510 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY 重 ​ 1 了 ​HE THE DIALAR A Semi-Montbly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information Gift of the Dept of Eng VOLUME XXXV. JULY 1 to DECEMBER 16, 1903 CHICAGO THE DIAL COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1903 . » 1 23 - ! INDEX TO VOLUME XXXV. . . 53, ALCOHOL, PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF AMERICA'S ORIENTAL DIPLOMACY AMERICA'S PLACE IN HISTORY ART, FOUR BOOKS ON BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG, 1903 BOOKS OF THE FALL SEASON OF 1903 Book Lover's SMALL-TALK, A. BURR, AARON, THE CONSPIRACY OF CHILDREN's Books, ILLUSTRATING OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL, REMINISCENCES OF A CONTINENTAL LITERATURE, A YEAR OF CRITICAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, OUR DANTE, BOOKS ABOUT DISRAELI SELF-PORTRAYED EDUCATION, TIMELY PROBLEMS IN ELERS, CAPTAIN, OF THE TWELFTH Foot EMERSON, LETTERS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY EXPLORATIONS, A CENTURY OF FICTION, RECENT FINANCE, PRIVATE AND PUBLIC, RECENT DISCUSSIONS IN Fox, AND HIS PART IN ENGLISH POLITICS GLADSTONE, MORLEY'S LIFE OF GREEK GLAMOUR, MORE GROVE, SIR GEORGE, LIFE AND LETTERS OF HAPPY FEW, THE HAWTHORNE, A NEW BOOK ABOUT HERDER CENTENARY, THE HIGHWAYS, HISTORIC, OF AMERICA HOAR, SENATOR, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS, 1903 JANE, CHATTER ABOUT JUSTICE AND HUMANITY, A DRAMA OF LAMB, CHARLES, SIDELIGHTS ON LECKY, WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LETTER-WRITERS AND LETTER-WRITING LIBERTY, RELIGIOUS AND Civil, IN AMERICA LITERARY LIFE, RECOLLECTIONS OF A NOTABLE LITERATURE ILLUSTRATED MARSHALL MEMORIAL, THE \ MIDDLE WEST, A New HISTORY OF THE MOMMSEN, THEODOR . NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA NaturE CHRONICLES, RECENT NORTH POLE, NEAREST TO THE NOVELS, NOTES ON NEW ORTHODOXY, THE NEW . PARLIAMENT, ENGLISH, A THOUSAND YEARS OF PHILOSOPHIC THOUGHT, ASPECTS OF PHILOSOPHY, HISTORICAL STUDY OF Poe's CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY . POETRY, RECENT POLAND, IMPRESSIONS OF PREHISTORIC TIMES, A HISTORY OF PAGE T. D. A. Cockerell 119 James Oscar Pierce 34 James Oscar Pierce 9 Alice Brown 173 429, 476 159 Ingram A. Pyle 413 Laurence M. Larson 61 Walter Taylor Field 457 James Oscar Pierce 302 111 207 William Morton Payne 418 Percy F. Bicknell 461 Henry Davidson Sheldon 92 Wallace Rice 212 Annie Russell Marble 13 E. D. Adams 255 Ira M. Price 60 William Morton Payne . 63, 218, 260 M. B. Hammond 308 Charles H. Cooper 417 E. D. Adams 410 George M. R. Twose 91 Ingram A. Pyle 11" w. H. Johnson . F. H. Hodder Percy F. Bicknell . Edward E. Hali, Jr. Percy F. Bicknell . Percy F. Bickne James Oscar Pierce Clark Sutierland Northup James Oscar Pierce Eduin E. Sparks 343 1,470 29 257 7 295 407 345 299 5 121 462 339 163 467 31 67, 220, 263 415 172 11 259 161 36, 123, 355 169 353 Fercy F. Bicknell May Estelle Cool Wallace Rice . T. 'D. A. Cockerell Charles H. Cooper A. K. Rogers A. K. Rogers Sherwin Cody William Morton Payne William Morton Payne . Laurence M. Larson . i 218297 INDEX. iii. . . . . PRESIDENTIAL IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, THE ONLY QUAKER IN FICTION, THE . RELIGIOUS THOUGHT, SOME TYPES OF ROBERTSON, FREDERICK W. SAINTLY LIFE, SOME IDEALS OF SCHOOL BOARDS, EDUCATION OF SCIENCE, A MARTYR OF SCIENCE IN THE ENCYCLOPÆDIAS SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM AND DISCUSSION SHAKESPEARE, MORAL LAW IN THE WORLD OF SHAKESPEARE'S HEIR SIENA, Two MORE BOOKS ABOUT SLAVERY CONTROVERSY, THE, IN AMERICA SOCIAL ORIGINS AND PRIMAL LAW SPECTACULAR, REIGN OF THE STEVENSON'S RELIGIOUS FAITH STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE, AND HIS FRIENDS TROWBRIDGE'S REMINISCENCES UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, PUBLICATIONS OF THE VELASQUEZ, AN HEIR OF YALE, HALF A CENTURY OF Edwin Erle Sparks Caroline Ladd Crew T. D. A. Cockerell Percy F. Bicknell C. A. L. Richards William McAndrew Herbert A. Howe T. D. A. Cockerell Albert H. Tolman Edward E. Hale, Jr. Charles Leonard Moore Arthur Howard Noll W. H. Johnson Frederick Starr Annie Russell Marble PAGE 59 251 305 115 86 81 307 340 165 351 209 217 33 301 297 215 348 254 88 464 57 . Annie Russell Marble Percy F. Bicknell Eugene Parsons Henry Charles Payne Percy F. Bicknell . . ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FALL Books OF 1903 BRIEFS ON New Books BRIEFER MENTION NOTES TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS LISTS OF NEw Books. . 179, 231 14, 41, 93, 127, 175, 223, 266, 314, 359 18, 97, 130, 269, 316, 362 19, 44, 70, 98, 130, 178, 226, 269, 317, 363, 434, 479 19, 131, 228, 318, 481 20, 46, 70, 99, 131, 228, 271, 318, 364, 434, 482 . - AUTHORS AND TITLES OF BOOKS REVIEWED PAGE PAGB Abbott, Katharine M. Old Paths and Legends of Beardsley, Aubrey. Under the Hill. 171 New England. 425 Bell, Lilian. The Dowager Countess and the Ameri- Abruzzi, Duke of the. On the "Polar Star" 31 can Girl.... 67 Adams, Charles F. Life in a New England Town.. 17 Belloc, Hilaire. Bad Child's Book of Beasts. 478 Addison, Julia. Florestane the Troubadour..... 264 Belloc, Hilaire. The Aftetmath... 267 Albee, John. Remembrances of Emerson.. 14 Benner, Allen R. Selections from the Iliad. 270 Alcott, Louisa M. Jo's Boys, illus. by Ellen W. Benson, E. F. Book of Months. 422 Ahrens 431 Betts, Lillian W. Story of an East Side Family.... Alden, Raymond M. English Verse. 177 Bignell, Effie. Mr. Chupes and Miss Jennie, holiday Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. Ponkapog Papers. 359 edition 431 Allen, James L. Mettle of the Pasture. 218 Billings, J. S. Physiological Aspects of the Liquor Annual Register for 1902 98 Problem 119 Antigone, The, at Stanford University. 363 Bisland, Elizabeth. A Candle of Understanding. 26.) Appletons' Series of Plain and Colored Books.. Black, Hugh. Friendship, holiday edition. 423 .178, 227, 209, 317 Black, Hugh. Work... 12. Arber's English Garner, Dutton's reissue. 130 Blodgett, Mabel F. The Giant's Ruby. 132 Ashley, Roscoe L. American Government. 130 Bloom, J. Harvey. Shakespeare's Garden. 227 Austin, Mary. Land of Little Rain. 421 Bolster, Edith R. Ethel in Fairyland. 432 Avery, Harold, House on the Moor. 477 Bonde, Baroness. Paris in '48... 266 Bachelor Bigotries... 226 Boone, Henry B. The Career Triumphant.. 262 Bacon, Edwin M. Guide-Book to Boston. 45 Boone, H. B., and Brown, Kenneth. The Redfields Bacon, Edwin M. Literary Pilgrimages in New Succession 67 England 15 Borsdorf, A. T. W. Literary Theories of Taine and Baedeker's Guide Books. 227, 364 Spencer 45 Bangs, John K. Derby's Phenixiana. 363 Bowker, Richard R. Of Education. 92 Banks, Nancy H. Round Anvil Rock. 69 Bowker, R. R. Of Religion.... 307 Barbour, R. H. Weatherby's Inning. 430 Bradbury, Robert H. Elementary Chemistry 98 Barnard, E. W. Conceits of a General Lover. 357 Brady, Cyrus T. In the War with Mexico. 430 Barnes, Annie M. Little Betty Blew... 430 Brady, Cyrus T. Tittlebat Titmouse. 481 Barnes, James. The Giant of Three Wars.. 430 Brandes, Georg. Poland... 109 Barr, Amelia E. Thyra Varrick. 222 Breckinridge, S. P. Legal Tender.. 313 Barry, Etheldred B. Little Dick's Christmas. 433 Brereton, F. S. In the Grip of the Mullah. 430 Bates, David. Law of Likeness. 306 Brereton, F. S. The Red Cockade.. 430 Baum, L. Frank, Enchanted Island of Yew 478 Bretherton, R. H. The Beatrice Book. 132 Baum, L. Frank. Magical Monarch of Mo. 478 Brooks, Amy. Dorothy's Playmates. Baum, L. Frank. New Wizard of Oz... 478 Brooks, Amy. Randy and Prue.. 433 133 296766-24 iv. INDEX. W., PAGE Brooks, Geraldine. Romances of Colonial Days.... 424 Brooks, Phillips. Christmas Songs and Easter Carols 429 Brown, Abbie F. Curious Book of Birds. 479 Brown, Alice. Judgment.. 264 Brown, Anna R. The Millionaire's Son. 262 Brown, Gerard B. Arts in Early England. 223 Brown, W. A. Essence of Christianity. 307 Brown, W. G. A Gentleman of the South. 67 Browne, W. H. Taill of Rauf Coilyear... 479 Browning's Men and Women, illus. by H. Ospovat.. 425 Bryce, James. Studies in Contemporary Biography 10 Budge, E. A. W. History of Egypt... 262 Buell, Augustus C. Sir William Johnson. 177 Bullen, A. H. Poems of Campion..... 45 Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, “Puritan" edition. .434 Burnet, John. Aristotle on Education. 269 Burton, Richard. Message and Melody. 37 Butler, Howard C. Story of Athens.. 91 Butterworth, Hezekiah. Brother Jonathan. 430 Cain, Neville. The Fairies' Circus.... 432 Cain, Neville. The Fairies' Menagerie. 432 Calendar of Prayers by Stevenson. 429 Canterbury Calendar. 429 Capey, Ernest F. H. Life of Erasmus. 93 Carey, Rosa N. A Passage Perilous. 265 Carlyle's Works, "Edinburgh" edition. .226, 363 Carman, Bliss. From the Book of Myths. 36 Carman, Bliss. From the Green Book of the Bards 37 Carman, Bliss. The Kinship of Nature. 475 Carpenter,. Edmund J. The American Advance... 44 Carpenter, George R., and others. Teaching of English 99 Carrington, Fitzroy. The Shepherd's Pipe. 429 "Carroll, Lewis." Hunting of the Snark, illus. by Peter Newell. 423 Carter, Josse B. Virgil's Æneid. 177 Carus, Paul. Surd of Metaphysics. 97 Cary, Elisabeth L. Rossetti's Poems. 422 Cary, Mrs. M. Fairy Legends of French Provinces.. 432 Carryl, Guy W. The Lieutenant-Governor.. 69 Carryl, Guy W. Zut... 222 Cather, Willa S. April Twilights. 40 Catterall, Ralph C. H. Second Bank of the U. S... 312 Cawein, Madison. Voice on the Wind. 38 Cervantes' Don Quixote, handy volume edition..363, 428 Chaillu, Paul du. In African Forest and Jungle. 477 Chambers, Robert W. Maids of Paradise. 261 Chambers, Robert W. Orchard-Land.. 430 Champney, Elizabeth W. Romance of the Bourbon Chateaux 423 Channing, Edward. First Lessons in United States History 98 Channing, W. E. Discourses on War, Ginn's reprint 18 Charles, Frances. Awakening of the Duchess.. 432 Charles, Frances. The Siege of Youth. 69 Chatterbox for 1904... 433 Cheever, Harriet A. Gipsy Jane. 433 Cheever, Harriet A. Lord Dolphin. 430 Cheney, C. Emma. Mistress Alice Jocelyn... 68 Cherbuliez V. Samuel Brohl and Company, Omeril Co.'s edition 317 Chesterton, G. K. Robert Browning.. 223 Cheyne, T. K., and Black, J. S. Encyclopædia Biblica, Vol. IV... 266 Chiswick Library of Noble Authors... .361, 472 Chittenden, H. M. Early Steamboat Navigation upon the Missouri. 127 Clark, Joseph B. Learening the Nation, 360 Clark, Natalie R. Blake Redding 433 Clark, T. M. Care of a House. 480 Clemens, Will M. The Gilded Lady 68 Clemow, F. G. Geography of Disease. 176 Clover, Samuel T. On Special Assignment. 431 Cobb, S. H. Rise of Religious Liberty in America 345 Cochrane, Alfred. Collected Verses.... 356 Cockerell, C. R. Travels in Southern Europe. 362 Cody, Sherwin. Best English Essays 130 Cody, Sherwin. Selections from Poe... 481 Cody, Sherwin. Writing and Speaking English. Cohen, S. S. Physiologic Therapeutics... 361 Colby, F. N., and others. International Year-Book for 1903 Colton, Arthur. Tioba.. 09 Comstock, Anna B. Ways of the Six-Footed. 431 PAGE Cook, Ruth A. Along Four-Footed Trails. 469 Cook, T. A. Spirals in Nature and Art. 174 Cooke, George W. Poets of Transcendentalism.. 176 Cordier, Henri. Yule's Marco Polo. 269 Corelli, Marie. Angel's Wickedness.. 475 Cornford, L. Cope. Essay Writing for Schools.. 481 Crawford, Mary C. Romance of Old New England Churches 426 Creighton, Mandell. Historical Essays... 96 Crerar Library List of Serial Publications in Chi- cago 99 Crissey, Forrest. The Country Boy 428 Crosby, Ernest. Swords and Ploughshares 126 Crothers, Samuel McC. The Gentle Reader. 360 Crowley, Mary C. Love Thrives in War. 65 Crowninshield, Frederic. Tales in Metre. 357 Culter, Mary McC. The Girl Who Kept Up.. 432 Curtis, W. E. Denmark, Norway and Sweden. 434 Curtis, W. E. The True Abraham Lincoln.. 16 Curtis; W. E. The Turk and His Lost Provinces.. 44 Cuyás, Arturo. Appletons' New Spanish Dictionary 269 Dalliba, Gerda. Fate and 1.... 357 "Danby, Frank." Pigs in Clover. 64 Davidson, Bertha G. Winifred's Neighbors. 433 Davis, Richard H. The Bar Sinister, holiday edi- tion 428 Dawes, Sarah E. Bible Stories. 431 Deane, Sidney N. Writings of St. Anselm 480 Dearborn, Ned, and Weed, C. M. Birds in Rela- tion to Man 128 Decennial Publications of the University of Chi- cago .45, 70, 88, 93, 98, 131, 269, 364 Delitzsch, Friedrich. Babel and Bible... 361 De Normandie, James. The Beauty of Wisdom. 479 Denslow, William W. Picture Books... 433 Desmond, H. and Croly, Herbert. Stately Homes in America.... 471 Despotism and Democracy 261 Dewey, Davis R. Financial History of the U. S.. 311 Dewing, A. S. History of Modern Philosophy. 259 Dewitt, David M. Impeachment of Johnson. 59 Dick, James C. Songs of Burns 480 Dickens's Works, "Fireside' edition...... .19, 70, 317 Dillon, John F. John Marshall. 121 Dinsmore, C. A. Aids to Study of Dante. 418 Dobell, Bertram. Sidelights on Lamb 7 Dodd, Anna B. In Palaces of the Sultan. 426 Donnell, Annie H. Camp Fidelity Girls.. 432 Dopp, Katharine E. Industries in Elementary Edu- cation 93 Dorman, Marcus R. P. British Empire in 19th Cen- tury 255 Douglas, Amanda M. Helen Grant's Schooldays.... 432 Douglas, Langton. History of Siena 217 Doyle, A. Conan, Works of, “Author's" edition.. 364 Dubbs, J. H. History of Franklin and Marshall College 45 Dudeney, Mrs. Henry. Robin Brilliant. 64 Dudley, Albertus T. Following the Ball. 430 Duff, M. E. Grant. Out of the Past. 314 Dunbar, Paul L. When Malindy Sings. 475 Dunn, Byron A. Raiding with Morgan. 430 Dwight, Timothy. Memories of Yale 57 Dyke, Henry van. Joy and Power. 363 Dyke, Henry van, and Chambers, D. L. Selections from Tennyson 434 Eady, K. M, and R. Riverton Boys. 477 Earle, Mabel. New Fortunes.... 432 Edey, B. 0. Six Giants and a Griffin. 478 Edwards, John H. God and Music 129 Edwards, Louise B. The Tu-Tze's Tower. 67 Eliot, Charles W. More Money for Public Schools 93 Ellis, Edward S. True Blue .... 131 Ellwanger, W. D. The Oriental Rug 360 Ely, R. T. Evolution of Industrial Society. 315 Emerson's Conduct of Life, Scott-Thaw edition. 472 Emerson's Works, "Centenary” edition. ...130, 233, 363 Fagnani, Charles P. Primer of Hebrew. 479 Fahie, J. J. Galileo... 307 Faxon, Frederick W. Ephemeral Bibelots. 45 Federn, Kari. Dante and Ilis Time. 419 Fellows, George E. Recent European History. 98 Field, Roswell. Bondage of Ballinger. 265 Finley, Martha. Elsie and Her Loved Ones. 478 Fischer, W. J. Songs by the Wayside. 357 98 41 INDEX. V. W. boa PAGE Fiske, Isabella Howe. A Field of Folk.. 358 Fiske, John. Dutch and Quaker Colonies, holiday edition 427 Fite, Warner. Introductory Study of Ethics.. 175 FitzGerald's Polonius, in the "Wisdom Series”.... 317 FitzGerald's Works, definitive edition de luxe. 316 Fleming, W. H. How to Study Shakspere, third series 259 Flemming, J. A. Waves and Ripples. 268 "Flynt, Josiah." Rise of Ruderick Clowd. 69 Forbes, Cora B. Elizabeth's Charm-String. 43- Ford, Paul L. A Checked Love Affair. 427 Forman, Justus Miles. Monsigny.. 220 Foster, John American Diplomacy in the Orient 34 Fowler, Ellen T. Place and Power. 221 Fowler, Harold N. Roman Literature 98 Fox, John, Jr. Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come.. 262 Frankland, Mrs. Percy. Bacteria in Daily Life. 17 Freeman, E. A. Historical Geography of Europe, edited by J. B. Bury 480 Fuller, Margaret, Love Letters of . 359 Gaines, Charles K. Gorgo.. 264 Gallatin, A. E. Aubrey Beardsley's Drawings. 18 Gardner, Edmund G. Story of Siena. 217 Garman, Raymond H. Jungle Larks. 433 Garnett, Richard, and Gosse, Edmund. English Literature Garrison, George P. Texas.. 18 Gayley, C. M. Representative English Comedies, Vol. 1...... 70 German, Edward. Just So Song Book 478 Gerrare, Wirt. Greater Russia 224 Gilbert, E. L. The Frolicsome Four 433 Giles, Herbert A. China and the Chinese. 16 Gilman, Bradley. Ronald Carnaquay.. 220 Gilman, D. C., and others. New International En- cyclopædia .41, 130 Gilson, Roy Rolfe. Mother and Father. 472 Girouard, D. H. Supplement to "Lake St. Louis'' 131 Gissing, George. Private Papers of Henry Rye- croft 16 Gladden, Washington. Witnesses of the Light.... 481 Gordon, George A. Ultimate Conceptions of Faith 415 Gordon, John B. Reminiscences of the Civil War.. 302 Gottschalk, O. H. von. In Gnome Man's Land.... 478 Gottschalk, 0. H. von. Innocent Industries.. 433 Graves, Charles L. Life of Sir George Grove.. 117 Gray, Arthur. Little Tea Book, and Over the Black Coffee 364 Greene, Roy F. Cupid is King 40 Gregorovius, F. Lucretia Borgia, trans. by J. L. Garner 480 Griffin, A. P. C. Library of Congress Bibliographies .45, 480 Gronau, Georg. Leonardo da Vinci.. 97 Guerrier, Edith. Wanderfolk in Wonderland. 479 Haggard, H. Rider. Pearl Maiden... 222 Hale, Edward Everett. We, the People.. 481 Hammond, J. L. LeB. Charles James Fox. 417 Handy Volume Classics, new vols..... 318 Hann, Julius. Handbook of Climatology. 128 Hapgood, Isabel F. Works of Turgenieff. 362 Harben, Will N. The Substitute 67 Harker, L. Allen. The Little People 477 Harkins, E. F. Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books 426 Harland, Henry. Cardinal's Snuff-Box, Illustrated edition 426 Harrison, Mrs. Burton. The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch 67 Harrison, Edith 0. The Star Fairies. 431 Hart, Albert B. Actual Government. 227 Hathaway. Charles M. Jonson's Alchemist. 99 Hawkes, Clarence. The Little Foresters.. 430 Hawthorne, Julian. Hawthorne and His Circle. 466 Hawtrey, Valentina. Saint Mary Magdalen.. 473 Hay, John. Castilian Days, illus. by Pennell. 428 Hazlitt, W. Carew. Shakespear... 169 Heermans, Josephine W. Stories from the Hebrew 130 Henderson, C. Hanford. John Percyfield. 08 Henshall, J. A. Bass, Pike, Perch... 127 Henty, G. A. Through Three Campaigns. 430 Ilenty, G. A. With the Allies to tekin. 430 Hesser, W. Reiff. Joe's Signal Code. 431 PAGK Herford, Oliver, and others. Cynic's Calendar for 1904 476 Heverfield, Mrs. E. L. Daddy's Lad. 478 Hewitt, J. F. The Myth-Making Age. 353 Heywood, W., and Olcott, Lucy. Guide to Siena.. 15 Hibben, John G. Hegel's Logic. 12 Hichens, Robert. Felix. 63 Higginbotham, Helena. Rover's Story.. 430 Higginson, T. W., and Boynton, H. W. American Literature 314 Hill, Elizabeth. My Wonderful Visit 478 Hilprecht, H. V. Explorations in Bible Lands. 60 Hoar, George F. Autobiography of Seventy Years.. 343 Hobart, George V. Li'l Verses for Li'l Fellers. 433 Hodder, Alfred. Fight for the City....... 129 Iloffman, F. S. Psychology and Common Life. 18 Holbrook, Richard T. Dante and the Animal King- dom 420 Holder, Charles F. Big Game Fishes. 127 HIolls, F. W. Correspondence between Emerson and Grimm 13: Holme, Charles. Genius of J. M. W. Turner. 475 Holme, Charles. Masters of English Landscape Painting 316 Holmes, Edmond. Triumph of Love. 125 Home, Gordon. What to See in England.. 480 “Hope, Anthony," Works of, "Author's" edition.. 434 Howe, M. A. De Wolfe. Boston.. 470 Howells, W. D. Letters Home.. 263 Huart, Clément. Arabic Literature. 316 Hubbard, Elbert. Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Musicia and English Authors........ 425 Huckel, Oliver. Parsifal... 479 Hughes, Rupert. Love Affairs of Great Musicians.. 471 Hulbert, Archer B. Historic Highways 214 Huntington, Dwight W. Our Feathered Game. 268 Huntington, G. P. Ruskin on the Divina Comme- dia 420 Huntington, Helen. The Solitary Path... 41 Hutton, W. H. Influence of Christianity upon Na- tional Character 86 Hyde, W. De Witt. Jesus' Way. 307 Hyne, Cutcliffe. McTodd 265 Hyne, Cutcliffe. More Adventures of Captain Kettle 223 Hyne, Cutcliffe. Thompson's Progress. 68 Ingham, John H. Pompeii of the West. 126 Ingpen, Roger. Autobiography of Leigh Hunt. 317 Ingraham, Prentiss. Girl Rough Riders... 432 Irving, Fanny B. Six Girls, new edition. 431 Isham, Frederic S. Under the Rose.... 66 Jackson, Gabrielle E. Big Jack 430 Jackson, Gabrielle E. Little Comrade. 430 Jackson, Gabrielle E. Three Graces. 432 Jackson, Katherine H. McD. Summer Songs in Idle- nesse 358 James, Henry. William Wet more Story. 348 James, J. A., and Sanford, A. H. Our Government 363 Jefferies, Richard. An English Village, holiday edi- tion 424 Jegi, John I. Human Physiology 481 Jenkins, T. A. Espurgatoire Saint Patriz. 45 Jerrold, Walter. Essays of Douglas Jerrold.. 473 Jessup, A., and Ives, G. B. Little French Master- pieces 364 Johnson, Clifton. Land of Heather. 424 Johnson, Francis. Famous Assassinations. 316 Johnson, Rossiter. Alphabet of Rhetoric.. 480 Johnson, W. H. Pioneer Spaniards in No. America 176 Joline, Adrian H. Diversions of a Book-Lover.. 413 Jones, L. H. The Jones Readers... 99 Josselyn, Charles. My Favorite Book-Shelf 474 Judd. Charles H. Genetic Psychology. 96 Kastner, L. E. French Versification. 177 Kelley, Lilla E. Three Hundred Things a Girl Can Do 477 Kelman, John, Jr. Faith of Stevenson. 215 Kempton-Wace Letters, The. 09 Kenyon, James B. Retribution. 2 Kerr, Alvah M. Young Heroes of Wire and Rail.. 431 “Kerr, Joe." Mr. Sharptooth..... 433 King. Charles. An Apache Princess. 265 Kingsley, Maurice. Works of Charles Kingsley. .19, 70, 363, 434 Kipling's Works, "Outward Bound" edition. 364 Kipling, Rudyard. The Five Nations. ::::: 355 vi. INDEX. 37 PAGE Kirk, Ellen Olney. Good-Bye, Proud World.. 221 Knowles, Frederic L. Story of Little David. 431 Knowles, Frederic L. Story of Tom and Maggie.. 431 Kobbé, Gustav. Famous Actors and Actresses. 423 Kuhns, Oscar. Great Poets of Italy 421 Kummer, H. Talbot. Semanoud 357 Laird & Lee's Vest-Pocket Diary for 1904. 363 Landmarks Club Cook Book. 225 Lane-Poole, Stanley. Mediæval India. 93 Lang, Andrew. Crimson Fairy Book. 431 Lang, Andrew, and Atkinson, J. J. Social Origins, and Primal Law 301 Lanier, Sidney. Shakspere and His Forerunners.. 168 Latimer, Elizabeth W. Talks of Napoleon. 163 Laughlin, Clara E. Miladi. 427 Laughlin, J. Laurence. Principles of Money. 309 Laughlin, J. L., and Willis, H. P. Reciprocity. 128 Laurie, Henry. Scottish Philosophy. 12 Lavignac, Albert. Musical Education. 42 Lawton, William C. Greek Classical Literature.. 226 Le Feuvre, Amy. Jill's Red Bag. 433 Le Feuvre, Amy. Two Tramps.. 433 Leigh, O. H. G. Index to Voltaire's Works, 20 Leonard, Mary F. How the Two Ends Met. 433 Lewis, Alfred H. Peggy O'Neal..... 2:20 Lewis, C. M. Gawayne and the Green Knight. 480 Lewis, Jocelyn. Adventures of Dorothy.. 478 Liddell, Mark H. Elizabethan Shakespere, Vol. I.. 165 Lloyd, John Uri. Red Head. 470 Locke, William J. Where Love Is. 260 Lodge, George C. Poems. London, Jack. Call of the Wild. 261 Long, John L. Madame Butterfly, "Japanese' edi. tion 475 Long, William J. Little Brother to the Bear.. 468 Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish, illus. by Christy 474 Loomis, Charles B. A Partnership in Magic. 431 Louthan, Hattie H. Thoughts Adrift 358 Loveman, Robert. Gates of Silence. 38 Lowell, Percival. The Solar System. 43 Lyon, Mrs. Doré. Prudence Pratt.. 223 Mabie, Hamilton W. Backgrounds of Literature.. 425 Mabie, Hamilton W. In Arcady.. 428 MacGrath, Harold. The Grey Cloak. 66 Mackie, Pauline B. A Voice in the Desert. 66 Macmillan's Guide to Switzerland. 45 Maeterlinck, Maurice. Monna Vanna. 257 Mallock, W. H. Religion as a Credible Doctrine. 306 Mann, W. J. America in its Relation to the Great Epochs of History... 9 Marriott, Charles. House on the Sands. 260 Martin, Edward S. Poems and Verses. 39 Martyn, Hazel. Sketches. 422 MS, in a Red Box, The... 260 Mathews, Alfred. Ohio and Her Western Reserve.. 348 Mauclair, Camille. French Impressionists. 176 Mauclair, Camille. Great French Painters. 472 May, Sophie. Joy Bells. 432 Maynadier, G. H. Works of Fielding and Smollett 434 McCaleb, Walter F. Aaron Burr Conspiracy. 61 McCarthy, Justin. British Political Portraits. 96 McCarthy, Justin H. Marjorie.... 222 McCulloch, Hugh. Written in Florence. 36 McCutcheon, George B. The Sherrods. 221 McCutcheon, John T. Boy Calendar... 429 McNeill, Everett. Dickon Bend-the-Bow. 431 McNeill, George E. Unfrequented Paths. 127 McSpadden, J. Walker. Fables of Æsop. 431 Mead, Edwin D. Influence of Emerson. 224 Meade, Edward S. Trust Finance... 44 Meader, II. L. Reflections of the Morning After.. 475 Mendes, H. Pereira. In Old Egypt.... 476 Mempes, Mortimer and Dorothy. World's Children 421 Meredith, William H. The Real John Wesley. 316 Mermaid Series, thin-paper edition.... 317 Merwin, Samuel. His Little World. 265 Meynell, Alice. Work of John S. Sargent. 464 Meynell, Wilfrid. Benjamin Disraeli... 461 Middeldyk, R. A. History of Puerto Rico. 43 Miller, James R. In Perfect Peace.. 429 Mills, W. Jay. Through the Gates of Old Romance 473 Milman, Mrs. H. Kalendar of Country Delights..... 42 Molineux, R. B. Vice Admiral of the Blue...... 265 Montgomery, Frances T. Billy Whiskers' Kids. 433 PAGE Montgomery, Frances T. Wonderful Electric Ele- phant 432 Monson, Lord, and Gower, George L. Memoirs of George Elers 212 Morley, John. Life of Gladstone 410 Morley, Margaret W. Insect Folk. 430 Moore, F. Frankfort. Castle Oineragh. 63 Moore, George. The Untilled Field. 69 Moore, N. H. Old China Book 94 Moran, Thomas F. The English Gorernment. 18 Morris, William. Defense of Guenerere, illus. by Jessie M. King 475 Moses, Montrose J. Everyman.. 479 Moss, Mary. A Sequence in Hearts. 264 Moulton, R. G. Moral System of Shakespeare. 351 “Mowbray, J. P.". The Conquering of Kate. 68 Mumford, Ethel W. Limerick Up to Date Book. 426 Munn, Charles C. The Hermit.. 204 Murfree, Mary F. A Spectre of Power. 05 Musson, Bennet. Maisie and Her Dog Snip. 432 Myers, Philip Van Ness. The Modern Age. 480 Naylor, James B. Under Mad Anthony's Banner.. 222 Nesbit, W. D. Little Henry's Slate. 475 Newbolt, Henry. Sailing of the Long-Ships. 124 Newell, W. W. Games of American Children, new edition 478 Newnes's thin-paper editions. .19, 481 Nicholson, Meredith. The Main Chance. 219 Noves, Carleton. Enjoyment of Art. 173 O'Connor, J. C. Esperanto. 227 Olcott, Mary. Poems. 40 Old South Leaflets, Emerson series. 303 Olmstead, F. L. Fur Traders of the Columbia. 9 Omond, T. S. Study of Metre.... 17 Oppenheim, E. Phillips. A Prince of Sinners. Oppenheim, E. Phillips. The Yellow Crayon. 260 Orcutt, William D. Princess Kallisto, new edition 432 Otis, James. With the Treasure Seekers. 477 Overton, Gwendolen. The Captain's Daughter. 477 Packard, Winthrop. Young Ice Whalers. 431 Page, Curtis H. Songs and Sonnets of Ronsard.. 129 Page, Margaret. In Childhood Land.. 133 Page, Thomas Nelson. Gordon Keith. 66 Page, Thomas N. Two Prisoners, illus. by Virginia Keep 431 Palmer, Frederick. The Vagabond. 262 Parker, Gilbert, and Bryan, Claude G. Old Quebec 424 Patten, Helen P. The Year's Festivals. 428 Patterson, Alice J. The Spinner Family .431, 469 Payson, William F. Triumph of Life. 219 Peabody, Josephine P. The Singing Leaves. 476 Peary, Marie A. Children of the Arctic. 479 Peattie, Eiia W. Poems You Ought to Know 480 Peattie, Elia W. The Edge of Things.. 264 Penfield, Edward. A Stenciled Calendar. 429 Peter Piper's Practical Principles. 433 Phillips, Mary E. Laurel Leaves. 478 Pierce, George J. Plant Physiology. 97 Pierson, Clara D. Dooryard Stories. 430 Polhemus, Elizabeth. Jane and John. 431, 478 Poore, Henry R. Pictorial Composition.. 174 Porter, Charlotte, and Clarke, Helen A. Booke of Poets' Parleys.. 481 Porter, Charlotte. Browning's Return of the Druses 19 Potter, Beatrix. Squirrel Nutkin. 479 Potter, Beatrix. Tailor of Gloucester. 479 Potter, Margaret H. Castle of Twilight. 263 Powell, H. Arthur. Young Ivy on Old Walls. 126 Proctor, Adelaide A., Poems of, Crowell's edition... 480 Pyle, Howard. Story of King Arthur. 476 Quiller-Couch, A. T. Adrentures of Harry Revel.... 63 Raleigh, Walter. Wordsworth... 266 Rand, E. A. Fifer Boy of Boston Siege. 430 Rawnsley, II. D. Lake Country Sketches. 96 Ray, Anna Chapin. Sheba..... 433 Ray, Anna C. Ursula's Freshman. 432 Raymond, Evelyn. The Mislaid Uncle. 433 Reed, Ilelen L. Brenda's Bargain. 432 Reed, Myrtle. Pickaback Songs.. Reed, Myrtle. Shadow of Victory... 263 Reynolds, Myra. Poems of Countess of Winchelsea 131 Rice. Alice C. H. Mrs. Wiggs, and Lovey Mary, holiday editions 474 Richards, Laura E. More Five Minute Stories.... 433 INDEX. vii. PAGE . 22 PAGE Richards, Laura E. The Golden Windows... 432 Richards, Laura E. The Green Satin Gown...... 477 Richardson, C. F. Webster for Young Americans.. 476 Richman, Irving B. Rhode Island. 347 Rils, Jacob A. Children of the Tenements. 433 Riis, Jacob A. Peril and Preservation of the Home 315 Roberts, A. J. R. The Bird Book. 469 Roberts, Charles G. D. Book of the Rose. 36 Roberts, W. K. Divinity and Man.... 307 Robertson, L. A. Beyond the Requiems. 39 Robertson, Morgan, Sinful Peck.. 68 Robinson, Mary Y. Songs of the Trees. 478 Rodd, Sir Rennell. Myrtle and Oak. 124 Rosecrans, Anita D. Twilight Tales. 432 Rowlands, Walter. Great Masters of the Drama.. 428 Ruskin's Letters to M. G. and H. G. 267 Russell, Walter. Bending of the Twig. 473 Saintsbury, George. Loci Critici. 299 Sage, Betty Rhymes of Real Children. 478 Sandras, Courtilz de. Memoirs of D'Artagnan, trans. by Ralph Nevill.. 470 Sandys, Edwyn. Trapper "Jim". 429 Saxby, Lewis. Life of a Wooden Doll. 479 Sayce, A. H. Religions of Ancient Egypt and Baby- lonia 175 Schierbrand, Wolf von. The Kaiser's Speeches.. 41 Schmidt's Shakespeare Lexicon, third edition... 167 Schopenhauer, Arthur. Basis of Morality, trans, by A. B. Bullock 97 Schouler, James. Eighty Years of Union. 317 Scollard, Clinton. Lyrics of the Dawn.. 38 Scott, Florence M. S., and Hodge, Alma. The Round Tower 476 Scott, Frank J. Portraitures of Cæsar. 42 Scott, W. A. Money and Banking 311 Seawen, Molly Elliott. Fortunes of Fif. 265 Sedgwick, H. D., Jr. Essays on Great Writers.. 267 Seton, Ernest Thompson. Two Little Savages..... 429 Sharp, Evelyn, Children Who Ran Away.. 433 Sharp, F. C. Shakespeare's Portrayal of the Moral Life 351 Shaw, E. R. Slocum's Around the World. 270 Shedd, Percy W. The Oceanides. 125 Ship of State, The... 477 Sholl, Anna M. Law of Life.. 263 Sidgwick, Henry. Philosophy.. 11 Sidney, Margaret. Five Little Peppers at School.. 478 Silberrad, Una L. Success of Mark Wyngate.. 68 Sinclair, Samuel B. Possibility of a Science of Edu- cation 93 Singleton, Esther. Golden Rod Fairy Book. 478 Singleton, Esther. Historic Buildings. 474 Skinner, Charles M. American Myths and Legends 471 Slater, J. H. Book Prices Current, 1903.. 479 Smeaton, Oliphant. Temple Series of Bible Char- acters 480 Smissen, W. H. van der. Poems of Goethe and Schiller 269 Smith, Alice P. The Legatee. 66 Smith, Arthur Cosslett. The Turquoise Cup. 19 Smith, Charles S. Barbizon Days. 359 Smith, Charles S. Barbizon Days, “Fontainebleau" edition 427 Smith, F. Hopkinson. Colonel Carter's Christmas 474 Smith, F. Hopkinson, Works of, "Beacon" edition.. 98 Smith, Gertrude. Stories of Peter and Ellen. Smith, Nicholas. Songs from the Hearts of Women 317 Smith, W. H. Political History of Slavery.. 33 Smith, W. Roy. South Carolina as a Royal Prov- ince 314 Smyth, Justin H. Arnold's March to Quebec. 177 Soley, James Russell. Admiral Porter. 316 Spears, John R. Anthony Wayne.. 268 Spears, J. R., and Clark, A. H. History of the Mis- sissippi Valley 462 Staley, Edgcumbe. Watteau and His School. 226 Starr, Ida M. H. Gardens of the Caribbees. 473 Stein, Evaleen. Troubadour Tales 476 Stephenson, Nathaniel. Eleanor Dayton. 221 Stevens, T. W., and Noble, A. C. The Morning Road 38 Stevenson's Works, Turner's edition. ...317, 427 Steward, Ray M. Surprising Adventures of the Man in the Moon 432 Stickney, Trumbull. Dramatic Verses 39 Stockton, F. R. The Captain's Toll-Gate... Stoddard, C. W. For the Pleasure of His Company 219 Stoddard, Richard Henry. Recollections.. 299 Stoddard, William 0. Ahead of the Army.. 430 Stoddard, William 0. The Spy of Yorktown.. 430 Stoeckins, Alfred. Naturalism in Recent German Drama 130 Stokes, Anson P. Cruising in the Caribbean. 363 Stratemeyer, Edward. At the Fall of Montreal. 430 Stratemeyer, Edward. Joe, the Surveyor.......... 431 Stratemeyer, Edward. Two Young Lumbermen.. 477 Stringer, Arthur. The Silver Poppy. 220 Strong, C. A. Why the Mind Has a Body. 95 Strong, T. B. God and the Individual... 307 Stuart, Ruth McE. George Washington Jones. 477 Studio Art Album, The. 423 Studio Art Portfolio, The. 423 Stuttaford, Charles. Apuleius' Story of Cupid and Psyche ... 44 Sunday Reading for 1904 433 Sunderland, Jabez T. The Spark in the Clod. 307 Sweetser, Kate D. Micky of the Alley.. 433 Symons, Arthur. Cities. 424 Symons, Arthur. Essays of Leigh Hunt. 473 Symphony Calendar 429 Syrett, Netta. Six Fairy Plays. 432 Tabb, John B. Later Lyrics. 38 Taggart, Marion A. At Aunt Anna's. 433 Tappan, Eva M. In Days of Queen Victoria. 430 Tappan, Eva M. Robin Hood. 476 Tappan, Eva M. The Christ Story. 431 Taylor, Edward R. Visions.. 39 Taylor, Joseph Russell. The Overture. 356 Temple Autobiographies .270, 480 Temple Classics. .130, 303, 434 Texas Historical Association Quarterly, Vol VI. 70 Thackeray's Reading a Poem, Wessels' reprint. ... 472 Thackeray's Works, Dent edition.... .....98, 317, 363 Thatcher, 0. J. Studies concerning Adrian IV.. 45 Thompson, Adele E. A Lassie of the Isles. 430 Thompson, Vance. Spinners of Life... 221 Thurston, Mabel N. On the Road to Arcady. 473 Tirebuck, William E. 'Twixt God and Mammon.. 222 Todd, Charles B. The Real Benedict Arnold.... 43 Tomlinson, E. T. A Lieutenant under Washington 430 Tooley, Sarah A. Royal Palaces. 423 Torrey, Bradford. Clerk of the Woods. 467 Travellers' Colloquial Spanish... 130 Treman, E. M., and Poole, M. E. Treman Family. 269 Trent, W. P. American Literature. 175 Trent, W. P. Works of Spenser. 362 Trotter, Spencer. Geography of Commerce. 364 Trowbridge, John T. My Own Story. 254 Turner, William. History of Philosophy. 239 Twitchell, Miss H. Famous Children. 430 Tynan, Katherine. A Red, Red Rose. 69 Until Seventy Times Seven. 223 Upson, Arthur. Westwind Songs 126 Upton, Bertha and Florence K. Golliwogg's Circus 433 Vaile, Charlotte M. The Truth about Santa Claus.. 432 Van Vorst, Marie. Poems. 40 Van Zile, Edward S. Defending the Bank.. 431 Vernon, H. M. Variation in Animals and Plants.. 95 Waddington, Mme. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife.. 14 Waite, C. B. and Mrs. C. V. Homophonic Con- versations 18 Waldstein, Charles. Art in the 19th Century. 174 Waller, Miss M. E. A Daughter of the Rich.. 432 Walsh, Honor. The Story-Book House... 432 Walton, Mason A. A Hermit's Wild Friends. 468 Ward, Mrs. Wilfrid. The Light Behind. 68 Warner. Anna B. West Point Colors. 477 Warwick, Countess of. Warwick Castle. 471 Watanna, Onoto. Heart of Hyacinth.. 428 Webster, W. C. General History of Commerce. 45 Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, thin-paper edition 362 Webster's New Standard Dictionary. 130, 434 Weigall, Lady Rose. Correspondence of Lady Burg- hersh with Duke of Wellington... 25 Wells, Carolyn. Nonsense Anthology, holiday edi- tion 475 Welsh. Charles. Childhood Classics 431 Welsh, Charles. Famous Battles of the 19th Cen- tury 476 Wesselhoeft, Lily F. Jack, the Fire Dog. 430 433 viii. INDEX. PAGE Westcott, Arthur. Life and Letters of Bishop West- cott 15 Wetherald, Ethelwyn. Tangled in Stars. 358 What is Worth While Series, new vols. 269 Whinery, S. Municipal Public Works. 128 Whitaker, Evelyn, Gay.... 433 Whitcomb, Merrick. History of Modern Europe.... 97 White, Eliza Orne. Leslie Chilton... 264 White, Stewart E. The Magic Forest. 431 White, Stewart E. The Forest. 474 "Whiteford, R. N. Anthology of English Poetry.. 98 Wiener, Leo. Anthology of Russian Literature.. 94 "Wiggin, Kate D. Half-a-Dozen Housekeepers. 477 Wiggin, Kate D. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.. 264 Williams, C. F. Abdy. Story of Notation. 315 Williams, E. R., Jr. Hill Towns of Italy. 422 Willians, Eustace L. The Mutineers.. 430 PAGE Williams, H. Noel. Madame de Montespan. 421 Williamson, G. C. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters .256, 363 Willmarth, Cora D. Widows. 479 Wilson, Harry L. Lions of the Lord. 220 Winans, Ross. One Religion: Many Creeds, new edition 480 Winnington, Laura. Outlook Fairy Book. 478 Woods, Alice. Co-Education.. 92 Wright, Arnold, and Smith, Philip. Parliament... 172 Wright, Mabel 0. Aunt Jimmy's Will. 477 Wright, W. J. P. Dante and the Divine Comedy.. 420 Wrong, George M. The British Nation.. 227 Young, Edgerton R. Algonquin Indian Tales. 431 Young, Ella F. Scientific Method in Education. 93 Zangwill, Israel, Biind Children. 123 Zangwill, I. The Grey Wig...... 221 MISCELLANEOUS “Atlantic Monthly" for 1904... 480 Bonney, Charles Carroll, Death of 131 “Book-Plates, The Book of". 270 “Bucko Mate," What is a. (Albert Matthews). “Craftsman, The". 269 English, Literary Method of Teaching. (Sherwin Cody) 85 French, George, and The Imperial Press. 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APPLETON & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK stood of El at THE DIAL A Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information. PAGE 7 7 . 9 . . . " a No. 409. JULY 1, 1903. Vol. XXXV. thetic in the expression of his spirit. The illustrator plays about the text, or, in the less CONTENTS. common reverse case, the writer plays about the picture; but in neither case is the relation LITERATURE ILLUSTRATED 5 other than external, and a genuine interfusion of the two idealisms is rarely accomplished. COMMUNICATION .. What Is a "Bucko Mate"? Albert Matthews. When the poet or the novelist becomes his own illustrator, a successful marriage of the SIDE-LIGHTS ON CHARLES LAMB. Percy F. two arts is of course possible, provided that Bicknell the writer be not a mere amateur in design. AMERICA'S PLACE IN HISTORY. James Oscar The case of Rossetti naturally comes to mind Pierce as the one conspicuous modern instance of the A BOOK OF ENTERTAINING BIOGRAPHIES. two forms of genius united in one personality. Josiah Renick Smith 10 One of Rossetti's sonnets illustrated by one of ASPECTS OF PHILOSOPHIC THOUGHT. A. K. his own drawings offers a perfect example of Rogers 11 the two arts in happy conjunction. But the Sidgwick's Philosophy, Its Scope and Relations. Laurie's Scottish Philosophy in its National Devel- case of Rossetti is almost unique, for it is gen- opment. — Hibben's Hegel's Logic. erally true that pictures for poems are not the LETTERS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF EMERSON. work of poets, and that poems for pictures are Annie Russell Marble 13 penned by hands that have had no practice in the use of the brush. If the pictorial art is to BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS 14 In court and diplomatic circles. — New England's stand in its ideal relation to the literature with literary haunts. — “Everybody's Bishop."- A new which it is occupied, it must be more than the guide to old Siena. — A new Life of Lincoln. mere complement of the printed page ; it must Random reflections of a recluse. — China and the Chinese. — The human side of Bacteriology. add to the meaning of the text, and must in Town-life in New England after the Revolution.- turn be itself illuminated by that text. In a A study of English metre. — The Lone-Star Com- word, each of the arts thus allied must have a monwealth. - Principles of the English Govern- ment. — The drawings of Aubrey Beardsley. far deeper meaning when taken in connection Popular Psychology. with the other than it could possibly have when BRIEFER MENTION 18 standing by itself. Mr. Vedder's series of illustrations made NOTES 19 for FitzGerald's paraphrase of Omar affords an TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS 19 extraordinary example of what it is possible LIST OF NEW BOOKS for a painter of genius to do for a poet. These noble drawings might well claim recognition on their own account, but their impressiveness is LITERATURE ILLUSTRATED. raised to the second power through their asso- On the principle that good wine needs no ciation with the quatrains of the Tent-Maker. bush, the illustration of literature would seem And it is hardly too much to say that the im- to be a work of supererogation. While it is pressiveness of the quatrains is similarly raised theoretically true that pictorial art may prop- through their association with the drawings. erly be employed for the elucidation of literary But here again we have the exceptional in- art, and while this dual alliance is occasionally stance, which serves only to make more glaring brought to a successful issue, yet it must be the shortcomings of all ordinary attempts to confessed that as a general rule the divergence produce pictures that shall suitably interpret of aim and method is so great that the mutual works of literary art. Even when we get good heightening of effect to be desired is not achieved. designs for good literature, as with Flaxman Each kind of art may be good in its own way, and Dante, Kaulbach and Goethe, Cruikshank but neither artist has so penetrated into the and Dickens, we are somehow made uncomfort- consciousness of the other as to become truly ably conscious that the one form of expression interpretative of his work, or entirely sympa- does not fit in with the other. And we do not . . . 20 . 6 (July 1, THE DIAL - always get even this. Sometimes an artist of of them, extending from the Old English period . genius will waste his powers upon the illus- to the time of Henry VIII., being the work of tration of a third-rate text, and we get such a Dr. Richard Garnett. The remaining three production as Blair's “ The Grave "illustrated have been entrusted to Mr. Edmund Gosse. by Blake, which we prize only for the drawings, Dr. Garnett’s volume, and the second of Mr. which never tempts us to read the words sup- Gosse's three, covering the period from Milton posed to have been their inspiration. On the to Johnson, are already at hand; the two others other hand, we sometimes find a great master- are promised for autumn publication. For this piece of literature cheapened — as far as such praiseworthy enterprise Mr. William Heine- a thing is possible — by sensational and mer- mann is primarily responsible, and the publica- etricious illustration, of which the most con- tion for the United States is in the hands of the spicuous modern instance is offered by Doré's Macmillan Co. The mechanical execution of drawings for Dante, Milton, and the Bible. the work is sumptuous, and in beauty of typo- These examples will show sufficiently for our graphy and illustration the volumes leave little present purpose how hazardous a thing it is to to be desired. They are open to criticism only enlist the ope art in the service of the other, on account of their extreme bulkiness, which and how frequently the result of so doing is results from the use of heavy glazed paper al. . product that must be called incongruous, even most as thick as cardboard. We believe that if we spare it a harsher name. the publishers would have been well-advised to But if the illustration of literature is a ques- use paper of half the thickness, and to present tionable procedure, it is quite otherwise with the work in two volumes instead of four. the illustration of the history of literature. Among the illustrative features of this work, That bistory, while primarily concerned with portraiture naturally occupies the place of first the writings that are cherished by mankind for importance. For the earlier centuries of the their artistic form or their intellectual grasp, history, this material is of course meagre and must also be concerned to a considerable extent of doubtful authenticity, but from Chaucer on- with such matters as the personal characters, ward we have portraits in abundance, although the biography, the homes and haunts, the man. there must remain serious gaps in complete- ners and customs, and the historical setting of ness all the way through the Elizabethan period. the authors dealt with. And, like all the other When we come to the age of Milton and the aspects of the history of culture, its interest eighteenth century, there is no serious lack of may be greatly enhanced by judicious illustra- material, and the third volume presents us with tion . The history of literature is apt to be dry a superb series of plates in process and photo- stuff at best, unless illuminated at many points gravure that are a delight to the eye. The by light from the well-stored mind of the read. lack of portrait interest in the first volume is, er, and every device should be welcomed that however, more than compensated for by the tends to make it inherently attractive. This use of manuscript facsimiles, many of them principle has long been given practical recog- illuminated. The richest treasures of the muse- nition by the European writers in this field, ums and libraries have been drawn upon for and nearly every nation of the Continent has these reproductions. Autograph letters are produced a richly illustrated history of its lit- also reproduced in great numbers, and pages of erature, supplementing a scholarly text with a holograph illustrating the choicest examples of great variety of pictorial adornment. Books of our literature. Title-pages of historical interest this class have been of incalculable benefit in and old wood-cuts are also supplied in great popularizing literary study, and they have ac- profusion. The homes of authors, the places complished their purpose in a strictly legitimate associated with them, and the many buildings way, without lapsing unworthily from the and monuments that have a quasi-literary in- dignity of their theme. terest are pictured for us by hundreds. Such A work of this type, dealing with the fifteen things as coins, seals, effigies, old bindings, hundred years of English literature, has long and musical scores are not neglected. There been desirable, and it is a wonder that we should are also a number of illustrations of the mod- have had to wait until the twentieth century for ern imaginative type, such as a page from the its performance. Such a work is at last in pro- Kelmscott Chaucer, and Stothard's picture of cess of publication, undertaken by competent the Canterbury Pilgrims. , the Canterbury Pilgrims. In short, nothing hands, and we give it the most cordial welcome. seems to have been omitted that could in any There are to be four volumes altogether, the first way lend itself to the illustration of this aspect 1903.] 7 THE DIAL - or of history, and help to make vivid the lives, the personalities, and the surroundings, of the The New Books. men whose names are remembered in our literature. Of the accompanying text, we may say SIDE-LIGHTS ON CHARLES LAMB.* briefly that it is competent and pleasing. Charles Lamb's humor is not exactly of a sort Both Dr. Garnett and Mr. Gosse are graceful to shake the midriff of despair with laughter; writers, and neither of them is now dealing for it is better than that, - it is gentle, pensive, the first time with his material. Three sizes pervasive, sometimes pathetic, and never leaves of type are used ; the largest for the running in the reader that feeling of a slight loss of commentary which is the substance of the self-respect which is apt to follow outbursts of work, a smaller size for the biographies, and more demonstrative merriment. This mirth one still smaller and closer for the extracts. that cheers but not inebriates is not so com. These extracts are well-chosen and typical, but mon that we can afford to lose any hitherto do not encroach too bulkily upon the narrative neglected or unrecognized specimens of it that and descriptive text. The plan of the text as may have made their appearance anonymously a whole has'a balance and a proportion that or pseudonymously in Elia's lifetime. It was have evidently been carefully studied, and to partly to rescue from the pages of “The which no serious exception can be taken. In In London Magazine " such unsigned or falsely this general account, we do not wish to indulge signed productions of the gentle humorist, that in microscopic criticisms, of which many might Mr. Bertram Dobell undertook the compilation doubtless be made. We are too glad to wel- of his “Sidelights on Charles Lamb." The come the history to be captious regarding mat- revival of an interest, never really dormant, in ters of minor detail. This work is evidently the inimitable Elia, is attested by the prepar- , one that no gentleman's library should be ation now in progress of a new biography and without, and we fancy that even Charles Lamb of a new and more nearly complete edition of would have excepted it from his general ex- his letters; and it is this interest that must communication of such works. excuse, if excuse be necessary, a somewhat extended notice of a small and unpretentious, but scholarly, sympathetic, and entertaining volume on Lamb and his circle. COMMUNICATION. Though “Elia” was Lamb's recognized “ signature to most of his “London Magazine WHAT IS A “BUCKO MATE”? articles, yet a few of his acknowledged con- ( To the Editor of THE DIAL.) tributions to that periodical were either anony- Referring to Mr. Albert Sonnichsen, whose “ Deep Sea Vagabonds" was noticed in THE DIAL of June 16, mous or otherwise signed. By diligent search page 407, your reviewer says that “the author had the Mr. Dobell seems to have found eleven ad. wit to avoid American merchantmen and their bullying ditional pieces that Lamb may at least be bucko mates.” As the word " bucko” is not recognized strongly suspected of writing. If he did not either in the “Century” or the “Oxford ” Dictionaries, will your reviewer kindly explain exactly what it write them, or some of them, he ought to have means ? ALBERT MATTHEWS. done so. What could be more in the vein of Boston, June 21, 1903. the creator of Mrs. Battle than the following [The word “bucko,” as applied to the mates of from “ A Hint to Whistplayers "'? American merchant vessels who are distinguished “I can put up with an occasional bad card-hand, as for fighting qualities in the handling of their crews, Job-like as anyone. A sorry, solitary deuce of trumps, is used freely in all recent works dealing realisti- now and then, does not put me beside my tenour. I can cally with deep-sea voyaging, written by American go trumpless even once, twice, or thrice, without an im- precation. — I can sort, without pouting, some thirteen authors, Messrs. Paul Eve Stevenson, Morgan Rob- rabble-cards, and endure, as heroically as Brightelm- ertson, and Frank T. Bullen among them. It is not stone tradesfolk, a temporary privation of king and found in any of the standard dictionaries, and a court favour. — It would be strange if the losses and conjecture may be risked that it is an adaptation crosses I have suffered in human dealings, had not of the word “buck,” used in the songe of dandy, taught me philosophy to endure any reasonable pro- - very much as the word “ dandy” is itself used portion of Whist adversity. If I can reckon up with- colloquially. We have heard it in the mouths of out fretting, the niggardly balances that are made out Irishmen, - " “Ah, me fine bucko,” “He's the bucko to me by my bookseller, -- I may surely, without chafing, lad for me,” etc., — in what seems to be precisely * SIDELIGHTS ON CHARLES LAMB. By Bertram Dobell. this significance. - THE REVIEWER.] New York: Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons. - - 8 [July 1, THE DIAL - " upon them." tell over a beggarly account of pips. · ... To judge stantially true; that evidence exists of his hav- from our faces, — 'tis a drawn game, a fourfold dis- appointment -- but Whist, as the world knows, is in- ing once sat in the stocks ; but that the punish- - , capable of such lame and impotent conclusions. Two,' ment was probably as much a jest on the part says Mrs. Battle, the eloquent encomiast of Whist, two of those ordering it as was the untimely merri- are exalted - two again are mortified' - but it would ment by which it was provoked. The well-known puzzle a disciple of Lavater to say which was which at “ Reflections in the Pillory” is doubtless a fur- the close of our melancholy rubbers. As far as physi- ther literary result of this madcap adventure; ognomy goes, the winners protest that they would as lief have foregone the double points, and the money. and thus we have the Bumbles to thank for two They have not achieved success, but had it thrust most characteristic examples of Elian humor. A last, and best, quotation shall be from Besides ferreting out, with much critical “The Monthly Repository," on the character acumen, articles by Lamb, or very much in his of Charles Lamb, as “ minuted down from the manner, Mr. Dobell has brought to light many lips of the late S. T. Coleridge.” pieces, in prose and verse, relating to him. In “Charles Lamb has more totality and individuality “ An Evening with Charles Lamb and Cole- of character than any other man I know, or have ever ridge,” contributed by “S. Y.” to “The “ known in all my life. In most men we distinguish be- tween the different powers of their intellect as one Monthly Repository "soon after Lamb's death, being predominant over the other. The genius of a bit of personal description is of especial Wordsworth is greater than his talent, though consider- interest. able. The talent of Southey is greater than his genius, • The character of Cbarles Lamb's person was in though respectable; and so on. But in Charles Lamb total contrast to that of Coleridge. His strongly marked, it is altogether one; his genius is talent, and his talent deeply lined face, furrowed more by feeling than age, is genius, and his beart is as whole and one as his head. The wild words that come to him sometimes on religious like an engraving by Blake, where every line told its separate story, or like a finely chiselled head done by subjects would shock you from the mouth of any other some master in marble, where every touch of the chisel man, but from him they seem mere flashes of fireworks. marked some new attribute. Yet withal there was so If an argument seem to his reason not fully true, he bursts out in that odd desecrating way : yet his will, much sweetness and playfulness lurking about the corners of the mouth, that it gave to the face the ex- the inward man, is, I well know, profoundly religious. traordinary character of flexible granite. His figure Watch him, when alone, and you will find him with was small even to spareness. It was as if the soul either a Bible, or an old divine, or an old English poet; within, in its constant restless activity, had worn the in such is his pleasure." body to its smallest possibility of existence. There was The allusion to Lamb's wild words on reli. an equal amount of difference in his conversation from gious subjects recalls his stuttering reply to that of Coleridge, as there was in his person. It was not one uninterrupted flow, but a periodical production of Leigh Hunt's expression of surprise at the pro- sentences, short, telling, full of wit, philosophy, at times digality and intensity of Coleridge's utterances slightly caustic, though that is too strong a word for on religion. “Ne-ne-never mind what Cole- satire which was of the most good-natured kind. ridge says," was Lamb's tranquillizing response ; The perfect simplicity, absence of all conceit, child-like - he's full of fun." enjoyment of his own wit, and the sweetness and benev- olence that played about the rugged face, gave to it To correct a very common error of pronunci- a charm in no way inferior to the poetical enjoyment ation, it may not be amiss to give here once derived from the more popular conversation of his more Lamb's phonetic spelling of the mispro- friend." nounced word. In a letter to Taylor the pub- Will Lamb's admirers be more shocked or lisher, having occasion to refer to Elia, he amused to learn that he once sat in the stocks ? perenthetically adds, “ Call him Ellia.” As the malefactor himself scrupled not to make One word of criticism on Mr. Dobell's book. “copy”of the experience (see Delamore's Con. Its compilation is a little careless. One page or " fessions” in the third volume of “ Blackwood”) chapter is made to correct or supplement a pre- he evidently wishes us to smile with him at its ceding, at the cost of compactness and orderli- ludicrous features. He protests that his punish. ness; and the author (or printer) observes no ment, which lasted “but for a pair of minutes rule in the use of small type, sometimes putting or so," was " for a thing of nought — a fault of quoted extracts in fine print, but oftener not. “ youth, and warmer blood -- a calendary inad. The “sidelights,” too, occasionally throw their vertence I may call it — or rather a temporary rays somewhat farther outside the circle of obliviousness of the day of the week — timing which Lamb is the centre than might seem de- my Saturnalia amiss." Mr. E. V. Lucas, au- sirable ; but they at least well illustrate the rich- thor of the forthcoming life of Lamb, assures ness of unsuspected material lying hid in the Mr. Dobell that the essayist's pseudonymous musty pages of old magazine files. and playful account of this little affair is sub- PERCY F. BICKNELL. - 1908.] 9 THE DIAL a mental operations in all systems which have AMERICA'S PLACE IN HISTORY.* any assurance of success. This proposition is More than a passing mention is the just advanced by him, time and again, in these desert of a book of less than 300 pages, in pages; yet there is no distinct portion of the which Mr. William Justin Mann suggests, thesis which seeks to elaborate the proposition. without taking the time or space necessary to Four of the chapters of the small book are develop fully, the position of “ America in its devoted respectively to the four epochs above Relation to the Great Epochs of History." named, and the fifth and last expounds the The epochs during the short life of our republic “Correlations” between the aspects of Amer- which the author characterizes as “great” are ican experiences and those of general history, designated by the dates 1492, 1620, 1788, and during each of those epochs. At least one 1850,—the first-named being the era of the reader would have been pleased, had an addi- Discovery of America; the second, that of the tional chapter undertaken to trace, throughout Settlement of our States ; 1788 standing for the entire calendar of these four epochs, the the era of the establishment of the Nation and office, the usefulness, and the political mission the preparation of its forms of Constitution ; of the wonderfully successful principle of Fed- and 1850, not so much in the matter of a date eration. as in that of an epoch, representing the trial To deprecate the fashion of pompous glori- of those constitutional forms by the Civil War fication of America by our own people is not and the political struggles preceding it. These to belittle or minimize the value of commen- several landmarks in American history are taries, such as this one, upon the salient facts shown to be very largely correlated with those of our political progress. A sane and studious which point us to the leading and crucial phases investigation of the facts of our history, a hum- of modern history in general. It is not alone ble acknowledgment of their exceeding im- political, but scientific, literary, and commercial portance, and a calm inquiry into their place , history which are here illustrated. World- in the greater history of the human race, — movements are those to which the commen- these are among the simple duties of those tator's attention is directed; the races of patriots who properly appreciate the privileges mankind are blended into one family; the of their American citizenship. It is time that welfare, the interests, and the progress of all inquiries such as these should be propounded are interdependent; and the growth, the rights, with dignity and examined with sincerity. the privileges, and the liberties of any one race, A new understanding of American history is or of any one political section of humanity, promised to the people of this country, and a cannot but affect and influence the mass. To higher appreciation of their political duties illustrate the part which America has played, will follow. The study of our history will at each one of the great epochs of her own proceed along new lines in our colleges and history, in accomplishing results beneficial to schools, and will weave its new fascinations all other political aggregations in the world, around the intellects of their students. Several and thus to show forth her relative place among months ago, one of our Western universities these other aggregations, is the object of the announced that, in its presentation of the study thesis which this author has assigned to him- of the history of the United States, it would self. What John Fiske soberly postulated as aim “ to illustrate the place and office of this the “ Manifest Destiny" of the United States, Republic in the arena of the world's activities, Mr. Mann now seeks more particularly to elu- and the relation of our history to the world's cidate, with some specifications. Yet within progress.” To the key-note thus sounded, this the space he has undertaken to occupy, he has small but weighty thesis by Mr. Mann gives a necessarily confined himself to a generalization clear and distinct response. that disappoints the hearty interest which his JAMES OSCAR PIERCE. treatment of his thesis awakens. Federation, which is the form under which « THE Fur Traders of the Columbia River and the the United States has found the opportunity | Rocky Mountains " is the title given to a new volume of to discharge its political mission, is recognized the “ Knickerbocker Literature Series," published by the by the author as the coming form of govern- Messrs. Putnam. The text is mainly an abridgment of Irving's “ Astoria ” and “Captain Bonneville," although * AMERICA IN ITS RELATION TO THE GREAT EPOCHS Mr. Frank L. Olmstead, the editor, has added some new OF HISTORY. By William Justin Mann. Boston: Little, matter needed to round out the narrative. The volume Brown, & Co. is attractively illustrated. 10 (July 1, THE DIAL Manning represent the church. Two mighty A BOOK OF ENTERTAINING BIOGRAPHIES.* scholars are described in Lord Acton and Mr. James Bryce's “Studies in Contem- Robertson Smith; two robust and original W. porary Biography” is one of the books to historians in Freeman and J. R. Green. Pro- which the much-abused adjective “fascinating" fessors Sidgwick and T. H. Green stand for may properly be applied. Good biography is shaping influences at Cambridge and Oxford ; the most entertaining form of good literature, and Ernest E. Bowen for a similar power at its only drawback being sometimes its portent. the great public school of Harrow. Anthony ons length; and from this defect these sketches Trollope, by virtue of his calling as an au- are of course free. They are, in fact, estimates thor, was perhaps the most widely known man of character which assume or give in barest on the list; probably Bowen and Sir George outline the necessary personal information ; Jessel were least known on this side of the and their rounded brevity is not their least water. charm. Their greatest charm will be found A sufficiently wide range of British worthies; in the penetration, the candor, the sympathy, to say that Mr. Bryce has treated them all ad- and the literary skill of the writer. Anything equately would be to claim a knowledge of men that Mr. James Bryce may choose to write is and events equal to his own. He has written sure to command the attention of all thought of them all with the insight that is born in a ful Americans -- long since won for him by well-trained mind, fostered by unequalled op- — - his “ American Commonwealth"; and these portunities of observation, and kept steady by “Studies," most of which have been separately a wide and impartial sympathy. We shall not published in the United States, will only add look for warmth in his estimate of Disraeli or to the admiration felt in America for this at- Parnell ; nor fail to note it in his loving tribute tractive Englishman. to his friend Sidgwick. But his criticism is There are twenty essays in the present kind, though keen; these were great men that volume. One of these is an estimate of an he describes, and served their generation well; American by adoption, the late E. L. Godkin ; and Mr. Bryce is not the man to pick enviously the other nineteen are devoted to eminent at their laurels. British and Irish statesmen, ecclesiastics, , In delivering his judgments, Mr. Bryce is scholars, and men of letters, whose deaths fell frequently rhetorical after the manner of , 1902 inclusive. Macaulaythe , proc- followed, except in the case of Mr. Gladstone lamations instead of expressing opinions. (died 1898), for whom the concluding and Himself a profound student and profound longest paper in the book is reserved; possibly writer of history, Mr. Bryce might well be ex- 1 this was done to keep him as far as possible possible pected to speak with special authority on the from Lord Beaconsfield, the subject of the work of such men as Edward A. Freeman and opening sketch. The other statesmen are Sir John Richard Green ; and there will be some Stafford Northcote (Lord Iddesleigh), Robert readers to whom the two short studies these Lowe (Lord Sherbrooke), Hugh McCalmont men will more appeal than the more elaborate Cairns (Lord Cairns), and Mr. Parnell. treatment of the careers of Gladstone and notable omission is John Bright, whose death Disraeli. In determining the place of Green, came in 1889; we must conclude that this Mr. Bryce classes him primarily, as a historian great man did not fall under the category sug- des moeurs, with Herodotus, whom Green nat- gested in the Preface, where Mr. Bryce says: urally rated above Thucydides. “Great as “My aim has been rather to analyse the Thucydides is, Herodotus is far greater, or at character and powers of each of the persons any rate far more precious. His view was described, and, as far as possible, to convey so much wider,” - a deliverance which M the impression which each made in the daily Bryce pronounces “th Bryce pronounces “ thoroughly characteristic converse of life. All of them, except Lord of Green's own view of history"; and he pro- Beaconsfield, were personally, and most of ceeds to sum up his merits in a passage which them intimately, known to me. Dean Stanley, is quite in the Macaulay vein, even down to Archbishop Tait, Bishop Fraser, and Cardinal the unmistakable reference to Froude (whom * STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY BIOGRAPHY. By James Macaulay, however, would not have scrupled Bryce. New York: The Macmillan Co. to name) The chronological order of the death.years is a sovereignty of certainty" which issues A > 1903.) 12 THE DIAL > “ He (Green) left behind him no one who combined so many of the best gifts. There were among his con- ASPECTS OF PHILOSOPHIC THOUGHT.* temporaries historians more learned and equally in- dustrious. There were two or three whose accuracy The late Professor Sidgwick occupied a dis- was more scrupulous. But there was no one in whom tinctive place among modern thinkers. What: 80 much knowledge and so wide a range of interests he perhaps lacked in speculative subtlety, he were united to such ingenuity, acuteness, and original- more than atoned for by the singular sanity ity, as well as to such a power of presenting results in rich, clear, pictorial language. A master of style may and fairness of his judgment, his admirable be a worthless historian. We have instances. A skilful caution, and the firmness with which he held investigator and sound reasoner may be unreadable. to the broad basal facts of common experience. The conjunction of fine gifts for investigation with fine After the pyrotechnic displays that character- gifts for exposition is a rare conjunction, which cannot ize some tendencies of recent thought, it is with be prized too highly, for while it advances historical science, it brings historical methods, as well as historical sense of relief that one turns to a writer who facts, within the horizon of the ordinary reader." eschews paradox, has always a clear and defi- Americans will naturally turn with special nite meaning to convey and conveys it in words interest to what Mr. Bryce has to say about that mean just what they say, and back of whose Edwin L. Godkin, the uncompromising editor utterances one can always feel sure there is a of the “Weekly Day of Judgment,” as Charles weight of judicious and deliberate conviction. Dudley Warner used to call the New York Professor Sidgwick represents the best tradi- “Nation," - to which journal Mr. Bryce awards tions of Common Sense in philosophy; and the high merit of having been “the best weekly this has at least certain advantages in a book not only in America but in the world.” Mr. Mr. intended, like his recent one on the Scope and Godkin's courage and independence are fully Relations of Philosophy, to form a general in- recognized ; his undeniable bitterness and oc- troduction to the study. The reader here finds casional prejudice are not overlooked ; but his himself within the range of familiar concep- unique service in establishing a journal which tions; he is not perplexed by over-subtleties at did what « The Nation " has done for literature the start; and the problems raised come home and politics is most emphasized in Mr. Bryce's to him as real ones. The book has no adventi. closing words : tious attractions. It is a piece of solid and “Democracies will always have demagogues ready sober reasoning, with no graces beyond clear- to feed their vanity and st their passions and exag- ness and straightforwardness, and an occasional gerate the feeling of the moment. What they need is touch of dry humor which usually hits the mark men who will swim against the stream, will tell them their faults, will urge an argument all the more forci- very neatly. For example, the following sen- bly because it is unwelcome. Such an one was Edwin L. tence: « The differences of philosophical Godkin. Since the death of Abraham Lincoln, America schools are so fundamental that it would seem has been generally more influenced by her writers, to be only by a polite fiction that a philosopher preachers and thinkers than by her statesmen. In the of one school allows a philosopher of another list of those who have during the last forty years influ- enced her for good and helped by their pens to make to possess philosophical knowledge on the sub- her history, a list illustrated by such names as those of jects that he treats ; and the politeness that R. W. Emerson and Phillips Brooks and James Rus- consents to this fiction is not universal.” But sell Lowell, his name will find its place and receive its one who surrenders himself to the interest of well-earned meed of honor." the problems with which the book deals, will A delightful book ;— and as one lays it find it both interesting and stimulating. Where down, the idle question rises, “What twenty (or the interest in philosophy can be presupposed, nineteen) American worthies could we make it is perhaps as good an introduction to general into a corresponding list, of those who have questions about the scope and relationships of passed away in the last score of years ?” Per. philosophy as could be found. As a positive haps most of us might agree on some such ar. contribution, also, to philosophical thought, the ray as this : Grant, Garfield, Blaine, Harrison, value of the book is due primarily to the gen. Reed, and McKinley ; Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Holmes, and Whitman ; * PHILOSOPHY: Its SCOPE AND RELATIONS. By the late Henry Sidgwick, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Uni- Brooks, Beecher, and Storrs; Whitney and , versity of Cambridge. New York: The Macmillan Co. McCosh; Dana ; and George Bancroft. But SCOTTISH PHILOSOPHY IN ITS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. where is the American Bryce who " knew them By Henry Laurie, LL.D, New York: The Macmillan Co. all personally, and most of them intimately ?” HEGEL's Logic. An Essay in Interpretation. By John Grier Hibben, Ph.D., Professor of Logic in Princeton Uni- JOSIAH RENICK SMITH. versity. New York: Charles Scribnor's Sons. 12 [July 1, THE DIAL eral sanity of its judgment, and the refusal to and the summaries are clear, well proportioned, allow the demands of partial points of view, or and not too lengthy. The purpose is primarily of mere logic, to lead to conclusions that will historical, and the book does not, accordingly, not stand the test of an appeal to universal have the interest of a positive contribution to human convictions. Most philosophers, prob- philosophical criticism such as attaches to Pro- ably, will not hold that in falling back upon fessor Seth's lectures on Scottish Philosophy. common-sense dualism, the author has reached But as a brief historical survey, it satisfies a finally satisfactory position. But in view of essentially all the requirements of any save the the wide-spread haziness in which the domi- special student of the period. The distinctively nant tendencies have enveloped the relation of national philosophy — that which is associated mind and the outer world, and the persistent with the name of Reid, and whose exposition juggling by which the real separateness be- in connection with its various representatives tween them has come to be obscured, it is a occupies over half the present volume— has in service to have empbasized the actual position recent years suffered a very general eclipse, of our natural judgment in the matter. The although in our own country at least it was for book falls into two main parts. The first deals some time the dominant tendency. Probably with questions about the general nature of it never will get back more than a tithe of its pbilosophy, its problems and its delimitations. former importance. It is lacking in the finer In this one would not expect to find much qualities of insight, and only the enthusiasm that is essentially new. The lines of distinction of the historian can prevent much of it now which it draws are, nevertheless, on the whole from being rather dreary reading. Neverthe- 80 simple and natural as at times to be really less it is quite possible we have not even yet illuminating. Mr. Spencer and his conception learned all its lesson. There are worse things of philosophy are in view pretty constantly in than Common Sense; and the philosophy wbich the discussion. The latter half of the book is, affects to despise it is not wholly free from however, the most original and perhaps the most danger. The common sense philosopher is a . - important part. It is a forcible argument against middle-man, who mediates between the more the extreme claims for the historical method, daring theorist, and the natural beliefs of man- . more especially in the form represented by the kind which, after all, it is the business of thought new dogmatism of the sociologists, where it is to interpret, not to reject. And so long as the made all-sufficient, not simply as an account of peculiar dangers of the speculative life exist, , the origin and practical utility of beliefs, but there will always be a function for him to fulfil. as a criterion of their truth as well. In vindi. In Hegel we have what is commonly re- cating the necessity of an independent philo- garded as the very opposite of the type of mind sophical criterion of truth, Professor Sidgwick characteristic of a sober and common-sense has performed a useful and needed piece of philosophy, and between the representatives of work. The enthusiasm for a new point of view the two temperaments there probably always has been the occasion of a plentiful lack of clear will be war. It may be permitted to confess a thinking, which has stood badlyin want of a sober certain sympathy with the mixture of despair, criticism such as Professor Sidgwick supplies. ridicule, and indignation, which is apt to be The general type of result which Professor the feeling that results from the attempt on Sidgwick represents is that of the philosophical the part of at least the less persistent reader development peculiarly associated with Scot- to get at the meaning of Hegel's enigmatic land. In his work on “Scottish Philosophy in utterances. There really is no sense, in this its National Development,” Professor Laurie, busy world, in making a thing harder than it of the University of Melbourne, has given a needs to be. Hegel can scarcely be acquitted brief and readable account of the part that of the charge of going out of his way to say Scotland has played in the history of philo- obscurely what could perfectly well have been sophical thought. The book was intended made clear and intelligible. As a matter of originally for the projected series, now aban- fact, he shows himself quite capable of being doned, which was to deal with philosophy in its intelligible when he chooses. He can hardly various national developments. The present complain, therefore, if sometimes there arises volume is sufficiently catholic in its selection in the mind of even a moderately sympathetic of names, ranging from Hume to Lord Mon- interpreter a sense of futility and weariness, boddo. There is enough of the personal and and a question whether after all the game is biographical element to give an atmosphere, worth the candle. In spite of this, however, a 1908.) 13 THE DIAL а - the time has certainly gone by for dismissing in April last, and are now collated apd pub- Hegel contemptuously as a mere charlatan or lished in a dainty brochure, that is further en. a scholastic. That he has a distinct message, and riched by some interesting portraits. This that this has vitally influenced the thought of more permanent form has an additional ad- his century, it is impossible for the informed vantage, for the letters of the German literat- student to deny. The point of this message teur are here given in the original language as one may get in other ways than by going to well as in translation, and one may thus appre- Hegel himself. But if he wishes to come into ciate more fully some of the subtle phrases more direct contact with the fountain head, and which are not perfectly Anglicized. The friend- has not the time or the inclination to study ship which these few letters attest was frank Hegel at first band, there is perhaps no better and strong in interchange of sentiments as well way than through Professor Hibben's recent as in philosophic reflections. Though the pages volume on the Logic of Hegel. It is probably are not many, the reader carries from them , quite the clearest exposition for the less ad- many a vivid impression of the personality of vanced student that is available, - one might the German scholar and not a few rare glimpses almost say, the first clear exposition. In the into unfamiliar phases of Emerson's nature. Logic one may find the gist of Hegel's positive His geniality and sympathy found frequent contribution to modern thought. In so far as utterance in the letters to the distant philoso- this stands for a complete philosophy, it has pher-historian and his more effusive, gifted wife indeed aspects which may well be considered Gisela von Arnim. doubtful. But this does not affect the value Mr. Holls has written briefly, in the Intro. . of the main insight which it represents, an in-duction, of the circumstances which permitted sight which is by no means so far removed the printing of these letters, — the suggestion from a true empiricism as is popularly sup- made to him by Grimm a few days before the posed. Professor Hibben makes no attempt sudden death of the German author in June, to complicate the matter by raising questions 1901. To the last he retained his devotion to of ultimate criticism. He gives, rather, an , the memory and writings of Emerson, to the exposition and commentary, following very spiritual tonic therein, — but when I read “ closely Hegel himself in his more lucid mo- his sentences again, the magic breeze seemed ments. The task is done with a high degree to touch my heart anew; the old worked-out of success. The book does not pretend to be machinery (Getriebe) of the world seemed to written for scholars, and exception might be be freshened up, as though I had never felt taken to some of its interpretations. Nor, of such pure air.” The correspondence which course, as an elementary exposition, are all the began with a letter from Grimm in April, 1856, parts equally perspicuous. But taking it as a expressing gratitude for personal inspiration whole, the reader ought to be able to get from from Emerson's essays and humbly proffering it a good notion of the spirit of Hegel's thought, some of his own essays and poems, was con- and a possibility of estimating something of its cluded by a letter from Emerson in December, value as a tool for attacking the perplexities in. 1871. volved in any attempt to understand the world. Scattered among sentences of deep thought A. K. ROGERS. and literary insight, called forth by the bis- torical essays of Grimm, Emerson interspersed an occasional word of familiar and affectionate LETTERS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF regard :-“Come and see our quiet river, and its EMERSON." skiffs, our woods and meadows, in this little Amid scores of studies of Emerson, inter- town, whose chief contribution to the public pretative and critical, which this centenary year good is, that every farmer sends milk and wood has produced, the two books whose titles appear to Boston.” Again, he concludes a long letter below merit attention by their material and of appreciative comment upon the writings of workmanship. The letters of Emerson and Grimm and the dramas of his wife, with the Grimm appeared in “ The Atlantic Monthly” hearty remembrance, hearty remembrance, — “Yet it is not books, * CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN RALPH WALDO EMERSON but sense and sympathy, which I wish to offer AND HERMAN GRIMM. Edited by Frederick William Holls. you.” Grimm's “Life of Michelangelo" gave With portraits. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Emerson special pleasure. In acknowledging REMEMBRANCES OF EMERSON. By John Albee. New, revised and enlarged, edition. With portrait. New York: a copy of it to its author, he well expressed his Robert Grier Cooke. own literary characteristics : “ The book has a - : 14 [July 1, THE DIAL In court and circles. “ A Day research, method, and daylight. I bate circular smiling to the seat of the Muses, and introduces sentences, or echoing sentences, where the last us as worthy of the palm, the oak, the olive, or half cunningly repeats the first half, but you more humble parsley.” The methods of pre- ' step from stone to stone and advance ever.” paration, the wide range of themes, “the ex- cursive mind,” the beauties and enigmas of form It is a cause of congratulation to American in Emerson's Essays, are studied in outline ; readers of to-day that Emerson's centenary and in summary the author has well phrased finds a few of his younger contemporaries still their characteristics : “ The Essays contain the active in literary work, and ready to contribute, harvests of Emerson's lifetime; plain food for in varied, sincere expressions, their personal daily life, rare fruit and dainties for life's holi- memories and recognition of Emerson's influ- days." ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE. ence upon their own generation. From Colonel Higginson, Professor Norton, Mr. Sanborn, Mr. Conway, and others, have come graphic in- cidents and strong testimony. Among the youth BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. who sacrificed much to follow the independent That Madame Waddington's engag- and progressive thought of Emerson was the diplomatic ing personality, her intelligent inter- Rev. John Albee. Two years ago he pub- est in current events, her exquisite lished a volume of “Remembrances of Emer. tact, her perfect command of three languages, and son," and this is now reprinted in recognition her ever-fresh enthusiasm, contributed materially to of the theme of the hour. A chance talk with her distinguished husband's success as a diplomat, is Emerson, or a walk by his side, has given evident to the reader of her truly delightful memoirs, nucleus for many an elaborated sketch during in handsome form by the Scribners. Americans may “Letters of a Diplomat's Wife," recently published these months of search for some new word or well be proud to claim her as their fellow-country- impression about his personality. woman by birth. She is a daughter of the late with Emerson," in 1862, affords the author Charles King, president of Columbia College from material for a chapter of rare interest. The 1849 to 1864, a sister of Captain Charles King, and happy hours spent in the Emerson home, a granddaughter of Rufus King, our second minis- where Thoreau uttered keen and combative ter to England under the Constitution. From the ideas on college education and literature, and last-named she appears to have inherited her apti- “ in the evening devoted himself wholly to the tude for the duties of her high station, and it seems children and the parching of corn by the open the most natural thing in the world that she should fire,” are recalled with tender gratitude. In enjoy something like intimacy with the English royal addition to the scattered impressions of that distinguished personages the world over. family and be on the best of terms with noble and Her let- first visit, Mr. Albee has two chapters of ters, written to members of her family, are dashed off reflection and interpretation, — “Emerson's amid the hurry of diplomatic functions, and record Influence on Young Men” and “ Emerson as freshly and vividly the impressions of the moment. Essayist.” They thus have a value that no premeditated records In tracing the unequalled influence of Em- could possess. They date from 1883 to 1900, and erson's lectures and essays upon the youth of give us, among other lesser matters, excellent ac- his own time, Mr. Albee expresses many ac- counts of the coronation of Alexander III. at Moscow, cepted truths with new vigor and personal em- whither M. Waddington was sent as ambassador- extraordinary, and of Queen Victoria's jubilee in phasis. Quoting Emerson's words in a letter 1887, the writer's husband being then French am- to Miss Peabody, “My special parish is bassador to England. The requirements regarding young men inquiring their way in life,” — he costume and ceremony, imposed by her exalted posi- further pictures the dominant leadership of tion, Madame Waddington gives in considerable de- the new master: “I see Emerson at our head, tail, — a feature that will make her book peculiarly leading his extraordinary collection of boys; interesting to women. The male reader notes with some overbold and opinionated, others facile approval the writer's occasional superiority to these and docile; some with long locks, poetic and unessentials, and her good-humored indifference when melancholy; others eager to apply literally and she finds herself not quite correct in some matter of at once to all existing evils the Emersoniandre dress or equipage or attendance. Her taking eighteen gowns with her to the coronation, however, shows remedies. The master has hard work to keep that she by no means slighted the conventionalities. us in order, but he allows a considerable lati- Some of her bits of travel are excellent. We journey tude and idiosincracy, and is overflowing with delightfully with her through Russia, and thence to confidence in our future. At last he leads us Sweden and Denmark. Her account of the three a 1903.) 15 THE DIAL The suc- - and one-half hours of standing at the Czar's corona- ceptional instance of a man's doing well what he tion makes one very willing to substitute her vividly heartily dislikes. He was two large a man to find picturesque description for actual attendance at so refreshment and inspiration in the study of Greek leg-wearying a ceremony. Not the least remarkable enclitics. His work as a writer was devoted chiefly feature of this noteworthy book is the accomplished to Bible studies, and he made himself recognized as writer's repeated assertion of her hatred of the pen an authority on the writings of St. John. Seven and her preference for viva voce communication. If pages of his biography are filled with the titles of she writes so well, what must her conversation be! his published works. “ Build solidly and don't stuff up holes with putty,” was his advice to his son The popular cravings for books of Arthur, who has acted as his biographer; and most New England's the "haunts and homes" and "little faithfully and lovingly has he performed his self- literary haunts. journeys” type seem to be insatiable, imposed task. He wisely leaves his father to tell sd much easier and pleasanter is it for most people his own story, in large measure, in his letters. to read about authors and their works than to set | They convey the impression of an earnest, ener- about mastering the works themselves. getic, reverent nature. An important service ren- cess of Mr. Edwin M. Bacon's “ Historic Pilgrim- dered by Bishop Westcott, outside his proper field ages in New England” has encouraged him to of work, was his mediation between miners and put forth a companion volume, “Literary Pilgrim- mine-owners, eleven years ago, to settle a strike, - ages in New England” (Silver, Burdett & Co.), a service that he performed to the hearty satisfac- wherein our old friend Percy Denison, "grown tion of both parties. Although the workmen had from a handsome lad into a manly youth,” is pi- their wages reduced by ten per cent., they cheered loted by the author over much the same ground as him until they were hoarse. Among his other ac. in the earlier volume, but with a different end in complishments, Westcott was unusually skilful as a view. One is inclined to question whether anything draughtsman, as is made evident by a number of is gained by adopting this Rollo-book plan. The his sketches reproduced in the Life. He also made fictitious Percy is created only for younger readers, his mark as a mathematician (as well as in the and they are the very ones to detect the fraud im- classics) at Cambridge. He was an all-round scholar mediately and to refuse to have anything to do and a large-souled man, and his life is well worth with a book that begins as a story and straightway studying. The biography is published in substantial turns out to be improving reading.” To them this two-volume form by the Macmillan Co. “fine type of the high-bred American youth of to- day” will seem an insufferable prig, with his Gargan. Under the modest title “A Guide A new guide tuan appetite for literary items. It is, then, we to Siena ” (Torrini, Siena) has been think, in spite of, and not because of, the manner published a book on Italian art of of presentation adopted, that the genial author suc- such importance that it deserves to be brought to ceeds in making his matter so interesting. Elimi- the attention of all lovers of Mediæval and Renais- nate Percy Denison and let the book stand simply sance painting. The first portion — 150 pages - is for what it is, a series of well-informed chats on written by Mr. William Heywood, well known as an literary New England, and the work would be by authority on the history, the life, and the customs so much improved. Massachusetts, of course, claims of old Siena. His chapters are the result of many the most space; New Hampshire is represented by years of researcb, and are a marvel of compact in- Portsmouth and the Isles of Shoals ; Portland and formation, as well as a necessary preparation for Brunswick in Maine receive attention; and the the second part This part — practical and artistic Nutmeg State has considerable of interest to offer - is written by Miss Lucy Olcott, a serious art- in Hartford and New Haven. The Green Moun- critic in her own right, who has enjoyed through- tain State and Little Rhody are left out in the cold. out the preparation of her work the personal aid of A map of New England and more than one hundred the best authorities on the subject, Mr. F. Mason and fifty illustrations, including portraits of varying Perkins and Mr. Bernhard Berenson. The intro- . excellence, and a few facsimiles of manuscript, add ductory essay, on the Architecture, Sculpture, and to the book's attractiveness and value. Painting of the city, brings out the charm of this comparatively neglected subject; while in the The nickname,“Everybody's Bishop,” practical part, where Miss Olcott takes the readers "Everybody's bestowed on the late Bishop Westcott, Bishop." through the streets, or guides them in the churches was fairly descriptive of his warm and or galleries of Siena, she is as accurate as she is generous nature, and of his liberal unsectarian atti- suggestive. The uninitiated will not realize the tude in all matters pertaining to his calling. He is amount of special and valuable information this lit- perhaps best known to the general reader as the co- tle book contains. In dealing with the works of editor, with Dr. Hort, of the authoritative edition of art, it does not retail uncertain legends as facts, the Greek New Testament. But, brilliant as was his but gives in attractive form the latest results of scholarship, he expresses a positive distaste for the modern scientific criticism, and this not as an end very sort of work he has so admirably performed in itself, but as a means toward the greater under- in textual criticism, affording apparently an ex- standing and appreciation of a charming school of to old Siena. - 16 (July 1, THE DIAL 7 TIK a art. Moreover, the author is certainly the first faithfulness, glimpses of Mr. Gissing's own struggle writer of a guide-book to give due prominence to with untoward conditions and his toilsome ascent the hitherto neglected quattrocento painters and from obscure hack-writership to successful author- sculptors, to Vecchietta, to Francesco di Giorgio, ship. A sombre, almost depressing, tone is given and to Neroccio di Landi. Not the least impor- to his pages by the persistence with which the au- tant part of the guide-book is the list of English thor emphasizes the harsh and repulsive features in works on Siena, with valuable critical comments on this battle of life. A certain tendency to material- each. In a word, this is at once the most accurate ism and selfishness in his philosophy shows the uses and best informed guide to Siena, and a serious of adversity to have been to the writer less sweet contribution to the history of art. The book is than might bave been wished. “I think,” he de- well printed, with type so clear and large that it is clares, “it would scarce be an exaggeration to say a pleasure to read it. that there is no moral good which has not to be paid for in the coin of the realm.” And again : Horace Greeley once said of the “ It is all very well to talk about doing moral good, A now Life biographers of Lincoln, that many of Lincoln. in practice there is little scope or hope for any- attempts had been made on the life thing of that kind in a state of material hardship.” of Abraham Lincoln, that of Booth being a little His strivings and aspirations begin and end with worse than some of the others. He had in mind himself. “For me," he does not hesitate to admit, the many persons who came in contact with the “ it is a virtue to be self-centred; I am much better strong individuality of Lincoln and tried to meas- employed, from every point of view, when I live ure it by the usual yardstick. A pieturesque and solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin unusual character is always a good mark for anec- to worry about the world.” The semi-fictitious dotes. Lincoln has been selected by William Eleroy character of these confessions is betrayed by an oc- Curtis, the well-known newspaper writer, as a fit casional note that lacks the true ring. Hunger and subject for that ephemeral phase of composition weariness and other ills are dwelt upon with a little known as “true biography (Lippincott). The too much unction, a little too much of the literary volume is an indiscriminate collection of striking artist's delight in the cleverness of his workman- passages from Herndon, Lamon, Nicolay, Carpen- ship. Who, moreover, after spending half a life- ter, Ben. Perley Poore, and McClure, interspersed time over books, would have eyes strong enough to with reminiscences and anecdotes probably called finish reading Walton's life of Hooker by moonlight, from newspaper clippings. All the old Lincoln having begun it under the fading rays of sunset ? stories may be found here, regardless of the num- This, Henry Ryecroft is represented as doing, sitting ber of times they have been denied or disproved. in his garden "amid the evening scent of roses. Douglas still arrives with the thirty-seven cents, and What one likes best in this supposititious recluse is Lincoln is still after “bigger game his passionate love of literature and learning, his torial debates. This newspaper method of writing almost equal delight in painting and music, and his biography does no particular harm except to the abhorence of the meaningless conventionalities of feelings of Lincoln's ultra admirers. Indeed, it is polite society. quite readable. But the present volume is marred by those inexcusable errors of haste which unfortu- The distinguished Professor of Chi- nately characterized a previous "true" biography nese at the University of Cambridge, from this writer. For instance, to say that the Dr. Herbert A. Giles, has prepared compromise on the admission of Missouri forbade for publication the series of lectures delivered by him slavery "north of its northern boundary, 36° 30',” at Columbia University last year, and they are now is to mislead. Even the few lines in the Ordinance presented in a volume of 200 pages with the title of 1787 which prohibited slavery in the Territory “China and the Chinese" (Macmillan). The lect- cannot be quoted correctly. Many other things will ures, six in number, are on the following topics : be disputed, where the author turns from story- “The Chinese Language," "A Chinese Library," telling to statements. Long since it would seem “ Democratic China," “ China and Ancient Greece," that Americans had abandoned the ground that “ Taoism,” and “Some Chinese Manners and England's proclamation of neutrality in 1861 Customs." It will be seen that these lectures do not "practically recognized the Confederate States as comprise a systematic treatise on the subject-title an independent government and conceded it the of the book, but are somewhat desaltory, although privileges of a belligerent power." their value is by no means impaired by that fact. The first two sentences in the book naturally at- Under the thin disguise of editorship, tract attention, and strikingly depict the massive- Random reflections Mr. George Gissing has collected, in ness of Chinese civilization: “If the Chinese people of a recluse. “ The Private Papers of Henry were to file one by one past a given point, the inter- Ryecroft” (Dutton), musings on life and literature, esting procession would never come to an end. Be- with now and then a chapter on art or philosophy fore the last man of those living to-day had gone by, or religion. Introspective and retrospective, the another and a new generation would have grown up, book may be assumed to give, with some degree of and so on for ever and ever." That first chapter, ” in the sena- 66 China and the Chinese. IM 3 1903.) 17 THE DIAL The part moreover, is a very clear though brief statement of Massachusetts, following the custom of days when the peculiarities of the Chinese language, especially law-schools were unknown. The diary for these the written language. The second chapter gives a years, portions of which have appeared from time good bird's-eye view of the immense literature that to time in the publications of the Massachusetts a Chinese “scholar" must master before he is well Historical Society, shows an earnest student, an- equipped for his career. « Democratic China" is a noyed sometimes by his fellow-readers, occasionally vivid picture of the political and social conditions joining them in revels which leave a flagellating of the empire; and the last chapter sets forth some headache, and always taking a very serious view of of the peculiar manners and customs of the people. young women and of life in general. For instance, The chapter on “ Taoism" is a very careful explan. this young man of twenty found himself opposed to ation of the doctrines of Lao Tzu. Tao is a word the Federal Constitution as framed. “My feelings,” meaning " Way,” which appears to be sufficiently he wrote, “upon the occasion have not been pas- , broad to include a great variety of speculations and sionate or violent; and as upon the decision of this superstitions. The most suggestive chapter, to some, question I find myself upon the weaker side, I think is the one in which the lecturer makes some in- it my duty to submit without murmuring against teresting comparisons between the civilizations of what is not to be helped.” At another time, he was China and Ancient Greece, in which he makes this indignant because the men who participated in the claim: “Those mental gymnastics, of such impor-Shay's Rebellion were pardoned, while a man who tance in the training of youth, which were once stole silverware to the amount of twenty pounds was claimed exclusively for the languages of Greece and sentenced to death in the same courts. An exhaust- Rome, may be performed equally well in the Chinese ive set of foot-notes explains each proper name. language.' The volume is of value to those interested in New The microbe plays an important rôle England genealogy and those seeking local color of The human side in the life of civilized nations to-day the early days. Necessarily, political and public life of Bacteriology. as the servant of man. is not touched upon to any extent by this young that it has always played as man's insidious and law-student. secret foe is being rapidly exposed, thanks to the unceasing labors of many investigators in our own Writers on English versification are A study of and other lands. The pathogenic germ has found English metre. usually dogmatic, and sure that its place even in the fiction of the day, and its capa- everybody else is hopelessly wrong: bilities in this field are as yet but imperfectly real- Indeed, one comparatively recent prosodist admitted ized. It is this pathogenic germ with which Mrs. at the outset that his views would hardly find ac- Percy Frankland is most concerned in her little ceptance, and another only last year reprinted his volume on “ Bacteria in Daily Life” (Longmans). magazine articles chiefly because they had fallen The author outlines the birth and subsequent growth flat - an unfair infliction upon posterity. Mr. of the science of bacteriology in the Victorian Era, T. S. Omond's “Study of Metre" (Grant Richards, and then in the interesting chapters which follow London), however, appears in book form because that she describes the sources of disease and death which compose it have already met with lark in the air, water, ice, milk, and other human approval. Mr. Omond has not been basty in making necessities. The book is free from unnecessary his book; he published an article on prosody so long technicalities, and is well written. It will make ago as 1875. Moreover, he is neither dogmatic nor valuable non-technical but reliable source of infor: revolutionary. revolutionary. He points out, much more clearly mation for the school and public library, because than anyone else thus far has done, how hopelessly of its relative simplicity and directness. The sup- misleading is our use in English of the terms of classic pression of germ diseases, such as typhoid fever prosody. To be sure, when you read “duple rising” and tuberculosis, will be much more feasible when in the table of contents, it sounds rather strange, but after have read his exposure of “iambic,” the you people are fully aware of the possibilities and dan- gers of contagion which science has revealed. Books new term sounds fairly satisfactory. The best of such as this are much needed to make possible the the book, fortunately, is constructive. The period," growth of social and individual responsibility in or foot, occupies a definite and regular space of time, these matters of public and personal hygiene. which may or may not be completely filled by syl- lables. In “duple rising” measure, for instance, Town-life in The twelve volumes comprising the you may have from one to three syllables in each New England “Memoirs” of John Quincy Adams period, with indefinite variations of stress, accent, after the Revolution. are made up largely of his diary. and pitch. It is true that this explanation leaves These memoirs have been for many years of para- the individual to think as he pleases about the rela- mount value for writers and students. J. Q. Adams's tive importance of a good many things, and in that grandson, Charles Francis Adams, now gives to the respect it seems to dodge the issue. The reviewer, public an earlier portion of the diary under the cap- however, cannot help thinking that Mr. Omond has tion, “Life in a New England Town, 1787–1788 come pretty close to the heart of the matter, and (Little, Brown, & Co.). During these two years, that he does not dodge any question of fundamental young Adams was a law student at Newburyport, importance. the essays 66 18 UE THE DIAL (July 1, 11 The Lone-Star 66 *** 。 14 In the preface to one of the earlier more than a passing fancy. The compiler has done volumes of the “ American Common- his work well, and in his effort to be comprehensive Commonwealth. wealths" series (Houghton, Mifflin & has included miscellaneous reviews and even casual Co.), it was asserted that “the changes of sovereign mention of Beardsley in books and periodicals. We as well as subordinate jurisdiction have been greater note, however, the omission of any reference to the in Michigan than in any other part of the Ameri- review by Mr. Twose entitled “ Aubrey Beardsley can Union.” The writer of that volume must have in Perspective,” in THE DIAL of June 16, 1899, and been forgetful of Texas, which was under the juris- the communication called forth by it entitled “A diction successively of France, Spain, and both Im- Reviewer out of Perspective,” which appeared in perial and Republican Mexico, before becoming an the issue of July 16, 1899. Mr. Gallatin's book is a independent Republic, preparatory to its admission handsome quarto printed on hand-made paper. It to the American Union. And while Michigan of- is illustrated with two portraits of Beardsley, one of fered an opportunity for a history of governments, them a hitherto unpublished drawing by Mr. Will Texas and the exceedingly interesting train of events Rothenstein. There are also several drawings by by which Latin institutions therein gave way at last Beardsley, one of which is also published for the to those of Anglo-Saxon origin present the best field first time. upon the North American continent for a study of Professor Hoffman, of Union Col. a contest of civilizations. It is such a study based Popular lege, has put forth a small book in upon history, rather than the history itself, that Prof. Psychology. which the sub-title, “A Survey of George P. Garrison, of the University of Texas, has contributed to the above-named series, in his book the Present Results of Psychical Research, with on Texas. For the writing of the book he has had Special Reference to their Bearings upon the Inter- peculiar advantages in his access to the archives pre- ests of Every-day Life,” is perhaps more significant served in the capital of the State, and he has made than the main title, “Psychology and Common Life" (Patnam). The series of chapters set forth in a good use of the rich materials at hand. His style is crisp and clear, and he has presented the history somewhat irregular fashion the relations of mind of the Lone-Star State in most readable form. If, and body, the functions of memory and attention in however, the average Texan is disappointed in health and disease, and culminate in a presentation the author's rather calm treatment of such beroic of hypnotism, faith-cures, and the alleged phenom- incidents as the slaughter of the Alamo defenders ena of telepathy and clairvoyance. The data are accu and the battle of San Jacinto, and in his neglect of cumulated with industry rather than with discre. tion; and the fatal defect of the book is the absence biographical details regarding the heroes of Texan history, many readers will be grateful to him for the of an illuminating and firm critical grasp of the sidelights he has thrown upon the whole course of a status of present-day psychological discussion. The great commonwealth in its relation to the expansion of book is likely to catch the popular ear, but is as our territory to the Rio Grande and westward to the likely to mislead as to interest. Pacific. Mr. Thomas Francis Moran is the Principles of the English author of a brief book on the BRIEFER MENTION. Government. “ Theory and Practice of the En- glish Government (Longmans). In common with A volume of “ Discourses on War," selected from many similar publications, the purpose of the work the writings of William Ellery Channing, has just been published for the International Union by Messrs. Ginn is to present in condensed yet attractive form the & Co. This is a volume of peace literature in the series general principles of government rather than exact which already includes the work of Jean de Bloch and details. The danger of such an attempt lies in its the orations of Charles Sumner. These works are very generality, in the impossibility of accurate published in substantial form, but at a merely nominal description where exceptions to general rules are price, and are deserving of a very wide circulation. Mr. not noted. Mr. Moran has not escaped this danger, Edwin D. Mead contributes an elaborate and eloquent and in this respect bis book is no better than its introduction, and the work of Changing which is thus predecessors. On the other hand he shows himself prefaced is itself surprisingly applicable to the needs of gifted in clear, entertaining statement, and apt in the present day. The peace movement, now so rapidly historical illustration. His work is very readable, growing, has had no abler exponent than this New En- gland divine of the early nineteenth century. and if not regarded as a complete and authoritative “ Homophonic Conversations in English, German, analysis of English government - and a claim to - French, and Italian " is a small manual compiled and any such merit would probably be denied by the published by Mr. C. B. Waite and Mrs. C. V. Waite. author -- should meet with general appreciation. The phrases included are such as bear a marked resem- The publication of Mr. A. E. Galla- blance to one another in all four of the languages, The drawings of which accounts for the “homophonic" of the title. tin's work entitled “ Aubrey Beards- Aubrey Beardsley. The following is an example: “Let me see your assort- ley's Drawings: A Catalogue and a ment of books' “ Lassen Sie mich Ihr Sortiment der List of Criticisms" (Godfrey A. S. Wieners ), shows bücher sehen" Faites-moi voir votre assortiment de that interest in that eccentric genius was something livrés " “ Mostratemi il vostro assortimento di libri." ܕ ܀ 9 - a 1903.] 19 THE DIAL NOTES. " " work. « The Silva of North America" was originally planned for twelve volumes, but the discovery of new arboreal species during its publication made necessary two additional volumes, which, with the Index, were published late last Fall. Our notice confused these two volumes with the two parts of “ Trees and Shrubs " now issued. An examination of the principles on which Poe con- structed his metrical work will be made anew in a vol- ume of his critical writings, prepared by Mr. Sherwin Cody, to be issued next Fall by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. The volume will contain a considerable number of Poe's best poems, but the greater part of it will be filled with selections from his critical writings, which, embodying as they do the principles that governed his own poetic compositions, ought to aid greatly in a study of his creative work. A growing interest in the work and influence of Wil- liam Morris is indicated by the recent organization of the Morris Society of Chicago, with a general programme which provides for the dissemination of Morris's ideas by means of publications, a library and museum, and workshops and schools of design. The purposes of the society are chiefly educational, and relate to the social and artistic ideals of Morris. Dr. E. J. James is President of the society, and Prof. Oscar L. Triggs its Secretary. Persons interested are requested to address the latter official, at 5634 Madison Avenue, Chicago. Two novelettes of real merit, even though they fall a little short of the author's previous work, appear in a single volume, by Mr. Arthur Cosslett Smith, “ The Turquoise Cup" and "The Desert” (Scribner). Each serves as a foil for the other, the former dealing with an Italian cardinal, an English nobleman, and a beauti- ful Irish girl; while the latter concerns itself with the love of a caravan leader in the Sahara and a Bedouin maid whom her own father selling into the most de- graded slavery. Both possess the charm of delicate material when delicately handled, the atmosphere be- ing admirably reproduced and the style clear and bold. That both depart a little from the ordinary convention, is rather in their favor under Mr. Smith's treatment. A new edition, revised and rewritten, of Mr. T. M. Clark's manual of Building Superintendence” is published by the Macmillan Co. Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co. publish “El Haz de Leña," a verse drama by Don Gaspar Nuñez de Arce, edited by Mr. Rudolph Schwill. “The Hittites," by Dr. L. Messerschmidt, is published by Mr. David Nutt in his series of pamphlet mono- graphs entitled “ The Ancient East.” “ A Text Book of Organic Chemistry,” by Professor William A. Noyes, is among the latest educational pub- lications of Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. “ Barnaby Rudge,” “Christmas Books,” and “A Child's History of England” have just been added to the « Fireside Dickens published by Mr. Henry Frowde. Messrs. L. C. Page & Co. publish a handsome new edition, with illustrations by Mr. Charles Livingston Bull, of " Earth's Enigmas," by Mr. Charles G. D. Roberts. « The Oldest Code of Laws in the World,” imported by the Messrs. Scribner, is a translation, by Mr. C. H. W. Johns, of the recently discovered Hammurabi Code. The American Book Co. publish a small volume of “Selections from Latin Prose Authors for Light Read- ing,” prepared by Misses Susan B. Franklin and Ella C. Greene. Cæsar, Cicero, and Livy are the authors chiefly drawn upon for this work. Ainsworth's “Old Saint Paul's” is imported by the Messrs. Scribner in the “Caxton " thin paper reprints of famous English novels. We have also Evelyn's "Diary" in similar form. Both volumes have flexible leather covers and are exceedingly attractive in execution. “Humanities Gone and to Come," a Phi Beta Kappa address given by Professor Felix E. Schelling, is pub- lished in pamphlet form by the University of Pennsyl- vania. The pamphlet also contains “ Ad Astra," an ode prepared for the same occasion by Mr. Francis Howard Williams. An announcement of especial timeliness and interest, in view of the recent tragedy in Servia, is a book of “ Famous Assassinations," to be published shortly by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. The volume will give accounts of some thirty of the most significant political assassinations in the world's history. Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. publish in pamph- let form a stage version of Browning's “The Return of the Druses,” arranged by Miss Charlotte Porter. This commemorates the first performance of the tragedy "on any stage," which was giveņ by the Boston Brown- ing Society on the 25th of March, 1902, and afterwards twice repeated. “The Novels and Poems of Charles Kingsley being reissued in a “ Library Edition" by Messrs. J. F. Taylor & Co. Four volumes are now at hand, two of them being “Hereward the Wake," and the other two “Alton Locke.” The special feature of this edition is found in the introductions to the several works, prepared by Mr. Maurice Kingsley, the oldest son of the author. In the notice of Professor Sargent's work on “ Trees and Shrubs,” in our last issue (p. 406), an error of statement occurred which we are glad to correct. 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William Morton Payne McCulloch's Written in Florence. - Roberts's The, Book of the Rose. — Carman's Pipes of Pan. - Lodge's Poems. - Burton's Message and Melody. -Scollard's Lyrics of the Dawn. Cawein's A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems. — Tabb's Later Lyrics. — Loveman's The Gates of Silence. -Stevens's and Noble's The Morning Road. — Stickney's Dramatic Verses. — Taylor's Visions and Other Verse. - Robertson's Beyond the Requiems. - Martin's Poems and Verses. — Greene's Cupid is King. — Miss Olcott's Poems. — Miss Van Vorst's Poems. - Miss Cather's April Twilights. — Miss Huntington's The Solitary Path. CHATTER ABOUT JANE. It is now more than twenty years since the death of Carlyle, and nearly as many years since Froude completed his publication of the nine volumes of Carlyle biography, autobiog- raphy, and correspondence, that resulted from the discharge of the trust imposed upon him by his dead friend and master. The controversies excited by that publication constitute a memor- able episode in our literary annals, but one not altogether pleasant to remember, and certainly not deserving resuscitation, except under the plea of the strongest necessity. Unfortunately, although no such necessity has been proved to exist, the controversy is again upon us in all its former acrimony, and chatter about Jane" bids fair to usurp the places hitherto held in quasi-literary discussion by the “ chatter about Harriet" which once loomed up so unpleasantly in the foreground when the genius of the great- est of English lyric poets came up for discus- sion. The prime cause of the present offending was- offered, a few weeks ago, by the publication of two volumes of New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle.” For this publication, Mr. Alexander Carlyle is responsible; and to it Sir James Crichton.Browne has contributed an introduction which abuses Froude with even greater virulence than was displayed by the bitterest of his antagonists in the early eighties. Since Froude is as dead as Carlyle, the case has - to be conducted by counsel on both sides, and the rebuttal in the present instance comes from the members of Froude's family, taking the shape of the publication of certain manuscript matters left by the historian to provide for his personal vindication. With great self-restraint, Froude kept these matters unprinted, in spite of the attacks made upon him during his last years; but his family has now thought it best to give them to the world. In a certain sense, their interest is petty (except for the patho- logical element), but the attack upon Froude has all along been characterized by pettiness of spirit, and the defense, if any were resorted to, must needs be in kind. . 41 BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS The new International Encyclopædia. — The Inter- national Year-Book for 1903. — The Kaiser's char- acter as seen in his speeches. — The essentials of musical education. — Portraitures of Julius Cæsar. - Garden-love and garden-lore. -- Our planetary companions. — Our little island in the West Indies. - The character and motives of Benedict Arnold. Our older territorial expansion. — The Turk and his lost provinces. A treatise on Trusts and Combinations. NOTES LIST OF NEW BOOKS 46 THE DIAL (July 16, he says, 'inderlying animus of the whole attack “ are a great man's worst enemies; uj de has been occasioned by the single such at least is the doctrine about the matter facturin his portraiture of the man whom which I learnt from Carlyle himself.” The he so loved and honored, he employed the man whose warfare upon shams was lifelong methods demanded by Carlyle's own grim would have been the last to sanction a sham hero, Oliver Cromwell, and enjoined upon him account of his own life, and there is abundant by Carlyle's express behest. In a word, he evidence that Carlyle knew what he was doing painted the warts as well as the general con- when he placed his private papers in Froude's tours of the visage. The sleek and decorous bands, to be made use of at his discretion. form of biography made no appeal to him, The following words, from the author's state- and his artistic conscience revolted from the ment now for the first time published, deserve methods of the easy hero-worship that idealizes to be pondered by those who have been hasty its subjects out of all recognition. Unfortu- in their judgment. nately, his scholarly conscience did not keep “My book, if it is still to be condemned at present, pace with bie artistic conscience. As a histo- will be of use hereafter. A hundred years hence, the world will better appreciate Carlyle's magnitude. The rian, he was deplorably careless, and even sense of his importance, in my opinion, will increase wanton in his disregard for exactness of state- with each generation. The unwillingness to look closely ment and quotation. We do not need to into his character will be exchanged for an earnest de- instance in support of this proposition the long sire to know all which can be ascertained about him, and what I have written will then have value. It may list of inaccuracies in his transcription of the not be completely correct, but it will have made con- Carlyle correspondence and memoirs ; it may cealment impossible, and have ensured that the truth be proved with equal certainty from almost shall be known. The biographies of the great men of any part of his other work, from his treatment the past, the great spiritual teachers especially, with of the archives at Simancas or of the letters of whom Carlyle must be ranked, are generally useless. Erasmus. His defense on this point is inade- They are idle and incredible panegyrics, with features drawn without shadows, false, conventional, and worth- quate. He says of the Carlyle papers : less." “ I copied out the greater part of the · Reminiscences' It is peculiarly unfortunate that the Carlyle myself. A large part of them I copied twice ; I had to work at them with a magnifying glass, and in many controversy should have excited to such exces- hundred instances I was at a loss to know exactly what sive partisanship almost everyone who has particular words might be. My own hand is not a good shared in it. It is amusing, but not altogether one, and there was a further source of error in the edifying, to read in Mr. Swinburne's prose of printer's reading of this." o the eminent writer who chose to make his en. We may make some allowance for these condi. tions, but they do little to weaken the force of try into literary life under the self-selected the charge that Froude was constitutionally in- paratively inoffensive designation of Coprostom name of Devilsdung," and for whom “the com- accurate in his scholarly habit, and that he re- or Cloacinus" is suggested as not un becoming, sorted to an unjustifiable degree of license in or in the same author's verse to read of “this all his dealings with documentary material. dead snake," Admitting all this, we still believe that the “Let worms consume its memory with its tongue, attacks made upon him, both before and since The fang that stabbed fair Truth, the lip that stung his death, by the injudicious partisans of the Men's memories uncorroded with its breath." Carlyles, have been unwarrantably unfair and But we prefer even this violence of invective to brutal. The charge of inaccuracy, which is the shameful insinuations of Mr. W. S. Lilly, one thing, has been quite unjustifiably per- who in a recent article suggests that Froude verted into the charges of sensationalism and wished above all else to make his biography a treachery, which are wholly different matters. succès de scandale, and that “the practicality It is proper to protest against the method of of Judas covenanting for the thirty pieces of relentless setting-forth and unsparing exposure silver" offers a fair parallel to the mean mer- in biographical writing ; but it is highly im- cenary motives imputed to the biographer. This proper, when a man employs that method in is all very distressing, and yet how typical it is all sincerity, to accuse him of making a de- of much that has been said and written about liberate attempt to pull his subject from the Froude and Carlyle since the publications that pedestal. This accusation, indeed, carries its precipitated the controversy! It is obvious own refutation to those who read Froude's that neither fairness nor sanity is to be expected frequently expressed admiration for his friend from the partisans of either camp when they and teacher. “Falsehood and concealment,” | indulge in such empty rhetoric. Sir James 1903.) 31 THE DIAL Crichton-Browne has sinned heavily in again opening the flood-gates of this sort of intem- The New Books. perate talk, and in personally adding to its muddy volume. The letters for which he stands NEAREST TO THE NORTH POLE sponsor have nothing that is essentially new to tell us about the Carlyles, and he himself has Two quarto volumes, profusely illustrated, for us nothing more convincing than stale re- contain the unabridged account for popular petitions of the old abusive language for their reading of the expedition of the Duke of the literary executor. It would have been far bet- Abruzzi to the Arctic regions, in which Com- ter to let the whole matter rest where it was mander Umberto Cagni of the Italian Royal before. Navy succeeded in attaining a higher latitude As it is, the facts which Froude himself con- than any recorded, in company with three com- cealed, or at least obscured, have been brought panions, Giuseppe Petigax and Alessio Fenoil- into the light by the printing of his own self-vin- let, Alpine guides, and Simone Canepa, an dication, hitherto kept from the public. While Italian mariner. No better summary of the “My Relations with Carlyle” does not perform expedition can be made than that written by the impossible task of revealing patient and ac- the Duke of the Abruzzi to the King of Italy, curate scholarship beneath the impressionism of at Hammerfest, Norway, on the return of the Froude's literary methods, the pamphlet does ship on the 6th June, 1901, reading in trans- make it clear that his portrait of Carlyle was, if lation as follows: anything, softened in outline rather than made “ To His Majesty King Victor Emmanuel III: The unduly harsh. It also makes clear the fact that Polar Star has arrived, and goes on to Tromsö and Chris- Froude suffered in silence during the last years tiania. She passed through British Channel last sum- mer, went beyond Cape Fligely in Prince Rudolph of his life from calumnies that he might have Island, and came down to pass the winter in Teplitz refuted by a little plain speaking, but that he Bay, in 81° 47'. N. lat. On September 8th a strong preferred to bear with dignity rather than re- pressure of the ice crushed the ship, and caused much leakage. Being unable to keep down the water, wo veal certain matters intimately touching the re- abandoned the ship. We built a hut on the shore with lations of the Carlyles — matters which, with all the spars, the sails, and the tents, in which we passed his hatred of concealment, he had yet thought the winter very well. At the beginning of the year the it wise to suppress. The pamphlet also clears ends of two fingers of my right hand were obliged to him completely of the accusation that he was be amputated on account of frost-bite. I left the com- mand of the sledge expedition to Cagni. It set out on in any way actuated by a sordid motive in his February 20th (1901). The intense cold forced it to publication of the manuscript material left by return after two days. It left again, ander Cagni, on Carlyle so unreservedly at his disposal. March 11th, and was composed of Querini, Cavalli, the But, although the net result of these new engineer of the ship, two Italian sailors, four guides, thirteen sledges, and 104 dogs. Three Norwegians publications, on both sides, is to leave Froude's helped them for the first two days. The first detach- reputation in better shape than it was before, ment, composed of Querini , the engineer, and a guide, we cannot but regret their appearance. They was sent back after twelve days’ march, and never re- have reopened the whole question of the ill- turned to the hut. The second detachment, composed assorted Cheyne Row ménage, and have given a of Cavalli, a sailor, and a guide, was sent back after twenty days' march, and arrived at the hut in excellent renewed opportunity for vulgar persons, curi- health on April 18th. Cagni pushed on to the north ous in malicious gossip and petty personalities, with two guides and a sailor until April 25th, and to roll their tongues over the private affairs of reached 86° 34' N. lat. A strong drift of the ice and the irritable Thomas and the exasperating Jane. the want of food made the return of tbis detachment difficult and laborious. For several weeks it fed on its Twenty years ago we were treated to more than dogs, and reached the hut on June 25th, after passing enough of moralizing upon these unprofitable 104 days on the ice-pack. Peternann Land and King themes, and now the tongues are all set wag- Oscar Land do not exist. The Polar Star was held up ging again, and “chatter about Jane" is once by the ice and did not sink. A faint hope of saving her had made us undertake at the end of autumn whatever more to the fore in conversation. It is a sad business, and the worst of it is that the affair measures were most necessary to repair her; they were continued in July, and after many efforts I succeeded seems more likely than ever before to become imbedded in the history of English literature, * ON THE “POLAR STAR" IN THE AROTIC SEA. By H. R. H. Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi. With although everything essential to that history the Statements of Commander U. Cagni upon the Sledge might very well be set down without so much Expedition to 86° 34' North, and of Dr. A. Cavalli Molinelli as mentioning the fact that Carlyle was upon his Return to the Bay of Teplitz. Translated by Wil- liam Le Queux. In two volumes, illustrated. New York: married. Dodd, Mead & Co. 32 [July 16, THE DIAL 1 9 in floating her on August 6th. We left Teplitz Bay ambition, is unqualified; and it may be hoped on the 16th. We were blocked up by the ice in British that all future explorers in the far North will Channel for fourteen days. We reached Cape Flora on August 31st, and Hammerfest to-day. Querini was be so fortunate as to provide themselves with sent back by Cagni while still within sight of Prince equally useful and efficient aids to success. Rudolph Island. The weather was cold, but fine, dur- Though the Pole was not reached, the man- ing the following days, the ice was in contact with the ner of carrying on the task prescribed the con- coast, and everything was exceptionally favorable to ditions for ultimate success. As will be seen his return. It is with great grief that I must suppose that his loss and that of his two men must have been from the summary, the plan of operations was caused by some accidental mishap. The steadfast cour- for three several detachments to set forth at age and determination manifested by the leader of the once, their joint and several tasks being thus sledge expedition and by all who composed it, in spite outlined : of immense hardships, assured its success, and acquired fresh glory for our country, by making its flag wave at « The first detachment was to advance from Cape the highest latitude which has hitherto been reached. Fligely to the 85th parallel, carrying supplies to feed All present are in excellent health. May your Majesty the entire expedition during the first stage of its march, deign to accept the loyal homage of all the members and for its own food during its return to the ship. The of the expedition." second detachment was to go on farther to the north, up to the 88th parallel, with provisions for the rest of This succinct report not only summarizes the expedition in its march to the north, and for itself the actual deeds of the most successful of all when on the way back; and, lastly, the third detach- polar expeditions, but between its lines may be ment was to advance from the 88th parallel to the Pole." read the sorrows and joys and varied personal The circumstances of the expedition of the experiences which humanize such an under-Prince of the Abruzzi, though fortunate in taking. Apart from the actual tragedy under- some respects, were by no means ideally fitted lying the total and unaccounted for disappear for the achievement of success. It is quite ance of the three unfortunates of the first within the possibilities that another expedi- detachment, the manly surrender, by the Prince tion, similar in every respect, might have stood of the Abruzzi himself, of all his longings to upon the spot men call the North Pole. It is lead, when he learned, after repeated trials, quite within the possibilities that, even under that his frost-bitten hand incapacitated him for the conditions here, had a fourth detachment the task to which all his energies bad for sev- been practicable to advance the final body eral years been directed, is quite the finest thing somewhat farther, the Pole would have been in the book. Yet it does not appear from any attained. In any event, it is doubtful if there . thing he himself writes (and the first volume is anything more to be learned of the Arctic is wholly given up to his personal account of zone than has now been disclosed. Barely two the voyage and journey) that he took this de hundred miles now separate man from this privation much to heart. Indeed, if it were not hardly profitable spot, the men of the “Polar “ known that he had shown the utmost possible Star” having surpassed those of the “ Fram” ” courage, determination, and perseverance, in by 20', no more. This being true, it is the his mountain climbing, especially in his ascent South Pole which remains to be conquered ; of Mount St. Elias in Alaska, it might be pos. and if human energies and the desire for sible to think unworthily of his staying behind adventure are to be exhibited outside of the when confiding the lives of his subordinates to ordinary walks of life at all, who shall say that the pitiless rigors of the ice-pack. such trials and glories are not better than The Prince is free to ascribe much of his those of war or the subjugations of " inferior" success to the counsels of Dr. Nansen, who peoples? manifested in the most practical way his in- The company was composed of twenty men, terest in the undertaking through a series of eleven Italians and nine Norwegians, four from months while the preparations for it were in each nationality being officers. There was per- hand. The Prince's own contribution to its fect harmony and sacrifice of self for common success, indeed, lies chiefly in his selection of ends on the part of both nationalities, widely guides from the Val d'Aosta, men to whom differing in racial characteristics as they might snow and ice, in a form more difficult than the be supposed to be. The exigencies of princely ice-pack ever presents, were affairs of daily life. and naval etiquette forced the two classes The testimony of Commander Umberto Cagni, to occupy different sleeping apartments and whose personal narrative occupies two-thirds tables, but the accommodations and food were of the second volume, to the qualifications of alike for all. Though less democratic in this his three companions in the attainment of their respect than Dr. Nansen's arrangements, every- а 1903.] 83 THE DIAL thing worked out satisfactorily, all hands led to extended preliminary studies in the great joining in the festival days of both Italy and Slavery controversy, and the biography of Mr. Norway, the differences of faith manifesting Hayes was finally postponed to allow the pre- themselves not at all. It really seems to be paration of these two volumes. They were true that one Gino Gini of Acquapendente, an practically ready for the press when the au- Italian cook picked up in Norway, showed no thor died, leaving the original task unfinished. less straightforward courage in the perform- The portion which had been put into form was ance of his arduous daily tasks in and out of turned over to Mr. Smith's son-in-law, editor health than any member of the ship's company. Charles R. Williams of “The Indianapolis Interest naturally attaches to the diary of News," who has the biography now in course Commander Cagni, and an extract from his of active preparation. As this severed to diary on April 24, 1901, the day when the some extent the close connection originally highest latitude achieved by man was reached, intended between the two works, certain por- is worthy a place here. He writes : tions of the History of Slavery,” particularly “We go out into the open air. The thermometer those concerning President Hayes, were turned indicates -35°; but, nevertheless, I see, for the first over to Mr. Williams for use in the biography. time, the guides walking up and down after the soup. They are talking of their country! Of their Cour- The manuscript has also received an addition mayeur, where at this moment the meadows appear in the form of a chapter on “The Failure of covered with verdure, after their long rest under the Reconstruction," by John J. Halsey, Professor white mantle of winter. We all remain outside for a of Political Science in Lake Forest University. long time, our minds enchanted by our great happiness. We understand, indeed, that the entire work We have reached the end of all our fatigues; our re- turn seems to us now like an excursion, our eyes turn has had the advantage of Professor Halsey's no more with eagerness towards the north, but to the scrutiny and suggestions, though there is not south, where, beyond so much ice, beyond a cold sea, the recognition of this fact that one would and the rugged mountains of Scandinavia, and farther naturally expect. on again, our loved ones are waiting for us. “The air is very clear; between the north-east and In the Introduction, by Mr. Whitelaw the north-west there stand out distinctly, some sharply Reid, the distinguishing feature of the work is pointed, others rounded, dark or blue or white, often claimed to be the relatively smaller impor- with strange shapes, the innumerable pinnacles of the tance attached by the author to sentimental great blocks of ice raised up by the pressure. Farther agitations and agitators, and in the greater away again, on the bright horizon, in a chain from east honor awarded to those who instead of bril- to west, is a great azure wall, which from afar seems unsurmountable. It is our · Terræ ultima Thule !"" liantly saying things that alienated support Praise should be awarded to Mr. Le Queux soberly did things that compelled it.” Nothing for his idiomatic translation and its freedom is easier than to throw stones at the man who from Latinity. For their selection for this im. gives his life to agitation for some neglected portant task, as well as for the general excel- moral principle. The “ foe of compromise lence of the book in a mechanical sense, much can never be a popular man, and as the reform praise must be awarded the publishers. for which he works is pretty sure to come, if at all, through channels not of his choosing, it WALLACE RICE. is a very easy thing to overlook or deny his causal relation to its coming. To suppose, THE SLAVERY CONTROVERSY IN AMERICA.* however, that ordinary political agencies would have emancipated and enfranchised the Amer- The work before us, “Political History of ican negro during the third quarter of the past Slavery,” sees the light seven years after the century, or for many generations thereafter, death of its author, the well-known newspaper without the preceding decades of fiery agitation writer, author of “The St. Clair Papers,” and by Garrison and his kind, is to suppose what is Manager of the American Associated Press. contrary to human nature and experience. We Mr. Smith had been requested by President are not sure, therefore, that Mr. Reid might Hayes to act as his literary executor and to not better have said that the most conspicuous prepare an account of his life and times. This defect in the work is the author's failure to *A POLITICAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY. Being an Ac appreciate the relative importance of the early count of the Slavery Controversy from the Earliest Agitations Anti-Slavery agitators in building up an ele- in the Eighteenth Century to the Close of the Reconstruction ment of determined moral opposition to the Period in America. By William Henry Smith. With an In- troduction by Whitelaw Reid. New York: G. P. Patnam's system large enough to compel the attention of Sons. the masses and force the question into practical 34 [July 16, THE DIAL . a . politics, in spite of the efforts of machine poli- know that a little waiting would have seen it ticians to keep it out. fall into our lap with no outside opposition. Our The subject has been worked over too much people were wrought into frenzy over the Mexi- to leave Mr. Smith anything essentially new for can accessions, — the one party in fear, and the these volumes. Occasionally we get a letter other in hope, that they might be filled with never before in print, -as, for instance, a letter slaves, - when we can now see that the Slavery — from Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati Gazette, interest was utterly powerless to colonize any deploring the second candidacy of Lincoln ; but material part of the territory in question, and it is always of a class already well known. The was destined to remain so, even if Slavery itself real value of the work lies in its massing together had not been abolished when it was. Much of so large a store of material not otherwise blood, both good and bad, was spilled to decide readily accessible. The author has not divested the question whether Kansas should come into himself of partisanship, and yet he is open to a the Union with a slave or a free constitution, recognition of the better characteristics of lead though the backward glancing eye can now de- ers of the opposition, and to the faults of promi- tect at once the certainty that the population nent Whigs and Republicans. The power of was to be so overwhelmingly free as to be able Stephen A. Douglas as a debater receives due to wipe Slavery out of existence at its will be- credit, as well as his sturdy and effective loyalty fore as many years should have elapsed as may to the Union at the outbreak of the war. The be counted on one's fingers. What shall be moral deficiency of Webster's famous seventh done to give us the clear insight, in the midst of March speech is noted, and the incompetence of our political struggles, that we may apply and insubordination of Fremont's course in our energies to better purpose ? Missouri receives some attention. The deserved W. H. JOHNSON. criticism of the War Department under Bu- chanan, however, is not followed by a similar treatment of the glaring mismanagement and dishonesty which was rife in the same depart- AMERICA'S ORIENTAL DIPLOMACY.* ment during the early portion of the Civil War “ Whenever the American representatives have ap- and compelled the retirement of Simon Cameron proached the governments of China, Japan, Korea, and from the Secretaryship. Siam, it was with the statement that their far-away Professor Halsey's chapter on “ The Failure people cherish no scheme of territorial aggrandizement in that region of the world, and that their only desire of Reconstruction” is a renewed exposition of was to secure mutual benefit from the establishment the patent fact that the drastic legislation for of trade, and to extend the influence of Christian civ- the enforcement of the War Amendments did ilization." not prove able to secure the ends which its sup- This passage, taken from the last chapter porters in Congress and the country had in view. of Mr. John W. Foster's recent monograph on He is convinced, and reasonably enough, that “American Diplomacy in the Orient,” states either the Congressional or the Presidential well the proposition which it has been his aim plan put in force without any serious clash be- to sustain and illustrate in his book. By his tween the two would have secured much better extended public services as an official of the results than were possible in the midst of the United States government, and his studies in bitterness engendered during the struggle be. its diplomacy, he was well equipped for the tween the President and the Republican major- service of preparing this monograph. It is a ity in the Senate and House. The great harm The great harm timely supplement and companion to his his- done by the “carpet-bag" rule which the poli- torical sketch of two years since, "A Century tical disqualifications of the Fourteenth Amend- of American Diplomacy,” which was at once ment and the Reconstruction acts made possible accorded a high position. Mr. Foster's present is fully recognized, and Hop. Daniel H. Cham- effort is more than a sketch, - it is a series of berlain's scathing record of this disgraceful thirteen sketches on as many different episodes episode in American history is referred to and of America's experiences in Oriental diplo- heartily endorsed. macy, during the period covered in a more gen- In the light of subsequent history, one can- eral form by his earlier work. Each sketch not read these volumes without continual cause aids in sustaining the general thesis. to reflect upon the short-sightedness of our poli- American diplomacy is now generally recog- tical vision. Our authorities rushed forward to AMERICAN DIPLOMACY IN THE ORIENT. By John W. annex Texas at the cost of a war, when we now Foster. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1 11 1 1 > 1 1 1 1903.] 35 THE DIAL nized as peaceful in its general methods, scope, an American treaty of commerce was arranged and operations. That it has been such from with the Sultan of Borneo in 1850. America the beginning, has not been so fully under- was thus attaining to a capacity for melting stood. Mr. Foster carefully reminds his readers away by kindness, in the fulness of time, the that the Oriental policy of national exclusion, icy isolation of Japan and Korea. which the western powers have had to com- Mr. Foster details graphically the successive bat, was of modern origin, but was in full triumphs of the United States, in Perry's open- operation when the United States, in 1783, ing of Japan in 1854, and the Harris treaty assumed a position among the commercial with that empire in 1858, of which he says: nations; that this young State at once en- “ The genius of Perry had unbarred the gate tered into the campaign for the opening of the of the island empire and left it ajar; but it was closed Orient to trade, and in time became a the skill of Harris which threw it open to the leader therein ; and that we have waged peace commercial enterprise of the world.” These 1 ful contests for such opening, in strong con- triumphs were showe also in the subsequent trast to the forceful operations of the European transformation of Japan in conscious conform- powers. ity to American National ideals; in the just That the ports of the Orient, which had been popularity of Burlingame's management of the formerly open to free trade, were closed in the interests of the United States in China, and in seventeenth century to the vessels of the western the new treaties and the Burlingame embassy nations, was due to the aggressive and often vio- to the western powers which followed; in the l lent conduct of their Occidental visitors. Seclu. wise and firm disapproval by America of the sion became the fixed policy of the leading Ori- odious opium traffic; in Commodore Shufeldt's ental powers, as a measure of self-defense. The Korean treaty of 1882; and in the rapid but United States mariners were under this handi- sure advance of our nation to favor and influ- cap at the beginning of their eastern voyages. ence in the affairs of Korea. The eminent posi- It took time to demonstrate that the Yankees tion which the United States occupied in the were neither marauders nor land-grabbers, but Chinese imbroglio of 1900, and the opportu- were simply peaceful traders. When they finally nities thus granted to her for guiding the Pow- achieved this reputation, the progress to the pres- ers toward a fair settlement with the Chinese ent high position of the United States in Asia- Empire, are thus shown to be the result of a tic sentiment was steady and sure. With but gradual evolution, traceable from the date of oneexception, the advances made by the Ameri- the entry of the western republic into the cans toward a sustained commercial intercourse world's politics. in the far East have been eminently pacific. Mr. Foster makes it clear that these Ameri- The ill-starred attempt of 1871, to inflict sum- can successes have been due primarily to two mary punishment upon Korea for resisting an causes, - skill and energy in developing mer- American effort to open trade between the two cantile traffic, and wisdom and discrimination countries, Mr. Foster characterizes “ the most in pushing missionary enterprises. The mer- serious blunder of American diplomacy in the chant and the missionary have, hand in hand, Orient." advanced the United States flag in the far East. The first American vessel entered the port of This author's recognition of the value of the Canton in August, 1784. Oar merchants at work of the American missionaries is hearty once sought to take advantage of the limited and unstinted; and it is the more worthy to be facilities for commerce with that one port, al. noted here, because it comes from the point of lowed by the Chinese ; in 1789 they began to view, not of the sentimentalist or the philan- construct vessels expressly for the Canton trade, thropist, but of the historian and the diplomat. and thereafter they soon began to compete with He gives cordial endorsement to the tribute of Great Britain, the leading nation in Eastern Minister Denby to the missionaries in China, traffic. Fairness, justice and courtesy won for " that their influence is beneficial to the natives; the westerners the good opinion of the Chinese that the arts and sciences and civilization are merchants and some of their neighbors ; so that, greatly spread by their efforts ; that many use- whereas Great Britain compelled China by force ful Western books are translated by them into of arms to enter into the treaty of 1842, the Chinese ; that they are the leaders in all chari- United States secured, in her peaceful treaty of table work; and that in the interest, therefore, 1844, advantages not theretofore granted by the of civilization, missionaries ought not only to Chinese to the Occidentals. With equal ease, be tolerated, but ought to receive protection.” 36 [July 16, THE DIAL - In the concluding chapter, on “Results of unabashed in the crown of a far greater poot. We the Spanish War," Mr. Foster traces into our find nothing of that distinction in the new volume, recent national experiences as a world-powerthe but much that is graceful and musical, which quali- natural effect of the restraint, suavity and dis- ties the following lines shall serve to illustrate : crimination with which our earlier and smaller “Pipers of the chilly pools Pipe the April in. efforts in Oriental diplomacy were ventured. Summon all the singing hosts, JAMES OSCAR PIERCE. All the wilding kin. “Through the cool and teeming damp Of the twilight air Call till all the April children Answer everywhere. RECENT AMERICAN POETRY.* “From your cold and fluting throats The last verses of the late Hugh McCulloch bave Pipe the world awake, “ Written in Florence” for a title, — in Florence, Pipe the mould to move again, Pipe the sod to break. "Where even Winter brings a soft caress, And all the flowers of art together cling." “Pipe the mating song of earth And the fecund fire, – The verses are reflections from a cultivated mind, Love and laughter, pang and dream, susceptible of the charms of art, nature, and his- Desire, desire, desire." torical association, and tinged with a not unnatural Mr. Bliss Carman is gathering into a series of hue of melancholy. They have little of the singing volumes, with “ Pipes of Pan “" for a collectivo quality, and their diction is often merely prosaic, but title, his verse of recent years. Some of it has at their best they please, and exhibit a talent that been published in periodicals, some in earlier books, now we may only mourn. A poem “To the Medi- and some of it is new. The first volume of this terranean," seems to us one of the most genuine in series is called “From the Book of Myths,” and the collection, and we quote from it a pair of stanzas: contains eight or ten pieces upon such classical sub- "All memories which haunt the heart of man jects as Marsyas, Daphne, and Phedra. One poem, Cluster on you like bees about a rose; “ The Tidings to Olaf,” stands by itself, for it Upon your shores our history began, – tells how the message of the Christian faith was Perchance your smile will hover o'er its close. Spouse of the sun, beloved of the dawn, brought to the Norse king. We quote an exquisite Sole monument of ages past and gone, passage from the poem “ At Phædra's Tomb." You yet may lie 'neath mantling Arctio snows. "Have yo not seen the fog from land "And many a time my soul has shrunk aghast Blow out to sea, and leave the band (On mornings clouded in September's mist) Of orange marsh and lilac shore To dream upon your immemorial past; To brood in Autumn peace once more ? For you alone of earthly things resist “So there survives the magic fame Th' insidious offices of dusty time. Of her imperisbable name, - To-day you are enthralling and sublime Light from a time when love was great, As when upon your shore the Immortals kissed." And strong hearts had no fear of fate, Love lyrics and Nature lyrics divide pretty evenly But lived and strove and wrought and died, between them the contents of “The Book of the With beauty for their only guide. “And yet this temple, raised and wrought Rose,” which is the latest verse-collection by Mr. With prayers and tears, availed her naught, Charles G. D. Roberts. Mr. Roberts has undoubtedly The years with it have had their will; the lyric gift, as many a preceding publication testi- Her soft name is a by-word still fies, and he now and then achieves a rare degree of For thwarted spirit, vexed and teased simple perfection. Such a gem of purest ray serene By yearnings that cannot be eased, The soul that chafes upon the mesh “ The Falling Leaves,” for example, might shine Of tenuous yet galling flesh.” WRITTEN IN FLORENCE. The Last Verses of Hugh THE MORNING Road. Verses by Thomas Wood Stevens McCulloch. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. and Alden Charles Noble. Chicago: The Blue Sky Press. THE BOOK OF THE Roge. By Charles G. D. Roberts. DRAMATIC VERSES. By Trumbull Stickney. Boston: Boston: L. C. Page & Co. Charles E. Goodspeed. PIPES OF PAN. From the Book of Myths. By Bliss VISIONS AND OTHER VERSE. By Edward Robeson Carman. Boston: L. C. Page & Co. Taylor. San Francisco : A. M. Robertson. PIPES OF PAN. From the Green Book of the Bards. By BEYOND THE REQUIEMS, AND OTHER VERSES. By Louis Bliss Carman. Boston: L. C. Page & Co. Alexander Robertson. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, POEMS (1899–1902). By George Cabot Lodge. New York: POEMS AND VERSES. By Edward Sandford Martin. New Cameron, Blake, & Co. York: Harper & Brothers, MESSAGE AND MELODY. A Book of Verse. By Richard Boston : Burton. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co. CUPID 18 King. By Roy Farrell Greene. Richard G. Badger. LYRICS OF THE Dawn, By Clinton Scollard. Clinton, New York: G. W. Browning. POEMs. By Mary Olcott. New York: John Lane. A VOICE ON THE WIND AND OTHER POEMS. By Madison POEMs. By Marie Van Vorst. New York: Dodd, Cawein. Louisville : John P. Morton & Co. Mead, & Co. LATER LYRICS. By John B. Tabb. New York: John APRIL TWILIGHTS. Poems by Willa Sibert Cather. Lane. Boston: Richard G. Badger. THE GATES OF SILENCE, WITH INTERLUDES OF SONG. THE SOLITARY PATH. By Helen Huntington. New By Robert Loveman, New York: The Knickerbocker Press. York: Doubleday, Page & Co. - as . 1903.] 37 THE DIAL Mr. Carman's second volume is called “ From but it does not often receive so frank an expression. the Green Book of the Bards," and is frankly a Mr. Lodge has a certain mastery of the long-drawn volume of nature lyrics, in which the spirits of anapæst that would challenge our admiration were Wordsworth and Emerson seem compounded with it not so obviously imitative. the mysticism of the latter-day Celts. The poems . “Let us press in the hidden wet ways of the forest filled full in this book are briefer than those in the other, and of the shadows and sounds of the past, about three times as numerous. We have been Let us travel the fields by the River of Years till the ways of the waters are open at last; particulary impressed with “The Madness of And our steed shall be staunch tho' he weary and wince at Ishtar," for thus does the poet personify the passion the spar, tho' his nostrils are purple with blood, of Springtime. For the craving of Soul and the power of Love, for the “She will gather the moonlight and starshine, freedom of Faith and the friendship of God!” And breathe on them with desire, It is no easy matter to keep this sort of movement And they shall be changed on the moment up for pages at a time, as Mr. Lodge more than To the marvel of earth's green fire, once does. The following is perhaps the finest verse “The ardour that kindles and blights not, he offers us: Consumes and does not destroy, Renowing the world with wonder, “Life's choice is this: the world or all the rest," And the hearts of men with joy. but we are more than once made suspicious of his “For this is the purpose of Ishtar, own ethical interpretation of the terms of this choice. In her great lone house of the sky His “all the rest” seems to be self-indulgence more Beholding the work of her hands As it shall be by and by : than anything else. Here is where he has studied his Swinburne to little profit, and where his fail- “Out of the passion and splendour, Faith, failure, and daring, to bring ure to comprehend the spirit of “The Pilgrims" The illumined dream of the spirit and “Super Flumina Babylonis ” is most noticeable. To perfection in some far spring." “Message and Melody" is Mr. Richard Bur- These may be called wild and whirling words, and ton's fourth book of verse, and we are inclined to we are not sure that we know what they are all think that it is the best of the four. It shows more about, but they have the true singing quality, and ripeness of experience than the earlier ones, and a the essence of poetry is in them. deepening of the human sympathies. We quote Mr. George Cabot Lodge's second volume of “ The Reformer,” a piece which suggests the grave poems is, if anything, more Swinburnian than his thoughtfulness of Sill. first. He imitates with fair success nearly all of Mr. “A man once stood before a frowning wall Whereon was writ a lie since ancient days, Swinburne's metrical schemes, and reproduces the And threw his heart's blood by the cupful straight sensuous and pagan spirit of Mr. Swinburne's early Against the legend, so to wipe it out work, with an occasional touch of the austere ideal. Tapping his veins of all their purple yield ism that afterwards so completely replaced it. He In his desire. At last he grow so weak That, tottering-limbed, he heaved glazed eyes to heaven, even ventures to write a “Song of Man,” in bold Sighed like a weary child, smiled once, and fell. imitation of the great poem suggested to the older And when his dust wag mingled with the mould singer by the Ecumenical Council of 1870. That giveth birth to flowers, the people woke "To the gods who are sure and sufficient, who are free and One morn, and looked upon the wall, to see more fatal than Fate, A clean erasure of the glozing words Who can tally the love of a virgin or the heart of a man in Had grieved the man so, he tbat calmly slept, his hate, Oblivious alike of loves and lies Who are wise with a perfect remembrance, who reject not That make our human story. & creed nor a crime, Then there ran Who compassionate all, who interpret the ways and the A whisper, soon a cry, across the land : wonders of Time! "God urged him to the act, and he was glad To spill his blood and make us clearer-eyed.' “Who have builded and broken all laws of the Heaven and Whereat the very folk who carelessly Earth, who are free, Passed by that day he drained his throbbing strength Who have lifted the seals from the sunrise, made pregnant And paled his flesh, upreared a cenotaph the womb of the 808, And deified his name to after-times." Who have scattered the phantoms of heaven, wrecked the We could wish that Mr. Burton had taken his own thrones of the world and their spell, Who have sown and reaped harvest of flowers in the fire- teaching sufficiently to heart to prevent him from waste deserts of hell ! penning the following apology for imperialism: "For my God is the friend that I cherish, and my God is the “Yet the earth's stern law is spoken In the march of centuries, woman I love, My God is the Spring on the hillsides, the Sea and the That the weak for good are broken, marvel thereof, That the strong must rule the seas. My God is the justice of sunlight unhindered by power or “We may conquer in all gladness pelf, If the cause be pure and high ; And vast beyond all and inclusive of all things, my God is We can bear the passing sadness Myself." For the blessing by and by." This is the tacit creed of many a young poet, im- These are “glozing words," if ever such were patient of the old restraints upon reckless living, I spoken, and this “ lie writ since ancient days ” 38 [July 16, THE DIAL should not find among its defenders the author of Such poetry as this is not to be discredited merely so fine and true a poem as the one which we first because the author has given us much work of the quoted. same quality before. And we cannot fail to notice Mr. Clinton Scollard's “ Lyrics of the Dawn” is in Mr. Cawein's latest volume the slow but sure a companion volume to “The Lutes of Morn,” ripening of bis art. published a year or two ago. Like the earlier Father Tabb’s “ Later Lyrics ” are delicate verse- volume, it is a collection of poems mostly upon cameos of the sort to which he bas accustomed us. Oriental themes, the aftermath of a sojourn in the Rarely exceeding a dozen lines each, these little East which seems to have left a deep impression poems embody simple thoughts and sentiments, upon the poet's imagination. Mr. Scollard has a sometimes merely commonplace, and at others touch that frequently suggests the lyrics of Mr. touched with such imagination as we find in the Aldrich, and his Eastern pictures have the advan- following example: tage of a basis of close observation in place of the "The world, they tell us, dwindles, bookish stimulus upon which the elder poet relied. When matched with other spheres ; We select “At Ephesus” for our quotation. And yet in all their amplitudes No place for human tears. "Great is Diana!' Ah, the mockery “How sterile is the sunshine, It seems to-day, the old Ephesian cry! Beholding what a waste the highways be, How masculine the blue, And how downthrown the mighty temples lie. That breeds no shadow, nor betrays A memory of dew!" “On shattered columns build the storks their nests; Stealthy as fate the slinking jackals prowl: Mr. Robert Loveman is like Father Tabb in the Where poured the plaudits at the actors' jests choice of a form for his poetical expression, and In ghostly irony declaims the owl. the following bit might as readily have been found “The silt of centuries chokes the harborage ; in the one poet as in the other. And where the pharos beaconed from the height, “Old and yet young, the joound Earth Guide to great galleys, weighed with outland wage, Doth speed among the spheres, Now broods, unchallenged, immemorial night. Her children of imperial birth “Nothing the vision rests upon reveals Are all the golden years. The temporal grandeur that once here had birth; “The happy orb sweeps on And, gazing on the desolate scene, one feels Led by some vague unrest, How mutable are all the things of earth." Some mystic hint of joys unborn This is a weak enough ending, but the image of Springing within her breast." the owl with his “ghostly irony” redeems the Mr. Loveman's little book is called “ The Gates poem and makes it noteworthy. “The Count of of Silence, with Interludes of Song." It is made up Mirandel,” a medieval tale too long for repro- of such pieces as that above quoted, all voicing the duction, is one of the most effective pieces in this eternal enigma of being, but relieved every now volume, and one of the few that depart from its and then by a joyous lyric that forgets problems general Eastern subject-matter. and simply sings. We are inclined to think that Mr. Madison Cawein “ The Morning Road” is a collection of verses writes too freely and publishes too frequently for by Messrs. Thomas Wood Stevens and Alden the best interests of his reputation, although we Charles Noble. We understand that the authors never take up a new volume from his pen without a are also the designers and manufacturers of the sense of anticipatory satisfaction. We know what book, which is produced in a simple but singularly it will be about, but we also know that it will have attractive form, and in a limited edition. There much nature-imagery of an exquisite sort, and that is much thoughtfulness about their metrical work, it will offer us a highly spiritualized conception of and a delight in the themes that appeal to the cul- life. Mr. Cawein's latest volume is called “A Voice tivated mind. The imagery is often striking, and on the Wind, and Other Poems.” It may be rep- the diction at times has a touch of distinction. resented fairly by “The Dead Day.” Yet the total effect is one of hollowness, of high- “The West builds high a sepulchre sounding phrase that a close analysis does not Of cloudy granite and of gold, justify, of an endeavor to be impressive at the cost Where twilight's priestly hours inter of clear thinking and verbal restraint. Our mean- The day like some great king of old. ing may be illustrated by an excerpt from the 'A censer, rimmed with silver fire, characteristic poem called “ The Sphinx,” which The new moon swings above his tomb; While, organ-stops of God's own choir, aleo illustrates a stanzaic form much affected by Star after star throbs in the gloom. the authors. And night draws near, the sadly sweet “The womb of all the world is parched beneath the tropic A nun whose face is calm and fair- breeze, And kneeling at the dead day's feet The earth 's a flameless furnace that taints the outer air,- Her soul goes up in silent prayer. Beneath that sand no man may say what cities lie at peace, “In prayer, we feel through dewy gleam Within that breast no man can guess what brand of soul is And flowery fragrance, and - above there; All Earth – the ecstasy and dream “Hidden behind that stolid brow were spun the vast in- That haunt the mystic beart of love." trigues + 1 1 9 1 - 1 1 1 1908.] 39 THE DIAL - That swayed the arms of Empire to conquest - and to death; The silent voice that calls and calls across the barren leagues Doth hover in that throat that lacks the benison of breath; “Trusting the lips that never ope, the tongue that murmurg not, Within that heart the phantoms lie of countless empty biers, Around those feet the wrecks of wills are foundered and forgot, Across that face the winds have hurled the dust of pow- dered years." We confess that a feeling of bewilderment is the chief impression which we receive from this pre- tentious piece, and the others of similar character which go with it; but bewilderment, far from being the proper purpose of poetry, is something that should be sbunned as absolutely fatal to the success of the poetic art. Mr. Trumbull Stickney's “Dramatic Verses” make up another volume which is exceptionally praiseworthy from the mechanical point of view, and whose contents must be described in terms nearly similar to those which we applied to the volume just before considered. Yet we will add that there are in this work more frequent touches of distinction, and that the straining for original effects is more fally justified. The opening piece, “Kalypso," yields an extract which is illustrative of both the author's strength and his weakness. “Over his head she stooped. Her odorous hair Fell thickly o'er his face. She kissed him With all the sleepy honeys of her soul. Her arms did slip along his neck, his breast; She kissed him lazily upon the lids And languorously on the brow, she kissed him Trembling and fiery on the opened mouth. And slowly Wind rose. Rustles crept to's ear, Thro' meshes of her hair he saw gray-blown The thick tumultuous cloud blotted and streaked With witchery of dead moon. The midnight whirred. Sparsely the windy stars and feebly hung. A little withered leaf blew by; it scratched Him with its frittered edge. For it was autumn. Autumn it was. Then did he know. No more That year would be return, that year no more ; Rather, locked by the vastly circular Walls o' the sea, the quashing roof of heaven, Still suffocated in the changeless air, Still vexed by incessant memory and recall, Would stand in pain desirous of that dear Fireside and her more dear and beautiful." This is about as un-Homeric as anything could well be; yet despite its unpleasant staccato, its surfeit of kissings, and its far-fetched epithets, the passage has a certain power to grip the imagination and ex- cite the nobler emotions. The title of the book is not so clearly justified by this poem as by some others, notably the story of “Ludovico Martelli," which gives us excellent Browning with a differ- ence. The volume contains one piece, “ Prometheus Pyrphoros,” which is dramatic in form, and also a number of striking sonnets and lyrics. Almost any gathering of current verse nowadays is sure to include one or more contributions from the Pacific coast, and the present review must find space for mention of two volumes of far Western poetry. Dr. Edward Robeson Taylor is already known to many readers, both by his original work and by his striking translation of the sonnets of M. de Heredia. His new volume is original, and is called “ Visions and Other Verge.” The chief de- fect of Dr. Taylor's work is found in the intrusion of an occasional jarring note, such an epithet as “immatchless," or a hopelessly unpoetical phrase like " the lightning bug,” or a forced license such as “He crushed his heart for wine of song The sordid souls of men to glad." Such things as these are unfortunate, and occur with too great frequency. Since the author's favorite form is the sonnet, our illustration shall take that shape. The sonnet is entitled “ Adversity.” . “When glad Fortuna, as a friend to thee, Her more than liberal spoils before thee brings, Beware the serpent, slyly hid, which stings The soul with poison of Prosperity. Thou never mayest revealing visions see, Nor mount with seraphs on immortal wings, Unless within thy deepest being springs Some tear-fed fountain of Adversity. The steel that Florence drove in Dante's heart He fashioned to a lyre, whereon with ease He deathless rose above the hells of hate; And when life-wearied Milton sat apart, Lonely and blind, he swept those organ keys Whose tones from age to age reverberate." Such verse as this is of course derivative — in the present instance clearly from Goethe and Tenny- - but it is dignified and sincere. In Mr. Louis Alexander Robertson's volume, which also comes to us from California, “ Beyond the Re- quiems” is the most ambitious piece, and gives & title to the collection. This is also Tennysonian in its inspiration, and goes in for cosmic emotion after the following fashion : “All our knowledge is as nothing ; Reason reels and Science sneers, Faith below her falling altars lifts her fearless face and hears “Every cherished creed derided, but still mumbles to her beads, Dreaming that beyond the requiems deathless life to death succeeds. “Hope's pale star still smiles above us, distant, indistinct, and cold; As the primal moth beheld it do we now its beams behold.' Lyrics, sonnets, and occasional verses fill out the volume, which is a thin one both as to content and to thought. The verses outnumber the poems in Mr. Edward Sandford Martin's volume of “ Poems and Verses," a disparity which does not prove greatly distressing when the verses are as pleasant as those which this cheery humorist knows how to write. Here is an example, snatched midway from a piece which con- trasts the old education with the new : “The shade austere of Puritan restraint Showed sharper outlines, may be, then and now, But not to hurt. For now the old complaint Of joys curtailed gives place to wonder how son - : 9 40 [July 16, THE DIAL 'Twixt stress of sports and pleasant things to do, “Would God that all mine enemies And waxing claims of growing knowledge, too, Were stark in death as that one was ! The modern lad gets time to feel the joy But till this life shall fail and cease It was, and still must be, to be a boy." I must fight on. For no man has Peace, till the end of life says, Peace!” A good many of Mr. Martin's pieces are of the occasional sort, and display a deftness of touch that Miss Olcott's work is earnest and at times finely would not have discredited Dr. Holmes. Even in imaginative. We like particularly Stonehenge the few instances in which he writes poetry, he and the cycle called “By the Waters of Babylon.” preserves simplicity of diction, and his humor is A quotation from the latter may be given. lurking somewhere in the near background. “The light begins to creep, the river flows Like a pale streak, while all the rushes lean “ To our dim sense God's plan seems often harsh. Upon the current, which moves on and on. ... Big fish eats small; earthquakes and storms destroy.' Soon shall we march engirdled with our woes, Tennyson phrased it somewhat differently, but the Soon reach their God-spurned city all unclean. matter is the same. Mr. Martin puts his best foot The hour breaks on us, and a trumpeter Sounds the known signal for our start and stir: (or feet) forward in his titular poem, “ The Sea Is How the red dawn strikes fire at Babylon!” His,” from which we choose these stanzas : In not a few of her pieces the author has caught "Urgent and masterful as here, Man dreams and plans, and more and more, something of the manner of Browning, especially As ages slip away, Earth shows the jerky dramatic manner which is a pronounced How need by satisfaction grows, characteristic of the older poet. And more and more its patient face Mirrors the driving human race. There are many suggestions of Browning in the “But he who ploughs the abiding deep “Poems" of Miss Marie Van Vorst. The dramatic No furrow leaves, nor stays to reap. Browning is recalled by the group of longer pieces Unmarred and unadorned, the sea with which the volume opens, and Browning the Rolls on as irresistibly love-lyrist by many of the songs that come later on. Ås when, at first, the shaping thought Of God its separation wrought. The closing lines of "Three Days More” may be quoted in evidence of our statement. “Great nurse of freedom, breeding men “Sudden, the spell snaps short to Fate ! Who dare, and, bafied, strive again! Till that day, when I see your face - A rampart round them in their youth, There are still three dark days to climb, A refuge in their straits and ruth, To-day, to-morrow, and its mate." And in their seasoned strength, a road A beautiful sonnet, the last of the group of four en- To carry liberty abroad I" titled “Viva! Anima Carissima,” may be taken to Lighter than Mr. Martin's lightest is the vein of stand for Miss Van Vorst's achievement at its “Cupid Is King," a volume of rather commonplace highest reach. trifling in verse by Mr. Roy Farrell Greene. The "When they together saw the Calendar following piece has about as much point as any : Slip by in months that wore Spring all days long, "The second time that Jack proposed, He made his lover's verse and roundel song 'Twas really a surprise, The burthen of the rhyme his love of her!.... Though I still — gossips 80 supposed What though the storm swept by with rainy stir, Found favor in his eyes. And winds, like ghosts, would 'round the windows throng, His first avowal, months before, They sat heart-linked, hand-linked ; and bright and strong I'd treated with disdain, Riot ran through their veins like Mid-summer. And laughed at him the while he sworo For palm to palm is exquisite as May; He'd try again, again! And lip on lip is mad July at best! "The second time that Jack proposed Where is the fire for this pale Winter's day? I never said a word, For one who sits alone at Death's behest ? Though to assent I'd grown disposed - Ghosts of the storm peer in with charnel mirth I simply overheard At ghosts of ashes on the gusty hearth." By accident his earnest plea There is a sonnet-ending that has the melancholy While in the waltz's whirl - The second time 'twas not to me, cadence with which Rossetti brought many a similar But to another girl! song to its period. The author does not often rise The following piece is fairly representative of the to this height of expression, but her work as a whole volume written by Miss Mary Olcott, and called is out of the common, and may be commended to “Poems” without further ceremony. The title is all to whom sincere and passionate emotion makes “The Unceasing Fight." an appeal. “From the cold North rode out my foe. Miss Willa Sibert Cather is a new writer, and I fought him to the death, And still “ April Twilights” is the title of her first book. I see him in his mortal throe, The title has no particular significance, unless it Urged by his strong, unconquered will To fight on with one death-sent blow, suggests the subdued tone of her tranquil musings. “ Prairie Dawn” is pretty enough to quote. "Above his grim, white face I made The brave sign of the cross. I broke “A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars ; His sword, and the two parts I laid A pungent odor from the dusty sage; Upon his neck, like to the yoke A sudden stirring of the huddled herds; His soul should feel when sins are weighed. A breaking of the distant table-lands - 9 > 1903.) 41 THE DIAL > a Through purple mists ascending, and the flare esting and some of marked beauty. We note Of water-ditches silver in the light; particularly the many brief articles upon living A swift, bright lance hurled low across the world; A sudden sickness for the hills of home." men and other timely topics, giving just the infor mation we want and often find it very hard to get. Of such exquisite description there is much in Miss Our previous opinion of the usefulness, as well as Cather's collection; there are also engaging reflec- the readableness, of this work is more than con- tions from the world of books, the history and the firmed by our examination of the new volumes. legend of the ages. In its own field, this Encyclopædia hardly has a Last upon our list comes “ The Solitary Path," rival among existing publications. — We note at the by Miss Helen Huntington. Here is a pleasing same time the receipt, from the samo publishers, quatrain called “ After Nightfall.” of “ The International Year-Book” for 1903. This "The sunset sky, with whirl of night and flame, work is under the same editorial management (ex. Sang Passion's fleeting hour! came night at length, And, black against a cold and moonlit sky, cept for Dr. Gilman's collaboration) as the other, The lonely mountains told their tale of Strength." and is an indispensable adjunct to the labors of the A longer and more human example is the poem editor, the teacher, the clergyman, and the publicist. entitled “ Barbara.” There are half a dozen maps and many plates. A cumulative index to the volumes of the five preced- “You, for an hour, have been dear, And till the end shall be dearest, ing years is a useful feature of this work. Come mistress or wife to divide your life, 'Tis I will have crept the nearest. The Kaiser's In his latest book, “ The Kaiser's character "Farewell!' you may cry, as you go. as seen in Speeches" (Harper) Mr. Wolf von You are keen for the world's great track, his speeches. Schierbrand furnishes an admirable The shout of the crowd, and the love that's allowed ; supplement to his recent volume on Germany. But your thoughts shall turn back, turn back. That work devoted several chapters to the Em- "And the hour which you swear to forget, peror's personality, and discussed the potent in- And the love that was idle breath, Shall return in their wrath, and arise in your path, fluence of his leadership upon the development of And follow you on, to Death." the new Empire. The present one not only con- Miss Huntington works within very narrow limits, tains the sources upon which those chapters were but her touch is delicate and effective. based, but gives a large amount of related matter. The material for the greater part of this work is WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. found in Klausmann's recent authorized compi- lation of the Emperor's speeches — a fact that the author fully acknowledges. He has, however, added several speeches from other sources, — some, BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. possibly, that His Majesty might have preferred to The New When the first three volumes of " The have forgotten. When needed, explanatory notes International New International Encyclopædia" are given, and the various addresses or extracts on Encyclopædia. were sent u8 by Messrs. Dodd, related topics are connected by comment or narra- Mead, & Co., we took occasion to congratulate tive, into separate chapters. The chapters are in both publishers and editors upon the execution of turn grouped under three general divisions, dealing the work, and upon its special adaptation to the respectively with the Emperor's efforts to preserve needs of those who wish information upon specific both the domestic and the foreign peace of Germany; subjects and do not wish to search for the informa- with his activity in promoting the welfare of his peo- tion through elaborate essays or to be bothered by ple; and, lastly, with his private character and per- too complicated a system of cross-references. sonal relations. The translation is Mr. von Scbier- Since that first notice, additional instalments of brand's own. The book is readable and interesting, the Encyclopædia have come to us from time to and gives an admirable notion of that many-sided time, until at the present writing seven new vol. activity that distinguishes William II. among modern umes are at hand. These volumes, numbering from sovereigns. Of particular interest are the chapters IV. to X. inclusive, carry on the alphabetical series dealing with his tactful efforts to preserve peace of topics from Canada Balsam to Larramendi. This and to promote educational reform. The whole last-mentioned entry, by the way, is the name of a gives the impression of a character dominated Spanish Jesuit of the eighteenth century who was by a well-formed and consistently developed pur. an authority on the language of the Basques. Run- pose a view quite at variance with the popular ning through the volumes we note the following estimate of the Kaiser. There are occasional in- among the more elaborate articles. Chemistry, accuracies in statement, such as the reference to Chicago, Chinese Empire, Costume, Egypt, Elec- Frederick the Great as the Emperor's “great sire." tricity and allied topics, England and English Lit- More striking is the fact that while the author's erature, Europe, Fortification, France, Germany, English is ordinarily excellent, the German idiom Great Britain, Heraldry, Horse, India, Italy, has often been too strong for him to overcome in Japan, and Jews. The illustrations are very nu- the passages in which he appears as translator. But merous, including many full-page plates, all inter- such criticism is, in a work of this sort, pedantic; as the - 42 [July 16, THE DIAL 66 & fications of a teacher for advanced pupils . The into it under the influence of a super-heated admira- the book merits cordial commendation. It is wel- Mr. Scott's discussion of these likenesses that his un- come to every student of German affairs, and Mr. bounded admiration for Cæsar will allow him to ac- von Scbierbrand deserves cordial recognition for cept no representation as adequate which does not the judgment and fairness shown in his selections fill his ideal of the man in every important feature. and for his success in presenting a genuine portrait Some will not do because “the suave gentleman, the of the Kaiser. sweet-mannered friend, the philosopher, are not visi- ble” in them. The “calm and stately orator,” the A volume which, though unpedantic, “far-seeing statesman," must always be suggested. The essentials of musical contains the result of long and labori- There can be no good portraiture which does not education. ous study, and seems sufficiently show his “ kindly placidity of temper,” under which learned to flatter those who read it in the belief must be revealed “a vein of fearless audacity," that they are masters of the subject, is “ Musical curbed by “calm powers of reasoning." An “im- Education ” (Appleton), by M. Albert Lavignac. perturbable consciousness of power " is also a sine The work, translated from the French by Miss qua non, as well as the evidence of “electric en- Esther Singleton, is divided into six parts, the first ergy.” Now artists who can understand a really of which, touching in a general way upon musical great character, and reproduce it, soul, external foat- education, is devoted to music as a language, an art, ures, and all, are rare in any age, we are told, and and a science; hereditary talent and natural apti- there is no evidence that there were any such in the tudes; indications of musical talent in young chil- age of Julius Cæsar. We are thus left free to re- dren, and the proper age to begin the study of music;ject all portraitures of the Dictator's own time as the proper length of time for daily study, and the necessarily defective, and to demand as the only importance of conducting studies methodically and adequate likeness something which shall display all logically. The second part refers in particular to the fine qualities to be detected in any detail of the the study of instruments the piano, organ, harp, material which has come down to us, plus all the string instruments, wind instruments, etc. ; the dif- noble and heroic traits to be called out of ancient fieulties of the different instruments, and the quali- literature, — or, we are tempted to add, to be read study of singing, dwelt upon in the third part, is tion. It is to be said, in general, that men do not very interesting, and gives lucid hints on the exami- always wear all their good qualities within reach of nation of the natural voice, hygiene of the voice, even an artist's eye, and in particular that there is methods of vocalization and period of daily studies, good ground for question whether Julius Cæsar really the accompaniment, studies necessary for the stage, possessed the almost divine character here attributed and physical requirements for an opera singer. In to him. We may thank Mr. Scott heartily, how- part four we are told of various studies necessary ever, for getting this material together, and present- for composers — the study of harmony and counter- - ing it in such effective shape. point, orchestration and instrumentation. Of the means of rectifying a musical education that has “My Kalendar of Country Delights” been ill-directed at the beginning, and how to remedy Garden-love and garden-lore. is a compilation, - one of the class it," is the general title of the fifth part; and, sub- of books once called Commonplace servient to this, the closing chapter dwells upon Books, wherein the writer gathered during his private teaching, class instruction and conservatory reading any memorable sentences or chapters or instruction, with a few remarks on American and thoughts and transcribed them in a book, some- European conservatories. Those portions of the times with slight comment or classification. In essays devoted to the early education of embryonic derivative form, and on garden topics, an early and artists contain opinions which we all might well en- charming volume of this class was “ The Day-book tertain. There is not only room, but an actual de- of Bethia Hardacre,” published about ten years ago. mand, for a work which, like the present, aims at Somewhat varied is Mrs. Milne-Home's more recent giving not alone an account of each particular branch and more fascinating “Stray Leaves from a Border of musical art, but a condensed summary of modern Garden.” No volume of which fully half the pages criticism upon it -a summary which is not obscured are transcribed from the old herbals of Gerarde and or disfigured by a vicious redundancy of words. In Parkinson could be dull to any flower-lover; and short, M. Lavignac's volume is a sort of musicalvade. Buch is the make-up of this Kalendar. The author mecum, sober in tone and replete with information. states that she has called “ from rare books” only. In America, these herbals are certainly rare, though A sumptuous volume on the “Por- copies are constantly offered for sale ; but it is a Portraitures of traitures of Julius Cæsar," by Mr. Julius Cæsar. large stretch of the signification of a word to term Frank Jesup Scott, is issued by Bacon's essay “Of Gardens” rare. We think every Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. Thirty-seven full- word of it is quoted somewhere in this " Kalendar," page plates and forty-nine inset engravings repre- sprinkled about on two-score pages. The reader of - sent to the reader very fairly the alleged likenesses garden-books sighs as he turns the pages of each of Cæsar to be found in the various public museums new volume of this class, and encounters therein of the present day. We regard it as unfortunate for the familiar italics and capitals of Bacon's words, . a 1903.) 43 THE DIAL 9 Our little island in the West Indies. “God Almighty first Created a Garden, and In- markings best explained as "cracks," whose slowly deed,” and so on ; pages which he has memorized changing positions point to the conclusion that the unconsciously from their constant thrusting before planet always keeps the same face to the sun. him. Nor is Forbes Watson's “ Flowers and Gar- Saturn and his system are discussed with a fresh- dens" rare; for it has been reprinted recently. ness and suggestiveness which will hold the atten- Much of it is in this “ Kalendar," but its exquisite tion of even a blasé professional astronomer. The words never stale. It may be added that for the It may be added that for the interesting chapter on “ Jupiter and his Comets" author of five books on gardens to write that she is mainly devoted to expounding in popular fashion “ does not know the author of the following poem the mathematical principles in accordance with is surprising indeed, when we find that the verse she which Jupiter spares his prey. Mr. Lowell indi- refers to is Mr. T. E. Brown's gem of poesy, “ Acates that the orbits of certain meteoric showers Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot.” This she and comets point to the probable existence of a gives as a lonesome thing, - a sad error. Her quo- goodly planet in those far-away spaces which lie tations from the herbals also have some changes, as beyond the path of slow-footed Neptune. The we compare them with original copies of Gerarde's final chapter, upon Cosmogony, is a fresh discns- “Great Herbal” (1633) and Parkinson's “ Paradisi sion along lines little exploited in text-books, and in Sole" (1635). But these need not be errors ; serves to stimulate rather than to satisfy; for the for there were three editions of each of these great questions involved are too recondite for our present volumes, and Mrs. Milman may have copied from knowledge. The publishers (Houghton) have given other editions than ours. A charming feature of an attractive dress of red and gold to this little book. the book is the list of old English plant-names. Dr. R. A. Middeldyk's "History of These are given as original, but like lists may be Puerto Rico," the third volume of found in Britten's “ English Plant Names ” and in “The Expansion of the Republic Prior’s “ Popular Names of British Plants.” The Series" (Appleton), is the first complete history author states that she herself has learned much that of the island of Puerto Rico ever written either in is new in preparing this book. This is doubtless Spanish or English. The fact that Friar Inigo true ; but we cannot think she teaches her reader much that is unfamiliar. Some of the quotations written in 1782, published in 1788, and revised in Abbad's “ Historia de la Isla San Juan Bautista," and transcripts may seem new to one of narrow garden-craft and scant garden-lore; but to any true 1830 to bring it down to the eighteenth century, has been for years the accepted work on the subject, garden student, the pages in general are familiar. shows the need of an authentic up-to-date history of They are none the worse, however, for that; and the island. In the first half of the present book, we can enjoy them even if we do not find the quaint the author gives a sketch of the Spanish occupation. and pretty novelties of imaginative thought and With the beginning of this story, Columbus's original experience that sparkle alongside the like quotations in Mrs. Milne-Home's pages. experiences in America, the wild hunt which the Spanish explorers made for gold, the extinction of One looks rather askance at a new the native Indians, — general readers are more or Our planetary “The Solar System,” won- less familiar; but the rest will be new to most of companions. dering what of novelty or special in- them. Giving only the salient points, the author terest can be written on a theme so well worn and pictures the social and institutional life of the island presumably so adequately treated — from a popular during a period of four hundred years, describes - standpoint — in many recent works on astronomy. the acts of the reigning government, and points out the evils of colonial rule. In the second half of the Bat Mr. Percival Lowell has presented us with a small treatise quite unlike any other on the subject. work he gives the status of Puerto Rico under The fact that it has no preface indicates perchance American control, aiming to present the matter in the author's opinion that it can speak for itself ; such a way that the reader can form an accurate The while the absence of an index suggests the erroneous judgment of past and present conditions. idea that the book belongs to the domain of sum- writer, who is the Librarian of the Free Public mer fiction. But the title-page rights these specu- Library of San Juan, tells his interesting story in an easy, graphic style. Appended to the work is a lations by advising the reader that six lectures to the young men of the Massachusetts Institute of valuable bibliography of Spanish writings on the sub- Technology have been bound up together for the ject of the island. The book has twelve illustrations. benefit of a larger audience. However, they are The character In “ The Real Benedict Arnold ” apparently intended for the comparatively small and motives of (A. S. Barnes & Co.), Mr. Charles number of those who are students of matters astro- Benedict Arnold. Burr Todd, not unfavorably known nomical, and who can dig the hidden beauties out through previous works — notably “The True Aaron of the mathematical formulæ which start out of the Barr as a writer on Revolutionary history, has pages now and then and interrupt the easy flow of given us an unbiased account of the causes leading description. The planet Mercury is treated in a up to Arnold's desertion of his country. While the novel manner, from the standpoint of the author's author does not in any sense attempt to lessen the own observations, which have revealed to him enormity of Arnold's crime, he emphasizes his sub. book on 44 [July 16, THE DIAL : A treatise on Trusts and a 2 in effigy ject's invaluable services to America, and points out make and keep the Eastern Question an open one. that he four times saved the cause of the Colonies : Each nation, fearing that some other one will get first, at tbe battle of Valcour's Island on Lake Cham- more than its share of influence or political privileges, plain (the first naval battle in which our arms were stands idly by and disregards human suffering oc- engaged); second, by raising the siege of Fort Stan. casioned by Turkish atrocities committed with im- wix in the Mohawk Valley and putting to flight St. punity in “the Buffer States.” War is pending, Leger': invading army marching to aid Burgoyne ; and must come; the Turk must go. The day is not and, third and fourth, by winning the two battles at far distant when the Czar of Russia will occupy the Saratoga, which, conjoined, Cressy included as one Sultan's throne. Mr. Curtis's work, done in light, of the fifteen decisive battles of the world. Arnold's easy, sketchy style, with not much of an attempt at wife was the beautiful “ Peggy” Shippen, of Phila- literary finish, deals quite fully and interestingly with delphia, a member of one of the most influential these and other phases of a very important subject. families of the Quaker City, who had been a general favorite with the British officers before she met “ Trust Finance: A Study of the Arnold, and particularly with the fascinating John Genesis, Organization, and Manage- Combinations. Andre. In deciding her choice for a husband, she ment of Industrial Combinations saw in the military governor of the city and the (Appleton), by Dr. Edward Sherwood Meade, of major-general of the army great opportunities for the Wharton School of Finance and Economy, is an social advancement and leadership. Correspondence exceedingly sane and luminous discussion of a timely with Andre and other British officers was carried on topic by one who is familiar with his subject. There after her marriage; and Mr. Todd maintains that are so many crude and erroneous notions extant with it was the influence of Arnold's wife, with whom he reference to trusts and combinations, that it is de- was madly infatuated, and his fear of losing her cidedly refreshing to examine a volume which treats should her treasonable correspondence with his coun. of these matters in a dispassionate, intelligent and try's enemies be discovered, that induced Arnold to scholarly manner. The author says that the trust betray his country, and not the gross injustice of movement began in 1893, following the industrial Congress nor the calomnies of paper generals the depression of that year. The industrial revival motives generally ascribed. An especially note- gathered strength in 1898, and caused a general de- worthy illustration of the book is the reproduction mand for the stocks of good paying corporations. of an old print representing the burning of Arnold Professor Meade's work is divided into twenty chap- ters, which discuss competition, the function and office of the promoter in modern industry, the dis- To the growing list of books describ- posal of the stock of the trust, accumulation of sur- ing the steps by which our national plus, provision of new capital, bond issue, funding expansion. territory has increased since colonial policy, capitalization of corporations, decline of in- times, is added a volume entitled “The American dustrial shares, investment possibilities, and sugges- Advance," by Mr. Edmund J. Carpenter. The book tions for national legislation on corporation finance. follows the conventional plan for such works, a sepa- This book supplies a demand not heretofore filled, rate chapter of from fifteen to sixty pages being and will command the interest of the practical man given to each of the nine large additions to our do- of affairs. main. Each chapter contains a careful chronological account of the negotiations and other steps that led to the acquisition of the territory under considera- NOTES. tion, without partisan bias or undue national glori- “ Hamlet,” edited by Professor L. A. Sherman, is a fication. The book is devoted for the most part to new “Pocket Classic" published by the Macmillan Co. the older territorial expansion,- Cuba, Puerto Rico, “ The History of France," by Mr. Arthur Hassall, is a Guam, and the Philippines together having but a new “Temple Primer” published by the Macmillan Co. brief chapter of fifteen pages. There are no foot- “ Real Things in Nature,” by Professor Edward S. notes, and the book is intended for the general reader. Holden, is "a reading-book of science for American (John Lane.) boys and girls ” which has recently been published by Mr. William Eleroy Curtis has given the Macmillan Co. us an interesting book about the “ American Heroes and Heroism," by Messrs. Will- lost provinces. Eastern Question, in a series of pen iam A. Mowry and Arthur May Mowry, is a book of pictures, which are really a record of personal ob- simple biographical reading for children, just published by Messrs. Silver, Burdett, & Co. servations concerning conditions in Constantinople and the Balkan States on the occasion of a trip which New editions of “Fundamental Problems,” by Dr. Mr. Curtis made to the East, in 1901, as a news- Paul Carus, and of the same author's "Karma: A Story of Buddhist Ethics," have just been sent us by the Open paper correspondent. The letters which he then Court Publishing Co. wrote have now been collected and brought out in Mr. David Nutt is the publisher of a beautifully book form under the title of “ The Turk and his Lost printed volume containing “The Story of Cupid and Provinces" (F. H. Revell Co.) Rivalry and jealousy Psyche,” translated from Apuleius by Mr. Charles on the part of European powers, Mr. Curtis tells us, Stuttaford, and illustrated by Miss Jessie Mothersole. Our older territorial a - " " The Turk and his 1903.) 45 THE DIAL a “ A Geography of Commerce," by Messrs. John N. “On the Literary Theories of Taine and Herbert Tilden and Albert Clarke, is published by Messrs. B. H. Spencer" is the title of a pamphlet published by Mr. Sanborn & Co. David Nutt, and containing two lectures by Professor The works of Thomas Campion, including his songs A. T. W. Borsdorf. The tendency of the author's crit- and masques, and the “ Observations in the Art of En- icism is destructive, as he aims only to help clear the glish Poesy," have again been edited by Mr. A. H. way for the constructive work of the future. Bullen, this time in a volume of “The Muses' Library," An unusually attractive guide-book to the city of of which the Messrs. Scribner are the American pub- Boston, prepared by Mr. Edwin M. Bacon, is issued by lishers. Messrs. Ginn & Co. Original and authentic material, " A General History of Commerce," by Mr. William numerous maps in color and in diagram, handy indexes Clarence Webster, is a recent educational publication and running-titles, and good mechanical execution, help of Messrs. Ginn & Co., and will do useful work in sup- to make this one of the best city guides we know. plying the growing demand for modern text-books in A committee of the Franklin and Marshall College, the commercial courses that our high-schools are set- of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has prepared a “Catalogue ting up so generally. of Officers and Students” of that institution from the A “Guide to Switzerland” is added to the series of date of its founding in 1787 to the present time. An travellers' manuals published by the Macmillan Co. The “ Obituary Record” for recent years is also published. maps are numerous and particularly good, while the These two works are pamphlets, but they are accom- text is both compact and up-to-date. No other guide panied by a substantial bound volume of four hundred book can be quite as good as a Bædeker, but the one pages, giving a “History of Franklin and Marshall before us has many commendable features. College” in ample detail. This is the work of Professor Joseph Henry Dubbs, and is handsomely illustrated. “Ephemeral Bibelots" appears on the title-page, and The earlier chapters of this book, as may easily be under- “ Modern Chap-Books and their Imitators” upon the stood, throw many interesting sidelights upon the be- cover, of a pamphlet by Mr. Frederick Winthrop Faxon, ginning of the national period of American history. sent us by the Boston Book Co. In substance, this little work is a bibliography of the freakish toy periodicals The latest batch of the University of Chicago decen- that have sprung up in such numbers during the past ten nial publications includes a noteworthy examination, by years. But how does an ex-Secretary of the American Professor Oliver Joseph Thatcher, of the questions con- Library Association reconcile with his conscience this nected with the papal grant of Ireland to Henry II. provision of alternative titles? “Studies Concerning Adrian IV.” is the title of this Volume VIII. of the “ Studies and Notes in Philology monograph, and the author accepts the view that the Bull Laudabiliter is a rhetorical exercise of no historical and Literature," published for Harvard University by Messrs. Ginn & Co., is given up to two extensive mono- value. Other publications in this series are “Scientific Method in Education,” by Mrs. Ella Flagg Young; graphs in the Arthurian field. Mr. Arthur C. L. Brown is the author of “Iwain: A Study in the Origins of “ Practical Theology,” by Mr. Gerald Birney Smith; “ The Elements of Chrysostom's Power as a Preacher," Arthurian Romance,” which comes first in the volume, and this work is followed by “Arthur and Gorlagon," by Professor Galusha Anderson; “Have We the Like- a new text, edited with much apparatus chiefly relating ness of Christ ? " by Professor Franklin Johnson; “The Self-Purification of Streams,” by Professor Edwin 0. to werewolves by Professor George L. Kittredge. Jordan; “Some Paradoxes of the English Romantic The Division of Bibliography of the Library of Con- Movement,” by Professor William Darnell MacClin- gress is engaged in the very useful work of publishing tock; and “A Stichometric Scholium to the Medea of special lists of book and periodical references upon Euripides," by Mr. Tenny Frank. timely topics. A batch of these bibliographies just sent William Ernest Henley, who died on the 12th of out includes the following subjects: labor and strikes, this month, at the age of fifty-four, was distinguished as old age and civil-service pensions, industrial arbitration, poet, critic, and editor, while his strongly-marked and government ownership of railroads, the Constitution of the United States, federal control of commerce and aggressive personality gave him an inspiring influence corporations, Anglo-Saxon interests, the negro question, upon many of the younger men with whom he was associated. While editor of “The Scots Observer," he cabinets of England and America, and a second edition almost founded a school of writers, so strongly did he of the bibliography of mercantile marine subsidies. Mr. A. P. C. Griffin is the division chief under whose direc- impose himself upon the aspiring talents that found tion these lists are prepared. expression in that brilliant journal. He also edited, at different times, “ London,” « The Magazine of Art," and “ The Espurgatoire Saint Patriz of Marie de France," “ The New Review." He was one of Stevenson's most by Professor T. Atkinson Jenkins, is a decennial public intimate friends, and the two men wrote several plays cation of the University of Chicago. Nearly ten years in collaboration. His editions of Burns and Byron were ago we mentioned an edition of the same work by the enriched with much vigorous and characteristic com- same editor, but since that publication the author has mentary of the sort that often arouses violent antag- had access to important material which he did not then onisms. His place as a poet is high among the minor use. The present edition gives us in parallel columns singers of the last half-century, and there are few both the French text and the Latin of the “ Tractatus lovers of poetry who do not have associations with his de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii” of Henricus Salteriensis, “ Hospital Rhymes,” his “London Voluntaries," and which was the original from which Marie de France his “ Hawthorne and Lavender.” His verse is hot and worked. This edition is thus made much more com- full-blooded, caring little for nicety of expression, and plete and valuable than its predecessor, and constitutes in general exhibitive of far more energy than art. At a highly creditable addition to the series of learned any rato, there is little that is imitative about his work, publications in which it is included. and his originality is as unquestionable as his strength. 9 " 46 (July 16, THE DIAL LIST OF NEW BOOKS. 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THWAITES Author of “ Daniel Boone,” etc., Editor of “ The Jesuit Relations,” etc. “The book is full of interest, and should be read by all persons interested in the history of Chicago and the Mississippi Valley." — Chicago Journal. “A valuable contribution to the history of the West.” Milwaukee Sentinel. “The story of the Jesuit Missionaries in North America during the seventeenth century forms one of the most thrilling chapters in human history. Simply, and apparently without exaggeration, the story is told by Mr. Thwaites in his life of Father Marquette.” – Pittsburg Dispatch. 19 ? DANIEL BOONE By REUBEN G. THWAITES “The detailed story of Boone’s wanderings has the interest of a most exciting fiction. ... The story of his life is like a breath of the primitive forest. It is worth a dozen of the pseudo-historical novels that profess to deal with frontier life.” – New York Times Saturday Review. HORACE GREELEY By WILLIAM A. LINN Author of " The Story of the Mormons"; formerly Managing Editor New York Evening Post. "A straightforward sympathetic account.” — San Francisco Argonaut. “The general public, as well as the more fastidious student, will find genuine pleasure and real benefit in perus- ing this little volume.” -- Prof. Wm. E. Dodd in New York Times Saturday Review. 2 Ready in September ANTHONY WAYNE Sometimes called “ Mad Anthony” By JOHN R. SPEARS le IN PREPARATION CHAMPLAIN, THE FOUNDER OF NEW FRANCE. By Edwin Asa Dix. (In November.) CORTEZ. By F. A. OBER. SIR WILLIAM PEPPERELL. By Noah BROOKS. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. By REUBEN G. THWAITES. Uniform Edition. Each Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth. $1.00 net. Postage 10 cents additional. D. APPLETON & COMPANY, Publishers, New York and Chicago THE DIAL a Semis Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information. A YEAR OF CONTINENTAL LITERATURE. I. THE DIAL (founded in 1880) is published on the 1st and 16th of each month. 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William Morton Payne Hichens's Felix. - Oppenheim's A Prince of Sin- - Moore's Castle Omeragh. — Quiller-Couch's The Adventures of Harry Revel. – Mrs. Dudeney's Robin Brilliant. — Danby's 'Pigs in Clover. — Miss Murfree's A Spectre of Power. -- Miss Crowley's Love Thrives in War. — Mrs. Hopkins's The Voice in the Desert. — Miss Smith's The Legatee.- Isham's Under the Rose. -- MacGrath's The Grey Cloak. - Page's Gordon Keith. — Brown's A Gen- tleman of the South. - Harben's The Substitute. - Boone and Brown's The Redfields Succession. Following our custom of many years, we pub- lish, in this and another issue of THE DIAL, a summary of the reports contributed to “The Athenæum” by various writers, upon the liter- ary production of the last twelvemonth in the principal European countries. The reports sum- marized in the present article are from Belgium, by Professor Paul Fredericq, from Bohemia, by Dr. V. Tille, from Denmark by Dr. Alfred Ipsen, from France, by M. Jules Pravieux, and from Germany, by Dr. Ernst Heilborn. Professor Fredericq gives us little more than a catalogue of the year's production in Belgium. M. Maeterlinck comes first, but his new dram- atic piece, Joyzelle,” has not been as success- ful as the “Monna Vanna ” of last year. Other plays are “Jéricho” and “Fatigue de Vivre,” by M. Edmond Picard, “L'Imposteur Mag- nanime, Perkin Warbeck," by M. Eekhoud; and “Les Orties,” by M. Sander Pierron. The poets are represented by M. Verhaeren's " Les Forces Tumultueuses," and M. Gille's "La Corbeille d'Octobre." The best novels are “Le Petit Homme de Dieu,” by M. Camille Lemonnier; and “Les Noces d'Or de Monsieur et de Madame Van Poppel,” which latter book completes the series devoted to the Kakebroek family, a Brussels counterpart of Herr Stinde's Buchholz family of Berlin. Being himself a distinguished historian, Professor Fredericq has much to say about writings in his own de- partment. Two books are singled out as par- ticularly important: Professor Vanderkindere's “La Formation Territoriale des Principautés Belges an Moyen Age,” and M. Léo Errera's “Les Juifs Russes," which declares the alter- natives to be emancipation and extermination. Flemish writers are also briefly discussed. Professor Logeman's reëxamination of the connection between “Elckerlijk" and "Every- ” is of timely interest. Mlle. Marie Belpaire studies the village novelists, from Conscience to Herr Björnson, in “Het Land- > 67 NOTES ON NEW NOVELS Lilian Bell's The Dowager Countess and the American Girl. – Mrs. Harrison's The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch.-Miss Edwards's The Tu-Tze's Tower. - Robertson's Sinful Peck. - Hyne's Thompson's Progress. —"J. P. Mowbray's” The Conquering of Kate. - Mrs. Cheney's Mistress Alice Jocelyn. — Henderson's John Percyfield. — Miss Silberrad's The Success of Mark Wyngate. — Mrs. Ward's The Light Behind. — Clemens's The Gilded Lady. – Mrs. Banks's Round Anvil Rock. — The Kempton- Wace Letters.-- Miss Charles's The Siege of Youth. --- Mrs. Hinkson's A Red, Red Rose. - Moore's The Untilled Field. - Colton's Tioba, and Other Tales. — Carryl's The Lieutenant-Governor. "Josiah Flynt's” The Rise of Ruderick Clowd. NOTES man 70 LIST OF NEW BOOKS 70 . . . 54 (Aug. 1, THE DIAL > a > > : а 66 leven in de Letterkunde.” “The strongest ishing." Historical fiction is coming back into dramatic work of the year has been the social- favor, but it is now written by naturalists in- istic play by the well-known novelist M. Buysse, stead of romanticists. The chief work of this - Het Gezin Van Paemel,' which shows small class is “ The King of All Sinners," by Mr. Flemish farmers at warfare with their village Laurids Bruun, which “ deals with the heredi- lord, their clergyman, the gamekeepers, and tary sin which is handed down from father to gendarmes, all conspiring to grind them down son in unbroken line, and shows how the fate and reduce them to despair.” of a physically and mentally degenerate indi. Since Dr. Tille wrote his last Bohemian ar- vidual, in collision with the demands of a merci- ticle, the foremost Bohemian poet, Mr. Jaroslav less and impersonal society, must be tragic." Vrchlicky, has celebrated his fiftieth birthday, The number of women writers is constantly and added three books to his list: “Votive increasing, and, as Dr. Ipsen puts it, “every Tablets,” “The Soul a Mimosa,” and “My year they produce new, heavy books.” Many , Country.” Mr. Svatopluk Cech's poem, “The of them also affect a rather vulgar taste, and Reapers,” is also new, and affords “ a welcome luxuriate in pictures of indelicate and ambigu- proof that his creative powers have in no way ous love affairs, with details calculated to arouse abated.” The Hus celebration has led to a pub- sensation rather than satisfy the demands of lication of all the works of the martyr, many the psychologist and the poet.” At the head of them from manuscripts only recently discov- of this “feministic school” stands Mrs. Agnes ered. Sir Walter Besant would have been glad Henningsen, whose“ Spedalske" treats of love . “ to welcome the following piece of news : as a sort of contagious, leprous condition “ Amongst other prominent events in our literary truly a charming conception! A very differ- world is the realization of a project which was men- ent sort of book is “ The Mountain Priest,” tioned in last year's report. A number of Bohemian writers have formed an independent publishing society by Miss Ingeborg Maria Sick, a tale of an called Máj, the chief object of which is to improve the orthodox clergyman with whom a modern material situation of literary men and women in this young woman falls in love. “ She wins him country, and it must be acknowledged that the endeav- but leaves him, seeing that he, through his ours of this new society have in a great measure suc- vehement love for her, is being led away from ceeded in promoting the interests of authors. They have helped to raise the fees for literary work, to ensure his higher calling and becoming an inferior a greater share in the profits of books for the writers Herr Valdemar Rördam's “Gudrun of them, and to protect rights in literary property." Dyre” is “ a hymn to sensual love in praise of In belles-lettres, the following books are note, the flesh, an epic in verse with scarcely any. worthy: “Passion and Strength,” a social thing but love in it, and a theory of the free- novel by Mr. Hladik; "From the Native dom thereof." Peasant literature is represented Nest,” by Mr. Vaclav Vlcek; “ Books of Remi- by Herr Johan Skjoldborg's “Gyldholm,” niscences,” by Mr. Ladislav Quis; “ A Ballad " which “ has some brilliant pages on the inter- of a Man and His Joys,” by the satirist, Mr. course between the small cottagers and servants Victor Dyk; and two plays based upon early on a noble estate, but afterwards degenerates Bohemian history, the work, respectively, of into a socialistic pamphlet.” “ The edition of Mr. Hilbert and Mr. Alois Jirasek. 66 The the collected works of Dr. Georg Brandes in History of Bohemian Literature in the Nine- twelve volumes has been finished, and is now teenth Century” is a joint work by several followed by a reprint of his polemical pamph- writers, and Dr. Tille himself has published a lets, which it would have been better certainly book on “ The Philosophy of Literature Under to leave uncollected on account of their bitter- H. Taine and His Predecessors." ness and injustice.” Dr. Alfred Ipsen's criti- “The first point to notice about Danish lit- cal study of this author will soon be completed. erature," writes Dr. Ipsen, “is the rapid in- | Dr. Vedel has published Dr. Vedel has published “Heroic Life," which crease of its mass.” The novels of the year “pictures the primitive life of the ancient world have increased to one hundred and eighty, a in many countries and phases, as it developed jump of just fifty per cent. from the year before. under the strong and brilliant rule of war But the quality of this writing seems to grow and the worship of all the warlike virtues.” " It is a ruminating sort of literature; | A book somewhat similar in subject, but very the second generation of naturalism seems no different in treatment, is Herr Axel Olrik's man.” " > worse. > longer able to produce vital art, but it has “Ancient Heroic Poems of Denmark.” It is a dexterity in the use of the pen which are aston- only a first part, and the author tries to settle solid principles for dealing with the old lays, 1903.) 55 THE DIAL which often, under the influence of the great France would doubtless acknowledge that talent is not migration, were changed and remodelled. In wanting, though genius is not apparent, and master- pieces are rare. He would admire the gift of accurate opposition to the common tendency in the treat- and minute observation, the subtle psychology, the force, ment of the sagas and lays, he tries to carry colour, and picturesque quality of the language — all out a poetic and literary principle in his deal- these attributes of our writers' talents; but that would ing with them An English edition of the be the sole profit that our unhappy critic would derive book will soon appear." from a gigantic task." In his report upon French literature, M. In poetry, factions flourish, and the old order Pravieux begins with the drama. The dram- is giving place to the new. The Academy now atized novel exists in France also, and is illus- crowns verse that violates most of the tradi- trated this year by M. Emile Fabre's stage tional rules, as in the case of volumes by M. version of Balzac's “ Ménage de Garçon,” and Fernand Gregh and the Comtesse de Noailles. M. Henri Bataille's dramatization of Count The principal quarrel now is between the Tolstoy's “ Resurrection.” The other note- Parnassians of day before yesterday and the worthy plays of the year are “ Théroigne Symbolists of yesterday. The latter include de Méricourt," by M. Paul Hervieu ; “Les M. Gustave Kahn, M. Jean Moreas, and M. Affaires Sont les Affaires," by M. Octave Henri Régnier. The last-named poet, we are Mirbeau ; " La Châtelaine,” by M. Alfred informed, « chisels out verse which for sculp- Capus ; and “L'Autre Danger," by M. tural beauty, clearness of contour, and wisdom, Maurice Donnay. is equal to the best work of his master, M. “ Novelists, who become more and more numerous Maria de Hérédia.” Of the method and the in France, may be arranged under two heads. Some art of history France is daily approaching a remain faithful to the ancient traditional conception of cleaner conception. History has learned the the novel, and confine their studies to one subject only - love. But, unfortunately, the public has for a long lesson of accuracy, and has been initiated into time become blasé, and as it is difficult to rejuvenate the methods of the neighboring sciences so old a subject as the novel, itself as old as the hills, natural history, physiology, psychology, and these writers too often think themselves bound to stim- social science. At a time when history is get- ulate the idle curiosity of readers by applying them- ting more mastery over its methods, and finds selves solely to the passions and giving us unwholesome pictures in which art has no part. The others, without an increasing popularity among the cultured, altogether refraining from the portrayal of love either it also enters into the possession of all sorts of in its tragic or its attractive phases, write novels with hitherto unexploited resources." Noteworthy ideas concerning philosophic, social, and religious ques- historical works of the year are M. Albert Van- tions. In such cases the novel becomes a pretext, dal's “ L'Avènement de Bonaparte,” M. Paul or, to be more exact, a process by means of which somo theme is brought before the general public, which, Gautier's “Madame de Staël et Napoléon," stripped of its fictional covering, would, by its mere M. Gabriel Hanotaux's “ Histoire de la France appearance, scare away the reader. These books are, Contemporaine,” and, of particular interest to in fact, treatises disguised as novels. This kind of lit- American readers, the work of the Vicomte de erature is now much in vogue in France. Scarcely any Noailles, entitled “Marins et Soldats Français didactic books are written, or, at least, scarcely any that are written are read." en Amérique pendant la Guerre de l'Indé- Among novels of the didactic category we have pendance des Etats-Unis.” Among works of "L'Etape,” by M. Paul Bourget ; « Les Deux criticism and literary history, M. Gaston Bois- Vies," by MM. Paul and Victor Margueritte; sier's “ Tacite " is given the first rank. “La Maison du Péché," by Mme. Marcelle “ He admires Tacitus without idolizing him. He not only praises his merits, but also throws light on his Tinayre; “Le Paradis de l'Homme,” by M. weaknesses, taking care to point out, however, that they Marc Andiol; “Lettres à Françoise," by M. belong more to the age in which he lived than to the Marcel Prévost; and “L’Inutile Effort,” by M. man himself. This volume arrives in the nick of time Edouard Rod. In the other category come to correct the false ideas of the illustrious author of the such books as “La Peur de Vivre," by M. Agricola' held by so many. During the second half of last century no one would recognize in him anything Henry Bordeaux ; “Le Roman d'un Agrégé,” more than a just judge, a contemner of imperial cor- by M. Léo Claretie ; “Dos d'Ane,” by M. Louis ruption. The next step, to disguise him as a demagogue, Boulé; “L'Inconstante," by Mme. Marie de was one which was quickly taken. I gather from M. Régnier; and “La Nouvelle Espérance,” by Boissier's book that Tacitus was not a republican in the sense in which we understand the term now." the Comtesse de Noailles. Of the present state of French fiction M. Pravieux says: Other works in this field are “André Chénier,” “The critic with sufficient courage to attempt the by M. Emile Faguet; by M. Emile Faguet; “Les Dernières Années perusal of the innumerable novels published yearly in de Chateaubriand,” by M. Edmond Biré; > 6 > 56 (Aug. 1, THE DIAL 6 “L'Italie des Romantiques," by M. Urbain showed a leaning toward mysticism, by which he sought Mengin ; “Hommes et Idées du XIXe siècle," to subdue, or at least give depth to, realism. He believed in death as the great power that transfigures by M. Réné Doumic; “ Vus du Dehers," by life; he cast round the secrets of the dying hour a Dr. Max Nordau; and “ Les Ecrivains et les web of hopeful surmise. In his new play, • Der arme Mæurs,” by M. Henry Bordeaux. Philosophy Heinrich,' this mysticism of death has , one may say, and social science have been enriched by M. become a mysticism of life. Therein and therefrom Eugéne de Roberty's study of Nietzsche, M. must life find its regeneration; in mystic self-absorption the sick man must be made whole. At the same time Bougle's “Les Idées Egalitaires,” M. de mysticism claims a place in the action of the play as Lanessan's “La Lutte pour l'Existence et well; it makes a link in the close-wrought psychological l'Evolution des Sociétés," and M. Vander- chain. The unfortunate Heinrich, smitten by leprosy, velde's " L'Exode Rural et le Retour aux sets out to seek the physician at Salerno, accompanied Champs.” Three noteworthy books of travel by the maiden who is ready to sacrifice her heart's blood for his sake. He is cured through her unques- are mentioned : “ Au Pays d'Homère,” by the tioning faith and cheerful self-sacrifice. Not in the Baron de Mandat-Grancey ; “Sibérie et Cali- “ sense in which the miracle takes place in Hartman von fornie," by M. Albert Bordeaux; and “Chez Aue's poem: there the knight repents at the critical les Cannibales,” by the Comte Testetich de moment, overcome with pity for the fair child whose naked body he sees threatened by the surgeon's knife, Tolna. M. Pravieux concludes his com- and so he starts with her upon his homeward journey mentary by saying that France still worships as ill as when he came, till finally his deed of mercy science, although no longer with the blind zeal awakens God's mercy likewise, and he is freed from his of past years. “Fiction, history, criticism, disease." ” philosophy, and the drama can no longer be Next in interest to this work is Herr Arthur independent of science - in fact, they are not. Schnitzler's “Der Schleier der Beatrice," a Even the poet, while allowing greater licence drama of Bologna and the Renaissance period. to his imagination, recognizes the idea of the But this work is a little more than a year old, world which modern physics supply." and we cannot spare the space for an account Dr. Heilborn, writing from Germany, takes of it. · König Laurin ” is the title of Herr von literature in the restricted sense which recog- Wildenbruch’s new play, which is concerned nizes only three classes of productions — plays with the Goths after the death of Theodoric. poems, and novels. Since be writes at length Its power is all concentrated in a single scene, of the works selected for comment, his report which is thus described : is the most interesting of the entire series. “ The Goths, assembled for a carousal, are celebrat- He begins with some remarks on the sub- ing the memory of their king, Theodoric the Great, ject of Herr Sudermann's essays upon “ Die who has recently died; a young Gothic noble, carried away by his enthusiasm, lifts the king's drinking-cup on Verrohung in der Theaterkritik,” which he high and speaks -- not, however, of Theodoric the Great, — , takes to be the wail of a disappointed play- but of Dietrich of Bern. He has seen Dietrich riding a wright, who has failed to fulfil his early promise, in the morning twilight over the sea, his fist clenched and who thus scolds the public for its failure wrathfully against his foe, and behind him Hildebrand, to appreciate his work. These essays, he says, his ancient comrade-in-arms, mounted on a gallant steed. He has seen him wrestling with Laurin, King of the “were characteristic of their author, for they Dwarfs, in the midst of the downtrodden rosegarden, showed with terrible clearness that for Suder- when he robbed him of the cloak of darkness. For mann the artist's manifestation of his Dietrich of Bern is not dead any more than his old an- means nothing more than the pursuit of out- tagonist Laurin, the destroyer of all fair men Laurin, who always reappears upon the earth under a new name, ward success. They showed a man who has and who reigns even now as - the Emperor Justinian !” been overtaken in the race by more fortunate Of Herr Heyse’s “ Maria von Magdala,” we competitors, who has grown nervous and irri- read that table, and who looks for some external cause “ The conflict he raises in his heroine's breast reminds to explain his failure.” Of the past year as a one of Victor Hugo's • Marion Delorme.' The courtesan, whole, Dr. Heilborn says that "it has not pro- who has now expiated the sins of her former life, might duced a single great and conspicuous work, but save Jesus from being crucified, if only she would grant it has brought forth fruits of quiet and honest an influential Roman access to her chamber; but she refuses to do so in the consciousness that unrighteous labour.” Some would find an exception to this means must needs be abhorrent to Him who is righteous- sweeping statement in “Der Arme Heinrich” ness itself. But the conflict, as such, seems an impos- of Herr Hauptmann, which even in the present sible one. It is a degradation of history to combine it discussion, is placed first and given the most with motives of such a kind." extended analysis. Of plays less weighty in their matter, the fol- “Even in his earlier productions Gerhart Hauptmann lowing may be mentioned: “Das Thal des : his powers a 1903.) 57 THE DIAL are men- Lebens,” by Herr Dreyer; “ Die Lokalbahn,' ” by Herr Ludwig Thoma; “ Der Heerohme,' The New Books. by Herr Josef Lauff ; “Ledige Leute," by Herr Dörmann; “Gerechtigkeit,” by Herr HALF A CENTURY OF YALE.* Otto Ernst; “ Kaltwasser,” by Herr Ludwig Fulda; and “Das Dunkle Thor," by Herr No one is better qualified to give an account Felix Philippi. These pieces are farces or of Yale during the last half-century than Ex- melodramas, and have little literary merit. President Dwight. As the descendant of a The drama of popular life seems to be reviv- former president, as student, tutor, professor ing, especially in Austria, and is illustrated by and president, as acting treasurer for two years Herr Josef Werkmann's “ Der Kreuzweg- and occupant of the college pulpit for six and stürmer” and Herr Karl Schönherr's “ Sonn. a half, he has had every opportunity to become wendtag." In lyric production, the new thoroughly imbued with the Yale spirit, and to poems of Frau M. E. delle Grazie, of Herr make himself master of her traditions and his- Hugo Salus, of Frl. Agnes Miegel, and Herr tory. His intimate personal acquaintance with Heyse's “ Ein Wintertagebuch ” the Yale faculty and Yale men of his time en- tioned. Turning to prose fiction, we begin ables him to present a series of portraits of with Herr Heyse's new Novellen vom Gar.extraordinary interest and fidelity. Even the dasee,” but the author's “capacity for produc- general reader, to whom the university at New ing direct effects is gone ; his craftsman's hand Haven makes no special appeal, will find these no longer obeys him with absolute certainty. pen-portraits well worth examining. The amia- He has declined grievously in power of com- ble idiosyncrasies of the old-time college pro- position, but he still retains his psychological fessor are most pleasantly touched upon by a cunning, he still finds the intrinsically right sympathetic hand; and, to him who chooses to and necessary solution of his problems.” Frau read between the lines, the artist gives many von Ebner-Eschenbach, on the other hand, features of his own portrait by showing so in- although well past seventy, has remained young evitably what qualities he most admires in others. in comparison with the author of "Im Para- Yale's remarkable growth in the period under diese,” and “ Agave,” her new novel, is a fine review, a growth to which Dr. Dwight contri- production. “His story centres round a pupil buted so notably, forms an instructive and en- of Masaccio, whose life is a perpetual struggle couraging chapter in the history of higher to conquer art and win the woman he loves. education. When Dr. Dwight entered college But the youth who has shown rare skill as a the whole student body was smaller than a potter, and in whose designs Masaccio has single class of the present day, and the total recognized talent of an unusual order, is denied endowment far less than the annual income the gift of art in its higher form, and the im- now enjoyed by the university. The standard petuous, madly jealous wooer is denied his of scholarship has undergone an equal change love.” Other fiction of the year comprises for the better since the days when the elder “Ein Unglückliches Volk” (the Armenians), Silliman, examining candidates in geography, by Herr Rudolf Lindau ; Vita Somnium 16 made grievous complaint of their defective Breve,” by Frau Ricarda Huch; “ Die Göttin. preparation, and cited in illustration the sub- nen; oder die Drei Romane der Herzogin von freshman's answer to the question, “Who Assy” (a trilogy in imitation of Sig. d’An- founded St. Petersburg ?” “ St. Peter," was nunzio), by Herr Heinrich Mann; “ Reigen ” the ingenious answer. (But it parenthetically (which "describes various Viennese types in the observed, as the author points out, that the act of satisfying the desires of love"), by Herr question had about as little to do with geog- Arthur Schnitzler; “ Freundschaft," à Nor-raphy as the answer.) Those were the days wegian tale by Herr Georg Hirschfeld; “ Der when the Latin professor's task was largely to Uebergang,” by Herr J. J. David; and bring Cicero into agreement with Andrews and “ Arbeit,” by Frau Ilse Frapan. Concluding Stoddard's Grammar, and the teacher of math- his article, Dr. Heilborn says: ematics regarded teaching as the one thing “A comparison taken from Dr. Ibsen's Master- farthest removed from his duties. Though builder' might be applied to the literature of this year. we are wont to look back upon that period as No church spires have been erected, nor yet bave fancy an era of plain living and high thinking, our and desire reared any daring castles in the air; but none the less have we built homesteads where men can * MEMORIES OF YALE LIFE AND MEN. 1845–1899, By dwell - homesteads with nurseries in them." Timothy Dwight. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. > th : 58 [Aug. 1, THE DIAL 6 author ventures to question the necessary con- “I bad presented myself before him, on a certain nection between the two. As appropriate to occasion near the end of my academic course, for an examination on studies in his department. He asked this season, and as illustrating the author's me to take a chair near him in his room, and then, in a genial style, let us cite what he has to say on way peculiar to himself — a way which was very help- the subject of vacation, then and now. ful, rather than embarrassing to the student - he ques- “ The summer vacation, at that period, continued for tioned me on various points for half an hour. Then, only six weeks — Commencement Day being the third rising and going to the table, he looked at some papers, Thursday of August, and the autumn term beginning and, selecting one, said : •I suppose you would like to about the twenty-eighth of September. It was not bave me give you a certificate that your examination then regarded as necessary for the health of young peo- has been satisfactory, which you may hand to the Presi- ple that they should finish their yearly studies before dent.' I gave him, of course, an affirmative answer. the hot weather arrived, or to that of older persons, He then handed me the paper, saying, “Not doubting that they should spend the warm season among the hills that you would pass, I wrote the certificate before you or by the seaside. Indeed, for the ordinary citizen, came in.' These last words that he spoke were better, vacations were not looked upon as an essential part of if possible, than my assured success. They have re- life. They were, in a certain measure, the privilege of mained in my memory as a part of my mental picture of the man. boys and their teachers — the teachers having the en- joyment granted them because it was deemed needful But there was nothing weak or childish in this that the boys should have it. Why it was universally mildness of manner. In all cases of grave im. considered so necessary for the boys, we young fellows portance the old professor was a wise disci- never put ourselves to the task of finding out. Possi- bly the task might have been fruitless, if it had been plinarian, “ a tower of strength,” as President undertaken. We accepted the fact, and, raising no Woolsey used to call him. When his son, troublesome inquiries, we felicitated ourselves on the Benjamin Silliman, junior, became an in- good fortune which the world bad consented to give us. structor in the college, the two were popularly, It is half a century since then — and I may say, in passing, that I have in all the years followed the wise but not disrespectfully, known as Old Ben course of my boyhood and have ever avoided the ques- and Young Ben. As the author observes, such tion which I then put aside --adopting in this regard student appellations are oftener affectionate the comforting theory that what is, is right, and what than disrespectful, and the professor who is right is best.' ... • Much study is a weariness to the chooses to make a grievance of the matter flesh'; and so the resting-time was made to follow the working-time. ... The scholar fancies, in his boyhood may well be advised to seek some other sphere years, that he knows to the utmost the blessing of vaca- of usefulness. tion time. But we may pity his ignorance. It is the Those who knew the late Prof. Othniel C. teacher who has the full understanding." Marsh, and who also know Dr. Dwight, will Dr. Dwight refers more than once, disap. appreciate the humor of the following. Refer- provingly, to the Spartan discipline that pre- ring to Professor Marsh and to his own pres- vailed at Yale for many years after his entrance.idency, the writer says: The weeding-out process was carried to an ex- “In his attitude and in his manner of expressing In meeting the freshman class for the himself, a certain formality was characteristic of him. Especially was this manifest in cases where he sought purpose of administering a word of wholesome an interview with others on matters of business, or on counsel at the outset of the college course, subjects of interest with respect to his own particular President Day was accustomed to remind these work. The slight and somewhat peculiar hesitation in young hopefuls, as the simplest and most na- his utterance rendered this formality more conspicuous. I was always struck with this singularity of manner tural and perhaps most desirable thing in the when he called upon me, as he occasionally did, for world, “ Doubtless not more than one-half the purpose of securing some minor appropriation your number will graduate.” This cheerful of money for his department of the museum. .. prophecy was literally fulfilled in the case of Whatever the object might be, the manner of the man was the same. It was as if we had been two Dr. Dwight's class. One hundred and ten en- . . ministers of state having little acquaintance with each tered ; fifty-five achieved the bachelor's degree. other, who had met for the settlement of some great Not a little of the reform that subsequent years question of public concern. All was serious, with a have brought in this matter of discipline is due dignified solemnity, and measured with a diplomatic to Dr. Dwight himself. deliberateness. My own bearing was, as of necessity, As the chief charm of this volume lies in its determined by his. One could not talk after the ordi- nary method, and with the freedom of a common con- life-like portrayal of illustrious men now de- versation, when the other party in the interview seemed ceased, it will not be amiss to quote somewhat to place the subject and the discussion on a plane so largely from these character-sketches. Refer- much higher. I was not able fully to equal him, but ring to the elder Silliman's kindly attitude my approaches to his standard were, for the time and by reason of effort, so near to it that I think he was toward the students, the author relates the satisfied. I could, indeed, be as immovably serious in following: my look, as he could himself be. This is a gift for cess. - 1903.) 59 THE DIAL which I have sometimes felt that I ought to be grateful. the preparatory curriculum, so that the boy may My look, also, in a measure, solemnized my speech; enter college at sixteen or seventeen, instead and so, with the friendly spirit which we always had, we moved on with a reasonable success. But I used of eighteen or nineteen. He holds that if a often to think, just after such an interview had closed, young man finishes his academic and his profes- of the possibilities of the thoughts on the two sides re- sional education, and enters on the serious busi. specting it. Did either of the two parties quite under- ness of life, at twenty-six, that is early enough. stand the impression produced on the mind of the other? Was the look of either quite the same that it had been To all in any way interested in education, as a few moments before ? It is enough, no doubt, to know well as to those who take a special interest in that all is well that ends well." Yale, Dr. Dwight's book is most heartily to be President Woolsey's personal force is strik- commended. The only regret is that its five ingly illustrated by an anecdote. A certain hundred pages of varied and entertaining mat- class, dating about forty years ago, had planned ter are followed by no index. Portraits, as well an entertainment of some sort, accompanied as views of buildings, are lavishly supplied. with dancing, and much interest was felt in the PERCY F. BICKNELL. success of the occasion. But, as is not unusual in such college events, considerable partisan excitement had been aroused, and this excite- THE ONLY PRESIDENTIAL IMPEACHMENT ment increased as the appointed day drew near, TRIAL,* until the final issue became a matter of some No gift of prophecy is required to see that, anxiety. as time gives the proper perspective, the period “Without the knowledge of the class, the President, of Reconstruction following the Civil War will at a late stage of the controversy, was made aware of the condition of things. He met the emergency at once command a paramount interest in the history in his own mind, and on the morning of the day before of our country. As a crisis when the scales the entertainment was intended to be given when all of life or death for representative government thoughts were eager with expectation and doubtful as trembled at the equipoise, it surpasses any to a peaceful result — he rose in presence of the as- moment of the great war which produced it. sembled company of students, and said: “I understand that a plan has been formed by the Senior Class for a During the time of the appeal to arms, there ball to-morrow evening, and that much contention has could be little question of the outcome after arisen in the class respecting certain matters connected the policy of coercion had been determined with it. There will be no ball.' The question was im- upon and the people had rallied to the call. mediately settled for every member of the class, and the excitement died away because its cause was removed.” The overwhelming odds in favor of Northern numbers, equipment, and resources, made the The author's views on various matters of col. conquest of the protestants a matter of human lege education and administration are set forth endurance. Free government was never for an impressively, not to say convincingly. Speak-instant in real danger in the North. The aim ing of the measure of power to be granted to the executive head of a college or university, all its forms intact. was simply the preservation of the Union, with he refers to the extreme view of those who But Reconstruction changed Northern feel- would clothe the president with an authority ings and aims completely. Flushed with similar to that of the head of a great com- mercial establishment; and he also cites the victory, the conquerors, in their attempt to " reconstruct” the Union, struck at the vital suggestion of President Woolsey that the pres. principles of self-government. The building ident's office be superseded by something like was threatened with destruction in the effort the rectorship prevailing in German univer- to restore it. One portion of the people was sities. The Yale system has ever been, and is to be held subject to the other. The policy now, a sort of compromise between these two. decided on required the erection of an auto- Although the president has the right of veto on cratic empire on free soil. No rights were to all faculty action, he governs with the advice be accorded a conquered minority. and consent of his faculty; and this plan Dr. But suddenly the action checked itself. A Dwight regards as the best, and as adapted, in unanimity of opinion in this sudden perversion all essential points, to the spirit of the times. was not to be hoped for; and this very dif- On the question of shortening the college course, ference brought on a conflict between two now furnishing matter for considerable dis- branches of the victorious national govern- cussion both wise and foolish, Dr. Dwight * THE IMPEACHMENT AND TRIAL OF ANDREW JOHNSON, pronounces emphatically for continuing the old Seventeenth President of the United States. By David order of things, and advises the shortening of Miller Dewitt. New York: Macmillan Co. die begin 60 [Aug. 1, THE DIAL 1 1 1 : ment, which, while further jeopardizing free- party policy. This was especially true of Sena- dom, distracted attention from the unfortu- tor Ross of Kapsas, whose political career was nate people of the South. cut short by his negative vote. Ross wrote a If the attention of the radicals, whose exist- vindication of his action, which was printed at ence was due to the necessary force-measures Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1896, his place of the war, had not thus been drawn away of residence at the time, but which the present from the objects of their wrath to centre upon author evidently did not use. Senators Trum. President Johnson, one hesitates to predict bull of Illinois and Doolittle of Wisconsin the permanent injury which might have been were also conspicuous victims to the vengeance wrought to the principles of free government. of party rule. In this sense, Andrew Johnson was a vicarious The conclusions from this concise study of sacrifice. And as such he is pictured in an the trial may be found in these words : excellent history of his impeachment and trial “Had this first impeachment eventuated in the re- by Mr. David Miller Dewitt. In this, the moval of the Chief Magistrate, a precedent would have author has not been blind to Johnson's faults, been established of the most fatal character - consti- although frequently inclined to gloss them tuting a perpetual menace to the stability of our execu- tive, a spreading blight upon our character and credit over. The President by chance faced a prob- as a nation, a standing reproach to the republican form lem which would have tried the powers of the of government, and gradually leading to a national habit president chosen by the people ; yet “ Andrew of capricious political convulsions to put one president Johnson was not Abraham Lincoln,” as the in place of another such as have disgraced some of the author says. “ His personal self-sufficiency, the practice of deposing presidents by political impeach- “ republics of Central and South America. ... Never will his unbounded confidence in the rectitude of ment become domiciliated in this republic. Centuries his public acts, and the steady fire of his com- will pass by before another President of the United bativeness,” are phrases which indicate the States can be impeached, unless the offense of which he final estimate of him. is accused is clearly non-political and amounts unmis- takably to a high crime or misdemeanor." One must not expect this volume to be EDWIN ERLE SPARKS. free from partisanship in behalf of Johnson. Sometimes this is shown by writing down his enemies, especially Stanton. “ The Genius of Duplicity” is summoned to guard the shade A CENTURY OF EXPLORATIONS.* of the ex-Secretary of War, as the testimony of Sumner is recalled showing Stanton's private historians have found mines of wealth in the ter- Explorers, archæologists, philologists, and opinion of Grant while soliciting an office at his hands. John Sherman is accused of jug. Ruins of ancient cities, temples, palaces, tombs, ritory commonly designated as “ Bible Lands." gling the order of charges in the final vote, and towers, have yielded large results within “ to avoid an utter loss of self-respect.” The cry of Sumner for a verdict of “guilty” is the past century to the persistent and well- compared with the tirades of Robespierre in equipped explorer. Egypt , Palestine, Syria, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, and Arabia have the Convention. Thaddeus Stevens, the most produced rich barvests for the student of an- implacable of Johnson's enemies, is treated with cient oriental times, and of the Bible. greater leniency, perhaps because he was al- Professor Hilprecht's bulky volume, of 810 ways a fair fighter. The accusation is made that " the two Nebraska senators fulfilled the con- pages, is an attempt to present in popular tract of their admission” by voting guilty." form the explorations of a century in five by voting" guilty.” | lands which figure more or less in the Bible. In no part of the book is the author more The editor has contributed to the book 577 interesting than in his description of the dra- pages on the “Resurrection of Assyria and gooning to which the doubtful senators were subjected just before the vote in the Impeach summarize the explorations and expeditions in Babylonia.” Of these, the first 288 pages ment trial. " From Maine, from Illinois, from those countries from early times down to the Kansas, from Rhode Island, from West Vir- ginia, from Tennessee, — resolutions, letters, present, devoting the greater amount of space , to the activities of the nineteenth century. telegrams, delegates, all demanding the con- This section traverses largely the same terri. viction of the President and denouncing the least hesitation on the part of his Republican *EXPLORATIONS IN BIBLE LANDS DURING THE 19TH triers." He shows the risk a statesman runs who CENTURY. Edited by Prof. H. V. Hilprecht, University of Pennsylvania. Illustrated. Philadelphia: A. J. Holman & pares oppose his personal convictions against Company. . > guilty” is the 1903.) 61 THE DIAL - 9 eative, that tebiet section of the holecie taking tory as Rogers, in his “ History of Babylonia within recent years has made this dangerous and Assyria," Vol. I. pp. 1-253. In clearness field more fascinating and valuable than ever and directness of statement it does not equal before. With the exception of some technical Rogers, but in the multiplicity of facts that are philological matters, the reader will get much presented it surpasses that earlier work. of value in this story. The most elaborate section of the volume, “ The So-called Hittites and their Inscrip- very naturally, is that devoted to the American tions " is the theme discussed by Professor excavations at Nuffar (pp. 289-568). It Jensen of Marburg. His article is an exposi- discusses with minute detail the history and tion of his own method of deciphering the progress of that series of campaigns from 1888 Hittite inscriptions, - a method that finds to the present time. It is evident to the im- in them kinship with the language of modern partial reader, before he gets far into the nar- Armenia. This article will be of least interest rative, that this section of the book is taking to the popular reader, because of its technical matter. pits himself against Dr. John P. Peters, the The entire volume is profusely illustrated ; director of the first two campaigns (compare the reproductions from photographs are gen- pp. 321–2, 327-8-9, 339 note 1, 408, 415). erally admirable, while those made from draw- Throughout the whole of the treatment, the ings are quite uneven in value. The four reader is now and then so forcibly reminded maps accompanying the book are excellent, and of an unpleasant controversy that his ardor aid the reader in localizing the travels of explor- over the recital of brilliant discoveries is ers and points of explorations. The volume is chilled. Disputes and disagreements as to the issued in sumptuous form, printed on calen- proper method of conducting excavations may dered paper, with beautiful clear type, with a always arise between leaders of campaigns, but smaller size in the foot-notes. These foot- it hurts public confidence and public respect to notes are full of valuable bibliographical mat- witness such wranglings. Professor Hilprecht ter, such as the scholar or investigator may has done valuable service in publishing the wish to examine in further research. The vol- texts issued some years ago, and in populariz- ume occupies a position quite unique in the his- ing information on discoveries in the Orient, tory of exploration in Bible lands, and gives to and in determining some of the technique of the public the editor's large service in this ancient Nippur. These are certainly eminent great work, — a service whose character and services to knowledge. Therefore we are the scope as here represented have unfortunately more chagrined to find so much valuable space stirred up a warm contention among scholars. and time, in a work for popular circulation, IRA M. PRICE. given to the discussion of matters that gratu- itously disturb the peace of mind of the reader. This whole section reveals to us Nippur as THE CONSPIRACY OF AARON BURR.* one of the great cities of a great past. The One of the most interesting chapters of revelations made through the campaigns of the American history is that which relates the University of Pennsylvania must re-cast our conspiracy of Aaron Burr. Perhaps the inter- conceptions of the civilization of Babylonia in est arises from the fact that this episode seems the fourth and third millenniums B.C., and con. to be so wholly out of keeping with the gen- sequently greatly modify all former views of eral character of American events. That a the beginnings and growth of the most ancient man of political influence and ability, a former civilization of the world. leader in republican councils, engaged in the The section (pp. 623-690) on " Excava- prosy profession of law and living in the rather tions in Egypt,” by Professor Steindorff, is unromantie century just past, should suddenly well written, and gives the reader a very fair take to knight-errantry and set out to win him- conception of many of the best results of ex- self an empire, is a matter that we should hardly ploration on the Nile within a century. Of expect to find recorded in our own matter-of- course, the space at his disposal is manifestly fact annals. And the mystery that pervades . cramped, but it has been wisely employed for the whole undertaking serves to heighten the the benefit of the lay reader. Professor Hommel has presented (pp. 691- For a long time, historians were in doubt as 752) a good bird's-eye view of “Explorations * THE AARON BURR CONSPIRACY. By Walter Flavius in Arabia.” The hazardous work of Glazer McCaleb. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co. romance. 62 (Aug. 1, THE DIAL a to what Burr's real purposes were. Did the Burr's famous letter of July 29, 1806, in conspirators plan to wrest Mexico from Spain, which he unfolds his plans to General Wilkin- or the Mississippi Valley from the United son, has long been looked on as furnishing the States ? Or did their purpose embrace both key to the whole conspiracy. But Dr. McCaleb these ends ? For nearly a century the problem shows that this letter is capable of at least two waited for a satisfactory solution ; but when interpretations, of which the older seems the Mr. Henry Adams, in his masterly history of least probable. The author also makes good the Jeffersonian period, declared Burr a traitor, a use of Clark's letter to Wilkinson, which Mr. it was thought that the matter had been finally Henry Adams construes as a warning against disposed of. The evidence seemed conclusive, one Mr. Minor, of Natchez, who was supposed and scholars settled down to the belief that in to have revealed the secrets of the conspirators. the early years of the nineteenth century a vast But the letter, when cited in full, appears to be conspiracy existed in the West looking toward more than this : it is a warning against a man the establishment of a mighty empire extending who invents and circulates absurd tales. from Pittsburg to Panama. The author is not satisfied with weakening But the present year has produced a work the evidence of the prosecution. He proceeds on this subject which students of history will with a positive argument along three principal read with great interest. Dr. McCaleb's work lines: The West hated Spain, and longed for is the result of several years' research; it makes an opportunity to help liberate Mexico; the a book of about 350 pages, and impresses Mississippi Valley was loyal to the Union, not the reader as a remarkably thorough effort. even the Creoles at New Orleans plotted sedi- In addition to the older, fairly well-known, tion; the panic that struck the country when 2 material, the author has made use of sources Burr's expedition finally started south was hitherto unknown. His exploitation of Texan, largely the result of Wilkinson's activity in Mexican, and British archives, has added much circulating false and alarming reports. The to our knowledge, not only of Burr's conspiracy, parts of Dr. McCaleb's work that deal with the but also of kindred subjects. state of public sentiment in the West are Dr. McCaleb takes the position that Burr's particularly strong and enlightening. plans were directed against Mexico only. The The older view is manifestly shaken. Burr evidence formerly relied on to prove Burr's himself may have had traitorous designs, but traitorous intentions exists in the form of a few that cannot be known. The author rarely tries letters. There is also the testimony of Gen- to apologize for Burr, and succeeds rather erals Wilkinson and Eaton; but no historian poorly when he does try. But the New York who values his reputation would dare depend lawyer was not alone in the conspiracy. With on their statements. The former is infamous him were associated such men as Blenner- as the most successful traitor, and one of the hassett, Dayton, Senator Smith, and perhaps most consummate prevaricators, that our his- Andrew Jackson. It is hard to believe that tory knows. The latter is also a suspicious these and others, knowing the opinions of their character. Dr. McCaleb is certainly safe in neighbors, would join in a venture that public arguing that a man who could urge the Presi- sentiment would not support for a moment. dent to send as our minister to Spain or En- In some respects, Dr. McCaleb's book is not gland one whom he knew to be intriguing with wholly satisfactory. The author at times al- the representatives of those very nations, and most ceases to be a historian and becomes to have threatened to assassinate the President something of an advocate. And in this con- and to loot the capital, can hardly be accepted nection it should be said that his treatment of as a trustworthy witness. Jefferson is rather unfair. Burr, on the other Mr. Henry Adams lays great stress on Burr's hand, is permitted to display his better side own statements to the English and Spanish almost continuously; it is to be feared that the ministers. But Dr. McCaleb contends that picture of the conspirator which would develop these were but “a consummate piece of impos- in the mind of the general reader would be ture.” Burr needed funds, and England and decidedly unlike the original. Perhaps the Spain were thought willing to assist any ven- literary critic will tell us that the unity of ture that looked toward the dismemberment of style is largely impaired by the introduction of our Union. Hence they were asked to finance documentary material into almost every page a fictitious revolt or to pay for mythical secrets. of the text. But after all these things have This interpretation is at least plausible. been said, the fact remains that Dr. McCaleb a 1903.] 63 THE DIAL a has presented his thesis in a clear, scholarly and since. This starts Felix to reading the “Comédie convincing manner. That he has made a nota- Humaine,” which he devours from first to last. ble contribution to American history, cannot be Thus equipped, he believes that he knows the doubted. Whether the world of scholarship human heart in all its manifestations, and goes will accept his conclusions, remains to be seen. home to apply his knowledge. He falls an easy victim to the morphinomane, and when he learns LAURENCE M. LARSON. the truth, his faith in books even in the books of M. de Balzac, - is considerably shaken. The story is thoroughly unpleasant; it can profit no one to RECENT FICTION.* read, and may not even be described as enter- taining. A book by Mr. Robert Hichens is sure to offer Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim, who gave us “The something disagreeable for our contemplation, and Traitors ” a few weeks ago, now gives us “ A Prince “ Felix " offers no exception to the rule. In this of Sinners.” On the whole, we prefer the weaver case it is a woman who is a morphine-eater, and the of adventurous romance in an imaginary Balkan effects of this loathsome vice are studied with un- kingdom to the topical novelist of modern London. sparing pathological frankness. She is a married “ A Prince of Sinners” gives us dubious philan- woman of thirty or thereabouts, and Felix is an throphy of the social settlement type and bad innocent youth of twenty — 80 innocent, in fact, economics in a defence of the miserable sophistries that he does not discover the failing of his divinity of protectionism. The hero is a young man who es- until late in the chapter, although it is Polichinelle's pouses both these causes, and who at the same time secret to the rest of the world. The trouble with carries on two love affairs so skilfully that we are Felix is that he thinks be knows life when he kept guessing until the very end. The prince of doesn't. This delusion is born of the singular cir- sinners is the father of the youth, who had deserted cumstance that when he leaves the public school, wife and child many years before, and caused a instead of going to the university he packs off to fictitious report of his death to be spread abroad France, and spends a year in a provincial town. When he reappears in England, it is as the wealthy While there he makes the acquaintance of a tailor Earl of Arranmore (he having succeeded unexpect- who once made a pair of trousers for Balzac, and edly to the title and estates ), and in his endeavor has been daft on the subject of the great man over to be helpful to the career of his son (who does FELIX. A Novel. By Robert Hichens. New York: not recognize him for a time) the relationship is Frederick A. Stokes Co. discovered. Even then the son will not accept bis A PRINCE OF SINNERS. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. newly-found father, but persists in the attempt to Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. carve out his own career under his assumed name. CASTLE OMERAGH. By F. Frankfort Moore. New York: It is a case of pride against pride, but in the end D. Appleton & Co. the older man makes a great concession, and the THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY REVEL. By A. T. Quiller- Couch. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. younger man gives in. The lesser social types ROBIN BRILLIANT. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney. New depicted are presented with an easy skill that be- York: Dodd, Mead Co. tokens familiarity with several phases of modern PIGS IN CLOVER. By Frank Danby. Philadelphia : The English life. Barring the inherent improbability J. B. Lippincott Co. of its scheme, the story is a readable one. A SPECTRE OF POWER. By Charles Egbert Craddock. Mr. F. Frankfort Moore has gone back to Crom- Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. LOVE THRIVES IN WAR A Romance of the Frontier in well's ravaging of Ireland for the subject of his 1812. By Mary Catherine Crowley, Boston: Little, Brown, latest novel, “ Castle Omeragh.” The action covers & Co. the period from Drogheda to Clonmel, and we are THE VOICE IN THE DESERT. By Pauline Bradford given a vivid picture of the horrors which have Mackie (Mrs. Herbert Muller Hopkins). New York: Mc- made “ the curse of Cromwell” a potent and sinister Clure, Phillips, & Co. watchword to this day. These dreadful happenings THE LEGATEE. By Alice Prescott Smith. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. are kept mostly in the background, but we are UNDER THE ROSE. By Frederic S. Isham. Indianapolis : made to realize them none the less, and to under- The Bowen-Merrill Co. stand how they have kept Irish passion inflamed THE GREY CLOAK. By Harold MacGrath, Indianapolis : ever since. The actual theme of the romance is The Bobbs-Merrill Co. the attempt of a small detachment of Cromwell's GORDON KEITH. By Thomas Nelson Page. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. forces to capture an outlying stronghold, and the A GENTLEMAN OF THE SOUTH. A Memory of the Black eventual triumph of its defenders. A double love- Belt, from the Manuscript Memoirs of the late Colonel story figures conspicuously in the plot, which is Stanton Elmore. Edited without change by William Garrott interesting and well-developed, and open to crit- Brown. New York: The Macmillan Co. icism only on account of its serious use of the THE SUBSTITUTE. By Will N. Harben. New York: Harper & Brothers. supernatural motive of crystal-gazing. Cromwell THE REDFIELDS SUCCESSION. A Novel By Henry himself appears briefly upon the seene in the closing Burnbam Boone and Kenneth Brown. New York : Harper chapters. & Brothers. Mr. Quiller-Couch is always a welcome visitor 64 [Aug. 1, THE DIAL - pen. a - > to our reading-table, for his mastery of ingenious novel - but the pale cast of thought that comes and humorous romance insures us a session of enjoy. with over-civilization makes it impossible for either ment whenever a new book comes to hand from his of them to act with conviction and determination. The number of his books is now sixteen The right path, the path of contentment, if not fact which we hardly realized until we counted them happiness, lies plainly before them both, but the in the list which accompanies the new volume — and man wavers, and the woman balks at decision, and nearly every one of the sixteen evokes some memory the outcome is satisfaction with a lower ideal for of delight. “The Adventures of Harry Revel” is a the one, and a future of -proud but dreary isolation story of the surprising adventures of a foundling, who for the other. Modern life affords such types and leaves the institution that has sheltered his child- such situations, no doubt, but they are not creditable hood to become an apprenticed chimney-sweep. His to modern civilization. experiences in this capacity soon launch him upon a “Frank Danby” is the pen.name of a woman surprising series of adventures, which end by his who writes novels under the tutelage of Mr. George taking ship for Portugal as a bugle boy in the En- Moore. At least, this was formerly the case, but glish army The time is that of the Peninsular since a recent acrimonious exchange of discourtesies War, and the capture of Ciudad Rodrigo occupies between the two in the columns of “The Saturday the closing chapters. The story is told in the first Review,” we presume that the relation of master person, and the hero is only fifteen years of age and disciple has been dissolved. We are not ac- when we take leave of him, but it must not be in- quainted with the earlier books of this writer, but ferred from this fact that the book is one of merely her new novel “ Pigs in Clover,” is calculated to juvenile interest. Far from this, it deals with such attract attention. The influence of Mr. Moore's matters as the murder of a Jewish miser, a smug- literary methods is evident in the realism of this gling episode on the Cornish coast, the mock social study and in its unabashed handling of dis- marriage of a beautiful girl, and the Virgilian agreeable types and situations. In the interest of translations of her venerable father. With all these the story she has to tell, we should say that the things the boy becomes mixed up as a witness, and pupil had outdone the teacher. We do not alto- occupies the centre of the stage most of the time. gether approve of the artistic methods which she Nor must we forget the quaint and delightful figure employe, but are all the time impressed by the fact of the old maid whose special charge he is at the that the work is a product of an intensely conscious foundling's home, and whose addiction to verse- art, in which every effect is carefully planned, and writing provides the author with an opportunity for nothing left to chance on the impulse of the moment. the display of his most genial humor. · Pigs in Clover” is not an engaging title, and will With every new novel by Mrs. Henry Dudeney, probably keep many readers from the book thus we feel more and more impressed with the idea unfortunately christened. It is the contemptuous that a mantle of similar cut to the one worn by Mr. phrase which one of the characters—a blue-blooded Thomas Hardy rests upon her shoulders. This vari- lady - used to describe the nouveaux riches of ation of the usual metaphor is necessary because Mr. English society. The particular application of this Hardy is fortunately still living. Mrs. Dadeney's phrase is to the South African millionaire, for the rustics are of the same race as Mr. Hardy's, and time covered by the novel includes just the years in her account of their environment gives us a similar which the mining-fields of the Rand reached their sense of the earthiness that clings to unsophisticated highest development, the years preceding and in- humanity everywhere. She gives us with marvel cluding the raid of Dr. Jamieson and its striking ous fidelity the raciness, the dry humor, the super- consequences. Rhodes and other actual characters stitious notions, and the peculiarities of dialect that figure in the novel under their own names ; still survive in rural England to this day, and that con- others appear in easily penetrated disguises. The . tact with culture seems powerless to modify. This political point of view maintained by the writer is persistence of rude primeval types of life and that of imperialism, and she justifies the English thought in the vicinage of civilized conditions is attitude during the years that preceded the out- impressed upon us with singular force by the two break of the war by pleading the paramount interest novelists whose names are thus naturally linked to- of a superior over an inferior civilization. The gether, and remains dominant in our recollection of brutality of the individual Boer and the corruption their work. Yet“Robin Brilliant,” Mrs. Dudeney's of the Boer government are painted in colors so new novel, is by no means chiefly concerned with dark that any measures, whether of defence or rustics; on the contrary, its interest is centred al- aggression, seem warranted. The book is not, how- most wholly about a man and a woman who stand ever, in its essence, a novel of Boer and English- for generations of aristocratic culture, and the back- man in South Africa; it is a novel of Jew and ground of village and rural life serves only as artistic Gentile, of parvenu and aristocrat, in London. Still relief. But somehow the background strikes us as more essentially is it a novel of individual passion, being the most genuine part of the book. The char- of the incredible lengths to which a woman's de- acters of both hero and heroine are wrought with votion may lead her, even when the object of her exceeding subtlety of analysis — the woman even attachment is a man of the most despicable mean- more so than the man, as is inevitable in a woman's ness and selfishness. For with all its variety of 66 a - 1903.) 65 THE DIAL other interests, this is the leading motive of the of Miss Murfree's latest novel, “ A Spectre of novel, and this is the relation which brings it to a Power.” The time is the last year of the Seven tragic close. It is hard for us to accept as possible Years' War, and the scene is placed in those Great a woman so enslaved as Joan, or the power to charm Smoky Mountains which the author has so often of so miserable a wretch as Louis Althaus. That described in the glowing language of enthusiasm. the author holds in deadly earnest her belief in the An exceedingly interesting story is built up about reality of the relation she so remorselessly depicts these historical and geographical accessories, a story , is made evident by the striking statement made of of military operations and diplomatic intrigue, of her thesis in advance of its application : romantic love and picturesque Indian adventure. "There is a mystery known to all who know men and Miss Murfree has made a careful study of the women, to all who have insight into, sympathy with, or Tennessee Indians of the eighteenth century, and understanding of, their fellow-travellers, but it is blank and she possibly makes this fact a little too evident, for incomprehensible to the Pharisees, and to all who would read not only are there notes at the back of the volume, and run at the same time. This is a mystery that fills the divorce courts, mocks the incredulous, and sets at naught all but there are also interspersed through the text creeds and convictions. It is that a certain something, subtle, many matters of Indian dialect, folk-lore, and cere- sweet, and rare, not a perfume, not a touch, but an echo of monial that are not altogether to be justified by the both, light, elusive, all-pervading, is the special property of exigencies of the plot. A better reason for their some loose-living men, a property that is beyond the reach of analysis, but recognisable in the freemasonry of the passions being may be found in taking them as necessary by all who have realised its existence. It is as the candle to contributions to the study of Indian character which the moth, as the rose to the butterfly, as the magnet to the is brought into the plot with great ingenuity and steel. It is a surface lure of sex, it is an all-compelling sympathetic understanding. The author is not con. whisper, almost it seems that to hear it is to obey." tent with the externals that satisfy most writers of This passage, which cannot fail to attract the this sort of fiction, but must give us the psychology attention of the most casual reader, will doubtless of her Cherokees. It is certainly a subtle psychol- be singled out, and rightly so, by every serious ogy, fairly supported by the historical evidences reviewer as the most noticeable thing in the book. adduced here and there, and is artistically convinc- And yet, convinced as we may be of its truth, the ing. Of its absolute truthfulness we have no au- application in the present instance strains our cred-thority to speak, nor do we greatly care about the ulity to the breaking-point. We may account for matter. Considered simply as a story, "A Spectre the second of the two women whom the man of of Power" is extraordinarily interesting and its fatal fascination gets into his toils, for she is intel literary workmanship is very fine indeed. We lectually undeveloped, and of the type that falls an rather resent the way in which the affections of the easy prey to such seductions. But with Joan the captivating Miss Lilias are shifted from the French- case is widely different. She is a woman of char- man to the Highlander, but the latter turns out a acter, will-power, and intellectual ability — to put tolerably acceptable hero after all, although at first it bluntly, she is Miss Olive Schreiner externally he appears to be a peculiarly graceless cub. The modified for the specific purposes of the novel phrases in which the author describes the mountain and we are unwilling to admit that a woman of scenery of the country she knows so well have all this type could be brought permanently under the the old charm for us ; they constitute an impassioned obsession which the author of “ Pigs in Clover” form of prose that appeals powerfully to the poeti- would have us accept. The situation seems to us cal sensibilities, while remaining prose in the radically untrue, and for this reason, for this reason strictest sense, and never degenerating into merely only, profoundly immoral. rhapsodical utterance. It is many years since Miss We commonly think of Wolfe's victory at Quebec Murfree has given us as extensive a performance as ending the struggle between France and England as the present one, and her book is very welcome for the possession of North America. But it must indeed. be remembered that for four years after that mem- English, French, and Indians are again brought orable engagement on the Plains of Abraham the into romantic relations for us in “ Love Thrives in two nations were still at war, and were technically War," a story by Miss Mary Catherine Crowley. enemies in the New World no less than in the Old. The opening year of the War of 1812 provides the Their ambitions forever thwarted in Canada, the historical setting for this romance of Northwestern French still had hopes in the Southwest, and were history, which begins with Hull's disgraceful sur- intriguing with the Indian tribes of Mississippi and render of Detroit, and ends with the reoccupation Tennessee for the furtherance of their designs. of the city by the American forces. Tecumseh, the Their idea seems to have been to organize a con- Prophet, and Tippecanoe are among the many his- federacy of Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Cherokees, torical characters who appear. The story as a which, in alliance with the French, should oppose a whole is rather lifeless, and suffers severely in com- formidable barrier to the English advance over the parison with the distinguished work of Miss Mur- mountains, and which should occupy in the South free. The characters are of the hackneyed conven- a position not unlike that occupied in the North by tional sort, and every incident of the action is of a the Long Honse of the Iroquois nations. These type that has been used hundreds of times before. plans and this situation form the historical setting Miss Pauline Bradford Mackie (Mrs. Hopkins) 66 (Aug. 1, THE DIAL a ago. is making marked advances in the pursuit of her schemes of his rival, becomes enamoured of another art. Her new novel, “A Voice in the Desert,” has woman, and the princess is tricked of both prog- both delicacy and charm; it can hardly be said to pective husbands. The matter of the romance is too po88ess strength. The story is of the Southwest, pre- thin to keep up a sustained interest, and the trap- sumably Arizona, and concerns a few transplanted pings of the various scenes are too artificial to make Easterners, noting the fascination of desert life for any impression of verisimilitude. In a word, the each and all of them, and depicting its subtly modify- story drags all the way through, and displays little ing influence upon their characters. Life under these of the true quality of romance. conditions seems to grow tranquil if not apathetic, This quality is provided, on the other hand, in and the natural human passions assert themselves superabundant measure by Mr. Harold MacGrath but languidly. One of the characters — the clergy- in his romance of “ The Grey Cloak.” This book man's wife — indeed revolts, and makes ber escape; is preeminently an example of “how to do it,” as but even she returns after a season, impelled by the contrasted with the “how not to do it” example desert fascination. A sand-storm adventure, graph- of Mr. Isham's story. It is historical enough to ically depicted, lends a certain degree of excitement satisfy the conscience of those readers who would to the closing chapters, and helps to bring about balk at a work of fiction which was pure invention, the final sentimental adjustment. yet it has invention enough to gratify the most Mrs. Alice Prescott Smith's “The Legatee,” is ardent passion for exciting adventure. It has, not unlike the book just mentioned in its general moreover, a literary quality that is at least respect- characteristics. It has a charm that almost amounts able, and that does not suffer overmuch from pad- to distinction but is somewhat lacking in the elements ding and cheap rhetorical devices. The character- of strength. The scene is a Wisconsin lumber town, izations are excellent after the stagy fashion that is with its mixed population of Belgians, Swedes, and inevitable in such a story, and the sequence of in- native Americans, and the time is about thirty years cident is surprisingly well-knit. Historically, the The characteristics of village life, with its book is a romance of the time of Mazarin, the scene petty preoccupations, its dall round of toil, and its being about equally divided between Old and New narrow religious bigotry, are given us from intimate France. Thus we get court intrigue and roystering knowlege with an unsparing pen. In one respect in the first half, and in the second half garrison we think that the writer erra. A labor agitation life and Indian adventure. Taken altogether, this occupies an important part in the story, and the romance is one of the best of its kind ; its interest type of thought and activity portrayed is one fa- is unflagging, and it affords an abundant measure miliar enough to us nowadays, but one which had of not unprofitable entertainment. hardly appeared in this country as early as 1870. For the second time, Mr. Thomas Nelson Page A wayward and altogether charming heroine is presents us with a novel of large dimensions. The found in the daughter of the village physician, and new work is entitled “Gordon Keith," and suffers the not unsatisfactory hero is the Southerner who, somewhat in the comparison with “ Red Rock” for as his uncle's legatee in the ownership of the lum- the reason that its interest is more scattered, and ber mills, finds his coming heralded by prejudice, its plan does not have so definite a historical back- and his every act met with suspicion. How he ground. It is essentially a novel of the personal eventually conquers respect and sympathy is inter- fortunes of the hero, who is the son of a Virginian estingly described. The disastrous forest fires of gentleman of the old school. The war has ruined the autumn of 1871 are made use of in the final the family fortunes, the plantation has fallen into chapters, and bring the narrative to a picturesque the hands of an alien, and the boy is thrown upon and dramatic close. The author of this novel is a his own resources. How he achieves success from young woman, and “The Legatee" is her first book. humble beginnings, struggling for an education, We are bound to say that she has made a more than teaching a country school, getting work as a mining creditable beginning of what we trust may prove a engineer, and eventually acquiring large interests successful literary career. in the enterprise which his energy has developed “ Under the Rose,” by Mr. Frederic S. Isham, this is the outline of his career. The setting is is a historical romance of the time of Francis I. greatly diversified, including the life of the planta- The Duke of Friedwald, seeking the hand of a tion, experiences in the lawless mining community princess of the royal family, makes all the necessary of the Virginia mountains, scenes in the homes and negotiations, and then repairs to the court disguised marts of New York, and episodes of foreign travel. as a jester, in order to make the acquaintance of There are also characters in almost bewildering va- his future consort in an unconventional way. Mean- riety, and we barely become acquainted with one set while, a notorious robber baron, learning of the when we are hurried away into another company. Duke's matrimonial ambitions, plots to cut off his All of these scenes and characters, together with the journey to the court, and himself, impersonating author's many dramatic and sentimental inventions, the Duke, endeavors to consummate a marriage are united in a structure of reasonable coherency, before the imposture shall be discovered. A pretty yet one that is not easy to keep in view as a whole. situation is thus developed, but it ends somewhat Ethically, the story always rings true; its ideals are unexpectedly, for the jester-duke, after thwarting the of the sincere and manly type, and the hero in a 1903.) 67 THE DIAL whom they are chiefly embodied is one whom it is out happily. But the thread of the narrative is a a pleasure to follow on his toilsome path to success. slender one, and the book must stand or fall by its Mr. Page is too practised a hand at novel-writing character sketches. Mr. Harben's particular field to allow the interest to flag, to hold the reader too is one that was long ago preëmpted by Richard long in suspense at critical moments, or to make Malcolm Johnston, but we think that the genial old any of the false moves that so frequently lessen the Colonel, could he have lived to read this book by effectiveness of otherwise excellent works of fiction. his successor, would have bestowed upon it his The late Colonel Stanton Elmore, of the Confed- smiling approval. erate army, who died in London a few years ago, Messrs. Boone and Brown, who collaborated in left certain manuscripts, among which was a novel the writing of “Eastover Court House,” have again called “A Gentleman of the South.” This is joined forces in the production of a Virginia novel. now edited and published by Mr. William Garrott - The Redfields Succession” is the title of this Brown. These facts are gravely stated in the book, which tells how an impecunious newspaper preface to the novel, and we record them with reporter comes unexpectedly into possession of a equal gravity, but we have a dark suspicion that Virginian estate, enjoys it for a while, learns that the Colonel and his story alike are creations of the he has no moral right to it after all, sacrifices it by editor's invention. The story is a simple one, resorting to what verges upon a criminal device, related in admirable English, and deals with the and in the end is suitably rewarded for what he after consequences of an old family feud originated has done. The scene of the story is laid in Vir- by the father of the leading character. Of this ginia, for the most part, and has a good deal to do character, and the age in which he lived, the puta- with fox-hunting and other less strenuous social tive writer says that they belong “ to a world so festivities. The book has no style worth speaking completely vanished that I sometimes feel as if I of, and its plot is of the most elementary sort, but never lived in it save in dreams. It was a world it is the product of intimate first-hand observation, so different from the present, and governed by such and has an easy-going quality that makes it pleasant different laws that I am not at all confident of get reading. ting any reader's credence for the story I wish to WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. tell. Many will doubtless think it impossible that men should within this century have lived such lives, obeyed such codes, set themselves such standards.” Although the story is a simple one, NOTES ON NEW NOVELS. it is a little difficult in exposition, and inference Having written an international novelette in which a must be kept busy in the opening chapters before bright but penniless American girl weds a stupid En- we come to a clear understanding of the relations glishman of family and little else, Lilian Bell (Mrs. existing between the small group of persons con- Arthur Hoyt Bogue) follows it with a sequel, “The cerned. The atmosphere clears after awhile, and Dowager Countess and the American Girl” (Harper). the narrative then goes straight forward to its It is the sort of story that does not make for interna- tragic ending. There is a delicate distinction about tional amenity. From it one gleans that all the En- the author's style that is grateful to the literary glishmen of the better class are debauchees, and none of their women chaste. The heroine is an undesirable sense, but Mr. Brown may hardly be said to have ideal of an American woman; generally speaking, she the gift of the novelist, and his peculiar powers acts like a snob, dresses like a cocotte, and speaks a appear to better advantage in the essay and the his- various language, partly ungrammatical and partly torical study. slang, -- and that without being in the least aware of Mr. Harben's novel called “The Substitute” is it. That the book is interesting is, however, unde- the sort of book that exists chiefly for the opportu- niable - much in the way in which an enfant terrible is nity which it offers for the author to work off a interesting to its parents. collection of long-winded yarns about nothing in Mrs. Burton Harrison's new novelette, “ The Unwel- particular and other examples of homely rustic come Mrs. Hatch” (Appleton), is a story of a woman humor. The material thus offered seems genuine, with a past who cannot live it down, although her sin was without premeditation, and her career thereafter and is doubtless for the most part observed rather exemplary. The author's motive seems to have been than imagined. The scene is Northern Georgia, divided between her sympathy for the woman and her and most of the characters are plain country folk knowledge that she cannot be upheld in the face of our who speak the vernacular. An old man, who has literary and social conventions. The result is disastrous committed & crime in his youth, is so filled with to the unity of the work, and leaves its conclusion ab- remorse in remembrance thereof, that he seeks in solutely impotent. If such a theme is not to be treated some way to atone for it. He hits with the frankness of the French, it had best be left the original upon plan of picking out a promising youth, educating alone, a conclusion reflecting rather upon the author's art than her good will. There is no compromise, evi- and giving him a start in life, and making a man dently, with the Sunday School story. of him generally. This young fellow is to be the “ The Tu-Tze's Tower" is the unusual name of an substitute which he presents to society in place of unusual book by Miss Louise Betts Edwards, published himself. The hero thus brought into being proves by Messrs. H. T. Coates & Co. The heroine, a woman of an interesting personality, and his love affairs come birth, refinement, and station, is nevertheless possessed a bo 68 (Aug. 1, THE DIAL > of a wanderlust. This has led her to wed an explorer, turity should find expression, while giving incidentally a . and the book opens with his death in the interior of a vivid account of life as it was lived in what was then China, stricken down before he could attain his goal in a remote wilderness. Mrs. Cheney has done well with the country of the Man-Tze, an independent and preda- her archaisms in idiom and spelling, such exaggerations tory folk on the Chinese frontier. He bequeathes to his as they exhibit being essential to the atmosphere of widow the task of searching out this people and making the work. them known to the anthropological world. It will be Among books of real delight, Mr. C. Hanford seen that the promise for unusual complications is great Henderson's “John Percyfield" (Houghton) deserves when it is said that the Tu-Tze, the ruler of this people, high place. It is one of the most charming of love- falls in love with the pretty widow and refuses to take stories, and it is a great deal more. The hero stands as "no" for an answer. And, indeed, few fresher and a type of the American gentleman, in all the dignity more readable stories have been set before the people and grace of that fine old term, his ancestry being of recently. There is abundant humor and considerable Pennsylvania and New England stock; while the hero- character study, mingled with the most thrilling events. ine represents a similar status of cultivation in Louisi- The one drawback to the book will be found in its ana. They meet in Switzerland, at a pension filled with rather desultory beginnings; these past, it will be diffi- the spirit of romance. But the pretty story of the love cult to lay down. of Margaret and John forms but a small part of the Mr. Morgan Robertson has succeeded in writing book. In it may be found the reflections of the hero “Sinful Peck” (Harper) with never a feminine char- on all sorts of subjects, politics and economics most of acter in it from cover to cover. The result is rather all. Mr. Henderson, like many another modern Amer- refreshing in these days of insistent “heart interest." ican writer, has not hesitated in using the virile and The book continues the story of the crew of lake sailors pregnant phrases in our spoken language which have who once manned the good ship “Almena" and brought not yet found full literary acceptance. its voyage to an untimely conclusion, as told in an earlier Miss Una L. Silberrad has given her readers a man tale by Mr. Robertson. In the present narrative the of complete engrossment in chemistry as the hero of author brings into notice the recent statutes for the “ The Success of Mark Wyngate” (Doubleday). So better protection of seamen, in the enactment of which complete is this engrossment that there will be a ten- he can assert no small share. The book is eminently dency throughout the book to quarrel with him for readable by those who like sea stories and what man his density in affairs of the heart. By way of conclu- does not? sion, Mark Wyngate attains commercial prosperity, but Having given a weaver and poacher of northern En- at a fearful and tragic cost. The book as a whole is gland certain heroic qualities, Mr. C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne original — "novel" seems to be taking on its older has little difficulty in keeping him heroic in several meaning in recent writing, - and it presents a series ways, in his new book, " Thompson's Progress" (Mac- of strange pictures of modern life. The sombre under- millan). Thompson " attains great commercial suc- current of the work is relieved by many touches of cess, and at the same time is able to marry successfully humor, leaving the impression of an art well controlled. and to keep up his out-of-door habits. Like so many Since the removal of various disabling acts, the recent stories, this is told in episodes, each complete Roman Catholics of England are playing a larger and in itself, though forming a continuous whole. The book larger part in British fiction, as in the national life. is really interesting, its one defect being found in its In “ The Light Behind” (John Lane), Mrs. Wilfrid author's failure to eliminate the repetitions that its Ward has drawn a strong picture of social and political serial publication demanded, wholly needless in the life, her protagonist being a woman most unhappily printed volume. wedded to a dissolute nobleman, but strong enough to The person who conceals his identity behind the live a life of active good in spite of her lord's wicked- initials J. P. M.," or its partial expansion into “J. P. Unloved as she is, she centres her interests in Mowbray," has written a story of the South of to-day the advancement of a young Catholic writer, to whom under the title of “The Conquering of Kate” (Double- her charm as a woman of the world makes an appeal day). It deals, as did its predecessor, with life in that too strong for his powers of resistance. He stands part of Pennsylvania which is rather of the old South ready to give up faith, his brilliantly promising future, than of the North. There is a selection of types from and life itself; but a fate merciful to them both takes the folk of the locality, some of them of the “poor her away at the psychological moment. The book white" class, and all of them unusual and interesting. abounds in well-drawn characterizations of the govern- The book has a tendency to melodrama foreign to this ing class in many ramifications, and is enlightening in writer's earlier work, all of the characters unnecessary more respects than one. for the fall of the curtain meeting with sudden death, Detective stories are usually favorites for summer - by no means the most artful of devices. reading, but the number of them that have been based A quaint little story of early New England is told by on murder mysteries make a story of counterfeiting, Mrs. C. Emma Cheney in “Mistress Alice Jocelyn, her such as Mr. Will M. Clemens has written in “ The Letters: In Which be set Forth an English Maydes Gilded Lady”(Dillingham), rather tame by comparison. Voyage to the Province of Maine, and what did Befall The story is of the United States Secret Service. It her Thereafter” (The Blue Sky Press). Told, as the begins with an attempt on the part of the narrator, a title indicates, in epistolary form, the first of the little member of the force, to ascertain the facts about a letters is dated at Black Point in the province of Maine, privately-owned steam yacht. After a little it is dis- August 20, 1642, while the last brings the story down covered that the owners are engaged in the criminal to Christmas Day in 1655. They are addressed to occupation of making silver dollars of real silver and Philippa, sister of Alice, and are only nine in number. somewhat more valuable intrinsically than the author- It is their peculiar merit that within so small a space ized coin. At one point in the story it is argued that the full story of a woman's passion coming to its ma- the advocates of the ratio of 16 to 1 are really placing 66 > ness. " а 1903.] 69 THE DIAL the country in the hands of such counterfeiters, though impoverished by youthful excesses at the gambling- the conspirators are making millions out of the existing table, and his sadly disappointed son. An Irish rector system. The book concludes with a tirade against the in the neighborhood has a lovely daughter; two dukes modern metropolitan newspaper, rather too fierce to be near-by bave, respectively, a brother and a daughter; convincing, and rather out of keeping in a book appa- there is a young and wealthy widow close at hand; and rently intended to amuse. after twenty-five chapters of getting them all adjusted Mrs. Nancy Huston Banks has written a second the story closes in one more, appropriately called novel, “ Round Anvil Rock” (Macmillan), more of an “Marrying and Giving in Marriage. historical romance than her previous story, but with A collection of short stories by Mr. George Moore a surer and more varied art. This, too, is a story of can hardly fail to be interesting, though the component Kentucky, but of a Kentucky at the beginning of the members of “ The Untilled Field ” (Lippincott) are, fourth decade of the last century, when there was but with hardly an exception, written for a definite purpose, one house of two stories in the commonwealth, and that rather than as proofs of their author's undoubted art. built of cedar logs. It is rather authentic history The stories are, emphatically, stories of the Irish people. turned into romance than romance pure and simple, One doubts neither the author's means of information and many historical characters, General Jackson, Jo nor his entire good faith, and his readers will be forced Daviess, Peter Cartwright, and others, among them into an agreement with him much against their will in will be found described and characterized. The effect many instances. The Roman Church, throughout the of the book will be to heighten Mrs. Banks's literary stories, takes the puritanical attitude which was observ- reputation. able in Mrs. Humphry Ward's “ Helbeck of Bannis- Dane Kempton, a poet and man of letters happily dale," and the result is widely at variance with the married and living in London, and Herbert Wace, a aspect the Church presents in the United States. So sociologist studying for his doctor's degree at the Uni- far as the Celtic attitude toward art is concerned, Mr. versity of California and affianced to a young woman Moore is the bearer of bad tidings, for there appears graduate, discuss the question of love in an anonymous to be no real national response whatever to the revival book bearing the title of “ The Kempton-Wace Letters in which he has been so forward. The book will be (Macmillan). It is apparent, of course, that it would certain to provoke discussion, - it would hardly be be difficult to find points of view more completely antip- Mr. Moore's if it did not. odal than those occupied by men of such pursuits and A collection of short stories, remarkably various in training. To the poet, love bas in it “the awfulness their themes and interests, have been collected from and splendour of God,” to the other it is something the magazines by Mr. Arthur Colton under the name susceptible of analysis in all its bearings, a companion- of “Tioba, and Other Tales” (Holt). Some of them ship for purposes of work, its roots founded on the cry deal with city life, and these are the best; others find of the race for perpetuation. How right Kempton is, place in central New York; one is of the Civil War. and how wrong Wace, the last two letters in the vol- The length of these tales is as varied as their contents, ume, from Hester, Wace's affianced wife, to her over- ranging from a mere conte to a novelette. Collectively, intellectualized lover, abundantly indicate; and there they leave a pleasant impression, but one which seems will be few readers of the book to dispute her verdict. not to be fixed in any way, as if they were all tentative The debate is an unusual and profitable one, interesting efforts rather than fully matured work. The stories from beginning to end, and full of sound philosophy are, in fact, too scattered over the literary possibilities and right reasoning. to argue more than an undeveloped sense of power. In Miss Frances Charles, now that a second novel Mr. Guy Wetmore Carryl, heretofore known only as from her band permits comparison, America has found a purveyor of merry tales in rhyme, grows desperately a writer still in the flush of youth, with marked powers serious in “The Lieutenant-Governor" (Houghton), of discrimination and characterization and a downright and exhibits a knowledge of the labor movement and genius for analysis. "The Siege of Youth” (Little, labor contentions in no way an advance upon the views Brown & Co.) is a story of three men and three women in Charles Reade's “ Put Yourself in His Place,” the in San Francisco, and of the working out of three sev- work of an aristocratically inclined Englishman a long eral romances, each along lines quite distinctive. In thirty-three years ago. Reactionary sentiment of this the six protagonists of the narrative there is a mixture sort is the more curiously belated because of the real of races such as this country alone can show, and the intelligence shown in the premises by a score of other interplay of temperament has its place in their develop- novelists recently. Here, everyone in sympathy with ment. There is a knowledge of life truly profound, labor is a man devoid of principle, respect for law, and and, above everything else, a close portrayal of the true common-sense; all the sympathizers with capital, on the Bohemia — that land worshipped so by those who can other hand, are not merely rich and well placed, but never hope to touch its shores because the bark of re- have a monopoly of the virtues as well, whether these spectability that bears them is of too heavy a draught. be individual, social, or civic. The story is short, well A little method Miss Charles has adopted, of sketching written, and well put together. But it is woefully be- her story before giving it in detail, is in her hands a hind the times, and entirely unconvincing to those who means of grace and strength. do not think with their prejudices. International romances are being written quite as “ Josiah Flynt” reveals anew his wonderful grasp of much on the other side of the Atlantic as on this, in the life led by actual as distinguished from fictional convincing proof of the Anglo-Saxon entente cordiale. - criminals, in “ The Rise of Ruderick Clowd” (Dodd, Katherine Tynan (Mrs. Hinkson), with "A Red, Red Mead & Co.). The thief, burglar, and all-around crim- Rose” (Lippincott), is the last to add to their number. inal whose deeds the work recounts, is real, and as un- A brother and sister, orphaned children of a wealthy like the customary criminal of literary commerce as can American manufacturer, buy an estate from an old En- well be imagined. 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