final collection, the first of them, which gives a title
appear to have been taken in the twilight of the
to the volume, being a novelette rather than a short
Arctic night, — for which the photographer may
not be to blame, - and to have been printed with
*TRENT'S TRUST AND OTHER STORIES. By Bret Harte.
the grime of a London fog.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
His Daughter First. By Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Mr. Paul Fountain is an amateur naturalist who
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
disdains the professional scientist and all his ways. RODERICK TALIAFERRO. A Story of Maximilian's Em-
But this has not interfered with his preparing a very pire. By George Cram Cook, New York: The Macmillan Co.
readable account of his wanderings through “The BEFORE THE Dawn. A Story of the Fall of Richmond.
Great Mountains and Forests of South America." By Joseph A. Altsheler. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
He is a lover of the wilderness, and no hardship
THE SOUTHERNERS. A Story of the Civil War. By Cy-
rus Townsend Brady. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
daunts him, no obstacle seems insurmountable.
THE WARD OF KING CANUTE. By Ottilie A. Liljen-
His journeys were made along the great Brazilian
crantz. Chicago : A. C. McClurg & Co.
waterways, and through the Andes from Chili to
THE TRIUMPH OF COUNT OSTERMANN. By Graham
Ecuador. He is a keen observer of nature, and gives Hope. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
in a matter-of-fact sort of way, without pretense
CORNET STRONG OF IRETON'S HORSE, By Dora Gren-
to literary merit or claims of scientific value, a very
well McChesney. New York: John Lane.
full record of the beasts, birds, reptiles, fishes, and
THE HOUSE ON THE HUDSON. By Frances Powell. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
insects which he encountered. There is a lack of
The STAR DREAMER. A Romance. By Agnes and Eger-
relief in the book; the map is missing, and the few ton Castle. New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co.
illustrations might well have been omitted.
THE GOLD WOLF. By Max Pemberton. New York:
Mr. S. G. Bayne, of New York, describes his trip
Dodd, Mead & Co.
“On an Irish Jaunting Car through Donegal and
THE TRAITORS. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. New York:
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Connemara” for the edification of American citizens
THE PAGAN AT THE SHRINE. By Paul Gwynne. New
who do not have a first-hand acquaintance with York: The Macmillan Co.
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story, and extending to nearly a hundred pages. with the head. But if we can forget our principles
We could say nothing of these stories that has not for the nonce, we shall be well rewarded by Mr.
been said many times before. They are like their Cook's striking story. The hero is rather too much
countless predecessors, and yet their charm is un- of a dare-devil to be convincing, and his love-making
failing, and they may be read with a zest from is somewhat too luscious for our Anglo-Saxon taste,
which the edge is hardly worn, however familiar but the swift action of the work, its abundance of
we may be with the scores, if not hundreds, that exciting episodes, and its underlying fund of knowl-
have delighted us in the earlier years.
edge concerning the scenes and characters depicted,
Mr. Arthur Sherburne Hardy, teacher, mathe- are qualities that go far to atone for a few rather
matician, editor, diplomatist, poet, and novelist, is obvious defects. The character of Maximilian, in
a man whose ventures in the field of literature have particular, is finely studied, and presented with
been of such quality as to make the public wish close fidelity to historical fact.
that they were more frequent. His first novel, We are always sure of entertainment in a his-
“But Yet a Woman," was published fully twenty- torical novel by Mr. Joseph Altsheler. He has an
five years ago, and must still be reckoned one of the eye for the picturesque phases of American history,
best works of fiction that America has produced. and much skill in the construction of a plot. We do
Its successors, “Passe Rose” and “ The Wind of not expect any marked degree of literary quality, but
Destiny," were slighter performances, but they had we can count upon stirring action which verges upon
the rare charm of refined literary art, and rose re- melodrama, and a generous infusion of sentimental
freshingly superior to the current standards of our interest. In “ Before the Dawn” he has taken the
fiction. Now, after many years, we have another last period of the Civil War for his subject, and
novel, "His Daughter First,” which is a sequel to made the capital of the Confederacy the scene
“The Wind of Destiny" in the sense that certain about which the story centres. The fighting in the
of the characters of the earlier novel reappear, al- Wilderness is vigorously described in a series of
though not in the sense of anything like continuity chapters, and the capture of Richmond occupies the
of plot. The new book is certainly charming, al closing scene. We have for hero and heroine the
though we miss something of the delicate romantic conventional figures — in this case a Southern sol-
feeling that characterized its predecessors, and are dier and a young woman of Northern sympathies.
in many ways made conscious of the subtle dis- She comes to Richmond, is suspected of being a
tinctions that must ever exist between youth and Union spy, escapes with the connivance of her lover,
middle age, even in the modes of self-expression of figures as a ministering angel on the field of battle,
the same personality. The modern note becomes and returns to join her lover at the end. Her orig-
almost jarring at times, especially when the specu- inal presence and purpose in the camp
lations of the stock market are introduced as a mo. are enveloped in mystery, and here is the one note-
tive, but on the whole Mr. Hardy remains true to worthy defect of the novel. We have a right to
his finer artistic instincts. In a novel of strictly expect a striking solution of a mystery thus heralded,
private and modern American interest, we must do and we get what is practically no explanation at all.
without the glamour of the age of Charlemagne and The fact seems to be that she is brought to Rich-
the lofty old-world idealism of bis first book; what mond simply because the author had to have such
we get is careful delineation of character, and a a heroine in that place. We are certainly glad
skilfully contrived set of domestic relations that to have her there, but we should also be glad to
lead to the happiness of the chief persons con- have her advent accounted for in some rational
cerned, after the usual entanglements without which manner.
a novel of this type cannot exist.
Another Civil War story of the conventional sort
Mr. George Cram Cook's story of the ill-starred is Mr. Cyrus Townsend Brady’s “ The Southerners.”
Mexican Empire of the sixties fills us with a sense The only thing we miss in this case is the custom-
of wonder that this excellent romantic material has ary
Northern hero. It is true that the hero is an
been so long neglected. It seems to be a case of officer in the United States navy, which gives us
the hour and the man, for “ Roderick Taliaferro’ the necessary antagonism that love reconciles in
is a novel of absorbing interest, and for the first the end, but the situation is rather weakened by the
time gives us a satisfactory romantic treatment of fact that he is a son of Alabama, and that the hero-
the American imperial experiment of Maximilian ine has been his sweetheart from childhood. The
and Napoleon. In reading it, of course, our sym story is naval rather than military, and reaches its
, ,
pathies must be all on the wrong side, for not only climax in Farragut's exploit at Mobile. There
is the hero an unreconciled Confederate officer, filled are several chapters of bare history unmixed with
with bitterness at the recent collapse of the slave- romance which the reader will do well to skip al.
ocracy, but the whole treatment of the Mexican together. The book again exemplifies the combi-
theme is such as to make us share the hopes of the nation of manliness and sentiment which character.
imperialists and to mourn with them in their down- izes Mr. Brady's other stories.
fall. In this respect the book reminds us of the The success obtained by Miss Liljencrantz with her
many romances of Stuart intrigue and invasion, book of last year, “ The Thrall of Leif the Lucky,”
which force the heart of the reader to be at war has encouraged her to renewed efforts in a similar
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field. At about the time when one Norseman was a hard rider and a doughty warrior, yet in the end
discovering a new world, another was reconquering he turns out to be a woman in disguise, and the
for the Danes the island kingdom of Britain. The mother of the young officer who is the conventional
greatest man of the brief dynasty which he estab- hero. Aside from this feature the plot is of the
lished, whose name we commonly spell Canute, is backneyed sort. The heroine is a royalist maiden,
the central figure of this new romance, which is at haughty and irreconcilable, but finally so sub-
least the equal of its predecessor in grasp of its sub- dued by her love that she weds the hero in spite
ject, and in the skill with which the bare statements of the fact that duty has compelled him to order
of fact found in the old chronicles are adorned with the execution of her brother, caught acting as a
romantic and vital interest. “ The Ward of King royalist spy. This contravention of the usual can-
Canute" is the title of this really charming work of ons of romantic fiction is rather startling, but the
historical fiction. The ward is a Danish maiden, author meets the difficulty boldly, and almost over-
and her lover is a noble Angle who rescues her from comes it. Miss McChesney has caught the spirit
peril, and whom she in turn afterwards befriends in of her period with marked success, and her narra-
an effective
way. But Canute is, after all, the dom- tive is skilfully handled.
inant figure of the book, which deals particularly It is romance of a quite different species that
with his strife against Edmund Ironsides and his meets us in “ The House on the Hudson," by Miss
eventual peaceful occupation of the kingdom. He Frances Powell, who appears to be a new writer.
is made the subject of a fine character-study, and The book may be described as a blend of “Jane
we witness the development in him of those qual-Eyre ” with the sort of melodramatic fiction that
ities which made him so great a man in after life. enthralled our youthful interest in the days when
The colored illustrations by Mr. and Mrs. Kinney the “New York Weekly” had power to charm.
help not a little to make this book one of the most Such a heroine we have not encountered for many
attractive of the year.
years. Her name is Athena, she is divinely beau-
In “ The Triumph of Count Ostermann,” tiful, speaks half a dozen languages, and is an adept
“Graham Hope” (whom we understand to be a in most of the manly sports. When she lays out
lady) has done something more than to construct an the athletic hero with a single calculated thump, our
historical romance pure and simple. She has given admiration knows no bounds. For those who like
us a really vivid and at the same time conscientious highly-spiced sensationalism in their fiction, this book
sketch of the last years of Peter the Great, and of is not likely to find any competitors among recent
the slow upbuilding of the Western capital which novels. It is high-flown in both diction and imagi-
forever remains as the memorial of his genius. The nation, and has enough of literary quality to lift it
semi-barbaric life of the time is pictured with much fairly above the level of the ordinary “shocker.”
skill, and the manners of a corrupt and brutal court The stories of Mr. and Mrs. Egerton Castle are not
are unsparingly described. The German minister merely romantic in construction and incident; they
of Peter is, as the title indicates, the hero of the are also romantic in atmosphere, which is a great
work, and his triumph is twofold: first, it is the deal more important. “The Star Dreamer" repeats
triumph, almost until the end, of personal integrity the success of “The Light of Scarthey," a statement
and far-seeing statesmanship over the forces of in- which is equivalent to high praise, indeed, and as
trigue and deceit; second, it is the triumph of the an example of consistently romantic fiction would be
man in his private capacity over the young princess hard to match among present-day productions, out-
to whom he is wedded by royal command, but who side of the other work of the gifted authors. It is
despises him for his peasant origin, and only after a work of rich and glowing beauty of style, offer-
a long struggle with herself comes to recognize his ing much variety of scene and character, and based
nobility of character and to share with him her upon a plot which moves slowly at first, but which
fullest sympathies. The scope of the tale carries toward the end attains a momentum that leaves us
us far beyond the death of Peter, and shows us how fairly breathless. The scene is an ancient English
the minister holds his own until treachery undoes castle, and the time about a hundred years ago. We
bim, and he is setting out for his Siberian exile, can guarantee the fortunate readers of this book a
accompanied by the wife who has now learned to season of unalloyed enjoyment in communion with
recognize his worth.
the lovely scenes which it depicts and the noble souls
The Puritan Revolution in England has been a which it portrays.
Such a book as this is indeed
good deal overworked by recent novelists, but the an oasis in the dreary waste of our current fiction.
list of Cromwellian romances still has room for as “The Gold Wolf,” by Mr. Max Pemberton, is
good a book as Mi88 McChesney's “Cornet Strong also romance of a sort, but it is modern, nervous,
of Ireton's Horse.". The author has already won melodramatic, and crude in its coloring. It abounds
a considerable degree of success in dealing with in glaring improbabilities, and it is continually rais-
this period of English history, and her work has ing interesting points that are left half-explained or
a foundation of solid historical information. The not at all. Cheap, sensational devices are the writ-
main feature of her present plot is one that strains er's main reliance, and the imaginative touch of
our credulity, to say the least. Cornet Strong is rep- certain of his earlier romances is almost wholly miss-
resented as a Puritan soldier of the fanatical type, | ing. A man of many millions, almost driven to
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insanity by the high tension of a life spent in mani-
NOTES ON NEW NOVELS.
pulating the stock market, does not make a partic-
ularly sympathetic sort of hero, and there is no "The Mannerings” (Houghton), latest of Miss Alice
heroine worth mentioning. Mr. Pemberton has Brown's works of fiction, is a true novel and one far
written better books than this, and we hope that above the average of the books poured out upon the
he write more of them.
reading world with such profusion. It deals with the
may
“The Traitors,” by Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim, and with some characters not so well bred, suggesting
narrow life of some well-bred people in New England,
is a romance of the hackneyed “ Zenda”
provincialism on every page. There are more princi-
sufficiently vigorous and well-planned to make its
pal characters than will ordinarily be found in a work
existence justifiable. The scene is the kingdom of
devoted to portraying the development of character,
Theos, which is conveniently situated in the Bal- and Miss Brown's skill leaves no one of them on
kans, and is the object of brutal Turkish assault and quite the same ground at the close of the book that
perfidious Russian diplomacy. English power is the he occupied at the beginning. A question in literary
Deus ex machina which saves it from destruction casuistry is raised which bids fair to dominate the situ-
when sore beset by its foes. This is brought about
ations as a whole, but it is fortunately permitted to oc-
by a clever newspaper correspondent. The King
capy no undue space. Were Miss Brown to eniarge her
is a fine fellow who has won his spurs in the En-
sphere of action, she would stand almost alone among
the women novelists of the country; she has, in fact,
glish army, and the woman who becomes his queen
outgrown New England already to an extent of which
is the daughter of an American millionaire. In this
she does not seem to be aware.
respect the story is much happier than its “Zenda"
Mr. Henry James shows a return to his older - and
The English novelist who selects a Spanish back- better manner in his latest volume, « The Better
ground for the scenic investiture of his work is not, Sort” (Scribner). It is a collection of short stories,
as a rule, distinguished by his knowledge of Span- most of which have appeared in magazines during the
ish life. He is generally content to give us the con- last few years, and all dealing with men and women
ventional stage properties, the stock situations, and whose position in society seems to have given name to
the book. The characters show the subtlety of analysis
the hackneyed turns of phrase, that stand for Spain
in the book-fed imaginations of most readers, and
which has long been Mr. James's peculiar province to
exploit in literature, but they lack in good part the in-
trusts to the spirit of romance to do the rest. Not
volution of thought and phrase which has bewildered so
80 Mr. Paul Gwynne, the author of " The Pagan at
many readers who have not followed his career from its
the Shrine.” One may almost complain of him that beginnings. As usual in his recent work, Mr. James
he knows Spain too well, for his book is so freighted finds the background for most of the stories in London;
with folk-lore and local custom, and the sort of but his knowledge of America and its people enables
detail that means intimate acquaintance with the
him to introduce bis countrymen and country women at
homely life of the people, that the story itself suffers
will, whenever he needs a character not quite in unison
from the richness of its setting. The extraneous
with the highly civilized circle whose bome centres in
matter which thus loads it down is 80 extraordinarily
the metropolis. Because of its greater simplicity of
style and treatment, the book may be recommended to
interesting that we are loth to indulge in even so
a larger circle than anything written by Mr. James in
slight an adverse criticism as is above implied, but
the last five years, with the certainty of not disappoint-
the fact remains that the plot is now and then a bit ing
difficult to follow. In its main outline the story is. A variant of the “ Enoch Arden” theme forms the
simple enough. A young Jesuit brother commits a basis for Mr. John H. Whitson's “ Barbara, a Woman
mortal sin, and keeps it a secret. All the rest of of the West” (Little, Brown, & Co.), with the scene
his life is one long expiation, but the consequences
ranging from a Kansas ranch, through the mining
of the sin return to plague him, and bring the mat-
regions of Colorado, to the pleasant climate and out-
ter to tragic issue in the end. His natural son is
of door life of Southern California. The husband, a
selfish fellow with artistic tastes, leaves his wife when
slain through a horrible misunderstanding, and the
bitten by the prospecting fever, and suffers injuries that
unhappy father falls dead in the very hour of his
destroy his sense of identity and in the end his life, leav-
long-delayed public confession. This novel is one of
ing Barbara to support herself as best she can. She
the most remarkable of the season, for it is one of the enters the newspaper world, and develops marked qual-
rare books that, in the guise of fiction, are genuine ifications for her work; but when she receives word of
revelations of human life under exceptionally inter- her lost spouse she gives that up and is thrown into al-
esting conditions.
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
most daily contact with the man she afterwards marries.
The proof of her husband's death is soon overthrown,
but he has the grace to expire in her arms, and she is
THE MACMILLAN Co. are to be the American publish- re-married to the man she loves. This bald statement
ers of a superb limited edition, in complete form, of Hak- does little justice to the real merit of the work, which
luyt's famous collection of "The Principal Navigations, makes a more than ordinarily careful discrimination
Voiages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Na- between Barbara's various environments, introducing
tion." “ The prose epic of the modern English nation," numbers of typical characters.
as Froude called it, will be contained in a de luxe edi- Nothing could be more welcome than the substitution
tion of twelve volumes, printed from old-style Caslon of the speech of a man imbued with the language of
type on antique paper.
The first volume will appear Shakespeare for the ordinary dialect of the American
within a few weeks.
countryman, which Mr. Irving Bacheller has effected
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in his newest and best novel, “ Darrel of the Blessed life as a missionary in those parts bas provided him with
Isles" (Lothrop). If Mr. Munkittrick's soul exploding more than one incident. These are of varied values, and
“in one great b'gosh !” bad anything to do with the in some the connection with the prelate in question is
change from the manner of “ Eben Holden," he deserves slight, - as when he is called to marry a couple whose
the thanks of the reading community. The character ante-marital deeds provide the real interest. The full
that the title commemorates is an Irishman, widely flavor of a past or passing time is in the work, which
travelled and read, who has settled down as an itinerant deserves setting down on that account alone. In addi-
mender and vendor of clocks in central New York, in tion, the writer has an abundance of power, and his
the earlier half of the century gone. He makes friends work is never uninteresting.
with a little waif growing into manhood, awakens his “ Elizabeth's Children” (John Lane) there seems
desire for knowledge, and toward the close of the story to be a literary fashion in names, and “ Elizabeth " is
offers himself as a vicarious sacrifice when the lad, then in the height of it, is from an anonymous hand, but
grown to manhood, is accused of the crime of another. evidently not that of the recent “visits " and " letters."
There is an idyllism of treatment that argues a vastly An English bachelor is induced to take care for a sea-
greater and better literary future for Mr. Bacheller son of three little lads, sons of an old flame of his by
than could be inferred from his two books preceding, her French husband. The youngsters have a delightful
and it is rather wonderful that they succeeded so thor- time in the English country house of their temporary
oughly in obscuring the really delightful scholarship guardian, - a more delightful time by far than they
here shared with the world for tbe first time in the allotted to him. They have an alluring dialect of the
form of fiction, though long known to the author's macaronic sort, accounted for by one of them, who ob-
friends and acquaintance.
served “dat Papa almost always speak de English be-
“Life's Common Way” (Barnes) is far out of the cause he tink Maman like dat de best, and Maman
common way in its settings and characters, though we speak de French to us because she tink Papa like dat de
find here the griefs and sorrows that come to all, as well best.” Long before the story has proceeded through
as many things that most of us, happily or unhappily, its course, the reader will bave fallen in love with the
can never have. The heroine of the story (it is markedly children, and will be grateful for the part they take in
devoid of masculine heroic material) is Ursula Keith, an aiding their host in his own little romance. The book
orphaned girl of wealth and position in Boston. In the is distinctly entertaining.
earlier pages especially, she is as bright and cheerful a
figure as one can hope to read about, and the charac- Obstacle” (Scribner), a girl of position and talent in
terizations of her friends and acquaintances are both hu- the higher circles of New York society falls in love
morous and vivid, as where we are introduced to the with a musician, a charming fellow with an ability that
sort of person of whom the author, Mrs. Annie Eliot runs almost into genius in his art, in which he has her
Trumbull, says, “Everything always reminded her of entire sympathy. But the commercial agencies would
something quite different.” Somewhat to the reader's rate him as owning no more than sixty thousand dol-
surprise, the narrative dips into a question of casuistry, lars, -- and this, for her, means poverty or exile. The
and one involving the ethics of labor-troubles into the ingenious musician, however, finds himself suffering
bargain. With this is commingled Ursula's marriage from a disease that appears bound to take him off in
to the wrong person, her determination to leave him, six months, and as his wealth is deemed sufficient to
and her final acceptance of her duty in the premises as last out that term, the twain are made one. But he
the final guardian of her husband's integrity. For all does not die at the time set, so goes to Cuba to make
its lack of definiteness of aim, the book is always inter- the now needed fortune. Here he is made the heir of
esting and much of it entertaining.
a wealthy planter; and the planter first, and the hus-
Northumberland is the scene of Mr. Ellsworth Law- band later, die in the most accommodating manner in
son's story, “From the Unvarying Star" (Macmillan). order to reward the lady for her disinterestedness.
It tells of the life, in a small English manufacturing Some disappointment will be felt, by those who know
town, of a non-conformist parson, in love with the daugh- the author's poems, that so little poetry should appear
ter of his senior elder, the wealthiest man of the con- in the conception and execution of the story; but it is
gregation. There is conflict with another of the church not one in which tender sentiment finds much place.
officials, , endeavor to rescue those in soro trials from Mr. B. K. Benson's fourth book, “Old Squire, the
the effects of their own indiscretion, and very little at- Romance of a Black Virginian" (Macmillan), is a sequel
tempt at the setting forth of dogma. The love story to the work just preceding it, in the sense of using the
is beautifully idyllic, having in it much of the charm Morgan twins again as the central figures of the narra-
of Mr. Lawson's former work, and the mingling of this tivo, though the old slave from whom the book is named
with the melodrama of crime of one sort and another is really its protagonist. As in all the previous volumes
gives the book an unevenness which works to its detri- from this hand, the account is closely historical, its data
ment. Yet there are evidences of wide reading and a obtained from authentic sources, and its concern with
love for the best poetry, so that a real literary flavor is the Civil War. The mystery which has characterized
given to the book. It is to be said that the general its predecessors is wanting here, the utilization of the
impression of the work is one of promise rather than Morgan twins supplying this element afresh. As in the
fulfilment.
former works, the events of the war are fully realized
Mr. Cyrus Townsend Brady has gone back to an and most interestingly interwoven with the fictional
earlier field for the material from which he has con- characters. The old slave, as we are told by the author's
structed the semi-detached episodes of far Western life note, is an historic personage, at least in the latter part
which make up “The Bishop, Being Some Account of of the story, which has abundant romance to endear it
his Strange Adventures on the Plains” (Harper). It to that mysterious personality, the average reader.
may very well have been Bishop Whipple who serves as “ At the Time Appointed” (Lippincott) is by Mr. A.
the central figure, and unquestionably Mr. Brady's own M. Barbour, who wrote “That Mainwaring Affair” a
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year or two ago. Like its predecessor, the newer work
is a “mystery" story, beginning with a cold blooded
murder and ending with another murder and a suicide,
the interval being filled with love-making and a more or
less interesting case of suspended individuality. To the
bardened reader of this sort of story, the “
“mystery " is
at no time very deeply mysterious; but to the novice it
will probably contain enough of the element of suspense
to keep him interested from cover to cover. The scene
the higher wisdom at a rate that would be more alarming
if it were less laughworthy, - imbibing, for example,
such maxims from her aunt's worldly lips as “A man-
ner of not being quite so good as we are is sometimes
a safeguard against being mistaken for something not
nearly so good as we are.” Mr. Townsend has no dif-
ficulty in providing such a girl with suitors, so he sets
himself the more difficult task of providing her princi-
pal suitors with life-partners also, and the bright little
book a orgy.
a
father, a Mexican bandit, a wronged wife
, and enough Miss Mary E. Wilkins that was, Mrs. Charles Man-
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gles, is lacking in interest; and those who have not yet be. Wee Margrethor" (Harper) is the pleasant work of
a
of the usual apparatus of this form of reading matter ning Freeman that is, has produced some really astonish-
to make it worthy of perusal during the coming heated ing results in the way of mysteries in the book of short
term.
stories which she calls “The Wind in the Rose Bush,
Good old melodramatic romance is to be found in and Other Tales of the Supernatural” (Doubleday,
“ The Spoils of Empire” (Little, Brown, & Co.), the Page & Co.). Without the use of the element of hor-
work of Mr. Francis Newton Thorpe. The story has ror that characterizes Bulwer-Lytton's “ The House and
to do with the expedition of Cortès, the overthrow of the Brain ” or the work of Poe in the same field, rely-
the Aztec empire, the Spanish Inquisition, and a num- ing rather upon terror, so different a sentiment, she con-
ber of kindred topics, treated in a manner curiously structs out of the ordinary, commonplace, every-day life
reminiscent of the days of Ainsworth and James. The of New England a number of episodes that will send the
Mexico is that of Prescott rather than of Fiske, and most hardened to bed with an uneasy glance behind. It
there is no apparent disposition to make the Aztecs the is inevitably crime, or something closely akin to crime,
inferiors of the Spaniards in any essential, — much as in that lies behind her various weirdnesses; but she has
General Lew Wallace's “ The Fair God.” It would be the wise economy of narration which refuses to disclose
idle to say that a story so replete with striking situations, most of these deeds of shame, and her work may fairly
conspiracies, , and religious strug- called engrossing.
advanced beyond an enjoyment of Bulwer-Lytton at his Mr. James Joy Bell, who seems not to be as well known
noisiest will like Mr. Thorpe's work to the full. on this side of the Atlantic as his two cheerfully writ-
Between Mr. Churchill Williams's “The Captain " ten little books of verse for children warrant. The story
(Lothrop), which follows the fortunes of Grant as far is made
up
of a series of episodes in the life of a small
as the fall of Vicksburg, and Mr. Winston Churchill's Glasgow lad, Macgregor Robinson by name, who with
« The Crisis," which occupies itself largely with the his father, a decent mechanic, his mother, a capable
same remarkable figure, there is likely to be confusion housewife, his small sister Jeannie, his “Grandpaw"
in the reader's mind. Mr. Williams shows Grant in Purdie, and several neighbors and their offspring, consti-
his early days in Missouri, after he had left the army tute the dramatis persone. Macgregor is the common
for the first time, follows his fortunes to Galena and or “garden” variety of boy, — no thoroughly equipped
Springfield, and thence on through the siege of Vicks- household is without just such another, — and his joys
burg. His hero is a young Missourian who opens a and sorrows will be entered into by affectionately dis-
law-office in Galena, enlists in Grant's own regiment, posed and sadly worried parents everywhere. Much of
and becomes a member of his staff. There is a free the delicious humor of the book is due to the lowland
use of historical persons, as of historical anecdotes; and Scotch dialect affected by the Robinson family, and the
though the general tone of the book and the romance it reader will be grateful for the glossary of terms with
embodies is wholly unlike Mr. Churchill's, one still has which the narrative is prefaced.
ground for wonder at the temerity, or independence, or Miss Josephine Daskam's “Middle-Aged Love
both, which have gone into the one just now published, Stories" (Scribner) teach that love is no respecter of
the popularity of its predecessor being taken into ac- persons who are still unmated, no matter how clearly
count. Mr. Williams's is much the shorter of the two they may regard themselves as committed to an earthly
and none the worse on that account, - and it is far celibacy. Her theme requires that there shall be no
enough removed from the story of Philadelphia mu- marked disparity of years between the belated couples
nicipal politics, which was his first essay in fiction, to she makes happy, and there will not be lacking those
permit auspicious augury for his literary future. But who will hold as eminently undesirable the wholesome
it would deserve much higher praise had it preceded, matter-of-fact sort of women she selects for her men,
rather than followed, " The Crisis."
and the idling and jaded men she selects for her women.
One may suspect Mr. Edward W. Townsend of a This is probably due to the fact that in a large part of
really clever satire upon the element in New York which her narrative Miss Daskam relies upon imagination,
calls itself real society, in contradiction to the poodle- experience failing. There is a great deal of shrewd
dinner-givers and their friends among the higher mam- analysis of motives and character in every one of the
malia, in his cleverly written series of letters, “ A Sum- seven tales of which the book is made up, but there will
mer in New York” (Holt). The heroine of these let- still be wonder whether the general attitude of middle-
ters is the daughter of a wealthy Westerner who has aged women is quite as complaisant as Miss Daskam
made his millions in iron, his ancestors having been of makes it appear, — the “Yes, sir, and thankee too'
the first circles of Manhattan, where his sister, fortu- of the old story.
nately married, still occupies a leading place. The “ Richard Rosny” (Appleton) is an extended story
daughter, joint heiress to these millions, comes to the of English life among the upper middle class, in which
city for the first time, and is duly inducted into the the hero appears to be kept in an assortment of miseries
select life of its most fashionable folk. She there learns from the first chapter to the last through one device or
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another on the part of his womenfolk. “ Maxwell Publishing Co.), a work chiefly concerned with the press-
Gray” (Miss M.G. Tuttiett) makes her hero an officer ing question of the rich growing richer and the poor
in the Royal Navy. His mother forces him to quit the poorer. Like too many novels with so evident a pur-
service, but not until the reader has had tim to pose behind it, the zeal of the author runs away with
wonder why English authors in general make so little his sense of proportion, and the reading becomes dull
use of their naval officers in their fiction. The book is where it is intended to be most fascinating. A young
carefully written, contains a number of exciting epi- man of Scotch parentage rises to be the confidential
sodes by way of relief to the general sordidness of the secretary of the richest man in America.
He resigns
characters, and really preaches a covert sermon against the position when he finds himself expected to crush
extravagance.
out all opposition to his employer's will by means legal
Tragedy, outgrown and lived out into serenity and enough, but profoundly immoral in both inception and
peace, is the note of Miss Eleanor G. Hayden's “ From results. He becomes a newspaper man until the papers
a Thatched Cottage" (Crowell). It is an unusual story with which he is connected fall under the influence of
in other respects, the results being attained by simple his old employer, whereupon be turns to politics. His
means, and the entire volume strewn with descriptions interest in labor problems calls him into the cabinet of
that are fully lyrical in their essence. The scene is the President of the United States, the hard times over-
laid in England, the people are of the lower middle spreading the country drive the middle and lower clas-
class, the time is the present. There is a good deal of ses into revolt, the Senate refuses to act, and just as
rural dialect used to give local color, but even this is the President takes things into his own hands he is
not overdone, and is quite intelligible to the American killed, and, as all of his cabinet had resigned with the
reader. With the rest goes rustic humor, skilfully used exception of the hero, the hero becomes President and
to relieve the sombreness of the opening chapters, marries the girl of his choice, the multimillionaire's
which antedate the later by three generations. Miss daughter.
Hayden has the literary gift, and is using it to excel- Sacket's Harbor more particularly, but northern New
lent advantage.
York in general, give Mr. Olin L. Lyman the material
Some follies and some downright disagreeable things from which to construct “ The Trail of the Grand Seig-
will be found in “ The Stumbling Block ” (Barnes), by neur” (New Amsterdam Book Co.). The French ele-
Mr. Edwin Pugh, and he has made a tragical ending ment there persisted through the War of 1812, with the
to his book with little warning to his readers, — always incidents of which the rather slender love-story of the
an error in judgment. Nevertheless the book impresses book is compounded. There is a suggestion of Cooper
one as having power, both latent and expressed; and it in the Indians who enter into the narrative, there is a
is certainly original. The respectable portions of Bo- great deal of “good” fighting, and the story as
hemia in London provide the characters, after a prologue whole makes a patriotic appeal to Americans. Neces-
that seems - like the flowers in spring — to have little sarily there is melodrama, not the least sensational of
to do with the case. Two women love a single man, the characters being a dog who works out the dramatic
and this is perınitted to end in the death, almost the climax for his dying owner.
The illustrations are in
murder, of one of them, and the final taking off of the color, not too carefully printed.
other, though by no means an essentially tragic com- Romances of the war of the Rebellion are still rife,
plication. That it is treated humorously at the outset though Mr. William Henry Babcock's “ Kent Fort
makes it the more objectionable to those who like well- Manor" (Coates) is far above many such works in im-
ordered narrative. Still, Mr. Pugh will be heard partiality and dignity of treatment. Most of the story
from again, and willingly.
passes in the spot (a real one) which gives title to the
Astonishingly easy is it to make a living by litera- book, - a large tract of land not far from Baltimore,
ture in one or another of its forms, so easy that most where Federals and Confederates were more evenly
professional writers who have won their way through balanced in numbers than elsewhere, the region being
the usual gauntlet of public indifference and private too civilized for the brutalities of border warfare prac-
discouragement will be thankful for the improbability ticed farther West, though there is an abundance of
which attaches to the heroine in Miss Annie Flint's "A the horrors of war in the narrative. There is cause for
Girl of Ideas (Scribner). The heroine is seemingly congratulation in Mr. Babcock's personal freedom
a girl like others, except that she has a collegiate edu- from these sentiments as such, or from glorying in
cation, an utterly self-devoted girl friend, and a con- the wantonness of civil strife ; for the book can be
venient uncle who stands behind as a deus ex machina read without rancor on the part of sympathizers with
to help her out of difficulties otherwise hopeless. But the two great bodies of contestants, and with interest
“Uncle Tom” is never once appealed to; his niece
opens an office in New York, announcing herself as To believe that an untrained lad, however musically
ready to sell ideas to writers of every sort. From the inclined and however good the instrument given him,
day she first opens it, there is no further difficulty about should be able to play the violin the first time he tries,
her living. All sorts of authors flock to her for the is something of a tax on the imagination; but that it can
one great requisite, ideas; and she furnishes them in a be done successfully, we have the assurance of Miss
profusion that will make the most heedless sit up in won Harriet Bartnett in “ Angelo the Musician” (Godfrey
der. The one difficulty comes from selling the same A. S. Wieners). The scene changes from San Francisco
idea to two individuals, resulting in a charge of pla- and back again, the interest of the narrative always cen-
giarism against the famous one of the two, and there tring about the little Italian boy who grows to a famous
the romance of the story lies. It is a fully modern manhood through the kindness of a man of benevolence
book, and will interest the great and growing army of and wealth. A strong tendency to melodrama manifests
scribblers.
itself in the later chapters of the book, and there is a
“ Dwight Tilton” is the pseudonym adopted by the rather abrupt transition from music to politics and
person who writes “On Satan's Mount" (C. M. Clark sociology near its close.
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NOTES.
“ How to Make School Gardens," a manual for
teachers and pupils, by Mr. H. D. Hemenway, is a
text-book published by Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co.
Ruskin’s “ King of the Golden River,” edited by
Miss Katharine Lee Bates, is an addition to the “Can-
terbury Classics " for children published by Messrs.
Rand, McNally & Co.
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. publish Paul Ford's
“Janice Meredith " in a “players' edition," with many
illustrations from the stage, and a colored medallion
portrait of Washington.
We have received from Brentano's a new edition of
Mr. George Moore's early novel, “ A Mummer's Wife.”
The volume contains no indication of the fact that it is
a reprint of an old work.
The Apocrypha is now being added to the “ Temple'
Bible of the Messrs. Lippincott, and we have before us
at this moment a volume containing the two books of
the Maccabees, edited by Mr. W. Fairweather.
Messrs. Cassell & Co. publish an edition of “ White's
Selborne," edited by Mr. Richard Kearton, which has
for its distinctive feature a series of more than a
hundred photographic illustrations taken directly from
natural objects.
The April issue of “The Library,” an English quar-
terly devoted to bibliograpbical and library matters,
appears in an American edition, bearing the imprint of
the Scott-Thaw Co., New York. The list of contents
is unusually attractive, including articles by Dr. Richard
Garnett and Mr. Andrew Lang.
The University of Pennsylvania sends us a quarto
volume of “Results of Observations with the Zenith
Telescope of the Flower Astronomical Observatory.”
This work, made up wholly of tabulated measurements,
is prepared by Director Charles L. Doolittle, and rep-
resents the observations of three years.
The Chicago Literary Press Bureau, composed of a
number of writers and newspaper men of this city, bas
recently been formed for the conduct of a general liter-
ary business, including the purchase and disposal of
manuscripts, syndicate matter, etc. Mr. Will M.
Hight, late manager of “The Gentleman's Magazine,"
is in charge of the enterprise.
“On the Beckmann Rearrangement,” by Professor
Julius Stieglitz; “ Practical Sociology in the Service
of Social Ethics," by Professor Charles Richmond
Henderson ; “ Existence, Meaning, and Reality," by
Professor A. W. Moore ; “ A Sketch of the Linguistic
Conditions of Chicago,” by Professor Carl Darling
“ Dimensions of Direct-Current Dynamo-
Electric Machines," by Mr. Carl Kinsley; and “The
Finer Structure of the Neurones in the Nervous System
of the White Rat," by Mr. Shinkishi Hatai.
“ Political Parties and Party Problems in the United
States” (Putnam), by Professor James Albert Wood-
burn, is a companion volume to “ The American Repub-
lic and Its Government,” by the same author. The
two books together form a treatment of civil govern-
ment in this country, both theoretical and historical,
which is admirably fitted for the use of colleges. In
fact, the author's declared aim has been to prepare a
work intermediate between the elementary text-book
and such comprehensive treatises as those of Mr. Bryce
and Mr. Ostrogorski. Professor Woodburn is thor-
oughly acquainted with the history of our party politics,
and his sympathies are as a rule wisely enlisted. His
work is deserving of very warm commendation.
Richard Henry Stoddard, the veteran poet, critic, and
journalist, died at his home in New York, on the morn-
ing of May 12, having nearly completed his seventy-
eighth year. Although a New Englander by birth, he
became a New Yorker in childhood, and remained one
to the end of his days. Tailoring, blacksmithing, iron
moulding, and law office work were among his early
ventures, before he gained the recognition as a writer
toward which his ambitions had been drifting from his
boyhood years. In early manhood he began sending
contributions in verse and prose to the periodicals, and
his first volume of poems, called “Footprints," was pub-
lished in 1849, when he was twenty-four years of age.
Soon thereafter, he married Elizabeth Barstow, the
woman of genius who remained his helpmeet until about a
year ago. A position in the New York Custom House,
held from 1853 to 1870, gave him a livelihood during
his most productive literary period. During the last
ten of these years he was the literary reviewer of the
“ World," and for the last quarter-century he has held
a similar position with the “Mail and Express." His
books are many, including juveniles, critical monographs,
and collections of' verse, besides those to wbich his re-
lation was editorial. It is as a lyrist that he will be
chiefly remembered, and his poetical contribution to
American literature is both considerable and important.
He has never been a popular poet, in the sense in which
his famous New England contemporaries were popular,
but the judicious know his work and esteem it highly.
The closest of his surviving friends, Mr. Stedman, has
characterized his poetry as exbibiting “affluence,
sincere feeling, strength, a manner peculiarly his own,
very delicate fancy, and, above all, an imagination at
times exceeded by that of no other American poet."
Mr. Stoddard's writing was so voluminous, and so much
of it was mere journalism, that the great bulk of it is
already consigned to oblivion, but enough of it will live
to insure the holding of his memory in grateful recollec-
tion. The anthologist will always resort to his treasury
for exquisite examples of song, and sometime, perhaps,
we may have a single volume in which his best shall be
garnered for posterity. A volume of literary recollec-
tions was prepared by him just before bis death, and
will be published during the coming season.
"The Art of Living Long,” published in Milwaukee and
by Mr. William F. Butler, is a new translation of
“ La Vita Sobria," by the Venetian centenarian, Alvise
Corvaro. Germane extracts from Addison, Bacon, and
Temple are added, and a group of essays upon Cornaro
himself, his family, and his villas. The whole makes a
curiously interesting volume, and its preparation has
clearly been a labor of love to the translator and editor.
Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. have just issued a folder
giving a sketch of this old Boston publishing house,
from which it appears that the firm traces its origin back
to 1784. It is, therefore, the oldest establishment of
its kind in Boston. Since 1898, when the business of
Roberts Brothers was acquired, Messrs. Little, Brown,
& Co. have been publishing more books of fiction, in
addition to law, and subscription books, and books of a
miscellaneous nature.
Recent decennial publications of the University
of Chicago include the following quarto pamphlets :
“Oogenesis in Saprolegnia,” by Professor Bradley
Moore Davis ; “ The Animal Ecology of the Cold
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Alaska Boundary Question. R. W. Parker. No. American.
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Ants, Royal Mother of. H. C. McCook. Harper.
Appalachian Americans, Our. Julian Ralph. Harper,
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JUNE 16, 1903. Vol. XXXIV. these later years, when there have been found
none so poor to do him reverence, and that he
CONTENTS.
is deserving of a better word than is commonly
spoken in his behalf.
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The weeks just past have found us so oc-
A NEGLECTED ENGLISH CLASSIC. Percy F. cupied in celebrating our Emerson centenary
Bicknell
393
that sight has been lost, in large measure, of
A RE-DISCOVERED POET. W. D. MacClintock 395 the fact that the same year and month marked
THE MONARCH IN ENGLAND. E. D. Adams 398 the Bulwer centenary as well. It seems worth
BESANT'S EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON.
while, before the occasion has slipped from us
Arthur Howard Noll
400 altogether, to take a glance backward, and to
ask what can honestly be said about the brill-
WALL STREET AND ITS WORK. Frank L.
McVey
401 iant English novelist in whom our youth de-
lighted, and whose name looms so large in the
VARIOUS SOCIAL PROBLEMS. T. D. A. Cockerell 402
Mrs. and Miss Van Vorst's The Woman Who Toils.
literary annals of the mid-Victorian period.
- Woods's Americans in Process. — Freeman's If When Bulwer died, in 1873, it seemed to the
not the Saloon, What? -- Patten's Heredity and
larger part of the reading public as if one of the
Social Progress.
greatest contemporary figures had passed away.
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
403
The conservative pages of Chambers's “Cyclo-
Authenticity of Shakespeare portraits. - Collected
papers of William Morris. - Ethics of lawyers,
pædia of English Literature” offer us the fol-
courts, and clients. — A hunter's book of water- lowing surprising statement:
fowl. — Nature-study in education. — The father
• The sudden death of Lord Lytton was much re-
of American poetry. - The meaning of pictures.-
Augustus Cæsar's first biography in English. -
gretted. He was at the head of our literature, with
Short lives of great artists.
the single exception of Mr. Carlyle; his works were
popular over all Europe, and his fertility and industry
BRIEFER MENTION
406
seemed unabated."
NOTES
407
Between such an opinion as this and the
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
408 opinion now current in critical circles, the
contrast is striking indeed ; and the present
underestimate seems to us almost as far re-
A SECOND-RATE NOVELIST.
moved from the truth as was the overestimate
The amusing volume in which Mr. Swin- of a generation ago.
burne has parodied a number of his fellow- It is easy enough to find flaws in Bulwer's
craftsmen in verse (not forgetting himself in work, and even faults of the most glaring na-
the sport) describes the second Lord Lytton ture must be allowed. His pretentiousness, his
as “a seventh-rate poet.” Mr. Swinburne's affectation of omniscience, and his constant re-
tendency to exaggerate is well-known, and he sort to tricky rhetorical devices, make him an
is probably too severe in this instance, as he is easy mark for the microscopic critic. Even the
undoubtedly too eulogistic in others that might critic who concerns himself only with the larger
be mentioned. But we trust that we do the aspects of literary art must recognize the fact
father of this “seventh-rate poet,” the first that Bulwer's whole method is artificial, and
Lord Lytton, no injustice in describing bim that he rarely achieves either the creation of
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sense.
character or the presentation of vital truth. its characteristic blend of history, romantic
But when all these perfectly obvious excep- feeling, and supernaturalism; "The Parisians”
tions to his work have been taken, there is still and “Kenelm Chillingly,” as illustrating his
a residuum of artistic ability and impressive peculiar vein of sentimentalism and his ripest
intellectual force that calls for our admiration, philosophy. The assiduous reader of the ephe-
and makes good his claim to respectable rank meral fiction now being produced and devoured
among the secondary names of our modern lit- from day to day might do worse than abstain
erature.
for a season from his favorite recreation, and
The extraordinary industry of Bulwer is one devote a few weeks to the reading, or re-reading,
of his most notable characteristics. For over of the dozen books that have just been named.
fifty years he was a producer of books, and the They do not offer the perennial refreshment to
mere list of their titles is imposing. Some of be got from Scott and Dickens and Thackeray,
the books were poor enough, no doubt; but but they do very appreciably dwarf the crea-
scattered through the list, both early and late, tions of our present-day purveyors of fictive
we find works that still hold their place in our entertainment, besides affording a considerable
literature, and still command the interest of insight into the history of culture as reflected
readers not altogether devoid of the critical by a singularly acute and sympathetic mind.
And his versatility was no less re- Thus far in this brief summary no word has
markable than his industry. That he was lack- been said of Bulwer's writings in other fields
ing in the originality of the greatest writers, than that of fiction. Of his serious prose, there
must be admitted ; but it must also be admitted is much that is well worth reading, particularly
that few have equalled him in the faculty for his early descriptive papers styled “ England
adapting the manners and the methods of other and the English,” his charming essays called
writers without making himself imitative and Caxtoniana,” and his “ Athens," a work of
“
nothing more. A whole series of his earlier combined history, philosophy, and literary criti-
novels is flavored with Byronism, but they are cism, which, while open enough to the attack
Byronic with a difference. The historical novels of scholarship, has nevertheless a quality of
have learned much from Scott, yet they have contagious enthusiasm that commends it to all
a distinctive character of their own, which is generous minds. Bulwer as a poet was less suc-
marked by its vices as well as by its virtues. cessful than as a writer of prose, and his ambi-
In his three central novels of English life, we tious epics and satires fall distinctly under the
find the influence, now of Sterne, now of Dick- Horatian ban. They are not likely ever again
ens, now of Thackeray; but the type is com- to be read for their own sake. Here, however,
posite, and the ingenious eclecticism of these we must except the translations from Schiller,
works excites our admiration. In other groups which deserve high praise. And here also we
of novels, the author was more completely him- must make a sort of exception in favor of “The
self, particularly in those tales which have a Lady of Lyons” and “ Richelieu." If we do
fantastic or supernatural basis, and in those not exactly read these dramas, we may still
which give the freest expression to the deeply. witness their stage performance with a certain
felt sentimentalism which was, for good or evil, satisfaction. Generous youth is still thrilled
the dominant trait in his composition.
by Claude Melnotte's description of the palace
The works of fiction produced by Bulwer of his dreams, and the maturer sense finds it
number altogether about two dozen titles. We hard to remain quite unmoved when the hero
may without great difficulty select from this Aings down the money in the closing scene,
list an even dozen of works that fairly represent and declares,
his varied powers, and that deserve to outlive “ There's not a coin that is not bought and hallow'd
at least one more generation. Our list is as In the cause of nations with a soldier's blood."
follows: "Pelham," as typical of his earlier
:
As for “ Richelieu," the play still holds its place
satirical and Byronic manner; “Eugene Aram," on the boards, and deserves it. The author no
as an example of rhetorical melodrama; “ The more gives us the Richelieu of history than
Last Days of Pompeii,” “Rienzi,” “The Last Shakespeare gives us the historical Brutus, but
of the Barons,” and “Harold,” as the four the piece is none the less effective for that. It
historical romances, not one of which can be is stagey in construction and rhetorical in dic-
spared ; “ The Caxtons," “My Novel," and tion, but its points are made with an unerring
“ Wbat Will He Do with It?” the most dramatic instinct, and its best passages remain
typical of the novels proper; “ Zanoni,” for fixed in our memory whether we like them or
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not. And the best of these best passages come follow the record of it in the simple and modest
surprisingly near to being good poetry, -as language of the Journal. Beset by an angry mob
near, on the whole, as the author ever ap-
in Staffordshire, he hears unmoved the threatening
proached to that distinction. The poetic lit-
cries of “Bring out the minister! We will have the
erature of the nineteenth-century English quell sneh disturbances is illustrated by what fol-
minister!” This slender little preacher's power to
drama is avowedly written for the closet, and
lowed on this occasion. He writes in his diary:
it is no small achievement to have produced
“I desired one to take their captain by the hand and bring
the one work of this species that seems likely, him into the house. After a few sentences interchanged be-
out of a whole century's output, to remain a tween us, the lion was become a lamb. I desired him to go
valued contribution to the repertory of the
out and bring one or two more of the most angry of his com-
panions. He brought in two who were ready to swallow the
theatre.
ground with rage, but in two minutes they were as calm as
he. I then bade them make way that I might go out among
the people. As soon as I was in the midst of them, I called
for a chair, and standing up, asked, "What do any of you
A NEGLECTED ENGLISH CLASSIC. want with me?' Some said, 'We want you to go with us to
the Justice.' I replied, “That I will, with all my heart.' I
“My brother was born for the benefit of knaves," then spoke a few words which God applied ; so that they cried
said Charles Wesley, alluding to the rare simplicity
out with might and main, "The gentleman is an honest gen-
of John Wesley's nature, a simplicity that made it
tleman, and we will spill our blood in his defense.'”
impossible for him not only to tell an ontruth, but The sustaining power of high ideals and a lofty
even to keep a secret or to practice the slightest dis- purpose is nowhere better illustrated than in Wes-
simulation. It is this tone of absolute simplicity and ley's arduous, eventful, and often perilous career.
genuineness that gives his Journal its peculiar charm. Even the basest could not fail to recognize in him a
This bi-centennial year of Wesley's birth (June 17, man of God.
One ruffian who had raised his hand
1703) calls attention anew to that little-read and, to deal him a savage blow, let it fall gently on the
in its anabridged form, somewhat forbidding work preacher's head, and, stroking his hair, exclaimed,
of literature. To us Americans, the writer should To What soft hair he has !” The ringleader of a
be an object of additional interest by reason of his mob that threatened to knock out the Methodist's
early ministry in Georgia and the publication (in brains, had only to hear him pray, and was straight-
1737) of his first bymn-book at Charlestown. way converted to a better mind.
“Sir,” he ex-
The amazing extent of Wesley's annual travels, claimed, "I will spend my life for you. Follow me,
within the British isles, give to his recorded obser- and no one shall hurt a hair of your head.” So he
vations a variety and range that one would by no was rescued with the loss merely of one flap of his
means expect in the diary of a Methodist preacher. waistcoat and a little skin from one hand.
It is indeed, as Mr. Birrell has said, a book full of His patient endurance, we might almost say his
plots and plays and novels, quivering with life and enjoyment, of physical discomfort of the extremest
crammed full of character. To bis 6
never travel sort, comes out here and there in the Journal in some
ing less, by sea or land, than 4500 miles a year,” brief and modest mention of bodily hardship. Thus,
to his “constantly rising at four for about fifty setting out with a friend and a guide from Savannah
years," and to his " generally preaching at five in for Cowpen, in late December, he lost his way. The
the morning, one of the most healthy exercises in three men waded through a cypress swamp, breast
the world,” he attributed the increasing bodily vigor deep, and were then forced to pass the night in the
he enjoyed up to almost the very end. It is amus- wilderness without food or fire. The ground was
ing to read, in terms that might apply to moral as wet as their clothes, which, a sharp frost coming
delinquency, his censure of the laxity in some of his on, were soon frozen stiff.
“However,” says We8-
societies about daily morning preaching — at five ley, “I slept till six in the morning. There fell a
o'clock! When it is pleaded that “the people will heavy dew in the night, which covered us over as
not come at least, not in the winter,” he declares white as snow." The alleged hurtfulness of rains
the Methodists to be a fallen people, and that “with- and dews in America he calls a vulgar error due to
out early rising neither their souls nor their bodies “the softness of a genteel education.” In the course
can long remain in health.” The above-named min- of his travels by boat, he briefly records that one
imum of Wesley's yearly travel was nearly always night he waked under water, being so fast asleep
largely exceeded, and he made it a rule to preach that he did not realize where he was until his mouth
at least nine times a week. Yet with all this ac- was full, when he managed to cast off his cloak and
tivity he found time to keep up, and to publish swim to a place of safety, with no further hurt than
voluminous extracts from, his Journal, and also to the wetting of his clothes. Showing the calmest of
issue tracts, hymns, letters, sermons, Bible com- demeanor in the very face of death, he yet bitterly
mentaries, controversial papers, a church history, upbraids himself for his unwillingness to die. His
and we know not how much beside. His untiring voyage to America was stormy in the extreme, and
industry excites our admiration, but still more do occupied three and one-half months in late fall and
we applaud his courage, moral and physical, as we winter. Of one storm be writes :
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any more.”
“About nine the sea broke over us from stem to stern; amid countless perils, he firmly believed, as also
burst through the windows of the state cabin, where three that God again and again intervened to revive his
or four of us were, and covered us all over, though a bureau
sheltered me from the main shock. About eleven I lay down
flagging energies when bodily weakness and fatigue
in the great cabin, and in a short time fell asleep, though
seemed to make preaching impossible. He delights
very uncertain whether I should wake alive, and much to record strange and, to him, marvellous events in
ashamed of my unwillingness to die. O, how pure in heart connection with his preaching. « An odd circum-
must be he who would rejoice to appear before God at a
stance,” he writes, “occurred during the morning
moment's warning !"
preaching. It was well only serious persons were
And later, he exclaims :
present. An a88 walked gravely in at the gate,
"01 who will deliver me from this fear of death? What
came up to the door of the house, lifted
up
shall I do? Where shall I fly from it? Should I fight against
it by thinking, or by not thinking of it? A wise man advised
head, and stood stock-still, in a posture of deep at-
me some time since, "Be still and go on.' Perhaps this is
tention. Might not the dumb beast reprove' many
best, to look upon it as my cross; when it comes, to let it who have far less decency, and not much more un-
humble me, and quicken all my good resolutions, especially derstanding ?” His credulity in certain matters
that of praying without ceasing; and at other times to take
no thought about it, but quietly to go on 'in the work of the
amounted to superstition. Not only did he believe
Lord.''
in witchcraft, but he deeply regretted the dying out
of this belief in others.
His bed being drenched by an influx of water, he
“The English in general,"
he
made the discovery that the bare floor served excel.
" and indeed most of the men of learning
says,
lently as a couch, and thereafter believed he should
in Europe, have given up all accounts of witches
not find it necessary “to go to bed (as it is called)
and apparitions. I am sorry for it; and I will.
This equanimity amid all sorts of bod | ingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn
ily discomfort and danger was perhaps one of the
protest against the violent compliment which so
good results of his mother's careful training of her
many that believe in the Bible pay to thoee that
do not believe in it."
boys “to cry softly.”
It is pleasant to read of Wesley's and Johnson's
Wesley's good-humor under vituperation was ad-
mirable, even in the earliest years of his ministry. appreciation of each other's worth. “That great
One of his Savannah parishioners told him flatly,
man" is the preacher's designation of his illustrious
contemporary They were each acute and skilful
“I like nothing you do," and then gave a list of
the preacher's supposed misdemeanors, both pri-
in discourse, and this point of similarity it may have
been that reconciled them to each other's less con-
vate and public, concluding with the assertion that
no one minded a word he said, and that nobody genial qualities; for two men more unlike in genius
could hardly be imagined. We may remark inci-
would come to hear him. “He was too warm for
hearing an answer," says Wesley, after setting down
dentally a common disapproval of certain attributes
of the Scotch character. Wesley writes of a meet-
these grave charges against himself; “80 I had
nothing to do but to thank him for his openness,
ing held by him in Dundee: “Poor and rich at-
and walk away."
tended. Indeed, there is seldom fear of wanting a
The turbulence attending Wesley's religious meet-
congregation in Scotland. Bat the misfortune is,
they know everything: so they learn nothing." In
ings reminds one of the disorder that so often broke
illustration of Wesley's aptness of retort in argu-
up our anti-slavery gatherings. At one time it is
ment, we have his record of a good churchman's
an ox that the ill-intentioned try to drive into and
coming to him with an exhortation not to leave the
through the open-air assembly of worshippers. But established church, and not to use extemporary
the good ox, after turning this way and that in
prayer, which the churchman demonstrated to be
manifest reluctance to disturb the meeting, faces
about and breaks through the company of his driv-
no prayer at all.
“For you cannot do two things
at once. But thinking how to pray, and praying,
ers, and so runs away, leaving the Methodists re-
are two things. Ergo, you cannot both think and
joicing and praising God. At another time it is
pray at once.”
To which the other's fitting re-
a shower of stones that endangers the lives of the
faithful, until the leader of the rioters is brought self-same demonstration, that praying by a form is
joinder was: “ Now may it not be proved by the
before Wesley, and, struck by something mightier
no prayer at all? You cannot do two things at once.
than a stone, falls on his knees and implores heav-
But reading and praying are two things. Ergo, you
en's forgiveness for his misdoings. Still again, the
cannot both read and pray at once. Q. E. D.”
preacher is violently pushed from a wall he has
The chief charm of Wesley's Journal lying in its
mounted, but alights on his feet and delivers an
style, let us go to his own writings for a description
expostulation to his tormentors, who thereupon be-
of it.
He writes to a young friend :
come milder, and they and the minister part very
" What is it that constitutes a good style? Perspicuity,
civilly. An attempt is made on another occasion to
purity, propriety, strength, and easiness joined together...
overturn the table that serves him as a platform; As for me, I never think of my style at all, but just set down
and after he has finished speaking many try to
the words that come first. . . Clearness, in particular, is neces-
throw him down; but he passes through the midst
sary for you and me, because we are to instruct people of the
lowest understanding. We should constantly use the most
and so leaves them.
common, little, easy words (80 they are pure and proper)
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the University about ten years, I wrote and talked much as finally to Mr. Dobell. He came to doubt
you do now, But when I talked to plain people in the castle
or the town I observed they gaped and stared. This quickly Vaughan's authorship on account of the ever-
obliged me to alter my style, and adopt the language of those present quality of “passionate fervour of
I spoke to. And yet there is a dignity in this simplicity, thought and intense ardour of enthusiasm” in
which is not disagreeable to those of the highest rank.”
the new poems. Then began a run of expert
it is the
Wesley that attracts -- the quality without which, editing and lucky coincidences through the
treasure-house of the British Museum library,
we are taught, one cannot enter into the kingdom of
heaven. His Journal breathes an artless enthusiasm
unearthing certain proofs of the authorship.
that is in striking contrast with the smug self-com-
The ascertained facts concerning Traherne's
placency of eighteenth-century literature as we have life are few. He was born seemingly of Welsh
elsewhere learned to know it. Wesley takes us out ancestry, in 1636 or '37, in Hereford or Led-
among the common people and shows us what they bury, England. His father was a shoe-maker
are doing and thinking and suffering. Finally, we and of poor estate, though other branches of
cannot do better than to urge, with Edward Fitz- the family seem to have been more prosperous.
Gerald : “If you don't know it (the Journal], do
The poet was educated at Brasenose College,
know it. . . . It is remarkable to read pure, unaf-
fected, undying English, while Addison and John-
Oxford, receiving his Bachelor's degree in
1656, Master's in 1661, and that of Bachelor
son are tainted with a style which all the world
imitated.” The following of this wholesome advice of Divinity in 1669. He became an ardent
has recently been rendered easier for us by the publi- minister and defender of the Church of En-
cation of a good and inexpensive abridgment of the gland, was rector of Credenhill, and finally was
Journal.
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
brought to London as chaplain to Sir Orlando
Bridgman, Lord Keeper of the Seals (1667).
In his patron's house at Teddington the poet
The New Books.
died, October, 1674, and was buried under the
reading-desk in Teddington church.
Traherne published, in 1673, “Roman For-
A RE-DISCOVERED POET,*
geries,” an attack upon alleged errors of the
A new poet is always wonderful, but a poet church antiquities and of the writings of the
Roman Church, exhibiting wide knowledge of
lost these two hundred and fifty years, now
re-discovered and found to have spoken words
Fathers. The year after his death, friends
.
vivid and warm with meaning for our genera- published his “ Christian Ethicks,” a notable
tion, — this is more wonderful still. Yet this
volume of most modern and unconventional
is what has been given us to behold in the thinking. In 1699 the Rev. George Hickes
stately and artfully antique-appearing volume
sent to the press a little book of devotions by
in which Mr. Bertram Dobell and his friends Traherne, called “A Serious and Pathetical
It is
have set forth the poetical works of Thomas Contemplation of the Mercies of God.”
Traherne. To the short list of mid-seventeenth
an interesting mingling of quotations, para-
century lyrists, — Vaughan, Herbert, Crashaw, phrases, and imitations of the Psalms, but with
- must now be added the name of this other
many modern images and specifications and
poet of the gentle life.
long lists of individual items and examples
And what a pretty book-lover's romance is
of things and acts for which he gives thanks.
the story of the finding and identification of
The MSS. in Mr. Dobell's hands consist of the
this poet's work! In the winter of 1896, Mr.
poems here published and a remarkable book
W. T. Brooks found the manuscript on a book-
of essays called “Centuries of Meditations,
stall
, that last resting place of dead thought which the editor promises to bring out. We
before the absolute oblivion of the waste-paper
may anticipate this eagerly when we read the
mills. They were communicated to the late Dr. following as an example of its worth. (He is
Grosart, who concluded that they were poems
describing his feelings, as a child, about the
of Henry Vaughan, and prepared for the press
world.)
an edition of Vaughan to include the new- “ The corn was orient and immortal, — wheat which
found treasures. Dr. Grosart died before this
never should be reaped nor was ever sown. I thought
From his library they passed and stones of the street were as precious as gold: the
it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust
was published. From his library they passed
* POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS TRAHERNE, 1636(?)-1674.
gates were at first the end of the world. The green
Now first published from the original manuscript. Edited
trees, when I saw them first through one of the gates,
by Bertram Dobell, with memoir. London: Published by
transported and ravished me; their sweetness and un-
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slight hope that the remainder will some day viction, Traherne loves this earthly life, pas
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:
with ecstacy, they were such strange and wonderful mary from the “Serious and Pathetical Con-
things. The Men! O what venerable and reverend
templation ” (1699):
creatures did the aged seem! Immortal cherubim!
And young men glittering and sparkling angels, and “I give thee thanks for the beauty of colours, for
maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty! Boys
the harmony of sounds, for the ploasantness of odors,
and girls tumbling in the street wore moving jewels:
for the sweetness of meats, for the warmth and soft-
I knew not that they were born or should die."
ness of our raiments, and for all my five senses, and all
the pores of my body, so curiously made as before
A third volume contains the poet's “private recited, and for the preservation as well as use of my
religious meditations, devotions, and prayers.' limbs and senses, in keeping me from precipices, frac-
Mr. Dobell conjectures that we have not more
tures, and dislocations in my body, from a distracted,
than half of Traherne's poems, and offers us a
discomposed, confused, discontented spirit.”
On account of this primary religious con-
be found.
Traherne is a religious lyric poet, who insionately and entire, - his body, the goodly
the iron age of religious controversy and bit-earth, life's activities, especially the common
terness kept open a spring of clear and limpid ways of men. He sees no ugliness in it except
expression of universal, kindly piety. In him what is made by man's choice of evil.
we seem to have that rarest and most precious " A disentangled and a naked sense
A mind that's unpossest,
combination — passionate religious emotion
A disengaged breast,
with the genuine artistry of song. In subject
An empty and a quick intelligence
matter he most nearly resembles Herbert, and Acquainted with the golden mean,
in style the more vigorous work of Cowley, An even spirit pure and serene,
while with these others he continues the poetic
Is that where beauty, excellence,
traditions of Donne. His limitations are many
And pleasure keep their court of residence:
My soul retire,
and pronounced, and he shows the inevitable
Get free, and so thou shalt even all admire."
faults of all religious verse - few themes, the
The Preparation.
tiresome use of abstractions and general ideas, In “The Vision,” he exclaims :
dogmatic mysticism, constant exclamations
“ Even trades themselves seen in celestial light,
without added imagery or subtle analysis. And cares and sins and woes are bright.”
But his expression is astonishingly free, spon- Wordsworth said that the senses in their
taneous, natural; we have no conceits, and the purity “own an intellectual charm.” See this
collocations due to verse are obvious and not
interesting anticipation :
wearisome.
“and every sense
Perhaps the most immediate surprises in
Was in me like to some intelligence." Nature.
Traberne are his striking anticipations of
Blake and Wordsworth in his portrayals - The Demonstration":
How modern seem words like these from
“
of the feelings of little children over the
Nothing's truly seen that's mean:
glorious earth they inherit, and of Whitman Be it a sand, an acorn, or a bean,
in his poetic catalogues and his delight in the
It must be clothed with endless glory,
brave goings-on of the worlds of men and na-
Before its perfect story
(Be the spirit ne'er so clear)
ture.
Can in its causes and its ends appear.”
In his “ Christian Ethicks ” Traherne says
that others will point out the duty and the ex-
This delight in life may well be seen in the
pediency of obeying God's laws and revering following passionate lines from “ The Person":
His universe, but that he will undertake to
“ Ye sacred limbs,
A richer blazon I will lay
show how beautiful it all is, how full of joy is
On you than first I found:
life lived in religious faith. His entire poetry
That like celestial kings
is a specific enlargement upon this theme, but Ye might with ornaments of joy
full of imagery based upon observation of life's
Be always crown'd.
rich detail, and of psychology derived not so
A deep vermillion on a red,
On that a searlet I will lay;
much from religious philosophy and ancient
With gold I'll crown your head,
Hebrew thought as from religious feeling aris-
Which like the sun sball ray.
ing in the presence of the actual world of men With robes of glory and delight
and things.
I'll make you bright.
Mistake me not, I do not mean to bring
It is difficult to quote enough from the
New robes, but to display the Thing:
longer religious poems to give a fair view of
Nor paint, nor clothe, nor crown, nor add a ray,
them, but their tenor may be seen in this sum- But glorify by taking all away."
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But it is, I think, in his analysis of his
feelings as a little child and his religious en-
thusiasm over a child's innocence, its intimate
understanding of Nature and God, its protec-
tion from man's sin and care until its impres-
sions of nature are fixed, that Traherne is at
his best. It is the subject matter of full half
of his verse.
« These little limbs
These eyes and hands which here I find,
These rosy cheeks wherewith my life begins,
Where have ye been ? Bebind
What curtain were ye hid so long,
Where was, in what abyss, my speaking tongue ?
&
Such sacred treasures are the limbs of boys,
In which a soul doth dwell;
Their organized joints and azure veins
More wealth include than all the world contains."
The Salutation.
“ How like an angel came I down!
How bright are all things here!
When first among his works I did appear,
0, how their glory me did crown!
The world resembled his Eternity
In which my soul did walk;
And everything that I did see
Did with me talk.
And therefore speechless made at first, that he
Might in himself profoundly busied be:
And not vent out, before he hath ta'en in
Those antidotes that guard his soul from sin."
“ For nothing spoke to me but the fair face
Of heaven and earth, before myself could speak.
I then my bliss did, when my silence break."
“ Then did I dwell within a world of light,
Distinct and separate from all men's sight,
When I did feel strange thoughts, and such things see
That were, or seem'd, only reveal'd to me.”
“ The first impressions are immortal all.”
I wish I could quote the entire poem “On
News," whose theme is the participation of the
child in everything he hears or sees. I have
room for this only:
“ News from a foreign country came,
As if my treasure and my wealth lay there
So much it did my heart inflame!
'T was wont to call my soul into my ear
Which thither went to meet
The approaching sweet,
And on the threshold stood,
To entertain the unknown good.
It hovered there
As if 't would leave mine ear,
And was so eager to embrace
The joyful tidings as they came,
'T would almost leave its dwelling place,
To entertain that same."
Mr. Dobell rightly emphasizes Traherne's
unexpected idealism, - judging him another
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Berkeley before that philosopher's day. One
certainly starts to read lines so filled with in.
tuitive ideas as these :
“My baked simple life was I;
That out so strongly shined
Upon the earth, the sea, the sky,
It was the substance of my mind;
The sense itself was I.
I felt no dross nor matter in my soul,
No brims nor borders, such as in a bowl
My essence was Capacity,
That felt all things;
The thought that springs
Therefrom 's itself. It hath no other wings
To spread abroad, nor eyes to see,
Nor hands distinct to feel,
Nor knees to kneel;
But being simple like the Deity
In its own centre as a sphere,
Not shut up here, but everywhere."
“I could not tell
Whether the things did then
Themselves appear,
Which in my spirit truly seem'd to dwell;
Or whether my conforming mind
Were not even all that therein shin'd.”
My Spirit.
From Traherne's “Serious and Pathetical
Contemplation,” Mr. Dobell selects the one
“ The streets were paved with golden stones,
The boys and girls were mine;
O, how did all their lovely faces shine!
The sons of men were holy ones,
In joy and beauty they appeared to me,
And everything which here I found,
Which like an angel I did see,
Adorned the ground.”
Wonder.
Would not Wordsworth have rejoiced over
lines like these ?
" I knew not that there was a serpent's sting
Whose poison shed
On men, did overspread
The world: nor did I dream of such a thing
As sin, in which mankind lay dead.
They all were brisk and living wights to me,
Yea, pure and full of immortality." Eden.
And would not Blake have been glad to own
this ?
“ A joyful sense and purity
Is all I can remember,
The very night to me was bright,
’T was summer in December.” Innocence.
The following lines from “ Dumbness
might be transferred without change to “The
Prelude," and would be in harmony with their
surroundings :
“Sure man was born to meditate on things,
And to contemplate the eternal springs
Of God and Nature, glory, bliss, and pleasure,
That life and love might be his heavenly treasure;
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really good example of similarity to the work that the sovereign is a majestic figure-head,
of Whitman, but this is sufficiently like to only nominally exercising functions which are
cause us to wonder. The poet is speaking actually controlled by the ministerial cabinet.
of “the children of my people," “my lovely For the American readers, at least, of Mr.
companions":
Sidney Lee's life of Queen Victoria, much in.
“Do not they adorn and beautify the world,
terest will hinge upon the light thrown upon
And gratify my soul which hateth solitude ! Victoria in this important relation. English
Thou, Lord, hast made this servant a sociable crea-
reviews of this book have commented with sur-
ture, for which I praise thy name.
A lover of company, a delighter in equals;
prise upon the exceedingly limited influence
Replenish the inclination which Thyself bath im-
exercised by the Queen on governmental affairs.
planted,
On this side the water, however, the surprise
And give me eyes
will be that in certain directions Victoria did
To see the beauty of that life and comfort
actually exercise a powerful personal influence
Where with those of their actions
Inspire the nations.
by virtue of her rights as monarch, even
Their Markets, Tillage, Courts of Judicature, Marriages, though, as Mr. Lee points out in his con-
Feasts and Assemblies, Navies, Armies, Priests and Sab- cluding chapter, royal prerogative steadily de-
baths, Trades and Business, the voice of the Bridegroom, clined throughout the course of her reign.
Musical Instruments, the light of Candles, and the
Victoria entered upon her long reign with
grinding of Mills, are comfortable, O Lord, let them
not cease."
little apparent thought of the necessity of
Truly a poet of the gentle life!
He is guarding royal prerogative. Her marriage to
religious, but not dogmatic, not a quietist ;
Prince Albert gave her, early in her royal
mystic, but given neither to whims nor para-
career, a counsellor implicitly trusted, whose
doxes. He does not make us worldly-wise, or
first care was to understand thoroughly the
constitutional position of his wife, and to insist
expert in “the sad discussion of sin." But he
that it should be wholly respected. Royal
refreshes our dulled sense of the beauty of liv-
ing, he moves us without exciting our passions prerogative included the right of consultation
(as Voltaire said), he makes us respond to
upon all matters of state, and both the Queen
the dear love of comrades,” and he particu- in and determined to be consulted upon ques-
and Prince Albert were particularly interested
larly makes shine again the beauty in “life's
familiar face." and in childhood. Like another
tions of foreign policy. Preliminary to con-
sultation with the ministers on such matters,
Wordsworth, he is an unobtrusive but sure
“ friend of the wise and teacher of the good.”
Victoria had of course to be taken into the
I have not done justice to Mr. Dobell's lit-
confidence of the foreign office, and important
erary skill in identifying Traherne's work, correspondence and despatches had to be laid
nor can I overpraise his enthusiastic analysis of open for her inspection. Such conferences
and transmission of documents frequently in-
the poet's merit. One could only wish that his
Introduction had been freed from the large irritating to the ministers. In the case of
volved delays sometimes unfortunate, and often
amount of relevant but commonplace critical
and other personal moralizing. Mr. Dobell has
brusque ministers, like Palmerston, whose re.
lations with the Queen were never wholly am-
undoubtedly done us a real service, and has
enabled us to add several fine numbers to our
icable, the delay was sometimes resented, and
classic poetic anthology.
occasionally the knowledge of important mat-
ters pertaining to foreign affairs was withheld.
W. D. MacCLINTOCK.
In general, however, the attitude of the min-
isters upon this question was one of compliance
to the Queen's request, especially when, as the
THE MONARCH IN ENGLAND.*
years went on, her experience and wisdom came
Probably no relation of an English monarch to be thoroughly respected. She was at no time
in the present day has so much interest for the exacting nor autocratic in insisting that her
public as that of the monarch toward ministe- suggestions be acted upon; it was merely the
rial and parliamentary government. Probably, reiterated insistence upon being consulted, an
too, there is no point upon which there is so insistence which was really effective. Many in-
much misconception and such a diversity of stances might be cited in which her suggested
opinion, with much leaning toward the belief change of a phrase, or modification of a prin-
* QUEEN VICTORIA. A Biography. By Sidney Lee. New
ciple, had favorable results for English diplo-
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interesting to Americans, than the alteration opposition; but a search for precedent revealed
in Palmerston's despatch to Washington in the that he stood on wholly defensible ground. The
.
Trent affair, in the early days of the Civil War. incident, as Mr. Lee states, “served to bring
At that time what would have been an offen into clearer relief than before the practical
sive and insulting note was transformed by ascendancy within certain limits, which under
the Queen's suggestion into a dignified asser- the constitution a ministerial crisis assured the
tion of the rights of British vessels, leaving Crown, if its wearer cared to assert it. The
to America the opportunity for a satisfactory revelation was in the main to the advantage of
explanation without national humiliation. the prestige of the throne. It confuted the
Whether Victoria's tact prevented war be constitutional fallacy that the monarch was
tween England and America or not, the inci- necessarily and invariably an automaton.”
dent justified the Queen's insistence upon the In the same year, 1868, there occurred an
right of consultation on all matters of state. excellent illustration of the importance and
Another field in which Victoria took a seri. power of the monarch as a medium of con-
ous view of her personal responsibilities was ciliation and arbitration between conflicting
in regard to the distribution of Church pat. opinions in the two Houses of Parliament.
ronage. She emphatically objected to any po-
Gladstone's bill for the disestablishment of the
litical partisanship in such matters, writing to Irish Church was accepted by the Commons,
Archbishop Benson in 1890, in regard to the but was threatened with rejection by the Lords,
appointment of Bishops, “The men to be in which body the Bishops were then unusually
chosen must not be taken with reference to active. The conflict seemed destined to assume
satisfying one or the other party in the Church, the proportions of a constitutional struggle,
or with reference to any political party, but when the Queen, always fearful of the effects of
for their real worth. We want people who such crises, proposed on her personal initiative
can be firm and conciliatory, else the Church to attempt to effect a compromise. Gladstone
cannot be maintained. We want large broad gladly accepted her intervention, and her per-
views, or the difficulties will be insurmount- sonal influence with Tait, Bishop of London,
able." No minister had a greater share of persuaded him into a conference with Glad-
the Queen's personal liking than Disraeli; yet stone, with the result that Victoria's sugges-
when, in 1868, the Archbishopric of Canter- tions were adopted and a satisfactory compro-
bury became vacant, Disraeli found himself mise was agreed upon. This, after great efforts
compelled by the stubborn resistance of the and repeated pressure brought to bear by
Queen to put aside his own preference, and the Queen, was finally passed by both Houses
consent to the nomination of the Queen's of Parliament. In 1884 a similar crisis, this
choice, Tait, Bishop of London. Other min- time concerned with a franchise bill proposing
isters throughout her reign had the same expe- a wide extension of the suffrage, was averted
rience, and were forced to yield to the Queen's by the wise intervention of Victoria, who, as
claim to determine arrangements in the Church. before, acted without suggestion from her
She received advice from her ministers, but in ministers.
this field did more than criticize and suggest, These few incidents, chosen from among
for she emphatically refused it.
many that might be cited, serve to show in a
No statement is more commonly made than measure the importance and effectiveness
that an English ministry when defeated in the which, in spite of the great limitations upon
House of Commons has two courses open to it: the exercise of prerogatives, still belong to the
to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the coun- monarch in England. Mr. Lee's biography is
try, or to resign office; and that the option rests less concerned with such incidents, however,
entirely with the ministry. Yet Mr. Lee shows than with presenting a just and critical narra-
us that Victoria repeatedly throughout the early tive of Victoria in her dual character of queen
part of her reign exercised her personal choice and woman. He emphasizes the perpetual
in such circumstances. The right to do this English mistrust of the influence of Prince
was brought into notable prominence in 1868, Albert, the suspicion that Victoria because of
when Disraeli, having suffered an adverse vote her marriage might sacrifice English to petty
in the Commons, disclaimed any responsibil. German interests, and the tardy recognition
ity for the Queen's decision, asserting that he of the Prince's merits long after his death in
had given her no advice as to which course she 1861. He surprises us with his proof of the
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after that date, an unpopularity due to her re- husband's ambition to be the nineteenth-
pugnance to appearing as the head of the state century historian of London, as Stowe was
in public functions, while yet sincerely mourn. that of the sixteenth century. The work by
ing her husband. The irritation of the nation which he most desired to be remembered by
was constantly manifested by the press in the posterity was an early projected complete sur-
criticisms directed against what seemed an un- vey of the city. Half his life-time had been
necessarily prolonged seclusion, and it was not devoted to active research, and to the collect-
until the Jubilee of 1887 that Victoria re. ing of maps, pictures, pamphlets, account
gained that public affection which had been books, parish registers, and novels and plays
lavished upon her in the first years of her reign. of different periods, -of everything, in fact,
In every chapter is made clear the Queen's that could throw light upon any phase of Lon-
constant solicitude for the prestige of her
don life, all with his intended magnum opus
country, her dislike of war, yet her determina- always in view.
tion that war once entered upon should not But while Sir Walter had secured the co-
terminate until English honor had been satis- operation of certain experts in different de-
fied and English interests safeguarded. In-partments of city life, he reserved for his own
deed, her pride in England blinded her at pen the general history of the city; he
times to both the horrors and the justice of war. expended on this task five years of continuous
Throughout the story of her life, Mr. Lee is a labor, and happily completed it before his
careful, studious, and exact critic, yet a kindly lamented death in 1901. From this general
one, and eminently fair both to Victoria her- history, the portion relating to the eigh-
self and to the men who advised her. His
teenth century, — the period least satisfac-
work is an excellent historical biography, in torily treated in the volume of ten years ago,
every way entertaining and readable.
has been selected for present publication. The
E. D. ADAMS. result is a quarto of 610 pages, to which are
added valuable appendices and an admirable
index. The book is embellished with twenty-
BESANT'S EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY two full- page illustrations and eighty-one
LONDON.*
printed with the text, - a full score of these
Ten years ago or more, Mr. Walter Besant being portraits, and all of them reproduced
(for that was before he received the honors of from contemporary prints. Hogarth has been
knighthood) wrote a series of nine papers about judiciously drawn upon to furnish illustrations,
London, which appeared first in a popular and Gay's "Trivia” is frequently quoted in
magazine and afterwards in book form. The the text. A large map of London in 1741-5,
book was of moderate size, and was obviously by John Rocque, is folded within the cover.
written with the tastes and fancies of the popu. Although appearing out of season, the book
lar mind in view. Nevertheless it was evident has all the sumptuous attractiveness of a holi-
that its author was deeply interested in Lon. day book.
don, in its history, and in every phase of its Neither the life of a nation nor that of a
profoundly significant life ; and that his knowl-great city conforms to centuries in the rela.
edge thereof was not due merely to a familiar- tion of its events. The characteristic ideas of
ity with the “surveys" and histories that had the eighteenth century, as observed in London,
been written from time to time ever since the really began to manifest themselves with the
sixteenth century, but was derived from inde accession of George I. in 1714, and they con-
pendent excursions into a most attractive field tinued until the Georgian era gave place, in
of study.
1837, to the far more glorious Victorian Age.
We now know the nine chapters of a decade Hence Sir Walter's eighteenth century is ex-
ago to have been the mere diversion of a writer tended to the last named year, - about which
-
who had greater things in view ; as were also time, also, the passing of the Reform Bill, the
his book on Westminster, published in 1895, beginning of railway travel on land and the
and that on South London, three years later. introduction of steam-ships on the sea, as well
They were of the nature of preliminary as changes in the English Constitution, in the
sketches for a far more ambitious work. The growth and extension of trade, in religious
widow of Sir Walter tells us that it was her thought and in social standards, ushered in a
* LONDON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By Sir Wal-
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It is chiefly of manners and customs, and
WALL STREET AND ITS WORK.*
prevalent ideas, which changed but little be-
tween 1700 and 1837, that Sir Walter Besant It was just thirty years ago that Walter
has written. Of the political changes that Bagehot published his significant work on
took place in the city government, he has English trade and finance, entitled "Lombard
taken but little notice. Under the bead of Street.” At that time the deposits of known
“Historical Notes,” twenty historical episodes banks in London amounted to $600,000,000;
of the century and events of English history, while in New York but one-third of this amount
supposed to belong peculiarly to London and rested in the possession of banking houses.
to illustrate more particularly the civic spirit, When Bagebot wrote, every nation went to
have been selected and narrated. These are London for loans; but to-day German bonds
followed by seven chapters in which the topog. and English consols are floated in New York. .
raphy and external appearance of the city are While we cannot say that Lombard Street is
described. A third and fourth division of the no longer powerful, it is, however, possible to
book are devoted to the relation of the city to declare that Wall Street is a potent factor in
churches and chapels, and to government and the finances of the world. A book upon “The
trade. The remaining part of the book is de- Work of Wall Street" is therefore welcome,
voted to manners and customs, to society and even if it does add to the half-score already in
amusements, and to crime, police, justice, and existence in its general field.
debtors' prisons.
The book of Bagehot is a classic, broad and
To the author of “ All Sorts and Conditions philosophical. Mr. Pratt's book on Wall
of Men,” the sociological phases presented in Street has been bampered somewhat by the
these later chapters had a peculiar fascination. limitations of the series to which it belongs.
He felt that the power and the unruly condi- It has, however, gained in definiteness of
tion of the London mob, which had steadily description something of what it has lost in
increased with the population and extent of breadth and comprehensiveness. As a re-
the city, which became absolutely intolerable in porter, the author has pictured the doings of
the eighteenth century and presented the most “the Street,” and the machinery used in the
troublesome problem connected with the order handling of funds and the sales of stocks and
of the city, was one of the chief characteristics bonds. The book opens with a chapter on
of the period. An efficient police was not es- “The Evolution of Wall Street," which gives
tablished until the following century.
evidence of much patient research in books
If any fault is to be found with the book, and records for elusive facts. Evolution has
it might be because, although the eighteenth reference to the process of unfolding and the
century was the century of Addison, of Steele, principles involved in such a process ; but this
'
of Pope, of Goldsmith, of Johnson, of Walpole, chapter is given over to a recital of incidents
and of Sheridan, and was therefore peculiarly a more or less connected with the history of Wall
century of literary interests, get those interests Street, with the result that the reader gets but
receive no notice. But if from the author's ex. a hazy notion of the evolution of this great
planation that the literature of the eighteenth financial centre. Beginning with Chapter II.,
century is reserved for fuller treatment in con- however, the author goes forward with more
nection with that of the centuries before and certainty of touch, as in clear and incisive lan-
after, we are to imply that other portions of guage he unwinds the mysteries of “the Street.'
Sir Walter's survey will be forthcoming in due Objection may be taken to the statement
time, we shall await with patience for a work that the operations of the merchant and the
upon London that will be completely satisfying. speculator are essentially the same. The spec-
ARTHUR HOWARD NOLL. ulator exists to-day because he performs a func-
tion different from that of the merchant, and
“THE Scientific Writings of the late George Francis
more particularly from that of the manufac-
Fitz Gerald,” with a portrait, have been collected and
turer. He it is who assumes the risks of Aluc-
edited with a historical introduction by Mr. Joseph tuating prices, and relieves the producing
Larmor, and are published by Messrs
. Longmans, agents of the uncertainty of the future. He
Green, & Co. for the Dublin University Press. The
is supposed to relieve both the producer and
writings consist of brief papers in highly technical lan-
guage, to the number of over a hundred, which embody *THE WORK OF WALL STREET. By Sereno S. Pratt.
the author's chief investigations in the field of physical Illustrated. (Appletons' Business Series.) New York:
science.
D. Appleton & Co.
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consumer from carrying large stocks, by guar- story well, and there is no reason to doubt that the
anteeing future supplies. As Wall Street deals vivid and realistic pictures of factory life they pre-
almost exclusively in stocks and bonds, the
sent are fair and accurate. It may be suggested
speculator operating there does not affect the
that these well-educated and well-nurtured women
industrial world in the highly important way
could not do justice to a subject so foreign to their
that the same functionary does when dealing
natures as the life of the factory worker; but it
seems to me that in one sense they alone could do
in grains, provisions, iron, coal, and other ma-
it justice, for only those who have known the best
terials. Perhaps Mr. Pratt has unconsciously
that this world offers can measure understandingly
put the matter too favorably for the “Wall
the deficiency in the lives of those who have to live
Street" trader, when he says: “A market that upon the dregs. As R. L. Stevenson found in his
has no public is in a most unsatisfactory con- experiences as an amateur emigrant, so these ladies
dition. Professionals can, and do, buy and sell very soon discovered, that in proletarian clothes they
among themselves; but this is a process not un- were universally regarded as proletarians. Their
like the swapping' of horses between regular
manners did not "give them away,” though they
horse-traders. The public supplies the new
made no attempt to change them, beyond the use
interest in the Street, - the fresh demand, the
of a certain amount of bad grammar. They found
no fundamental difference between themselves and
increased capital. We have already seen that
the women they came in contact with, and they
about one-third of all the transactions repre-
write with the strong conviction that the hard and
sents real buying or selling, outside of manip- empty lives of the workers are far more the result
ulation and room-trading. Of this one-third, of conditions imposed upon them than of anything
the public interest is decidedly the most im. inherent in their natures. Those who believe dif.
portant.” The “Street," after all, has its place ferently, and desire to prove that factory women
as a capital accumulator and distributor; but have all they deserve, will point triumphantly to
it performs this function together with the the many who are working rather for luxuries than
banks. When it goes beyond this, the stock
for necessities; who loudly proclaim that they do
not have to work.” If there appears to be any-
exchange is perilously near the gambling point.
thing reassuring about this class of cases, our
Mr. Pratt's book deals very briefly with the
complacency rapidly disappears upon closer ex-
larger function of the Street," but describes
examination. If the girls' ideals and standards are
admirably the exchange, the clearing-house, low, what has made them so but the society in which
the money market, panics, and many other fea- they live, the environment out of which they cannot
tures of our American financial centre. In escape? The desire to be independent, to count for
fact, it may be said, despite minor criticisms, something as an individual, is a meritorious one; and
,
that no other book so well fills this special if their notion of "counting" is to have good clothes,
field.
they are not altogether different from many of those
FRANK L. McVEY.
wbose opportunities should have taught them better.
After all, they do but reach after what seems to
them worth while, and are willing to suffer much
VARIOUS SOCIAL PROBLEMS. *
for it, a proof at any rate of a certain kind of virtue.
Moreover, it is not impossible that this virtue fre.
“ The Woman Who Toils” is certainly a note- quently has its reward, in marriage into a higher
worthy book. Two society ladies of New York, grade of society than that represented by the par-
attired in the manner of the proletariat, set out to ental home. Surely, here we have proof of the
ascertain by actual experience what sort of life fac- existence of a great wealth of human energy, poten-
tory women led. Mrs. Van Vorst worked in a tially endowed with the seeds of great good, but for
Pittsburg pickle factory; at Perry, a New York
the most part going to waste or worse, because of
mill town ; and at the clothing business in Chicago. social and environmental conditions. It is no an-
Miss Van Vorst's experiences were at Lynn, Mas- swer to say that the rich, who have everything in
sachusetts, making shoes; and in the cotton mills their favor, also many of them squander their lives.
at Columbia, South Carolina. Both writers tell their They likewise are blighted by circumstances, the
The Woman Who Toils. By Mrs. John Van Vorst and
condition of luxurious idleness being as unnatural
Marie Van Vorst. Illustrated. New York: Doubleday, Page
as that of burdensome and never ending toil. So
& Co.
here we have two sets of people, the lives of one set
AMERICANS IN PROCESS. A Settlement Study. By Resi- spoiled so that those of the other set may be spoiled
dents and Associates of the South End House (Boston).
also. There are many passages one is tempted to
Edited by Robert A. Woods. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin
& Co.
quote, and I cannot resist giving these from Miss
IF NOT THE SALOON - WHAT? By James E. Freeman. Van Vorst's chapter on “The Child in Southern
New York: The Baker & Taylor Co.
Mills":
HEREDITY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS. By Simon N. Patten. “In a certain mill in Alabama there are seventy-five child-
New York: The Macmillan Co.
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to say
they have a half-hour at noon for luncheon. There is a night stripped all others by being thrice-once politically, once
school in connection with this mill corporation. Fancy it, religiously, once intellectually, - the dominating power of
a night-school for the day-long child labourer! Fifty out of the world. Yet it is almost a matter of haphazard whether
seventy-five troop to it. Although they are so tired they can- children of these races among us, who may be born with the
not keep awake on the benches, and the littlest of them falls highest order of capacity, do not have the spirit within them
asleep over its letters, although they weep with fatigue, they quenched by a childhood spent in dismal, degrading streets.
are eager to learn! Is there a more conclusive testimony to Even after such capacity has begun distinctly to manifest
the quality of the material that is being lost to the States itself, we are content often to throw it away by not making
and the country by the martyrdom of intelligent children? unfailing provision for necessary training and apprentice-
(p. 295). . . . On my return to the North I made an espe- ship.”
cial effort to see my New England friend [an owner of
Southern mills]. We lunched together this time, and at the
end of the meal her three little children fluttered in to say a
not the Saloon What?” starts out with some
friendly word. I looked at them, jealous for their little de- chapters as diffuse and free from contributions to
frauded fellows, whose twelve-hour daily labour served to
knowledge as the early chapters of “Americans in
base these
xquisite clothes and to heap with dainties the
are the reverse.
table before us.
Process"
But I was nevertheless rejoiced to see once
But as before, the
again the forms of real childhood for whom air and freedom
reader is recommended to persevere, and in chapter
and wealth were doing blessed tasks. When we were alone I four he will come across an account of Hollywood
drew for my friend as well as I could pictures of what I had Inn, at Yonkers, N. Y., a genuinely successful com-
seen. She leaned forward, took a brandied cherry from the
dish in front of her, ate it delicately and dipped her fingers in
petitor of the saloon. This account is clear and
the finger bowl: then she said: *Dear friend, I am going to
satisfactory, and is more than worth the small price
surprise you very much.' I waited, and felt that would be (fifty cents) asked for the book.
We strongly
difficult to surprise me with a tale of a Southern mill. Those recommend its perusal, and hope that the excellent
little children - love the mill! They like to work. It's a great
work at Yonkers will be widely imitated elsewhere.
deal better for them to be employed than for them to run the
streets!' She smiled over her argument, and I waited. 'Do
Mr. Freeman will do a good service if later on he
you know,' she continued, 'that I believe they are really very will write another book, giving fuller details about
happy?'” (p. 298).
the Hollywood Inn.
The book constitutes a strong argument for labor Professor S. N. Patten’s “ Heredity and Social
unions. It is vividly impressed upon the reader Progress" is a sort of biological metaphysics. It
that the women, who do not organize, are much is well written, and likely to be popular (I have
worse treated than the men, who do. There are already read one flattering notice), but I am sorry
some excellent photographic illustrations, and sev-
it appears to me to be a nearly pure culture
eral drawings, most of which are very bad.
of nonsense. The author is apparently not a bi-
“Americans in Process” is quite a different sort
ologist, but he reasons on biological subjects in a
of work. It is based upon years of investigation by
way that is simply astonishing to one who has any
settlement workers in Boston, and consequently is
realization of the intricacies of that science, and
full of valuable information. Unfortunately for the
seems to me to build elaborate arguments on doubt-
general reader, much of it is presented almost in ful or even erroneous assumptions. Listen to this :
the form of a catalogue, and many of the facts are
"A brain is thus an enclosed ovary with its contents of un-
of local rather than universal interest. Parts of it
differentiated cells put to a new use. The enclosed ovary is
of the opposite sex to the exposed ovary, and hence beings
remind one a little of a zoological monograph, manifest mentally the characteristics of the opposite sex
which is full of interest to anyone who has and is from what they are physically" (p. 115).
studying the creatures of which it treats, but other-
T. D. A. COCKERELL.
wise a trifle dry. However, if the reader will per-
severe as far as the sixth chapter, he will find in
this and several chapters beyond a great deal which
is noteworthy and suggestive to the citizen of any
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS,
town, or any student of human nature. Particu-
larly good are the descriptions of the two great
Authenticity of
In a most attractive little volume
political bosses, of the North and West Ends respec- Shakespeare
entitled “ A New Portrait of Shake-
portraits.
tively; of the contrast between the Italians and the
speare” (John Lane), Mr. John
Jews as shown by their holiday-making; of the two Corbin, recently known as the author of a sprightly
dominant and contrasting religions, the Jewish
-
account of “ An American at Oxford,” has given 08
and Roman Catholic, with Protestantism hardly in some very interesting points in regard to the genuine-
evidence. The book is an outcome of the activities ness, or otherwise, of certain portraits of Shake-
of those modern knights-errant who fortunately speare. The sub-title of the book is “The Case of
exist in every great city, and we cannot be too the Ely Palace Painting as against that of the So-
appreciative of the stand they have taken for the called Droeshout Original," and implies what Mr.
right. And as all roads lead to Rome, so we find Corbin later states as the purpose of the discussion,
ourselves again in the face of evidence proving the " to show that the so-called Droesbout Original is
destruction of good human talent by unfavorable probably a fabrication, and that the Ely Palace paint-
conditions. Thus on p. 374:
ing is probably a life-portrait of Shakespeare." Mr.
“The Jewish race has an immemorial record as a prolific
Corbin relates the history of these paintings, as well
mother of genius. The Italian strain has historically out- as those of the Droeshout Engraving prefixed to
.
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the first folio in 1623, and of the Stratford bust. of February and March, 1884, having been deliv.
Copies of all of these are given in full-page illus- ered at University College, Oxford, 14th November,
trations, and much of Mr. Corbin's discussion cen- 1883. “ The Revival of Architecture” and “ The
tres around the details of costume and features as Revival of Handicraft” appeared in the “ Fort-
found in these pictures. Some surprising revelations nightly Review" for May and November, 1888,
are given in regard to the "mock originals” which respectively. “Art and Industry in the Fourteenth
were known to have been circulated by the dozens Century” is noted here as appearing in “ Time"
at one time or another. With the knowledge of for November, 1890, where Mr. Forman says
such fraud, we can realize that any deductions in re- January. “The Influence of Building Materials
“
gard to a life-portrait of Shakespeare must be based upon Architecture was delivered before the Art
on the wisest methods of investigation and the most Workers' Guild at Barnard's Inn Hall, and printed
cautious acceptance of proofs. Mr. Corbin seems in "The Century Guild Hobby Horse," January,
to be well fitted for a work of this kind, and takes 1892; and, finally, “On the External Coverings of
scientific and scholarly satisfaction in his investiga- Roofs" was a leaflet issued by the Society for the
tions. The Ely Palace painting of Shakespeare was Protection of Ancient Buildings. This collection,
discovered in 1846. For thirty-two years it hung as a whole, was printed in the “Golden Type”
neglected in the house where Shakespeare was born. which Morris designed, and was published in July,
The so-called Droeshout Original has received exactly 1902, preceding the present popular edition. It
the opposite treatment, and has been repeatedly and is hardly needful to characterize the eleven essays
warmly discussed. After carefully noting all the further than to name them. The figure of Morris
important opinions and discoveries of experts and looms larger and larger in the public eye as time
historians in regard to these two portraits, together permits perspective to be gained, and his marvellous
with his own deductions, Mr. Corbin states his con- versatility is attested by the character of the papers
clusions as to what he considers established in the included in this work.
discussion, as follows: “The Ely Palace portrait
Elhics of
is not, as Mr. Lee states, 80 different from the en-
The special rules of condact incum-
lawyers,
bent
graving as “to raise doubts as to whether the person
courts, and
upon those engaged in the prac-
represented could have been intended for Shake-
tice of law form the subject matter
speare'; but quite to the contrary, it has, of all the
of a valuable little book by Mr. Geo. W. Warvelle
painted portraits except the spurious Droeshout
of the Chicago bar, entitled “Essays in Legal
Original,' the strongest resemblance to the Droe-
Ethics" (Callaghan & Co.). From the first appear-
shout engraving. Granting that the Droeshout en-
ance of the legal profession in English history, the
graving may not have been taken from the Ely barrister has been considered an integral part of
Palace portrait, it must have been taken from a
the judicial system, as truly an assistant in the ad-
portrait that in all essential points of features and
ministration of justice as is the judge; and although
costume was identical with it. Of all the painted por-
in this country the functions of barrister and solicitor
traits, accordingly, the Ely Palace portrait has the
aro not distinguished, the conception has always
strongest claim to be regarded as a life-portrait.” prevailed that the practice of law must not degen-
erate into a mere scramble for money, but that the
“Architecture, Industry, and Wealth: lawyer has certain definable relations to both court
Collected papers
Collected Papers by William Morris” and client that cannot be stated in terms of the cash
of William Morris.
(Longmans) is a volume bound in red
This view has been adopted by our legal
cloth with paper label, uniform with so many of tribunals, and is enforced by penalties ranging from
Morris's works in the popular edition. It contains reprimand to disbarment from practice. Thus a
eleven papers, all of them probably published be- treatise on legal ethics is no more collection of
fore, but none in form more permanent than a obiter dicta, but rather & statement of a code pos-
pamphlet, and five of them now taken from the sessing a widely acknowledged authority and at
pages of contemporary magazines and journals for many points armed with the power to secure its
the first time. “The History of Pattern Designing" own enforcement. This non-commercial element,
and “The Lesser Arts of Life,” first in the contents which elevates the practice of law to the dignity of
of this book, were printed together by Macmillan & a profession, appears very clearly in the restrictions
Company in 1882. Following these is “ Art, Wealth, placed upon the attorney in his dealings with his
and Riches," delivered at the Royal Institution, client. “In the relation of attorney and client,”
Manchester, 6th March, 1883, which is not noted says the author, “we find a reversal of many of the
anywhere by Mr. Buxton Forman in his account of best settled rules of law with respect to contractual
Morris's books. “ Art and Socialism: The Aims freedom, and the application of a rule of rigid mo-
and Ideals of the Englisb Socialists of To-Day," was rality that practically precludes the attorney from
delivered before the Secular Society of Leicester, assuming any position toward bis client other than
230 January, 1884, and has been printed as a pam- that of a disinterested and judicious adviser." The
phlet; as has “ Textile Fabrics," delivered at the same underlying principles can be seen in the re-
International Health Exhibition, 11th July, 1884. lations in which the lawyer is expected to stand to
“Art under Plutocracy” is taken from “To-Day” the community at large, to the court, and to his fel-
nexus.
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low members of the legal fraternity." Mr. War- resourceful life to the pupil led by this means into
velle's treatment of these topics is so clear, practical, a fuller and more intimate sympathy with Nature
and sane that it is well worthy of the attention of and his environment. While all readers of this
all those who are interested in the problems of the stimulating and suggestive book may not be so
lawyer's professional life.
ganguine as the author in his hope that nature-
study will relieve the school-room of perfunctory
The latest volume of the American
A hunter's
methods and of dessicated science, none will fail
book of
Sportsman's Library (Macmillan), to see the promise for great effectiveness in this
waterfowl.
edited by Mr. Caspar Whitney, is direction which this new view.point brings to pri.
“ The Water-fowl Family,” by Mr. L. C. Sanford,
mary education. The thing itself, not the book
assisted by Mr. T. S. Van Dyke vbo writes of “The
about it, — the living bobolink, not even the stuffed
Water-fowl of the Pacific Coast." The name of
specimen, the process of discovery, rather than
Mr. L. D. Bishop also appears upon the title-page, the fact observed, — these stamp the nature-study
but his share in the book is not made evident in
idea as revolutionary in educational methods. It is
the table of contents or elsewhere. The illustra-
not science, but a method which has room for fancy
tions, by Messrs. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Charles and sentiment as well as fact, and its net result is a
Livingston Bull, A. B. Frost, and others, are fre-
little knowledge and more love of Nature's forms
quont and of excellent execution in technical and and an independent habit of seeing things intelli-
artistic details. This ample volume of 600 pages gently as they really are. In this lies the solution
is a most valuable addition to this library. It in. of the agricultural problem, the spiritualizing of
clades our most popular game birds, and will in-agriculture, and also the ground for a new ethics of
terest more sportsmon than any other volume in
sport with gun and rod and of man's relations to
the series. Not only is it broad in scope, but in other living things. Seekers for definite schedules
literary execution it has reached the high-water of courses, specific directions for nature-study les-
mark among books of its class. The pleasing inter-
sons, or illustrations of matter and method, will be
ludes of anecdote and narrative add interest and disappointed in Professor Bailey's treatise; but those
enliven the pages, while the main subject itself is who seek inspiration will find his pages breathing
fully treated without excess of technical lingo or that spirit which gives life in all things.
display of artful devices. After an introductory
account of shooting from passe8, over decoys, in
The first volume of the long-promised
The father
the wild-rice fields, and from bush blinds, the au- of American edition of “The Poems of Philip
Poetry.
thor gives his personal experiences with many of
Frenean," edited for the Princeton
our water-fowl on a wide range of noted hunting
Historical Association by Professor Fred Lewis Pat-
grounds. As a remedy for the decrease in these tee, has now been issued by the Library of Princeton
wild-fowl, which has become so apparent in recent
University - the university of which Freneau was
years, the author recommends a universal law a graduate. It is a large, handsome octavo of some
throughout the United States against spring shoot- four hundred pages, and includes a careful intro-
ing; a limitation of exposure of game birds for sale ductory study of the poet's life and works ; early
in public markets to short seasons, if indeed at all ;
poems, 1768–1775; and the poems of “the first
a prohibition of all preservation of game in cold poetic period,” 1775–1781. The editor has spared
storage; prevention of state exportation, and an no pains to make an authoritative text; in this effort
individual limit to the number killed. The increase he has had the assistance of Mr. John Rogers Wil-
and great tameness of these wild-fowl in our pro- liams, the general editor of the Association. There
tected National Parks is recorded with approval. are numerous footnotes, mainly devoted to textual
The greater part of the book is taken up with de- and bibliographical details, but also including Fre-
scriptions of individual game-birds, ducks, geese,
neau's own annotations. The list of variant read.
swang, rails, snipe, and other shore birds, with many ings is very large, in consequence of the several
notes of interest to the sportsman and to the natur-
revisions to which Freneau subjected his poems.
alist. A synopsis for determination of the water- The folness of the textual “ apparatus” furnished
fowl closes the volume, well-planned and well is illustrated by “The Rising Glory of America,"
wrought out into a comprehensive manual which in which the edition of 1809 is followed, but the
will be a boon to every sportsman.
complete text of the now rare edition of 1772 is
added at the foot of the page. The biographical
It is a large place in education which sketch of Freneau is admirable in every respect.
Nature-study
Professor Liberty H. Bailey claims The tone is fair and candid, and full justice is done
for “ The Nature-Study Idea" (Dou- to the character and genius of the poet; while hero-
bleday, Page & Co.), and a place, moreover, not worship does not blind the biograpber to the faults
held by any other subject in the school curriculum. which the poet certainly possessed, even though he
It is not a mere adjunct to an already over-crowded shared them with his contemporaries. For example,
course of study, but a fundamental epoch-making he does not wholly exonerate Freneau in regard to
movement which will touch the masses with a new the conduct of “The National Gazette,” but says
educational impulse and bring a stronger and more that “neither side is free from blame." This view
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is substantially in accord with the one taken by Dr. of his own policy. The present volume will certainly
Forman in his recent study of “The Political Ac- deepen the impression of a fundamental resem-
tivities of Philip Freneau.” Both writers, however, blance between the two emperors, not only in their
agree in attributing the sincerest motives to the edi- policy but in many personal features as well. Mr.
tor of “The Gazette.” On the whole, the edition is Firth supports the “Dyarchy" theory of the nature
altogether worthy of the real “Father of American of the Roman Empire in its earlier history, but he
Poetry," who at last seems to be coming to his own. brings forward no case in which the Senate exer-
In Mr. John C. Van Dyke's latest
cised its alleged powers contrary to the will of the
The meaning
Emperor at the time. A dyarchy in which one
contribution to the literature of art,
of pictures.
member acts only by the gracious concession of the
there is a singularly happy blend
other, is but a virtual monarchy after all. It need
of strong personal sentiment and sound doctrine.
only be added that in its mechanical execution the
The writer goes into “ The Meaning of Pictures”
volume is a worthy representative of the well-known
(Scribner) with enthusiasm and yet with judgment,
series to which it belongs.
and so has given us a book that makes very good
reading whether we wish to go to school or merely
Two recent additions to the “ Pop-
to be interested. The book contains six lectures
ular Library of Art” (Datton) are
delivered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The
of great artists.
devoted to two such diverse person-
subject is considered from the view-point of a mind alities as Dürer and Millet. In both cases, the in-
open to the reasonable claims of those for whom terest in the individual is almost coördinate with
pictures are made, while not closed to the consider- that in the artist. The stories of their lives, though
ations that enter into the making of them, and is relatively simple, are full of interest, and reflect the
presented in a way that is singularly entertaining different situation of the artist in the social life of
.
We have a general statement of what painted pict- the period. The Dürer biography is written by Miss
from Botticelli to Whistler, from Raphael Lina Eckenstein, and, though not acknowledged as
to Degas, from saints and madonnas to ballet a translation, certainly reads as such. It is a well-
girls — mean to those at large for whom they are told tale, in which the personal side appears out
painted. The writer's philosophy of this art- &
of proportion to the account of the artist's achieve-
very sane one, as would naturally follow from the
ments; but it gives in brief compass, and with well-
state of mind indicated — is dressed out in such
chosen illustrations, a suggestive account of the
diction, and pointed with such apt illustrations and deeds of a great man.
Tbe book on Millet is a
comparisons, that the reader easily absorbs it, and translation from the French of M. Romain Rolland;
gets ideas about art that will modify his views and but the translation is remarkably smooth. The
help him to subordinate personal preferences to simple incidents in the life of this artist are well
principles in his judgment of it. may
be
ques- put together to make an interesting and impressive
tioned if any other book of its scope has ever shown story of final triumph over adverse personal cir-
“ the meaning of pictures” in a way that will make cumstances. Millet remains the best type of the
it so clear to the average English reader. The text peasant artist, and throughout his life he reflected
is illustrated with thirty excellent reproductions both in his work and personality the intimate con-
of paintings selected from the period it covers, a tact with soil and nature, as well as the abhorrence
period that embraces all that greatly signifies in of the artificialities of city life, all of which gives
this art.
individuality to his work and makes it a central
Augustus Cæsar's
It seems strange that the English point in the history of modern French art.
first biography language should have gone without
in English.
a biography of Augustus Cæsar un-
til the present year, — but in their search for more
BRIEFER MENTION.
“Heroes of the Nations” to write about, the Messrs.
Patnam have hit upon him at last, and have sup-
We have received from Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. Parts I. and II. of a new work on “ Trees and
plied the deficiency so far as the limitations of the
Shrubs,” by Professor Charles Sprague Sargent. This
series would allow. Like others of the series, it is
work is supplementary to the author's monumental
a book for the mature reader rather than the boy, “Silva of North America,” and will, when completed,
and it seems a pity that the publishers should have
add two new quarto volumes to the twelve of the main
selected a general title with so hopelessly juvenile work. It seems that during the progress of Professor
a sound. Mr. J. B. Firth, the author of this vol- Sargent's undertaking, nearly a hundred and fifty new
ume, sets forth the facts of the career of Augustus arboreal species have received botanical recognition,
fairly, but many will not follow him in his readi-
and it is to the description of these hitherto unrecog-
ness to excuse all the means by which the Roman
nized forms that the supplementary volumes will be
devoted. The sections now issued describe, with plates,
Empire was established. The tendency to make
fifty ligneous species, of which no less than fifteen be-
success itself the moral test of the means by which
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